Old habits…

The magnificent 3!

After 3 years I’m back in the US and is nice that some things don’t change. The first time I went to the grocery for the first purchases (those for the survival!) I’ve found the pillars of my previous stay:

• 1 gallon of skimmed milk (added with vitamins!)
• baby carrots (peeled, ready to be eaten!)
• the tuna “chicken of the sea” (really!)

I really need to move on and update my grocery list; I can hear Massi saying: “You forgot the Red Baron“!

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Taste of India

Eager to show my enlarged cooking portfolio, I experimented my newly learned indian recipes on my girlfriend and a friend. Here’s the result (not bad at all being the first try).

Indian dinner!

Here’s also a list of what we prepared, linked to some well explained recipes:

• Chapati (no need for ghee, just go with flour, water and salt!)
• Curd (actually we haven’t prepared that one, I bought at the grocery dairy product most similar to it I could find!)
• Green cucumber salad
• Paneer (see ‘Curd’ note)
• Paneer Bhurj (simply the best)
• Lentils (I haven’t found a recipe on the internet but I learnt it at Ruchi, we used Paneer Bhurj base of onions, tomatoes and spices with lentils in place of paneer)
• Rice (just plain rice)
• Tandoori Chicken (we had a few setbacks in the preparation and we hadn’t properly followed the recipe)

A few notes on this trial:

• Don’t worry if you don’t have all the spices required; in my experience chilly and cumin are the fundamental ones to obtain the taste of India!
• We had a fresh white wine with the food, I don’t really know if it’s proper or not, I’ve never had alcoholic beverages while in India
• I believe this are mostly north indian recipes, there’s is a universe of different dishes extending more into meat and also into fish; check the websites I’ve reported for the previous recipes to see more of them.

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The Lord of the Grills (or, in italian, “Il Signore dei Fornelli”)

This post is about the meals I cook here in Atlanta. I’ve purchased (for 26$) a little grill (or better, a skillet) for having the chance of cooking meal on my own without having buy it outside (-> fast food).
Here you can find what I’m able to prepare with this little thing (really great! no warm up time, cooks quicly even the meat!). At the end of post you can also find the first dinner I’ve cooked, steak with tomatoes, mushrooms and onions + grilled bread (I’m so proud of it!).