Cooking in Code

Once in a blue moon, everything just falls into place. You have all the ingredients you need idling in the fridge, waiting to be put to good use, you have time to cook them, nothing explodes, burns or befalls any other ill fate in the cooking process, and suddenly, just like that, you have a meal on the table that would you suspect might garner a nod of approval from even the culinary god Nigel Slater himself. Tonight was one…

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Top 5 signs of a good Indian recipe: 1. Garlic is measured in heads. not cloves.2. Spices to actual ingredients ratio is at least 1 to 1.3. Two words: Serrano Chilies (ribs, seeds and all).4. The house begins to smell like an indian restaurant about halfway through the prep process and continues to smell that way for a week.5. Involves creating a paste of herbs, spices, garlic ginger, peppers etc. that looks and smells like a medieval cure for pneumonia….

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