The Watched Pot

Red cabbage, spring onions and garlic fried with a ground mixture of coconut, mint leaves, red chilies and tomatoes and a pinch of garam masala. With the 9 ingredients in garam masala, the total goes to 16 in all!! Of course not including salt and water. Why have I noticed all this (and counted the number of ingredients on the garam masala packet)? Contrary to the prevalent popular belief that I am jobless, I am actually very impatient and cannot allow the watched pot to boil. I have to occupy myself with something or the other while the dish cooks entirely. Or I tend to do something silly and spoil the meal. By putting in some out of place ingredient in or not allowing stuff to cook completely. So that's why the watched pot never boils in my kitchen.
This cabbage thingy was one of the tastiest dishes I have ever made or eaten. Doesn't it look great!

Loaded Lunch

 

I have a lot on my plate now.

Lemon rice on top, mixed vegetable fry (cabbage, carrot, bean sprouts, spring onions) on the right, rasam rice on the left.

Softies!

Soft, really soft chapatis! And endive poriyal. Haha! I don't think those two words have ever been used in the same line before. Baked endives with salt first and then fried it with butter and pepper. Tasted bitter but nice. Went well with the chapatis too! Did I mention the chapatis were soft? Really really soft? Haha!