lust on ya

Cafeteria food is in order for the next few days since we have house guests (8 in the house total) from all points west. We will get to feel what it feels like to feed a large family, and while we will most likely be enjoying the fruits that NYC has to offer we will still eat a few meals at home and for starters we will have hunks of lasagna.



I didnt use any sauce and I didnt boil the pasta sheets before hand because I am radical like that.



One hundred percent vegetarian with the sauce on the side.

classic twisted

Everybody eats some form of chicken and rice and you know it. I think even vegans and vegetarians eat something called 'fakin' and rice to imitate chicken -n- rice. So it should come as no surprise to you that I too eat chicken and rice. I eat chicken and rice in so many ways I dont have time to tell you and you dont have time to hear.



A favorite way to make chicken and rice round here is with curry and that too has all its variants, sometimes its butter chicken some times its green curry, I will do a tandoori style, the list and its myriad of other lists is endless and this is only the curry list!



This is red chile, coconut curry with chicken tenders over basmati rice. Sweet, spicy, aromatic and delicious.

spell comfort

E. n. c. h. i. l. a. d. a. is one good way to spell comfort, I can think of many others but this spelling leaves me comforted. As you recall I make these oh so often but I havent made them in a good while so it was high time for some truck stop flavor.



Directions are simple: layer corn tortillas and chile and cheese until you have all the layers you want and top with lettuce, onion, tomato, easy eggs and more chile. Thats right, underneath those eggs are 4 layers of corn and cheese and green chile goodness.



Now my kid spells comfort: P. i. z. z. a. What kid doesnt?

Me yarga

Jabba the Hutt says Tuna Melt, I know he does, it sounds like he does, I always thought he does, does he?



Whether he does or not here is a tuna melt. When I dont know what to have for lunch I always fall back on the tuna melt. "Jabba wookie, pootanaaa, tunaa melt"

all spice all star

" I love to try exotic spices," she said gingerly. With that I peppered my language liberally throwing out words like "cardamom" and "fenugreek" just to watch her twitch. Soon she will swoon and I will have her at bay and then it would be wise to heed some sage advice.........



Add on to it as much as you want I have coconut curry soup to make. I started with 31 mini meatballs of scallion, ginger and garlic chives that I put in the oven to cook.



I simmered a broth with cardamom, ginger, curry, lemon grass, chiles, shallots and garlic.



I strained the broth and added coconut milk, served each bowl with a couple of meatballs a little extra chile and a side of jasmine rice.



There is a secret to getting rice so fluffy and nice - and if I told you how it wouldn't be a secret anymore now would it? I am still not back to my "A" game yet but my "B" game is catching up.