I don’t own an Indian food cookbook, but I think I should buy one. No, I know i should.
I decided that I wanted to make dal. Not the bastardized dahl that I normally boil up, but something more like the wonderful curries that I remembered from Malaysia. There was one in particular that was so rich and creamy with ghee it was a revelation. I wanted to replicate that, and I even removed the ‘h’, to make it more authentic, which is what every website that I read said about dal.
Part two of how to use up those millions of limes is about salsa. And it failed. Failed entirely to use up my overabundance of limes. It did, however succeed in being delicious. Spicy, tangy, hot and sweet all at the same time, which I thought was Thai cuisines thing, but no, apparently Mexico is in on it too.
Being Australian, and living in Sydney, I have had almost no exposure to Mexican food, and those bland starchy Aus-Mex meals I have had have certainly failed to enamour me to the cuisine. But I read, and on paper (well, ok, on the internet) Mexican food comes across as interesting, diverse and most importantly, delicious.
I thought it was time for a make-over, a cleanup and a modernisation. Hope you like!
The bugs are still being ironed out, so let me know if you have an problems, if you find anything broken. It will all be fixed up soon.
What do you do when you realise that your fridge is full of limes? Well, if you’re me, then you have a whole array of outlandish ideas, recipes that will take all day to make, cost an arm and a leg, require an ice-cream machine, or will turn your kgs of limes into a fridge full of fattening lime-flavoured treats that need to be eaten now!… and promptly you will be forced to forget everything, and make some delicious salsa, and then these biscuits.
Up until a few months ago, I didn’t consider boiled eggs to be anything special. In fact, I can’t think of the last time I ate one (Passover excluded), and I certainly haven’t cooked one lately. But then, there, for lunch at Felix’s parents house. Boiled eggs. I ate, and quite enjoyed mine. Then piles of tea eggs in Asia, halved boiled eggs in Malaysia alongside curry and rice, kaya toast and 1/2 boiled eggs. Nasi Lemak.
Suddenly this boiled egg idea seemed like a good idea. And it took hold.
