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~ Indian
Recipes ~
Background
on Indian Cuisine to help you cook Indian
Indian
Cooking techniques
Visit with us and savor the fineness of Indian
Cuisine Indian Cuisine. Indian food is not just curry. The variety of Indian
food reflects the cultures and traditions of the various peoples that have settled in
India. While other cuisine's use spices strictly as aromatics, in Indian cooking they're
used for coloring, cooling, heating, souring, thickening, and texture.
Armed with the basic ingredients from our store (like
basmati rice, lentils, Tandoori marinades, pickles, curry pastes, clarified butter (ghee)
and lentil crackers (Pappadums), spices like cumin and mustard seeds, coriander, cayenne,
turmeric, cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves and whole red chilies) Indian Cooking can
now be done in your own home and for entertaining.
I hope you will enjoy my recipe collection.
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The aim of my recipe section is to introduce Indian dishes with
authentic tastes, flavors and seasonings. To create authentic menus the following
information may be helpful.
1. Most meals are vegetarian in India consisting of one, two or three dishes with
seasonal vegetables, a dal/lentil dish, yogurt raitas, herbal chutneys, pickles, papad,
rice or freshly made unleavened flat breads to scoop up the foods.
2. A non-vegetarian meal in India may consist of a dish of fish, meat or chicken
along with fresh bread such as chappati, rice, vegetables and dal. |
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An
article that recently appeared in The Charlotte Observer of Charlotte, N.C.,
helps answer the question why organic produce costs so much. The article cited the
following reasons:
"According to the U.S.D.A., the cost to control weeds by using cover crops and other
labor-intensive methods can be around $1,000 an acre for the organic farmer. Conventional
farmers, who rely on herbicides, spend about $50 an acre."
"Soil-building practices, such as gathering, composting, and spreading manure, are
more costly than conventional methods, which mostly involve the use of chemical
fertilizers."
"Organic farmers don't get federal farm subsidies, nor do they benefit from federally
funded research."
"Greater costs are incurred because of the need to conform to state and federal
organic certification standards."
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