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January 14, 2005

My favorite carrots, in a winning context

The other night I made a meal that made me very happy. Sometimes, I will hit on just the right combination of foods to make me feel both decedent and mysteriously healthy. I wish I made myself lunches that were similarly tasty and healthy. Instead I do things like eat an entire pack of ramen. (Today I discovered that the uncooked broken ramen bits left in the package are TOTALLY DELICIOUS.)

Anyway, this dinner. The first element was my favorite recipe from the aforementioned new Indian cookbook: stir-fried carrots with cumin and lime, which by great good fortune is available online at the author's website. It is really a winner, and I think it is at its best as a cold salad, after at least a couple of hours to let its flavors mingle. It is even better the next day, and leftovers will keep in the refrigerator nicely for three or four days. So I cleverly went to work on Sunday evening and made a full batch to pop in the fridge. We had the last of it as part this meal.

For the hot part of dinner, I made a batch of sauteed peppers -- one green, one yellow, one red -- and onions with cumin and fennel seeds and a little bit of canned chopped tomato. There were some good pepper juices that I didn't want to miss out on, so I also made eggs and rice to have underneath, using some brown rice I'd made in the rice cooker. These are about halfway between fried rice and scrambled eggs and a nice way to make a little rice go farther as well as being filling and good in their own right.

Blackberry limeade (from my second batch) washed it down.

Posted by redfox at January 14, 2005 02:30 PM (dinner reports) | Comments (5)

Comments

Thanks for the recipe link...I am running right downstairs to print.

Posted by Karen at January 16, 2005 08:53 AM

Thanks for pointing to this recipe. I look forward to giving it a try.

Posted by scott at January 30, 2005 02:23 PM

You can give broken up Ramen noodles a quick stir fry and they are great as a salad topping.

Posted by scott at January 30, 2005 02:26 PM

One hazards a guess that the recipe makes you feel decadent rather than decedent.

Posted by anapestic at April 29, 2005 10:30 AM

Oh, you would think that, but it totally makes me feel dead, in a peculiarly legalese-inflected way. I just left out the "like a".

Posted by redfox at April 29, 2005 10:38 AM