Flavors of india...meet my kitchen...

Hey All,

I made this recipe last week. However, seeing as I'm not making a recipe this week I'll post it today.

Indian-spiced green beans and potatoes::

1 teaspoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 pound green beans.
2 tablespoons canola oil.
1/4 serrano pepper, minced (with seeds)
1 tablespoon finely minced fresh ginger
4. Small red potatoes, unpeeled, cut into 6 wedges each
4. Small plum tomatoes, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

1. in a small bowl, mix coriander. Cumin, turmeric, garam masala and salt. Set aside
2. Cut green beans on diagonal into three-quarter inch pieces.heat oil in a large wok or skillet over medium-high heat. Add pepper and ginger. Stir for 30 seconds. Add beans and potatoes. Mix in set aside spice mixture. Stir for 2 min. over high heat.
3. Add tomatoes, and reduce heat to medium, cover and cook for about 12 min. until potatoes are 
4. tender and tomatoes are broken down, stirring occasionally mix in lemon juice.

 
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the replacements and additions made this recipe are more a result of interest and necessity than me going "oh if I take this out. What can I put it in?"   As a result, IMHO they are somewhat bland. First let me start with the addition, I added 2-3 medium-sized carrots(the big fat ones, not babies) and cut them into about even sized pieces (even size when compared to the other chunks of stuff). What this did was just added it to the end of time of cooking for 12 min. This is because carrots take 5 to 10 min. more time to tenderize  than potatoes do.  The garam masala was something I didn't have, however, I did have tandoori masala so I  use that instead. I have absolutely no clue how this changed what the recipe tasted like,but it still had an Indian flair so I guess it still worked. As well as I didn't have the full amount of Coriander required so i filled in dried cilantro for what i didn't have(It's wasn't a direct substitution so i'm not sure how to categorize it) but again it didn't seem to mess with the flavor too much.

This is a great recipe with simple prep. I poured mine over white rice(I should be doing it over brown..[Buuut...I wanted white{In hindsight brown would have been better}]) and it went wonderfully. The potatoes were probably the best veggie followed by the carrots and then the green beans. Not to say they weren't all great but i just think the Potatoes were a bit better(I'm also biased to potatoes[took a lot of will power to not make potatoes appear in every recipe i make on here{Yes, EVERY ONE}]).

Well that's it for now....look forward(or don't) to my next curious recipe!

The Recipe-less Post

Yep, as the title suggests this post has no recipe tied to it. It's more an announcement than anything else.

I'm now taking pictures of the foods I make. However, until I can decide upon a design for the posts here the images may not show up here right away. You see, I have a tumblr Acct and one of the blogs on this account(Tumblr) I made to promote this blog of mine, and until now i had no real idea as to what to do but now i do(So HA!)

End result of the whole picture thing will most likely be a smaller image at the bottom of my posts while full size images will be on the tumblr blog.(That's the off the top of the head idea tho[subject to change{Probably a lot of change}])