We've got a Chinese cash and carry not far away that does some Korean food. There used to be a Chinese grocery shop in the shopping hall that did Korean food too, but since that lot was knocked down and rebuilt I'm not sure where they are now.
That's basically what we did...there were some left overs...
Our evening meal... it will be served over homemade tagliatelle (or fettuccine I'm still working out the difference and what I have made)...
It's roughly my 'Indian' only 2 onions, 2 courgettes and 4 tomatoes. then the spices mix... asafoetida, cumin seeds, yellow mustard seeds, black mustard seeds, hot red dried chillies, black cardamon pods, ground black cardamon (needed to be used so less whole pods were added and this used up), sweet red paprika, turmeric, ground cumin, ground coriander, hot madras powder (for a change), homemade garam masala, curry leaves (added after the photo), and tamarind. I think that is all of them
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Given it is lacking protein, I will probably threw in either some red lentils or chickpeas and serve it with a helping of edamame beans.
In that case I prepare tagliatelle! Thank you
The way I see it, both pasta and rice (and potatoes) are carbohydrates so there is not really reason as to why they are not interchangeable.
It take some learning and a good book that uses spices rather than spice blends (or has you make you your own spice blends). I learnt a long time a go now, probably 10 years ago. The books I have used are excellent (although no longer available new sadly). I was able to get a signed copy from the author herself before I went off to attempt cycling around the world. Since then I have worked my way through the book and learnt what spices work together. I can now taste something, know that it is missing a certain style or missing something and go to the spice cabinet (not a shelf we have way too many to fit on one shelf) and simply open the spices and sniff them and know if it will work with what the taste is. We do eat things much spicier now than we used to! We went to one Indian restaurant before we left the UK that is meant to be excellent and basically ordered their hottest spiciest dishes (everything was vegetarian, so getting vegan wasn't an issue). The waiter warned us that it was really hot and spicy and too much... only a dish for Indians etc.... Well we were rather disappointed and I know we were watched in awe as we ate our way through it without it bothering us at all. It wasn't spicy or hot compared to what we were used to. The Indian mother who cooked our meal did have a big smile on her face when she came out to meet us though. I gathered most people don't finish the dish and it upset her however she was very happy that we ate everything and enjoyed it.
Looks lovely
