indian food

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Interested

 

--- Allison Nations <allyanne2001 wrote:

> There's a really good Indian Vegetarian egroup I'm

> d to...If anyone is interested in the link,

> just let me know.

>

> Warmly,

> Allison

 

 

 

 

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I'm interested!!

thanks

*Chana*

 

 

 

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On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 07:31:36 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

 

>Interested

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Me too. It's a cuisine I know very little about. The few

times I've eaten in Indian restaurants, I really liked most

of the dishes.

 

Recommendations for an Indian cookbook?

 

I used to have Madhur Jaffrey's 'World of the East

Vegetarian Cooking' but gave it away (that was stupid). I

might buy it again on Half.com.

 

Pat

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I almost forgot...I also have a few Indian Recipe links...here are the ones I

have for those interested..

http://www.syvum.com/recipes/ivrindex.html

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Courtyard/8761/

Hope you enjoy!!

*Chana*

 

 

 

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Me! ME!!! <jumping up and down, waving hand!> I LOVE Indian

restaurants. Lots of program friendly choices for vegetarians and

omnivores. Plus, I've always just loved the seasonings. I love to cook

Indian food, too. It's not as hard as it looks and it makes the house

smell heavenly.

 

And, the sugar thing applies as long as you don't go anywhere near

their desserts, LOL... Indian desserts have been known to induce

instant diabetes (just a slight exaggeration, LOL!)

 

Val

 

, " Bob " <yogabob7 wrote:

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> I just love Indian Food, and was wondering how many other Indian

Food Lovers there are out

> there? One thing that I really like is that Indian Food Restaurants

do not tend to add sugar to

> the recipe. Most of the time I feel safe there.

>

> Let me know.

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> Bob

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I have always found Indian restaurants to be a safe place to eat as well, and I

really like Indian food. I have some Indian sauces by Pataks that have no

sugar, that I use in some of my cooking.

Allison

 

 

>Bob <yogabob7

>Aug 11, 2006 5:25 PM

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> Indian Food

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>I just love Indian Food, and was wondering how many other Indian Food Lovers

there are out

>there? One thing that I really like is that Indian Food Restaurants do not

tend to add sugar to

>the recipe. Most of the time I feel safe there.

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>Let me know.

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>Bob

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Me too, Bob. I love curries and would eat out at Indian restaurants

all the time, if I could afford it.

 

I just wish I could find one that served something brown, but in the

meantime, it's more than worth it to slip my brown into my bag so

that I can enjoy a good Indian meal. Yum!

 

Lis

 

, " Bob " <yogabob7 wrote:

>

> I just love Indian Food, and was wondering how many other Indian

Food Lovers there are out

> there? One thing that I really like is that Indian Food

Restaurants do not tend to add sugar to

> the recipe. Most of the time I feel safe there.

>

> Let me know.

>

> Bob

>

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I always get a cup of one of the lentil soups as a brown. Ok, it's not as

substantial as a plate of brown rice, but it works ok for me and the soups are

usually really yummy, with lots of garlic and ginger and other good stuff.

Allison

 

 

>lisdotson <dotson.lisa

>Aug 15, 2006 6:04 AM

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> Re: Indian Food

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>Me too, Bob. I love curries and would eat out at Indian restaurants

>all the time, if I could afford it.

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>I just wish I could find one that served something brown, but in the

>meantime, it's more than worth it to slip my brown into my bag so

>that I can enjoy a good Indian meal. Yum!

>

> Lis

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> , " Bob " <yogabob7 wrote:

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>> I just love Indian Food, and was wondering how many other Indian

>Food Lovers there are out

>> there? One thing that I really like is that Indian Food

>Restaurants do not tend to add sugar to

>> the recipe. Most of the time I feel safe there.

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>> Let me know.

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>> Bob

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Oooooh! Great idea, Allison! I'm going to try to remember that for

next time I have the opportunity to do Indian :-)

 

Lis

 

, alschacht wrote:

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> I always get a cup of one of the lentil soups as a brown. Ok, it's

not as substantial as a plate of brown rice, but it works ok for me

and the soups are usually really yummy, with lots of garlic and

ginger and other good stuff.

