Quotable Quote

It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato.  

~Lewis Grizzard

Recipe: Egg Curry

Egg curry is simple, tasty, and can be eaten for breakfast or dinner.

Egg Curry for 2

Half a red onion, finely chopped

1 tsp. cumin seeds

1 tbsp. olive oil

1 clove minced garlic

3/4" minced ginger

1 tbsp. ground cilantro seeds

1/2 tsp. hot red chilli powder

1 tsp. turmeric

4-6 small tomatoes, peeled, seeded, and chopped

2 oz. coconut milk

salt

4 hard boiled eggs, sliced

Brown rice peas pulao for 2

optional: curry leaves or fresh cilantro (but not both)

In a saucepan, over medium heat, simultaneously roast the cumin seed on one side of the pan while letting some of the water evaporate from the red onion on the other side. When the onion is a bit dry and the cumin seed is fragrant, add the olive oil, garlic, ginger, ground cilantro seed, hot red chilli powder, and turmeric and stir-fry until the garlic and ginger soften. (If you're adding curry leaves, add them at this point.) Add the tomatoes, salt to taste, stir, and turn the heat up until the mixture boils, then reduce the heat to medium low, cover, and let simmer, checking and stirring every now and then, until a bit of the oil separates from the tomato curry and the curry is thick. Stir in the coconut milk (and if you're adding fresh cilantro, stir that in, too).

Divide brown rice peas pulao between two bowls, top with two sliced eggs each, and top each with the tomato coconut curry.

Food Poem Fridays: Mary Oliver's THE GARDEN

The Garden

By Mary Oliver

The kale's

puckered sleeve,

the pepper's

hollow bell,

the lacquered onion.

Beets, borage, tomatoes.

Green beans.

I came in and I put everything

on the counter: chives, parsley, dill,

the squash like a pale moon,

peas in their silky shoes, the dazzling

rain-drenched corn.

Quotable Quote

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.  

~Luciano Pavarotti and William Wright, Pavarotti, My Own Story