List, list, oh list!

[nineveh_uk]

Pre-work online shopping makes me feel like Katy Carr thinking "I wish God would invent another animal." I've eaten all of them, surely there is something new?

Maybe I'll just have to think creatively with mushrooms.

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[azdak]

Chickpeas are the new meat in our household. Seriously, my cooking has been transformed utterly since I acquired Madhur Jaffrey's Easy Vegetarian Curry and Meera Sodha's Indian Cooking. Easy, simple, all the work of chopping, grating etc. is done before the cooking so you don't get stressed by having to do two things at once, and the same ingredients crop up over and over again. Of course if you're an actual Indian serving 7 different recipes at a time, the no-stress thing doesn't apply, but I only ever make one dish. And now that Hussein has shown me how to make rice Afghan-style, I don't even need a rice cooker (which is lucky, because ours finally broke after over 20 years of service).

[nineveh_uk]

I have definitely been upping the pulses this year! I should look at Indian cooking books, I tend not to go for spice grinding, but there can be easy options. That said, I am also keen to keep up a fair amount of meat eating for post Covid reasons.

Does cooking rice Afghan-style result in a delicious crust?

[azdak]

I do have a spice grinder but I hardly ever use it - when we were sailing last year, I had about six of the basic ground spices and all the recipes worked well with just those, so I don't worry too much anymore if I haven't got the more exotic ones.

And yes, the crust is the best bit!

[nineveh_uk]

I really must inventory my spice rack. And the best before dates in it...