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| Rice and Curries |
A photo of my dinner, last night: rice, chicken curry, curried sauteed green beans, moringa curry, the last of the eggplant curry, and spicy sauteed potatoes. The green beans, moringa, and potatoes are from my garden; the eggplant is from gardener M's garden. I cooked the potatoes and the green beans last night; the chicken curry had been cooked earlier and frozen and only needed to be thawed and reheated. The moringa, too, had been cooked and frozen; they were the pods from last year's harvest. This year, the moringa tree didn't come out of hibernation until quite late in the summer and hasn't produced any pods yet. There were leftovers of all the curries other than the eggplant, for tonight's dinner; I just needed to cook some fresh rice.
It was another sunny and warm day, today, but, according to the forecast, we will cool down 10 to 20 degrees over the weekend and there's a chance of rain!
I've had a fairly relaxed day. I did some paperwork, checked on the garden, put away a load of laundry, watched some videos and the news, and did some housework. The room of the week is the family room and that's what I am focusing on.
Brunch this morning was toast with peanut butter. I snacked on popcorn in the afternoon. Dinner was freshly cooked rice with leftover curries. There's enough leftover for another meal. I had some yogurt for dessert.
Today, I am grateful for:
- A sunny and warm day
- The garden in which to walk and spend time
- Garden produce
- Leftovers
- Working appliances
Today's joyful activity was spending time in the garden.
Plans for tomorrow include making a birthday card to send to my half-brother.
How was your Thursday? What are your plans for Friday?
I didn't know what moringa is so looked it up and apparently it has health benefits and I assume tastes good too, I hope your tree produces some pods for you again soon.
ReplyDeleteMoringa is considered to be a very beneficial plant! You can eat the leaves (or make a tea with it), the pods are cooked and eaten (tastes a bit like asparagus to me), the root is supposed to taste like horseradish, the seeds can be used to purify water, and so on and so forth! The cooked moringa pods have always been a favorite vegetable of mine, even as a child who generally didn't like vegetables. If the tree doesn't produce any pods, this year (there are clusters of flowers, though), I will probably use the leaves in a dish.
DeleteYour curries look delicious. Someday I hope to try moringa, and passion fruit also! I still have bright red welt on my arm from the COVID shot, a week ago now. It doesn't hurt though. Guess it's working!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Celie. I do hope that you will be able to try moringa and passion fruit, one day.
DeleteOh, I hope the red welt fades soon. It's good that it doesn't hurt. Yes, I guess it's a sign that the vaccine is working! I still have to get my vaccines, but, I'm waiting until all my other aches and pains go away!
What a lovely spice meal! I have never heard of Moringa so I looked it up and it says that the pods are "explosively dehiscent" so then I had to look up "dehiscent" which as I had guessed meant that they can split apart - quite dramatically!
ReplyDeleteI learned a new word today, thanks to you! "Dehiscent"! Well, I usually pick and cook my moringa pods before they have a chance to split, explosively or not, but, maybe I should leave on to mature on the tree and see what happens!
DeleteThe green beans look delicious. Xx
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jules; it's my favorite way to cook green beans. :)
DeleteWell that's a nice plate of food. I always want to eat those spicy potatoes you make. lol
ReplyDeleteThat is so nice to have all those leftovers ready to heat up.
Thank you, Debra. I had enough leftovers for about 3 meals! It's a good thing that I like leftovers!
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