I smell like cumin, cardamom, clove and turmeric.

sigh.

:shrug:

:P

i should probably smell less foody!

:rofl:

:rofl:

:hi:

I now have to make it...you have inspired me:hi:

your recipe....I already planted the seed with MR MB since we have our first evening alone at the new house tomorrow - no little MB, no Mommma MB...:evilgrin:

Recipe By : Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking
Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Indian Chicken Breasts
Want To Try

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
-------- ------------ --------------------------------
2 pieces fresh ginger root -- 1″ cubes
-- coarsely chopped
1/4 cup water
2/3 cup water
2 1/2 pounds chicken breasts -- skinned
5 cloves garlic -- minced
7 ounces cilantro -- minced
1/2 jalapeno -- minced
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
2 teaspoons cumin
1 teaspoon coriander
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Put the ginger and 1/4 c. water into a blender or processor. Blend until
you have a paste.

Put the oil in a wide, heavy, preferably nonstick pan over medium-high heat.
When the oil is hot, put in as many chicken pieces as pan will hold in a
single layer, and brown on both sides. Remove the chicken pieces with a
slotted spoon and put them in a bowl. Brown all the chicken pieces this way.

Add the garlic to the hot oil. As soon as the pieces turn a medium-brown
color, turn heat to medium and pour in the ginger paste. Stir-fry it for a
minute. Now add the fresh coriander, jalapeno, cayenne, cumin, coriander,
turmeric, and salt. Stir and cook for a minute.

Put in all the chicken pieces as well as any liquid that might have
accumulated in the chicken bowl. Add 2/3 c. water and the lemon juice. Stir
and bring to a boil. Cover tightly, turn heat to low, and cook for 15 minutes.

Turn the chicken pieces over. Cover again and cook anoter 10 to 15 minutes or
until the chicken is tender. If the sauce is too thin, uncover the pan and
boil some of it away over a slightly higher heat.

you smell yummy by the way:9

:hi:

Thanks :)

:hi:

sounds quite yummy. Theres much worse things you could smell like.

:D

Thanks for reminding me I need to pick up some cloves the next time I go shopping! :)

Yum! :9

an awesome lunch. :rofl:

curries and spice blends, or just cooking? :9

as does the house, and my clothes.

he he.

"Ab-nah! Ab-nah! What is that smell! We have neighbors who don't eat processed cheese sandwiches on white bread for lunch!"

see lisa or me.

i think they are worried that we are going to drag them to hell with us.

:rofl:

Two lesbian warriors in your chariot with metal breastplates and everything!

After seeing all the religious imagery carved on innumerable cathedrals in all my art history classes, I KNEW there was one piece of scripture that they missed!

:P

"The Cinnamon Peeler"


If I were a cinnamon peeler
I would ride your bed
and leave the yellow bark dust
on your pillow

Your breasts and shoulders would reek
you could never walk through markets
without the profession of my fingers
floating over you. The Blind would
stumble certain of whom they approached
though you might bathe
under rain gutters, monsoon

Here on the upper thigh
at this smooth pasture
neighbor to your hair
or the crease
that cuts your back. This ankle.
You will be known among strangers
as the Cinnamon peelers wife.

I could hardly glance at you
before marriage
never touch you
- your keen nosed mother, your rough brothers.
I buried my hands
in saffron, disguised them
over smoking tar,
helped the honey gatherers......

When we swam once
I touched you in the water
and our bodies remained free,
you could hold me and be blind of smell.
You climbed the bank and said

this is how you touch other woman
the grass cutters wife, the lime burners daughter.
And you searched your arms
for the missing perfume

and knew

what good is it
to be the lime burners daughter
left with no trace
as if not spoken to in the act of love
as if wounded without the pleasure of a scar.

You touched
your belly to my hands
in the dry air and said
I am the cinnamon
peelers wife. Smell me."

Michael Ondaatje.