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Ben:

--- Quote from: MillCreek on February 28, 2021, 01:17:31 PM ---^^^My two favorite brands are Rani garam masala and McCormick. I buy Rani from Amazon since the McCormick is hard to find locally.

https://ranibrand.com/products/rani-garam-masala-parent-1

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I just bought the Rami from Amazon for delivery tomorrow. Normally I like to try a new recipe without any add-ins, but this sounds good. I'll need to make an hour drive to the Albertsons flagship store for some of the other ingredients to make it this weekend.

Ben:
Just finished eating this.  I thought it was really good, especially for a vegetarian dish. I took Millcreek's advice on the garam masala, but otherwise stuck to the recipe. If I were to change anything, it would be maybe spicing it up more.  I say maybe, because I'm still dealing with the post-covid loss of smell*

It was accompanied by fresh baked bread and a new wine I tried, Desert Wind out of Washington. I saw the wine at Costco, with no reviews, but it just sounded good, and it was very good. I'm going to grab a couple more bottles the next time I'm at the Costco.

Further, and a tangent, while collecting ingredients, I discovered the Albertson's flagship store, around an hour from the house. Wow. It's over 100,000 sq ft and just has an amazing selection of stuff. Farmer's market quality assortment of vegetables and fruit, including uncommon stuff. Their wine and beer section is nearly the size of a Bevmo, and includes a climate controlled wine area where they sell $3000 bottles of wine. Hundreds of cheeses. Custom butcher shop. I'll be going here at least once a month when I'm in the area to pick up quality groceries and maybe some deli stuff to go. I got some roasted brussel sprouts when I was there and they were amazing.


* Stupid covid. I couldn't tell if the recipe was lacking in spices or if I just wasn't tasting them. Every once in a while, I'd get a "ghost" scent of the curry, but somehow, I think I was missing out on some flavors. The good part about the covid "no smell" is that I chopped up a whole onion without crying like a little girl because somehow my brain didn't process that odor. On the other hand, when  I chopped up the Jalapeno, I learned what it's like to walk into a room with an odorless poison atmosphere. I was minding my business chopping the jalepeno when my throat suddenly seized up. Really weird - no problem with the onion, but even though I couldn't detect the jalepeno "hotness", it still got to me.

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