Monday, September 29, 2008

A Nice Sunday

First thing on Sunday morning Kirby got out the sour dough starter and began making his bread. While his bread was doing it's thing, I set about making curry. Curry has become sort of a comfort food for me. I absolutely love it. This time I used pork, zucchini, carrots and potatoes. Sounds like a good pot of stew doesn't it? And actually that is what it is but oh, the nice spices I use!! I love them. Lots of curry powder, (I have many and combine them for fun) extra cumin, loads of garlic and ginger, garam masala, onions, tomatoes and hot peppers. I have such fun creating it!


So, about noon the bread came out of the oven (curry was just about finished). Have you ever seen such a beautiful loaf? Kirby does such a great job on his bread. He sort of wants a bread maker but I think he is going to borrow one from our neighbor, Ray, before spending the money on one. He thinks I am silly to take pictures of his bread but I don't care.

For lunch we went to North Charleston to a great little Irish Pub that I had found when Kirby was traveling. (there was a going away party there.) http://www.madraruapub.com/ MADRA RUA IRISH PUB.
It is a really good find for pub lovers like us. Great atmosphere, food and all our favorite brews on tap. I think we will be back.

We went home, Kirby went to Phil's Garage across the street for 4 screens of TV and I messed around the house doing whatever it is that I do. Then grandson Casey and also Phil of Phil's Garage came to eat Curry with us. All we had was the curry and rice. Sometimes I make salads and chutney's but not this time. Simple. Just good hot spicy curry. Ah, we all ate too much but it was worth it!

It was a nice Sunday!

4 comments:

  1. Ha ha - you have fresh sourdough bread and curry and you go out for lunch?
    Check Amazon.com for bread machines. I got mine for less than $40 and it's great! Saves my hands...

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  2. OK, Heather, that sounds great, but what kind of bread maker is it? Inquiring minds want to know!

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  3. It is a Sunbeam. We searched all over Ventura County and could only find one beat-up floor model. They are hard to find now - not a fad anymore I guess. We were going for boatsize, weight, simple and PRICE. On the way down I would use it just to do the mixing and kneading, then bake the bread in the oven. Here in the marina, I put it in the cockpit. I found a bread machine book in the marina trade room that did the research for me. I think the better ones were Sunbeam and Breadman... you don't really need 2000 options. Just mix it and knead it! But sometimes it's nice to have it bake it too :)

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  4. That's a pretty nice loaf of bread. Bread machines are great for the kneading like Heather says. I am fond of the bread being shaped like a loaf and not a top hat. (Mine was a DAK model that was round) Oh, I think I just aged myself big time!

    I can just smell that curry. We were never curry fans until Kirby cooked for us one day. The rest is history.

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