Vegetable Biryani

http://letnacholibre.blogspot.com/2014/07/vegetable-biryani.html

Yum.  The rice wasn't quite cooked though.  Also, make more gravy.

Vegetable Biryani

Dance of the spices, pg 121.  This really should take multiple posts because it's just that intense, but I'm only going to do one.  Made this, basically following the recipe.  Cauliflower, carrots, new potatoes.

Served it with Sweet-scented tomato gravy (pg 123), which we made beforehand.  And we should make more of this gravy next time because it is delicious.

And finally, because we're crazy, we served a side of garlicy dal stew (pg 383).  Which required rachel to drive all across the city looking for yellow split peas (go vitamin cottage!).  This one turned out waaaay spicy because I put a lot of crushed red chili flakes in it.  And it made everyone cough for quite a while...

Broccoli-Cauliflower Mangalore Curry

Dance of the Spices, pg 251.  Essentially doubled the recipe and used a whole can of coconut milk.  May have over-tamarinded it.  Also, could have used ground pepper instead of the peppercorns.  Served over rice.

Also made Spicy Urad Dal with (no) tomato and fennel from some urad dal that Nate gave us.

http://foodandspice.blogspot.com/2012/01/spicy-urad-dal-with-tomato-and-fennel.html

I didn't use tomato because I was lazy.  Maybe it would have been better with it, but we found it to be rather plain.  The dal itself didn't seem to have a good flavor.  Ah well, the curry was tasty.