Holiday Meals

Turkey Curry Recipe Daal Daal is a dish made with lentils. They can be brown, yellow or red. They are cooked with ginger, chili, tomato, sauteed onions. In this dish I cooked them and then pureed part of the lentils in a blender and then added them back to the rest of the mixture. The …

It’s the Food that Binds Us

Above: Country breakfast on the weekends. I put turmeric in the potatoes. The first weekend I was back I made a country breakfast for the whole family. Homefries with paprika and tumeric, scrambled eggs, toast and turkey sausages. Breakfast is one of my favorite meals, especially on the weekends. I love feeling like my family …

Chickpea Curry

Above: Chickpea Curry with White Rice and Greek Yogurt Chickpea Curry   Print Prep time 30 mins Cook time 45 mins Total time 1 hour 15 mins   For this recipe, you need to use dried chickpeas because they are cooked with the spices. Canned chickpeas will not have the same taste. Recipe type: vegetarian …

Spicy Fish Chowder

Spicy Fish Chowder   Print Prep time 20 mins Cook time 45 mins Total time 1 hour 5 mins   You can control how spicy you like it. Serves: 6 Ingredients 1 filet of white fish cut in small chunks The Trio: diced medium onion, carrot and stalk of celery 1 Tbsp butter 1 tsp …

Indian Spices

Typically most Indian meals that we make use the following spices to taste: mustard seed paprika turmeric (mostly for color, use sparingly) garam masala ground coriander ground cumin black pepper fresh chili pepper salt Specialty dishes we will also use: green cardamon seed black cardamon seed coriander seed fenugreek seed cloves anise dried mango poppyseed