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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do this often. Today I made rice, dal, fish curry, fried spicy potatoes, and butter-paneer in less than 15 minutes. Fed 6 adults and 2 kids

1) Rice and daal was cooked together in my pressure cooker.  Daal was tempered with cumin seeds, ghee, asoephotida powder and garlic slices.

2) Spicy potatoes - sizzled some dry ground spices in a pan with ghee, (coriander, cumin seeds, turmeric, red chilly powder and salt) with boiled peeled small potatoes. Served with squeeze of lemon and chopped coriander leaves.

3) Butter paneer - Simmered cooked pureed onion-garlic paste with organic home-made creamy tomato soup. Dunked frozen fried paneer in it, 2 heapng tbsn of MDH butter chicken masala, dried fenugreek leaves and a generous pour of heavy cream.

4) Fish curry - Fried fish steaks added to frozen premade mustard-onion masala. Add a little water and simmer for 4-5 minutes to make a thin curry. Add a bit of sour tamarind paste (from concentrate) in water and add to the curry to give the tangy taste.

Kept the salad simple - just sliced cucumber sprinkled with salt.  And I nuked pre-made rotis and spread some kerrygold butter on it to keep it soft and delicious.   All of this in 15 minutes.

I do most of my prep work for food during the weekend and every month I make huge amounts of premade sauces and masalas so that every meal is under 10 minutes. Te best part is that I can cook up a feast to feed any guest who comes to our house unexpectedly because I have the building blocks ready.

This is similar to what the OP did, in that she used a lot of prepped food to make dinner. I don't buy prepped food from the store. I prep the food myself so that I can control the quantity, menu, cost, quality of  ingredients etc.   [/quote]
I could never eat that much curry and spices in a given week. I like more variety in flavors.
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LOL! I am Indian.  I live for the spices and I love to cook all kinds of cuisines.  But, yeah, I can live my while life without eating Thanksgiving food and I will be happy.  [/quote]

I recognize this PP and she is an amazing cook. I grew up eating a ton of vegetarian food, a lot of it Indian though I am not. And yes, I will avoid eating a traditional Thanksgiving meal forever. Blech. Give me FLAVOR and spice![/quote]

We are all going to appear on Indian cook's doorstep regularly, and twice on Thanksgiving (and [b]I am a pretty good cook and do what I can for the traditional meal, but you're starting in the hole, flavorwise[/b])[/quote]

When I host, I make things I want to eat, which are mostly not traditional. My nod to tradition is to make say, a whole roast chicken instead of turkey, and have good cranberry sauce to go with it, but that's about it (my brother often takes on the centerpiece meat dish, and he's damn good with meat). When I go to other people's houses for Thanksgiving and they're going the traditional route, I offer to bring dessert. That way, I know I will have something to eat.[/quote]

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