Recent Food Posts

• Mustard Trilogy 3: Nepali Cucumber Salad
• Mustard Trilogy 2: Vellarikka Pachadi
• Mustard Trilogy 1: Shorshe Dharosh
• Ironwoman Date-Orange Cake and Lemony Molasses Tea
• Wheatgrass and another Sagz-to-Sexy Smoothie
• Pumpkin Hummus
• Garlicky Mashed Water Spinach (Poondu Keerai Masiyal)
• Mitti Chawal (”Dirty” Rice)
• Ragi-Sweet Potato Sourdough Bread (Vegan)
• Eating on the Run: Sweet Potato-Saffron Protein Shake

Mustard Trilogy 1: Shorshe Dharosh
Mustard Trilogy 2: Vellarikka Pachadi

We had so many cucumbers last summer that we were distributing bagfuls to whoever would take them. Here’s a wonderful salad starring raw mustard oil - drizzled over the dish the same way extra virgin olive oil is used to flavour Mediterranean dishes.

… Lemon Cucumbers in a Coconut-Yogurt Sauce

Bottom left: Shorshe Dharosh (Mustardy Okra)

In Bengali, shorshe = mustard, dharosh = okra/lady finger.

In Europe, mustard is used mainly as a condiment. In the Indian home, it is consumed almost with every meal, in one of five forms:

Breakfast

I suffer from iron deficiency anemia - very common among vegetarians and vegans. Especially so among women and children. Less iron means less hemoglobin, which translates to less oxygen in your blood and more fatigue.

There’s only so much bok choy and broccoli I can eat. How about an iron-rich cake? I really hadn’t planned out a recipe. I just dumped one thing after another into a bowl and 30 minutes later, I had a very rich, most cake. It’s gluten-free. And dairy-free. No added sweeteners. No added fat. And all the fibre is intact.

Wheatgrass

Sagz = Saggy Ass.

When I was growing up, I used to watch my mom display masochistic behaviour. It was consistent and inexplicable. She used to juice bitter gourd. And wheatgrass. Bitter gourd (karela) couched in spices and cooked crisp was my favourite veggie, but there’s no way in heck I can drink its juice raw. I still don’t know why my mom juiced those things. She wasn’t diabetic or ill. As I said, she just liked to torture herself.

Banana Squash

Recipe Marathon: Final Day (Day 7).

Vegans are always scouring for calcium-rich recipes, and hummus is at the top of the list.

Water Spinach / Water Morning Glory / Kangkung

Recipe Marathon: Day 6.

In Tamil, Poondu=Garlic, Keerai=Greens, Masiyal=Mashed.

Water Spinach is called Kalmua, Kalmi, Kalmisag, Patuasag in Hindi and Vallai Keerai in Tamil. (Link)

We’re so tired of spinach. It’s the only green we find in the frozen section in most stores. Plus, non-organic spinach is laced with around 40 pesticides along with e-coli and goodness knows what else.

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