Needed a veggie dish last night and I had chickpeas and cauliflower at hand, so I tried myself at an Indian curry. I didn’t really have a recipe, just applied some basics I’ve learned about Indian food. The whole dish came out with a wonderful aroma and was very flavorful, I will definitely try to make this again. We ate it garnished with chopped cilantro over white rice, with some leftover lemon salmon and Avocado.

Normally I’d buy my coffee beans from Merchants of Green Coffee (I just realized they don’t even have a website) but unfortunately they are inaccessible to me right now. Thanks, Covid. So out of necessity I grabbed a bag of Avida Colombian Beans from Costco. Made a cup yesterday with my Aeropress using the inverted method. 12 g of coffee, 93° C water, steeped for ~60 seconds. The aroma is nice.

I’ve written a new theme for the blog that’s a little nicer than the previous one. I hope you like it. More stuff is coming soon, but despite the current quarantine I only have limited time available to work on this. In the meantime enjoy a photo of some pancakes I made a few days ago.

Our go-to vegetable side dish: sauteed spinach with garlic. Takes just a few minutes of prep time and cooks in less than 5. You’ll need minced garlic (however much you like), spinach leaves, oil, salt. Heat up pan with oil, add garlic when hot and sauté for like a minute, add spinach, and cook until all wilted. Season with salt, add a little bit of olive oil.

I got a recommendation for this chocolate chip cookie recipe titled how to make perfect chocolate chip cookies. I made them today and while they were not perfect, they were still pretty good.

It’s Mango season! Our local asian supermarket has these boxes of absolutely delicious Ataulfo mangoes for $12. This happens every year and every year I’m surprised by how good these are. No better way to get your daily fix of Vitamin C than this!

Bell peppers stuffed with ground beef, carrot, onion, bell pepper, rice, and celery in tomato sauce. And, because everybody likes it, covered with cheese. This time with extra cheese. I don’t really have a recipe for this so every time it’s slightly different. This time it came out very nice, so I’m gonna note it down here:

Another recipe from my Mum. Thin corn pancakes stuffed with zucchini, leeks, carrot, and onion, and covered with cheese. I’ll get the recipe up soon, just have to rework my templates to support more complex recipes.

Sunday was prep day so I made a lot of food for the next days. Quiche I made quiche again, this time with panchetta, mushrooms, and thyme. For the crust I used less water this time and it came out softer and flakier than the last time. Recipe for the pie crust here. Key Differences: grated the frozen butter like they taught us in culinary school, makes making the crust a lot easier Less water.

Saw a post about Instant Pot tomato soup on /r/instantpot and had to try it.