use the book!

I have definately learned that some types of cooking are best done by following a cookbook and not intenet recipes. Ever since we first went to Pushap for curry I have wanted to try and cook some basic East Indian food at home. I tried a variety of recipes from different websites and they all sucked. For Christmas I asked for something that would help me cook Indian food. Dan found one reliable website and took out two books from the library on vegetarian Indian cooking. I can’t believe how much I have learned and how wrong I was doing things before! So far we have tried three things: moong dal (mung lentil) soup, bhindi masala (okra curry), and aloo ghobi (potatoes and cauliflower). They were all really good. I finally got some of the right spices (cumin seed and black mustard seeds) and I think that made a serious improvement in the taste of the aloo globi. Dan and I even made chaptis tonight. It was fun. Its inexpensive too.