Comments on: Eat Curry For Your Health! http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/ Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:29:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on Eat Curry For Your Health! by: Diane http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-53008 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:58:34 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-53008 Galle: just adjust the chili count down to your own taste. If you make the masalas (curry spice mixes) from scratch, you can add as much or as little chili as you like to it. I love hot food, but I do the same. For example, tonight I made a South Indian liver curry - and it called for 4 tsp. of chili powder (!). Now I love chilis, but I didn't want sear-your-head-off curry tonight, so I bumped that down to one tsp. It was lovely. Next time I might add 2 tsp. or even the full 4. Or not. The glory of Indian cooking is that each spice mix is individual, o you can adjust to your own taste. Galle: just adjust the chili count down to your own taste. If you make the masalas (curry spice mixes) from scratch, you can add as much or as little chili as you like to it. I love hot food, but I do the same. For example, tonight I made a South Indian liver curry - and it called for 4 tsp. of chili powder (!). Now I love chilis, but I didn’t want sear-your-head-off curry tonight, so I bumped that down to one tsp. It was lovely. Next time I might add 2 tsp. or even the full 4. Or not. The glory of Indian cooking is that each spice mix is individual, o you can adjust to your own taste.

]]> Comment on Eat Curry For Your Health! by: Christy http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-53001 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:02:34 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-53001 I love, love, love Indian food. It is my favorite cuisine. When I'm heating my lunch at work, one of my friends always comes and glances at it and says, "Let me guess, curry again?" I don't think he realizes it's a cuisine and not a single dish over and over and over again. I think since I started making Indian food all the time, my general eating style has become healthier. It's grand to know that it's even healthier than I thought. I love, love, love Indian food. It is my favorite cuisine. When I’m heating my lunch at work, one of my friends always comes and glances at it and says, “Let me guess, curry again?” I don’t think he realizes it’s a cuisine and not a single dish over and over and over again.
I think since I started making Indian food all the time, my general eating style has become healthier. It’s grand to know that it’s even healthier than I thought.

]]> Comment on Eat Curry For Your Health! by: gaile http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-52998 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:46:51 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-52998 thank you both so much! I will dive into the Almost Vegetarian, etc category and give it a whirl! thank you both so much! I will dive into the Almost Vegetarian, etc category and give it a whirl!

]]> Comment on Eat Curry For Your Health! by: Barbara http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-52981 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:19:53 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-52981 Gaille--leave out the chilies to start out with, or drastically reduce them in any recipe you use. If that doesn't make it so you can eat it, you may need to reduce the amounts of ginger and black pepper as well. I concur with everything Valerie said--it takes a while for you to work up the ability to eat chili hot foods. Look in my index of Indian foods or in the category of Almost Vegetarian, Vegetarian and Vegan recipes for simple, not too spicy dals and vegetable dishes that are not going to hurt your tongue! Gaille–leave out the chilies to start out with, or drastically reduce them in any recipe you use. If that doesn’t make it so you can eat it, you may need to reduce the amounts of ginger and black pepper as well.

I concur with everything Valerie said–it takes a while for you to work up the ability to eat chili hot foods.

Look in my index of Indian foods or in the category of Almost Vegetarian, Vegetarian and Vegan recipes for simple, not too spicy dals and vegetable dishes that are not going to hurt your tongue!

]]> Comment on Eat Curry For Your Health! by: Valerie http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-52978 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:52:23 +0000 http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2008/03/17/eat-curry-for-your-health/#comment-52978 Gaile: Curry is a blend of spices, which include varying amounts of each item. Capsicum, which gives it its hotness, can be eliminated altogether if you are making your own curry blend, or buy a mild curry blend at the store. Hope that helps. Also, FYI, hotness is an acquired taste. Each time you eat something hot, it allows you to eat a little hotter the next time, as though you were training the mouth. Gaile: Curry is a blend of spices, which include varying amounts of each item. Capsicum, which gives it its hotness, can be eliminated altogether if you are making your own curry blend, or buy a mild curry blend at the store. Hope that helps. Also, FYI, hotness is an acquired taste. Each time you eat something hot, it allows you to eat a little hotter the next time, as though you were training the mouth.

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