Went to a little trouble to make a nice dinner for Kevin for Father’s Day. Not the most kid-friendly meal, but they agreed this one dinner was for him, and they managed fine. I thought all the recipes (from Smitten Kitchen) were good, but the burrata-cherry-pistachio appetizer was outstanding. It’s going on the party list!
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I do love biryani. Most of my students hadn’t had it, and they liked it! Love introducing folks to new, delicious foods. 🙂
Adding spiced marinated chicken to sautéed onions for biryani.
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Sautéing sultanas and cashews in ghee for biryani.
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Last day of classes potluck; I brought chicken biryani. Lovely to end the semester with lots of shared food. (Let’s see AI do that! 🙂 )
Let’s see AI do that! Read More »
Okay, yes, there was more food at last year’s writing workshop. Another day, we had gado-gado, which is SO MUCH BETTER than crudité. (Sorry, crudité!) An Indonesian dish, a mix of raw and boiled vegetables, served with a (preferably spicy) peanut sauce. I love it. Charmaine Solomon has a good recipe in her Complete Asian
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More workshop food! This meal was a sort of Italian-Mediterranean assemblage, I think? Giant rice salad (frugally using up the leftover rice from Sri Lankan dinner the night before), fried eggplant in a tomato sauce, sautéed mackerel, pasta, cheese, roasted broccoli, various and sundry other things that I thought would go well with it… …and
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Breakfasts at last year’s SLF workshop were continental, but pretty substantial. Benjamin Rosenbaum made them overnight oats! I also treated them to bagels and fancy spreads from The Daly Bagel, because I wanted them to experience the bagel joy. (Continental means that I’m not standing over a hot stove in the morning, and can have
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Not all the meals were quite this lavish, but I did want to do a Sri Lankan dinner at last year’s workshop (and will almost certainly do one again this year). Can I remember what I made? Okay, tentative reconstruction from photos: • saffron rice, Sri Lankan red rice, and naan• chicken curry• salmon curry•
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You’re tired, you want a good rice and curry meal, with both protein and veg, and you want to put minimal effort into cooking. Here’s my favorite hack — this got me through a fair bit of grad school. Also when the kids were little and I was exhausted. 20 minutes, no chopping. Right now,
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