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Rule #3 – always eat good food

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My Saturday night was spent at home, in my pjs with a lovely glass of wine, while my husband spoilt me with one of his delicious three course meals! It’s become a little bit of a tradition for us… every now and then, he’ll buy a bunch of ingredients, pour me a glass of wine and I’ll sit on the breakfast bar while he cooks. We tend to eat while he cooks as well – which is the fun part :)

This time the courses were:

1st – Tomato & olive bruschetta

2nd – Garlic prawns in a white wine sauce – SO GOOD!

3rd – A perfectly cooked medium rare peppered steak, with asparagus in a mustard vinaigrette & roasted peppers stuffed with mushrooms

It really was a perfect way to spend an otherwise extremely busy weekend.

I will eventually post the recipes for these delicious meals – if not here, then on my food blog (I have a list of recipes that I  have been meaning to add to it, but haven’t found the time!). I am actually thinking about merging the two blogs together – so we’ll see what happens with that!

I hope you all enjoyed your weekends as much as I did!

Veggie Tuesdays: Rajma – Red Kidney Bean Curry

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Every Tuesday for us is veggie day! One day a week we are purely vegetarian – I’ve been doing it with my family for as long as I can remember and my husband has agreed to do it with me now too. SO veggie tuesday will be for all the vegetarians out there :)

Last night we made Rajma – an Indian red kidney bean curry and had it with rice. It was truly delcious! You can have it with naan or roti if you want to subsitute the rice – it works well with both!

Here’s what you need:

  • 1 can of Red Kidney Beans
  • 1/2 an Onion (diced very small)
  • Mushrooms (optional)
  • A piece of Ginger
  • 4 cloves of Garlic
  • 1 Red Chilli
  • 1 can of Crushed Tomatoes (depending on how large the can is – if it’s a large can, you only need half) OR 3 tomatoes crushed/blended
  • 1/2 tsp of Tomatoe Puree
  • 1 tsp Garam Masala
  • 1 tsp Madras Curry Paste (Pataks)
  • Coriander / Cilantro
  • Salt
  • Olive Oil / Cooking Oil

 

  1. First thing you want to do is prepare the ginger, garlic and chillis.  Add the ginger, garlic cloves and red chilli to a blender and blend into a paste. (You can use ginger or garlic pastes, crushed ginger/garlic etc)
  2. Heat the oil in a pot and once hot add the onions and cook till brown.
  3. Add the ginger/garlic/red chilli mixture and allow this to cook with the onions for a few minutes.
  4. Add the crushed tomatoes, tomato puree, garam masala, madras curry paste and salt to taste – let this cook for about 5minutes.
  5. Rinse the kidney beans and add these to the pot along with the mushrooms.
  6. Add 3 cups of water to this – this will ensure you get the right curry consistency. The curry should be saucy but not took thick.
  7. Add more water if you feel it’s needed and let this cook for a few minutes to ensure the mixture cooks through to the beans and mushrooms.
  8. Chop up a small bunch of coriander/cilantro and sprinkle this on top just before the dish is served.

 

The mushrooms are a completely optional addition – I’ve never actually had mushrooms in rajma before, however my husband swore by it and insisted I added them! It was actually a very nice combination!

We had the rajma with hot basmati rice, a fresh green salad & an onion pickle! It was yum – my husband had seconds (yay!) Enjoy! :)

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