November 24, 2006 – 12:14 pm
I am off home tomorrow to Kolkata (Calcutta) in India for a two-week holiday. Once there, I promise to try and use my mother’s relic of a computer, complete with window 3.1, to log into wordpress and write posts about all the wonderful food I’ll be eating.
But it may not happen. The last time my [...]
November 23, 2006 – 2:59 am
Right. Back to the subject of what alcohol to drink with Indian food. You remember a few days ago I touched on this subject, then got drunk and vowed never to touch alcohol again?
Well, here I am again. Sipping a Californian Rose, writing about what tipple best suits a curry. The research is over, and [...]
November 21, 2006 – 2:54 pm
Yesterday was a resounding success. I managed to stay sober until the food was ready and use the art of delegation to perfection.
Nicki washed up the early lot of empty tupperware, while Alice served drinks, Francesca stirred food and Polly laid the table. All I had to do was co-ordinate the process and masalas at [...]
November 19, 2006 – 12:27 pm
I spent the best part of today getting ready for the live cookery demo tomorrow. Normally I would prepare all the food the day before the party.
But in this case, I’ve had to keep everything prepared for actual cooking tomorrow. Aloo for saag aloo and gobi (cauliflower) has been peeled, quartered and is soaking in [...]
November 18, 2006 – 2:14 pm
Friday was a write off.
I went to two Bond parties on Thursday night and got so drunk that I could barely lift my head on Friday. But did the world care? No. Instead it served up an achingly long work day that ended with a painfully difficult client meeting. Wonderful, really…
So at the end of [...]
November 16, 2006 – 10:01 am
Since my cook curry, drink wine experiment went horribly wrong on Monday, I’m working on a list of what alcohol best accompanies Indian food.
I had the grand unveiling planned for today, but the combination of irrate client, stressed out boss and looming deadline have derailed my plans.
In India we never drink alcohol during the meal. [...]
November 15, 2006 – 12:18 pm
In this miserable cold weather, what better than a bowl of hot soup to cheer anyone up? I picked an organic lentil soup from the supermarket shelf this week in the vain hope of drinking dhal at my desk.
But dhal it wasn’t. More like boiled lentils.
I immediately wrote to the manufacturers asking them to change [...]
November 14, 2006 – 10:59 am
Yesterday, the guru of all blog gurus came over for dinner.
Hugh Fraser is the mother (maybe father) of all blog developers, a real blog consultant and my occasional tinkering technician.
The plan was that he would come over, I would teach him how to cook a chicken curry and then we would drink wine, chat and [...]
November 13, 2006 – 6:59 am
I’m taking a break from recipes today to go back to the Indian regional food lessons so you know your kali dhal from your sambhar in no time.
This time, we’re talking Gujarati food with a little help from Trupti. Trupti is what this blog is all about - she has her hands full with two [...]
November 12, 2006 – 7:40 am
Since my rant about Indian food not being 100% spicy, I have been on a personal mission to unearth the more subtle dishes from the country. Malai gobi is a truly subtle dish that even beginner cooks can make standing on their heads!
The trick is to use fresh cauliflower for its full flavour. This dish [...]
