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[Googy]

Originally Posted by boogiemonster

I love cooking!

I'm a vegetarian (you too, right, Googy? I'm sure I've seen you in that forum.), so that influences everything I make. I love Indian, Mexican, and Italian flavours. I like to make my own maki...especially in the summer when it's too hot to eat warm food. I think my favourite food is a brothy soup with fresh buttered bread for dunking. I love fresh ingredients, lots of fruit and veggies, fresh herbs. I like bread and pasta more than I should. I have a scrambled tofu obsession.

Ooh, I would like eating at your house! We have much the same taste! Soup, homemade bread, fruits, veggies, and herbs are the staples in my house! I LOVE Indian food too. Indian restaurants are one of the only places I can go to where ther are like 25 different choices for me on the menu! We have a great little hole-in-the-wall place near us that I can't visit enough. Unfortunately I have NOT mastered Indian cooking at home. Do you have a great cookbook recommendation?

I've tried homemade maki a few times, but I just don't roll it as tight as the pros do! I really need to get this down, and I am REALLY missing veggie sushi right now! I feel like I could trust it is I made it myself!

I haven't tried scrambled tofu yet--I'll have to add it to my list for the week! Thanks for the inspiration!

[De-lovely]

Originally Posted by boogiemonster

Musical Artist:
Ben Harper. You can add him to my crush list, too.

Allow me to also express my MEGA crush on Ben Harper.....I mean ok well I cant put it into words....: :

[boogiemonster]

Googy:
Do you have a good bread recipe? Something for a bread machine? I'm turning out bread-flavoured bricks, which I'll eat but it freaks my husband out a bit. Come over for chow anytime!

De-lovely:
Yay for Ben Harper! I thought of a great TV show: Dead Like Me. It got cancelled after two seasons so maybe I'm the only person who watched it, but it was hysterical.

[brooklyn_warbler]

Originally Posted by Googy

Ooh, I would like eating at your house! We have much the same taste! Soup, homemade bread, fruits, veggies, and herbs are the staples in my house! I LOVE Indian food too. Indian restaurants are one of the only places I can go to where ther are like 25 different choices for me on the menu! We have a great little hole-in-the-wall place near us that I can't visit enough. Unfortunately I have NOT mastered Indian cooking at home. Do you have a great cookbook recommendation?

i'm pakistani, so we eat homecooked indian all the time. : i've found that most of the indian cookbooks i have never really come close to the recipes i've learned from being around my aunties. but i would recommend most of madhur jaffrey's stuff as a good go-to...this is a great starter. i'd also try to find some foodblogs out of india! one that i read is saffron trail but i just stumbled across it a few months ago and actually haven't tried any of her recipes thus far...

[brooklyn_warbler]

oh also! here and here you can find two recipes i've posted on my blog...also you should make fruit chaat! i have been craving it the entire second trimester. it is perfect pregnancy food -- sweet and spicy! -- and women on the subcontinent are notorious for eating tons when pregnant. ha!

[boogiemonster]

Ooh, Robina, you're killing me! I've started getting pregnancy heartburn. We live really close to the "Little India" area of our city and the Indian buffet is calling my name.

No, I will regret it...must resist...

I ate a burrito yesterday and it wasn't pretty.

[Googy]

Originally Posted by boogiemonster

Googy:
Do you have a good bread recipe? Something for a bread machine? I'm turning out bread-flavoured bricks, which I'll eat but it freaks my husband out a bit. Come over for chow anytime!

Hmm, nothing good for the bread machine. I tired the bread machine for a while and it never worked out very well. Not nearly as good. So, I mix, knead, and do the first rise of the dough in my Kitchen-Aid mixer, then just put it into loaf pans for a second rise and toss into the oven. Turns out a lot better than the machine.

Ooh, and a visit to Canada for good food is sounding pretty tempting!

[Googy]

Originally Posted by robina_josephine

oh also! here and here you can find two recipes i've posted on my blog...also you should make fruit chaat! i have been craving it the entire second trimester. it is perfect pregnancy food -- sweet and spicy! -- and women on the subcontinent are notorious for eating tons when pregnant. ha!

Ooh! Robina, you're the best! I am so excited! I'm going to check all of those out! Thanks so much!

[brooklyn_warbler]

Originally Posted by Googy

Ooh! Robina, you're the best! I am so excited! I'm going to check all of those out! Thanks so much!

thank you! let me know if you try them out. i wish i had more (subcontinental) recipes archived for you but i haven't posted many. if i do, i'll be sure to let you know. for what it's worth, i think the lentil recipe would also freeze well (maybe sans potatoes? not sure how well potatoes freeze) and it's a huge recipe so you could make it for dinner one night later in the summer and have some to save for november!

[Googy]

Originally Posted by robina_josephine

thank you! let me know if you try them out. i wish i had more (subcontinental) recipes archived for you but i haven't posted many. if i do, i'll be sure to let you know. for what it's worth, i think the lentil recipe would also freeze well (maybe sans potatoes? not sure how well potatoes freeze) and it's a huge recipe so you could make it for dinner one night later in the summer and have some to save for november!

Whether they're freezable or not, I don't care! I really just want to learn how to cook in that style! I appreciate your help and guidance!

[brooklyn_warbler]

Originally Posted by Googy

Whether they're freezable or not, I don't care! I really just want to learn how to cook in that style! I appreciate your help and guidance!

oh, i just wanted to specify that as a bonus since i know we are all looking for babymoon dinners to freeze!