Flavors interesting but the bowl/pile of poop looking goo that is every meal is just gross.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it interesting that Indian food somehow can achieve great complexity in flavors and be very repetitive almost boring. I also have found that Indian food at an inexpensive Indian grocery store or mom/pop shop can be equal or superior to a nice or higher end sit down Indian restaurant.

That’s because the restaurants only make what sells here. Regional Indian food is mind-blowing! There’s this British guy on IG, Jake something, who makes regional dishes. Amazing stuff!

Jake Dryan? Thank you so much for introducing me to him. And yes, food in a restaurant is completely different from the food that you can find at home, so people making that type of home cooking accessible is great!

Anonymous wrote:Pressure cooker is the key kitchen appliance/gadget in my everyday Indian cooking. The Futura Hawkins cookbook was my lifeline when I came as a new bride in the USA. I was happy to see that these cookbooks are still so easily available online - and that too for free.

Yes, the pressure cooker is used a lot like the way the oven is used in western cooking -- sheet pan meals, casseroles, etc.

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Check this out for products and recipe books.

Pressure cooker is the key kitchen appliance/gadget in my everyday Indian cooking. The Futura Hawkins cookbook was my lifeline when I came as a new bride in the USA. I was happy to see that these cookbooks are still so easily available online - and that too for free.

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Anonymous wrote:As a home cook, what I dislike about Indian food is how time consuming it is to prepare. But I could eat a thali platter every day if it wasn't such a project.

Do Indians have a 'thali platter' every day in India? If they do, who cooks there (how do they have time and you don't)?

No one eats a restaurant thali every day. But a typical meal in our South Indian household would comprise of a sambar/dal, rasam, 2 vegetable dishes, a small chopped salad, rice, pickle and yogurt. We would help prep the ingredients the night before. My mom would cook everything for the 10 people in our household within 2 hours, including making a separate hot breakfast.

+1. This is what I make, and once you learn how to make these things, it doesn't actually take that long. The trick for a lot of these foods is to use a pressure cooker, so you can stack and make many things at the same time, sort of like the way several dishes are cooked in a stacked bamboo steamer. Then you're freed up to make the side veggie dishes, which go pretty fast.