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Food & Excercise
Yesterday I made Chicken Korma for dinner, from the Quick and Easy Indian Cooking cookbook I have by Madhur Jaffrey.
YUM!
It actually tasted like something that I might have picked up from an Indian take-out joint or something. I left out the cayenne pepper, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daskreestof was joining us for dinner and I know he's not that fond of really spicy food (and a little cayenne pepper goes a long way). So I was extremely impressed with that recipe. It'd be interesting to see if I can substitute the 3 lbs (!) of chicken in that recipe with vegetables like potatoes, peas, carrots and cauliflower or something and give Vegetable Korma a whirl sometime. I'd still not be able to feed that to any vegans seeing as there's 3 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream in it (what's a vegan alternative for that anyway?). There's still plenty of that left for dinner tomorrow or the day after or something, yummy yummy yummy!
I have to say, I love the smell of fresh ginger... I like the way ground and minced ginger smell, and various ginger bearing products, but fresh ginger is something else, with a delicious citrusy tang to it. The Korma recipe called for a paste made from fresh ginger, fresh garlic and some water... it smelled incredible. I love it when stuff smells really good... sometimes I'm disappointed with food that smells incredible when I cook it, and doesn't actually taste as good as, or like, it smells.
Tomorrow I'll be making up a batch of fruit salad. I've got a fresh pineapple ripening on the counter, damn that thing smells good too. <3 pineapple.
So this week saw Kyokushin classes #5 and #6, and Bikram #4. I'm feeling less and less like a goober at the dojo, which is good, and yoga this week was a lot more pleasant than the insanely hot class from last week, and I'm not feeling as totally knackered afterwards as I did the previous 3 weeks. Here's hoping we actually manage to get a weekend class (or two?) in this week.
YUM!
It actually tasted like something that I might have picked up from an Indian take-out joint or something. I left out the cayenne pepper, as
daskreestof was joining us for dinner and I know he's not that fond of really spicy food (and a little cayenne pepper goes a long way). So I was extremely impressed with that recipe. It'd be interesting to see if I can substitute the 3 lbs (!) of chicken in that recipe with vegetables like potatoes, peas, carrots and cauliflower or something and give Vegetable Korma a whirl sometime. I'd still not be able to feed that to any vegans seeing as there's 3 tablespoons of heavy whipping cream in it (what's a vegan alternative for that anyway?). There's still plenty of that left for dinner tomorrow or the day after or something, yummy yummy yummy!I have to say, I love the smell of fresh ginger... I like the way ground and minced ginger smell, and various ginger bearing products, but fresh ginger is something else, with a delicious citrusy tang to it. The Korma recipe called for a paste made from fresh ginger, fresh garlic and some water... it smelled incredible. I love it when stuff smells really good... sometimes I'm disappointed with food that smells incredible when I cook it, and doesn't actually taste as good as, or like, it smells.
Tomorrow I'll be making up a batch of fruit salad. I've got a fresh pineapple ripening on the counter, damn that thing smells good too. <3 pineapple.
So this week saw Kyokushin classes #5 and #6, and Bikram #4. I'm feeling less and less like a goober at the dojo, which is good, and yoga this week was a lot more pleasant than the insanely hot class from last week, and I'm not feeling as totally knackered afterwards as I did the previous 3 weeks. Here's hoping we actually manage to get a weekend class (or two?) in this week.