The Spring egg glut situation is still going on. The goose eggs have started hatching (three babies today and another egg or two to go) and the ducks have slowed down laying. But the chooks are still laying four or five eggs a day (even though some of them are well into chook middle age). So I made an egg curry on the weekend for a curry night feast for…
It’s not as photogenic as it was delicious. Green beans in a creamy, nut based mild curry sauce.
The fishing hasn’t improved. He’s still catching mostly Australian salmon. Luckily, the recommendations are to eat oily fish at least a couple of times a week, and Australian salmon are one of the best oily fish. And they’re one of the few on the list that are sustainable – gemfish are a threatened species, blue-eye trevalla are often long-line fished, Atlantic salmon are all farmed, and canned tuna is overfished,…
This pumpkin and chick pea curry is a good one – tasty, easy, healthy, low fat, using the pumpkin and the chilli, and also the other seasonal glut of the moment – lemons. It also has turmeric in it, and the more I hear about the health benefits of fresh turmeric, the more I like using it.
I had to do this recipe. I like the rhyme just too much! Vindaloo is a hot curry though, whichever way you look at it. You can reduce the chili and pepper a little bit in this recipe, but if you don’t like spicy food, probably best to go for a different curry entirely than to try to mellow it out too much.