Soulful Creations

The wise guy came home to this- how lucky eh!! Although I get treated to Madras Pavillion food when I return from travel (enh....who is paying attention I say!) This month we were tasked with Dapka Kadhis for the May I ndian Cooking Ch allenge and here it goes- a fairly straightforward recipe. Ingredients Dapka Recipe from Tarla Dalal 1 cup yellow moong dal (split yellow gram) 1 tbsp oil   1 tsp ginger-green chilli paste 1/2 tsp sugar a pinch of soda bi carb (I did not add this, may be that is why mine turned out denser) salt to taste This was also home to mashed roasted eggplant (tiny home grown) and a roasted tomato (again tiny homegrown)   Ingredients Kadhi from Tarla Dala 2 cups yogurt 5 tbsp besan (Chick Pea flour) 1 tsp ginger-green chilli paste 5 curry leaves (kadi patta) 3 tbsp sugar salt to taste 2 tsp ghee 1/2 tsp cumin...

What happens when your pantry is low on everything, INNOVATION!!!! That is exactly what happened- with my dad's encouragement, I tried my own pasta recipe for the first time ever. It all started when I thought I had some of the usual pasta like farfelle or rigate and therefore picked up a recipe with lentils and stuff. Well, I did not have any of those, but at least had spaghetti. The other ingredients on hand were red pepper, onions, crushed tomatoes, left over pasta sauce (I could not use all of it because my mom did not like the super-garlic taste in that sauce, it is store-bought you see!) and flat-leaf parsley. The only thing consoling about this whole thing was the fact that it was going to be a healthy mixture and probably an ideal candidate for Monthly mingle # 29. But I decided to make it more healthy by adding some split green lentils. Well this experiment reminds me of the Lynne's "Splendid Table" (she actually tries to come up edible recipes from the ingre...