Our Kitchen & Cooking

For cooking we have two burners--one that you can sort of adjust and one that you really can't so much, as the knob is broken. And the refrigerator is in pretty good shape. So we can make simple meals, which is what we mostly do. Last night we tried our first recipe our new How to Cook cookbook (from the Book Fair)--all Indian food and descriptions of all the spices and pictures of all the vegetables with both the Hindi and the English names. It was a cauliflower dish with lots of spices (fresh ginger and corriander and dry spices, turmeric, garam masala, chilli, corriander, and cumin) and several chopped tomatoes, Fenugreek and cumin seeds were also part of the recipe, but we didn't have these—so the ground stuff seemed to work ok. It was pretty good.

Here's our kitchen.