> Allison

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> >lisdotson <dotson.lisa

> >Aug 15, 2006 6:04 AM

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> > Re: Indian Food

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> >Me too, Bob. I love curries and would eat out at Indian

restaurants

> >all the time, if I could afford it.

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> >I just wish I could find one that served something brown, but in

the

> >meantime, it's more than worth it to slip my brown into my bag so

> >that I can enjoy a good Indian meal. Yum!

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> > Lis

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> > , " Bob " <yogabob7@> wrote:

> >>

> >> I just love Indian Food, and was wondering how many other Indian

> >Food Lovers there are out

> >> there? One thing that I really like is that Indian Food

> >Restaurants do not tend to add sugar to

> >> the recipe. Most of the time I feel safe there.

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[Guest guest]

has anyone here ever successfully made an indian curry dish? I have tried but it

tasted nothing like in the restaurants.

 

 

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> has anyone here ever successfully made an indian curry dish? I have tried but

it tasted

nothing like in the restaurants.

 

What a very strange question! LOL Of course. ALL our recipes here are tried and

true - that

is to say that all recipes are kitchen-tested by the member posting them before

posting. If

they were not successful, they would not be posted. For mysself, I have to say

that we eat

Indian 'curry' (ie. a gravied dish) several time a week. If you would like to

see some of our

recipes, please go to the homepage and look under Files in the left-hand column,

then

click into Main Dishes and Side Dishes, and *then* click into 'Asian - South

Asian . . . '

where you will find many Indian dishes. The secret is in the spices and the

treatment of

the spices. Freshly ground work best.

 

If you have any questions after looking, please ask again, okay? I would hate to

think that

you were avoiding Indian dishes because they didn't taste 'like in the

restaurants'. Home

made Indian dishes are far superior to most restaurant dishes as found in

western

countries, barring one excellent one I found many years ago in New York.

 

Best love, Pat

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Indian food is very labor intensive. We live very close to a huge indian

neighborhood (Devon avenue in Chicago), and have very high standards. I make

Indian food using prepared sauces. The Bombay brand vindaloo sauce is excellent

(I add a few slices of fresh jalapeno because it's not very hot). Trader joes

has excellent frozen naan. Trader joes also has a very good cooking sauce (be

sure to get the curry,not the masala). I also have a garam masala spice blend

that I picked up in an Indian market that is quite good.

 

Julie Kinglsey <julie.kingsley wrote: has anyone here ever

successfully made an indian curry dish? I have tried but it tasted nothing like

in the restaurants.

 

 

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I cook a lot of Indian! What do you want in a dish? I am sure I can help

you.

 

Linda

 

 

On 9/10/06, Julie Kinglsey <julie.kingsley wrote:

>

> has anyone here ever successfully made an indian curry dish? I have tried

> but it tasted nothing like in the restaurants.

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> Get your email and more, right on the new .com

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> I cook a lot of Indian! What do you want in a dish? I am sure I can help

> you.

 

That'd be wonderful if you could help, Linda - I'd love to see some of your

wonderful

spiced recipes here! Thanks a bunch!!!

 

Best, Pat

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I am a cook who does the " a little of this and some of that " kind of cooking

and then I adjust till I get it

to where I want it to be. But I will send some that are similar to how I do

it LOL.

 

Linda

 

 

On 9/10/06, Patricia Sant <moorcroftblue wrote:

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> > I cook a lot of Indian! What do you want in a dish? I am sure I can

> help

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> That'd be wonderful if you could help, Linda - I'd love to see some of

> your wonderful

> spiced recipes here! Thanks a bunch!!!

>

> Best, Pat

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[Guest guest]

> Indian food is very labor intensive.

 

Well, it depends what you're making. I find I can do most things within the

hour, since

after all one is not cooking me*t until tender etc. :=) Many dishes can indeed

be made in

much less time - say, around half an hour. The trick, I think, is to have a good

selection of

spices, a dedicated 'coffee' grinder for the spices, and to put those out before

you do

anything else (well, it works for me LOL). After that, it's a breeze - but I am

perhaps being

a little unfair here. I've been making Indian dishes since - oh - well, let's

say for the last

50 years, and practice does, in this as in other things, help a bit. (And yes, I

might add: I

mean 'westernized' Indian food indeed - but so much learned from friends of

Indian

origin.)

