Sean’s Blog

I spent most of the day Saturday making tons of curry. Actually I made just 2 large curries to freeze and reheat through the week. Not only are curries really, tasty, cheap and healthy (depending on the ingredients of course), but you can make big batches and freeze them.

Curry is a generic word for any heavily sauced Indian dish. Over the weekend I picked up Raghavan Iyer’s book 660 Curries. This is a great book loaded with recipes from the very simple to very complex. I decided to make a couple simple vegetarian curries.

The first was basically onions, coconut, chilies, black eyed peas and spices. The second was cauliflower, tomatoes, ginger, garlic and spices. Almost all the ingredients can be found at a larger grocery story (even many of the spices). The only problem I had was finding the curry leaves for one of the recipes. After stopping in to a local Indian grocery, we found out that curry leaves from Hawaii have been banned so they are scarce right now.

I’m always surprised to find how many people have never tried Indian food. I love it and would really recommend taking the time to find a local Indian restaurant and give it a try.

There are a million food blogs on the Internet, but one of the few I subscribe to is Heidi Swanson’s 101 Cookbooks.  Most of the recipes are vegetarian, but all look really good.  Most are not overly complex and rely on ingredients that most people should be able to find with not to much problem.

For me though, the real kicker is the photography.  There are beautiful  shots that accompany  every recipe.  And food photography is HARD.  Generally when I try to take a picture of something I made that looks especially good, the resulting photograph makes it look grey, shiny, disgusting … thing.

Take a look and give some of the recipes a try.  101 Cookbooks