OK, not exactly the prettiest thing ever slung from the kitchen, but, all the same, it is actually one of the most tasty and inventive. This, my friends, is a tomato cream curry with cauliflower, peppers, cabbage, tofu, onion and egg. I had no diced tomato on hand, so I used ketchup. Add curry spices, garam masala, cumin, turmeric, hing, garlic powder, black pepper, soy sauce and whipping cream. You've got yourself some sort of curry. I wished I had potatoes as well. A true Indian breakfast. After cracking the eggs in there, stirring them around and letting them cook under cover, out came a fluffy and certainly fattening curry. The ketchup worked amazingly well. These are things that can be done with little food in the fridge. But, it is truly all in the spices. If you have a good curry mix or masala mix, you can do wonders. The tomato-cream curry is essentially just the tomato (diced in a can, diced on your cutting board, processed into a bottle for hot dog use), some sort of cream, and spices. Then the vegetables and, if you must, meat are yours to pick and choose. If you can find a spice shop that makes their own spices, and possibly even one that mixes and sells them whole (which can be ground by way of mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder set aside for such a purpose, whenever it need be used in a recipe) then you can be led into a world of culinary possibilities. Wars were fought for these wonderful seeds, leaves, roots, twigs and fruits (see The Dutch East India Company or Frank Herbert's Dune).Enjoy.
Also, Anne Petty, my girlfriend is now of age to drink six years ago. Cheers!
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