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Wednesday, March 2….Recipe #165: Aloo Gobhi.

Aloo Gobhi (pg. 88) is a vegetarian curry dish, made with cauliflower and potatoes. This was the second vegetarian curry dish in the book and Husband and I were once again really surprised at how filling it was. I'm really trying hard not to think about the fact that I still have eight recipes left to make and just 3 days to do it. Its Wednesday, I have to leave for an appointment as soon as Husband gets home and I'm cursing myself for not clearing my calendar during this last week of cooking. I'm also thinking of all of those summer nights, weeks even, where I skipped cooking. Summer procrastination has left me with lots of recipes to make and very little time before my deadline. I'm getting emails and phone calls from people asking, "What are you going to do next?" "Will you keep blogging?" At this point, I try to answer their questions but honestly, I can't even think about how I'll make it through the next three days. I start daydreaming about what the answer might be but pull myself back to reality. There is too much to be done before that happens. For once in my life, I'm having a hard time thinking ahead! So, I get started on my aloo gobhi.

Opening my Food Revolution cookbook I notice that it is starting to show a bit of wear and tear. I've taken this book everywhere and when it isn't in a coffee shop with me, on vacation, or in the car while I run into the grocery store, it sits on the kitchen counter. There are a few stains, the spine is getting pretty "bendy" and it really is well-loved. I've never had a well-loved cookbook! It feels good. The picture of the Aloo Gobhi is quite pretty and Jamie even writes in his introduction, "It's a really delicious combination of potato and cauliflower with spices, and it gets its gorgeous yellow color from the turmeric that is used to flavor it." On day 362, I agree with him! It is gorgeous! I'm not sure a year ago I would have said that a curry was pretty but I look at the picture (and eventually what gets to my kitchen table) and I think, "That's some good-lookin' food." In addition to being pretty, its not too hard to make either, once you get passed all of the potato peeling. One interesting thing about this recipe is that it ends up going in the oven for the last 20 minutes of cooking. So, with it doing its thing in the oven, I leave instructions for Husband to take it out when the buzzer goes off and I run out the door to my appointment. And now we officially have just two days to go….

Recipes cooked: 165
Recipes left: 8
Days left: 3