 

But I do agree - in general it is more labour intensive than many other

cuisines. Worth the

trouble, though!

 

Thanks for the tips on commercial products. Although I prefer not to use them

myself,

thinking that everything tastes the same if you use the same sauce, powder,

paste,

whatever for the dishes, I do understand that for a quick fix - and we all need

that from

time to time (people who have busy lives - and who doesn't these days) - they

are very

necessary. Some spice mixes, btw, you can roast, grind and mix yourself in small

quantities to last you through a few recipes. A basic mix, perhaps, to which you

might

then add a dash of this or that depending on what you're making.

 

Best, Pat

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OMG ,I am so embarrased you said that! I did not mean for it to sound strange. I

am not a cook when it comes to spices. The only spice I use is salt. That is why

I joined.

 

 

>>What a very strange question! LOL Of course. ALL our recipes here are tried

and true - that

is to say that all recipes are kitchen-tested by the member posting them before

posting. If

they were not successful, they would not be posted.<<

 

 

 

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> OMG ,I am so embarrased you said that! I did not mean for it to sound strange.

I am not

a cook when it comes to spices. The only spice I use is salt. That is why I

joined.

 

OMG now I am embarrassed - so sorry hon. I must have been in a vile mood when I

answered your post <flails self with wet noodle>. Seriously, I see what you

mean, and of

course you can't know what you need to use for Indian food (since you seem to

like the

restaurant versions) until you try it at home for a bit. Right? Right!! It's

just that I hear so

many people say that either they can't bear curry because it smells funny

(whatever that

means) or that it's impossible to make it at home (for some silly reason, I'm

not sure

what). If you DO like it, it's easier than you think. Truly. If you don't, then

don't get into a

knot over it - there are plenty of other cuisines out there!!! Yeahhhhhh - lots,

hon. And

you don't have to like them all. No way do you!

 

But if you would like to learn to 'duplicate' some easy Indian specialties, we

can look up

some easy ones for you. Linda, as she says, has some great ideas. And I (as I

was saying)

have a whole bunch that I use several times a week. Just give us an idea of what

kinds of

things you like - that you have in restaurants - and we can, among the lot of us

(and there

are many Indian people on this list that learned it at their mother's knee, so

to speak, or

learned it on visits to India, or . . . .

 

Big smiles to you, Julie :=) Let us know what you want to know. As for some

other

cuisines, I'm not always as much use as I might be - useless on Japanese, for

example,

and what I know about southern american and tex-mex (to use an all-inclusive

term) I

have learned from people here!

 

Hugs, Pat

[Guest guest]

In regard to all this about spices...it is very important to take all the spices

you are going to need OUT OF THE CUPBOARD before you do anything else. that way

you know you have them all and no panic occurs.

Luanne

 

 

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HI, I am Francine

I am a novice at Indian cooking

and I find that every time I cook indian,

it turns me off of the real thing.

that's how bad it is.

That's why I joined this group.

My indian cooking ends up tasting like the campbell soup version of recipes

fake !!!

I think its because I don't have access to authentic ingredient.

I don't have an indian market in my neigborhood

so I shop for my ingredients at the regular supermarket

and have to make lots of substitutions.

For example, I would never be able to find curry leaves unless I grew the

tree myself...LOL

I really look forward to simple indian recipes with easy to get ingredients.

So many indian recipes have recipes as ingredients.

That's way to complicated for me... with 5 kids and a university carreer.

 

Francine

 

> " Patricia Sant " <moorcroftblue

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> Re: indian food

>Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:32:25 -0000

>

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> > OMG ,I am so embarrased you said that! I did not mean for it to sound

>strange. I am not

>a cook when it comes to spices. The only spice I use is salt. That is why I

>joined.

>

>OMG now I am embarrassed - so sorry hon. I must have been in a vile mood

>when I

>answered your post <flails self with wet noodle>. Seriously, I see what you

>mean, and of

>course you can't know what you need to use for Indian food (since you seem

>to like the

>restaurant versions) until you try it at home for a bit. Right? Right!!

