First Things First: FOOD!
The landlord of our apartment has a cook whom we thought we’d try. We happily learned that she is a GOOD cook, so we’ve hired her to cook lunch for us Monday through Friday. Her name is Latika. Lunch consists of brown rice, a dal, some sort of vegetable, and chapattis. It is SO nice, after a 7 am class followed by a three-hour practice session, to come back to a home-cooked meal. We’re gratefully ravenous by then. Thank you, Latika!
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Her trove of spices: fennel, garlic, mustard seeds, turmeric, saffron, garam masala, hing, ginger, chili
Latika begins to cook lunch
Today we’re having cabbage. (It was delicious!)
Cabbage simmering for about 10 minutes, with the addition of chili. So simple!
Making the dough for the chapattis.
Latika steamed the dal in the pressure cooker.
Oil, garlic, tomato and cilantro for the dal
The dal…yum yum…is your mouth watering yet?
Tags: Iyengar, Pune, Ray Madigan, Shelley Choy, Yoga
