Welcome to My Kitchen

This is the place that I love to be. I like to be creative and cooking is what is doing it for me these days. It's kind of a necessity and it makes me feel accomplished. I like knowing what we are eating and where it comes from. I go out of my way to make sure this happens.
I like that I don't buy several household staples from a grocery store. I enjoy making applesauce, jams and jellies, apple butter, spaghetti sauce, spicy mustard, pickles and anything else I can.
I like getting dirty, getting my hands into things, feeling and experiencing my food from the beginning to the end. I like making things, growing things and bringing those two together to create a healthy meal. I like nourishing others and knowing that I did my best to give them the best.











Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Eggplant and Chickpea Curry

It's been a while but I wanted to document my process of trying this new recipe.  Turns out, I changed things up a bit too. 

I found this recipe on the Fat Free Vegan's website.


http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/2011/01/eggplant-and-chickpea-curry.html?fb_action_ids=10152487349975271&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=246965925417366









I should have made rice to try with this but it was very good as was.  I made a Tzatziki sauce along with a piece of pita bread and it was delicious.  I even dipped some pita in the curry and it was very good.  I could imagine eating this as a soup with a small bit of rice in it.  I really do like this dish and would make it again.  No one else tried it yet but I do know that it had a little kick and the kids probably wouldn't go for it unless I took the cayenne pepper out of the recipe.
The main way that I differed from the recipe was that I used fire roasted red peppers and a jar of homemade tomatoes.  And I didn't have turmeric so I used garam masala in it's place.  Still a great dish!
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