Good evening 
. I come with good news, the heat wave Southern Ontario has been having should be over tonight! Whoooo! I’m all for summer heat, but this humidity bringing us to the low 40’s is crazy. I think yesterday it got up to about 42 or 43 (Americans, that is about 105). Yeah, hot!
So I’ve got a couple of meals to cover off with you. Lunch and dinner.
Well let me tell you I was ravenous when I got home from shopping with Sarah. I was so hungry that I ate one of my pink ladies that I bought at McEwans in the car on the way home. Next thing I knew I was ready to chew off my left arm. Thank goodness yesterday’s lunch was made in bulk leaving me with leftovers for today. But, and there’s a big one here, I hate my food cold right out of the fridge. So I needed to let lunch sit and warm up a little bit to more of a room temperature.
But there was no way I was sitting around waiting 10 minutes let alone 2 just waiting for food. So I reached for some newly bought McEwans groceries.
Oikos honey flavoured Greek yogurt, and some green figs. Someone wrote the other day on their blog (sorry I forget who), saying that green figs are so much better than the black ones. Let. Met. Tell. You! I couldn’t agree more!
By the time I finished my yogurt, I felt enough time had passed that my lunch had warmed up an acceptable amount that I could eat it.
Yesterday’s chickpea salad.
Oh baby that was good! After lunch I went back into my home office and set out to do away with all the piles I had made while purging out the office and spare bedroom closets the last two days. Just my luck too, tomorrow morning the Canadian Diabetes Association is in town with their donation truck tomorrow, so I get to be lazy and rather than driving the 5 minutes to the Salvation Army to donate my items, the CDA will come to my door step and pick up the 5 bags of stuff I no longer have use for.
After everything was all packed up, it was time to start on dinner. Dinner I was excited for. I had grand plans of recreating a meal that I recently had at the restaurant Fresh. If you check out their menu, check out The Warrior. It was delish. It was chickpea and curried veggie stew on rice.
But now I was nervous. I have never made curry before. I went into my cooking adventure blind too. I really had no recipe I was working from other than a few measurements. I just took the approach that it would be similar to making the meat for tacos (with the dry seasoning and then adding liquid and reducing he liquid).
So I set out and chopped all my veggies I was going to use.
I also chopped up a large tomato. What kind of knife do you like to use to cut your tomato? Me personally I like to use my bread knife, because it just slices through the tomato without any pulling and no ripping of the flesh of the tomato.
Chopped tomato, like I said. 
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Next I sautéed, sautéed, sautéed.
While all that was going on I was also cooking my rice. My white basmati rice, which I rinsed off first, before dumping it into it’s veggie broth bath.
Then with a pinch of ground ginger, a pinch and a half of ground cardamom, a few tsp of cumin and 2tbsp of curry powder and some S&P. I had a good dried spice thing going on. Or so I thought, but I’ll touch on that later. I was also using some coconut oil to sauté my veggies in. This curry was a coconut curry. Which then means I also had some coconut milk to toss into the veggie pool party.
Next thing I knew, looked like I had some curry on my hands Nom .
Now just like they do on The Food Network’s Iron Chef, it’s all about the plating too. Start off strong with the rice. Perfectly cooked in my opinion and taste tested to perfection.
Doesn’t that looks like the best bowl of curry topped with some garlic sautéed spinach.
Yeah well sadly this curry is a fraud! It looked like curry, it kinda smelled like curry though my allergy congestion, but let me tell you what, this did not taste like curry, even after I continued to add more spices as it cooked down. 
I was so sad that there was no strong curry flavour to this dish. It was bordering on bland. *tears*.
But it still looked pretty so I will share more pictures with you.
I ate dinner just before 6pm, and I had Hot Yoga at 7:15, so I guess it kind of worked out that the curry wasn’t up to snuff for tonight. Yoga was great, but I need to get back strength training, I am weak going into plank and cahruranga. That’s ok though I’ll get it (self loving).
Question: Help! How do I make better curry? Coconut curry too. Thanks 
