ruthi

How I curried some chickpeas today:
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I made a quiche. Or at least a quiche-like thing. I cleaned up the milk and glass and the blood.
( leek quiche recipe )
More or less. I skipped the pastry altogether and added cubed boiled potatoes.
I chopped leeks, put potatoes on to boil, then went online to look for a recipe. I found recipes (and addresses for a couple of kosher shawarma places in New York.)

I got back to the kitchen just as the potatoes had boiled dry, but before anything burnt.

I put olive-oil and butter in a frying pan and added paprika, then added chopped leeks and onion, and a couple of cubed boiled potatoes.

I put cheese in the food-processor to turn into small bits of cheese.

and I poured some milk into a bowl, and then the milk-bottle fell out of my hand, crashed on the floor, and a shard of glass bounced onto my slipper under my heel. There was glass and milk all over the kitchen floor, and shortly thereafter, blood, too. I found where the blood was coming from and lifted my foot, thus dripping blood more widely, then found paper towels to press against my foot, paper towels to mop up the blood and the glass and the milk.

I went and sat down and calmed down and ordered pizza.

The beloved is now claiming that quiche does not need a sacrifice. I am not sure I agree.

I have baked a cake.
Recipe stolen from :
http://gottalittlespacetofill.blogspot.com/2009/09/easiest-cake-ever.html

( cake recipe )

I didn't have vegetable oil, so I melted butter instead and used that. But as written, the cake is dairy-free. It does use eggs, though.

Carrot Burger ( recipes )

Salad last night:
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I think only the salt there was inorganic.
I thought it was a thin-person thing, forgetting to eat.

food:

3 tins of tuna.
2 tins of tomatoes.
1 broccoli
2 small beets
a bulb of garlic

blanch, boil, peel, chop, chop, chop, chop, chop.
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beetroot in the sauce dyed some of the potato slices pink: that was pretty.

Bolognaise recipe by ccooke

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This is mostly for my own use, in case I lose the piece of paper where I jotted it down.

dried crushed jalapeno,
garam masala
turmeric
mustard powder
coriander
(about teaspoonful or two of each)

fry in oil.

Add onions (sliced to rings)
fry

Add chicken (cubed chicken-breast)

fry.

Add chopped bell-pepper, (option: sliced courgette)

add coconut milk.
(coconut block, with enough water that it's gloopy instead of thick)

add lentils. (or leave them out)

adjust for flavour - I add salt and more mustard-powder and garam masala.

ccooke said add tamarind, and there is tamarind, but I left it out.

serve with rice.

The beloved is baking cakes for me.

He says he's getting back in practice so he can bake me a cake for my birthday (On the 22nd of March).

This evening's cake is a sponge-cake, baked to a recipe from

Katharine Mellish’s Cookery and Domestic Management,
including economic & middle class practical cookery
... Illustrated by fifty-six beautifully coloured plates
and by four hundred & forty-one illustrations in the text, etc.
London : E. & F. N. Spon, [1907.]

says the British Library record
[1907] = "we know it's 1907 but the book doesn't actually say so"
(so I presume deduced from when they got it)

The book used to belong to my beloved's mother, and before that, to her aunt who was a cook in a big house belonging to Colonel-Lord somebody.

Here is the recipe:

( sponge cake recipe )

The cake came out firm and airy and tasty.
It was also about an inch thick.
The beloved says it would make an excellent trifle base. Problem is, it is too delicious to last long enough to be made into a trifle.

I made schnitzels yesterday and ccooke fried them today and they were good! Yay!

I had seen my mother make them many, many times, but I had never made any myself. ( more about schnitzels, and how I made them )
The schnitzels were good! They had the right flavour, and they were very thin, the way I like them, And the tiny bits were just crunchy fried goodness. Yay and yum.

And now I don't have to pester anyone to make schnitzels for me, and don't have to moan at anyone that they are not as thin as I like them. (At the end of frying, some of them were made of two outside layers of breadcrumbs, and one inside layer of chicken, and all the layers were about the same thickness).