… Poppadoms, Rice & Minty Yoghurt
It’s Tuesday night. It feels like Friday. I don’t know why. Maybe that’s why I’m cooking a curry tonight. I have been quite excited to cook this one. The photo in the book makes it look exiting a golden and colourful. The ingredients make it feel like it should be both hot and sweet. That kind of meal feels like a Friday night dinner, I would say. So I cook it on a Tuesday. A Tuesday that, for some reason, feels like a Friday. The cooking of this is actually very easy. I feel calm. Gavin, who is taking photos, tells me I’m much more relaxed than normal. We hold much more coherent conversations (more coherent on my part) than is normally achieved while I cook a 15 Minute Meal.
It is actually easy to cook. The only things I have to report is that when I cut into the tomatoes* my jumper was splashed with tomato juice. I’m not dong well with tomato juice slashes at the moment! Also when opening the tin of coconut milk, my jumper is splashed with that too!
*by the way the list of ingredients asked for 2 ripe tomatoes. For some reason I hadn’t registered this when I wrote my shopping list. So when I got home and unpacked my shopping and gathered all the ingredients I didn’t have the two ripe tomatoes. Luckily(??) I had several over (very over) ripe cherry tomatoes in the fridge. These had to substitute for the two ripe tomatoes.
This dish looked pretty. It smelt good. It looked less golden yellow than the picture in the book. If’ I’m honest I was a bit disappointed in the taste. At first. It tasted a bit mild. Not hot. Not hot at all. But it did taste … interesting .. flavoursome … By the end of eating this I was convinced. It was a delicate tasty dish.
It was good dish. A good Friday night dish. A good Tuesday, which for some reason feels like a Friday, night dish. A dish eaten whilst watching Django. A film I had to watch because it’s up for an Oscar and I’m going to an Oscar party and so I must watch all the films nominated for major Oscar awards. I have mixed feelings about Tarantino Films. I think this is large part due to watching Pulp Fiction when I was too young, about 12 I think… the gimp scared me … not that I knew what one was … I wish I still didn’t. But I will say it’s a good film. A very good film. Well worth a watch. There is enough gratuitous violence for it to be Tarantino. But it sensitive (somehow) too.
Who with: Gavin
How long: Fourteen minutes and fifty two seconds
