Weeknight meals

[rwsaunders]

I couldn’t have fresh bread go to waste...breaded pork cutlet with rice and broccoli.

[Wisco]

Inspired by the conversation started by Too Tall on Indian food, a longing to see my elderly parents in the flesh after COVID quarantine for so long and meatless monday, we have home style South Canara vegetarian cuisine. I was born and grew up here the son of Indian immigrants. This is still my soul food, along with Pulled Pork that I learned from my white American father-in-law.

Indian by shenoi, on Flickr

Boiled basmati rice (Laksmi Brand from the Indian store)
Green bean poriyal dry fry curry with spices, curry leaf and fresh (frozen) coconut
Cauliflower ginger and tomato curry (Gobi Jhalfrezie). A shot of vinegar at the end to give it some zip.
Dalitoye (Udipi style masoor dal - pink lentil stew). On top of the rice.
The other stuff on the rice is a Podi powder, basically ground up garbanzo beans and spices (chili, cumin, corriander etc.) to flavor rice. Not quite as poor man's food as tomato Rasam, but pretty basic

[ColonelJLloyd]

Props on that plate of soul food, my friend. I'd be all over that.

Yesterday I stayed home with my daughter and took the opportunity to help her with some school stuff, frustratingly hang some lights on boxwoods and hollies, and make a pot of soup beans. I'm a pinto man for this application, but my mom always used white northern beans so I tried mayocoba because I had them. There's a chunk of local country ham hock (Finchville) in there as well as some 2-year old country ham from my riding buddy. He also sliced off some of a 3-year old ham form me that I snacked on while these cooked yesterday. Weisenberger makes for legit cornbread, wish I would've had this where I grew up farther west. No chow chow, but a dash of vinegar set it right. A well-rounded meal it is not, but I make no apologies. This will be even better for lunch tomorrow. Pretty sure this would be my death row meal.

Untitled by ColonelJLloyd, on Flickr
Untitled by ColonelJLloyd, on Flickr
Untitled by ColonelJLloyd, on Flickr
Untitled by ColonelJLloyd, on Flickr

[mnoble485]

Oh, the aromas that must have been gushing from the kitchen!

Mike

[guido]

Made a frenchish variant on the lentil stew. This time with Farro, dried mushrooms, fresh crimini and shiitake, onions, garlic and lots of herbs...

[ColonelJLloyd]

My kids (4 and 8) have been increasingly picky as of late and dad needed a win so it was spaghetti carbonara tonight. Mission accomplished, they all but licked the bowl.

Spaghetti carbonara by ColonelJLloyd, on Flickr

[mnoble485]

That looks great Colonel, we recently had our grandkids move in with us (similar age) and would love the recipe to try on them. Right now all I’ve figured out is that unfortunately chicken tenders rule. The youngest doesn’t even like PB&J. This will be a learning experience for al of us.

Mike

[rwsaunders]

Still soup season here.