Different ingredients
Mar. 10th, 2003 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyan_blueI cooked two new dishes tonight. These stepped a bit outside of my typical ingredient set, so it was fun and novel to see how they came out.
The meal was an Indian stew, of apples and potatoes and onions and garlic and chickpeas and raisins and celery, simmered in a curry sauce and served over Basmati rice, with some freshly minted yogurt on the side. Preia, continuing her love affair with all things dairy, approved quite heartily of the yogurt, which we let her lick from our fingertips.
Dessert was a vegan approximation of mango cheesecake. A graham-cracker crust was pressed into a pan, and over this was poured a paste comprised of blendered banana, tofu, vanilla, maple syrup, water, dates, and lemon juice. This was baked for 30 min, and then a sauce of pureed fresh mango was poured over the top. Yummy...
Pitted dates boiled in lemon-juice-water makes a surprisingly tangy flavoring.
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Date: 2003-03-10 11:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-11 04:51 am (UTC)and what do you do with the dates prepared thusly?
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Date: 2003-03-11 10:31 am (UTC)The tangy lemon-boiled dates get blended into the cake batter, to give it flavor. But I'm thinking that their flavor is good enough to use in other things.
The recipe is up in a later journal post, now.
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Date: 2003-03-11 10:30 am (UTC)It's now posted, in a subsequent post.
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Date: 2003-03-11 08:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-11 10:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-11 09:01 am (UTC)*raises hand and frantically waves!*
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Date: 2003-03-11 10:32 am (UTC)(or in the meantime, try out the recipe - I've posted it in a later post in my journal now).