No one eating anymore, Thursday, September 5, 2024?

[medtran49]

Shredded chicken mole negro, with an avocado and pickled red onion salad.

 

[cjmmytunes]

Leftovers from Wednesday night.

 

[msmofet]

Lentil soup

 

[Andy M.]

Leftovers

 

[HeyItsSara]

Sure!

Happy Hour!

Spelt pizza for me with basil and parsley from our garden and I sauteed on-sale mushrooms with onions to top it. Marinated on-sale mozzarella the day before, again with our herbs. Drank a strawberry lime Truly.

DH had regular on-sale frozen pizza with same toppings, some Scotch and then a beer. His fries got too hard in the oven, boo.

 

[pepperhead212]

Last night I made an Indian dish, that I got a craving for the night before, when I made a batch of sambar masala, since I had run out of that, plus I have all that curry tree that I have to trim. I used about 1/2 c packed leaves, for the masala, then 2 more stems, of stripped leaves in the tarka, for the tempering of the dish. I just made a typical sambar type dish, starting by cooking about 2 c of okra, cut into 1/2-3/4" pieces in the Instant Pot sauté mode about 5 min - this sort of cooks the slime on the okra, and it doesn't get like when put right into the liquid. That is removed to a plate, then an onion in a little oil in the Instant Pot, then a little of that garlic/ginger paste I keep in the freezer and that fresh sambar masala, cooked about a min, then added about a lb of puréed tomatoes, and cooked it down, while I got other things ready. Then, I added about 1/2 c chana dal, and 1/3 c each toor dal and whole oats, plus about 5 c water, some salt, and 1 large potato, diced, and covered the IP, and set to 8 min Manual (more to come). When pressure was down, I removed the lid, stirred a little more water in, as it was thick, and added the 2 diced eggplants, simmered about 5 min, then added the okra back to it, set the IP to 2 min manual - with the heating up time, and the release time, this worked out to be just right, for the legumes, oats, and veggies. I then tempered it, using some mustard seeds and cumin seeds in a little oil (I usually put a good number of dried hot peppers in, but I was sharing this with someone who didn't want those), followed by the asafoetida and curry leaves, until crispened, then poured onto the curry. That's stirred in, with about 1/4c chopped cilantro, to finish the dish.
The tarka added to the dish, with 2 dal and some whole oats, mixed with several veggies, plus some new sambar masala. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Finished sambar style dish, with a large potato, 2 eggplant, and about 2 cups of cut okra. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

 

[taxlady]

I was uninspired again. I boiled some potatoes. I fried a pork chop. I made a pan sauce. I also had pickled beets and cucumber salad. I enjoyed that.