India and my own “mother”

I have a couple of weeks to catch up on – and my left brain wants to do it chronologically. I think this will be part 1.

First – I made homemade salsa with garden tomatoes and half a dozen different kinds of peppers – shared it with the neighbors who loved it and made dinner that night to compliment it. Also I let Nora pick a baking memory for her BD and made her the chocolate tart.  Made a creole dish to taste the okra from my first ever plant (learned I need to pick them earlier, some were already too hard) that was pretty tasty too.

Chef gave me a piece of her “mother” of apple cider vinegar, so now I’m feeding my own 🙂

Our Indian lamb dish (Gosht Pulao) – looked amazing (of course, no pic) but the whole cloves and whole cardamom seeds were overpowering.  One of my fellow students donated hers to the Ops guys and I wish I had done so, because I tried to eat it at home and ended up throwing it out.  I want to make this again and really taste it!

and last, for those that aren’t on FB, I made my kids favorite appetizer with fresh figs, stuffed with goat cheese, wrapped in bacon, rolled in spices and baked – YUM.  and we did scallops with a beet vinaigrette in class (but I only got a bite) with Swiss chard, quinoa and gluten free ginger snaps,  so I made scallops@h  as well (with less healthy lemon butter caper sauce and extra Swiss chard from class with onions and walnuts – best darned meal I’ve made in a LONG time!). stay tuned for part 2, where we’ll move to Southeast Asia – YUM!