Not much of note #FromMyReading this morning, but I do like this, as it echoes what I have said for ages.

Apps like EYB try to fit Indian food into Western categories, but it doesn't work. Everything just ends up under "Curry". From Chutney Lovers.

"Many Indian dishes defy western-style categorization. Meals in India are also not divided into set courses reserved for specific categories - appetizers, soup or salads, main course and dessert. All the dishes are arranged on the table, and everyone fills their plate as per preference or they get served if it’s some occasion or a festival.

For example, what is dal? Is it a curry (a big NO), is it a soup, is it a stew? Dal or any cooked, spiced lentils are a category in itself because they are such a monumental part of Indian meals, notwithstanding the culinary diversity. The best way to describe and categorise dal is as a rice accompaniment.

In the western Indian states of Maharashtra and Gujarat, warm, stir-fried salads are intrinsic parts of meals. But they are cited as side dishes or even dried sabjis, no one will dream of calling them salads."

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#FromMyReading this morning

* Black sesame seeds are an enormous package of goodness. Toast them first to release even more.

🫖 Green tea too. It produces something distinctive: a calm, alert mental state ideal for meditation, contemplation, and sustained intellectual work. I have often read that green tea is good for you, one of my fav books even suggesting that we sip it all day. Now I know why.

🍽️ Yet another article on 6 dishes from one pan of lentils (cooked with onion, garlic and ginger).
1. Some left whole for salads, curries, veg dishes
2. Broth used for things like a cashew cream. (I'd add for making rasam.)
3. Boil eggs in some of the broth

This will give you meals like dal, roasted cauliflower with cashew cream, a hearty salad, a simple curry, devilled eggs etc. I'd add - lentil pancakes, rasam, soup, lentil balls/dumplings, vada, lentil butter, spreads and dips, .....

🥞 Serendipitously, a recipe from Second Brain, for red lentil kimchi pancakes with sesame fried eggs and avo. Get to it! ✅✅✅ Have them with a cup of green tea 🎖️

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