>It's just that I hear so

>many people say that either they can't bear curry because it smells funny

>(whatever that

>means) or that it's impossible to make it at home (for some silly reason,

>I'm not sure

>what). If you DO like it, it's easier than you think. Truly. If you don't,

>then don't get into a

>knot over it - there are plenty of other cuisines out there!!! Yeahhhhhh -

>lots, hon. And

>you don't have to like them all. No way do you!

>

>But if you would like to learn to 'duplicate' some easy Indian specialties,

>we can look up

>some easy ones for you. Linda, as she says, has some great ideas. And I (as

>I was saying)

>have a whole bunch that I use several times a week. Just give us an idea of

>what kinds of

>things you like - that you have in restaurants - and we can, among the lot

>of us (and there

>are many Indian people on this list that learned it at their mother's knee,

>so to speak, or

>learned it on visits to India, or . . . .

>

>Big smiles to you, Julie :=) Let us know what you want to know. As for some

>other

>cuisines, I'm not always as much use as I might be - useless on Japanese,

>for example,

>and what I know about southern american and tex-mex (to use an

>all-inclusive term) I

>have learned from people here!

>

>Hugs, Pat

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Oh, my family are good sports about my trying new things, and I am

so glad they will grow up that way too, we try it all! I am lucky to

have any ethnic shop within miles of our home. I just want to cry

the other day one of my sons took a bag of dry goods (spices, flour)

and thought is was trash, threw it away! ! ! now I will need to make

a list just to find out what I am missing to replace from my

indian/asian store. My poor chapati, and jaggery....sniffles.

I was trying to make space for more stuff, as I try to buy for all

ethnic groups. Works great to put them into the caribou tea tins.

But having trouble finding a grater for the whole turmeric! Lucky I

got most of the dal, rice...onto the counter before it happened! We

love thai, Indian, Mexican, Southern, Jewish, Italian, Vegetarian

you name it we'll try it. I hope to some day own a world collection

of cook books. I just love spicy and chilies, getting the family to

like more hot foods, and meatless also.I lost a dear friend who was

african and a great cook, one neighbor gave me a kimchi recipe,

another russian deserts, and a somalian friend was teaching me some

dinners also. We love to meet all people, and learn about their

culture, foods, dress , music and decor. I get our kids to view alot

of movies about them too. A friend at my husbands work is teaching

us some hungarian food now. I always like to learn the traditional

way first, then the modern, and fusion and vegan way. Trying to

learn all about substitutions for all foods,meat anologs, levening,

sweeteners...

Just wanted to say hi to the group, and intro myself a bit.

Audrey/Onexpresso

 

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- and we can, among the lot

> >of us (and there

> >are many Indian people on this list that learned it at their

mother's knee,

> >so to speak, or

> >learned it on visits to India, or . . . .

> Let us know what you want to know. As for some

> >other

> >cuisines, I'm not always as much use as I might be - useless on

Japanese,

> >for example,

> >and what I know about southern american and tex-mex (to use an

> >all-inclusive term) I

> >have learned from people here!

> >

> >Hugs, Pat

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[Guest guest]

I'm learning to cook Indian food. There is a great site with video's and

recipes: http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/

 

I've got several dishes I've tried off there on my blog:

http://justjera.wordpress.com/

 

Last night I just did something easy - rice and beans as a side dish to

veggie/hummus wraps. Tonight I want easy again. So, I'm going to use the left

over rice and beans - add more beans plus cheese for tortilla filling along with

tortilla chips and salsa. My husband always goes for Mexican.

 

Also, I just watched a video about the benefits of vitamin B17 and how certain

countries with an abundance of this in their diet are free of cancer. Both the

beans and hummus have B17. So, I'm going to try to make sure I include a lot of

things rich in B17. Sprouts are another thing. Really soon I'm going to try

sprouting.

 

Jerri

http://www.sam-e.com/job/profile/193

 

, " Mannalal " <baidmannalal wrote:

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> Try in Indian Restorant and ask Them for Strict Vegratian Dis. You will get so

many which you can cook at your residance.

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> , Pam Brown <recipegirl@> wrote:

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> > My name is Pam and I am interested in finding good tasting vegetarian

recipes for my family.  Whether it's just a recipe with meat alternatives or

just veggies themselves, we are looking to try new recipes.

> >  

> > Thanks for letting me join.

> >  

> > Pam

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