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Work lunch/Sunday lunch: Palak paneer

April 2, 2017 by edlyngd@gmail.com

There’s a routine at my house in Goa that was very typical of Sunday when I was growing up. I may have written about it quite a few times and I do this only because it has stuck in my head over time and distance. Hear me out again anyway: My father would go to the market in the morning and what felt like hours later, he would come back home on his bike with bags of things at his feet. He would honk for us or my mother to come help him carry everything and the two of them would go on to cleaning fish or chicken or other meat, cooking some of the vegetables and getting food ready for lunch. It seemed like they knew exactly what they were doing.  There wasn’t any meal-planning. It was improvised. My mother can confirm or deny this. We were shooed out of the kitchen by my father and over time, I myself learnt only a few of the things they did to cook the meal I miss the most when Sunday comes along….

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: palak paneer, spinach recipes, work lunch

Work lunch: Broccoli and chard stir-fry

December 20, 2016 by edlyngd@gmail.com

We are a hop, skip and a jump away from 2017. How did this happen? I have no plans for anything (cool). I made no lists to check off and did no shopping until a few minutes ago when I panic bought two or three things and then took the dogs for a walk to take the edge off (also cool). It’s like the good old days of last minute everything my family is known for and the reason my dad has gray hair….

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Filed Under: savoury, Uncategorized Tagged With: stir fry, work lunch

Fried rice and a seven-minute* egg

October 19, 2016 by Edlyn

*Eight-minute egg or what happens when you don’t pay attention to the timer.

pic4Yesterday, I came *this* close to being in Goa again. Being near a package sent to me by my family through a friend visiting/working in Seattle for a week was my escape and even though I’m not literally there, I can breathe the curry patta (leaves) that grow from my neighbour’s compound to our top floor balcony and drop a red chilli in hot oil whenever I feel low. The homesickness has been on the uptick lately. This is the time of the year when I have a plane ticket and I’m all prepared to say “See you sucker,” to the winter. That’s not on the list this year and so, packages of dried food  with amazing labels made my mother will do. They are so professional. Airport customs has nothing on her….

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Filed Under: Eggs all day, food, savoury Tagged With: fried rice, Goa, how to cook brown rice, seven-minute eggs, work lunch

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