February 9, 2011 new recipes

Dinner this evening was back in an Indian theme. The recipes are both new, from Best Ever Indian Cookbook, by Mridula Baljekar, Rafi Fernandez, Shehzad Husain, and Manisha Kanani

We had Potatoes and Spicy Cottage Cheese, and a Mango, Tomato, and Red Onion Salad. Both were very nice. Sorry, I can't find links for these recipes.

The wine was a 2008 Bodegas Goulart Torrontés. It is a fruity, grapefruity wine--I thought the fruit might work well with this. I am not sure it was perfect, but it was not bad.

January 14, 2011 new recipe

On 1/14/2011, we had this lovely creation. Carl invented this from scratch--Herbed Potato and Steak Salad. This was accompanied by a Pickled Cucumber Onion Salad--slices of cucumber and red onion are pickled in a 9:3:1 ratio or rice wine vinegar, sugar and salt (3 tablespoons rice wine vinegar, 3 teaspoons of sugar, and 1 teaspoon of salt). You marinate for 10-20 minutes, and you can add red pepper flakes, if you wish. The flavors are lovely!