When I feel like cooking...

Now that I am lecturing and having full days at uni, Andy and I have been eating mainly simple meals -- stirfried veggies, food from the freezer, pasta, etc.  But sometimes I super-feel like cooking.  When this falls on the weekend, the result is often a multi-part meal, like this one.

Early in the afternoon we decided that we would have dhal for dinner.  That started me on a roll of Indian-inspired dishes.

First up, I made flat breads.  These are based mainly on a recipe from Vegan Planet, but I kneaded some cumin and sesame seeds into the dough.  I cooked these up and then wrapped them in a tea towel while everythign else was cooked.

After the flat breads were finished it was still too early to cook dinner but I still felt like creating.  I decided a chutney would be good.  I've never made chutney, and rarely even eaten them, but I desperately wanted chutney that night.  But with almost nothing in the house, our chutney options were limited.  I jokingly said I could make a carrot chutney, as we had a few carrots laying around.  Then I quickly realised that I *should* make a carrot chutney.  Carrots and raisins spiced with coriander and cinnamon cooked together for an hour into a beautiful, sweet chutney.

Then it was finally time to cook the main part of the meal.  At this stage I was a little tired of standing in the kitchen, so this turned out a wee bit half-assed.  But it was still good!

Red lentil dhal, and brown rice cooked with tumeric.  Although I'm no Jimmy Seervai, this was a good dinner, and all the components made a really yummy wrap for lunch the next day.