Ok, first off, the thing about hot sugar is that if it wants to burn you, it will. And it will keep on burning until it’s good and ready to stop, completely disregarding any frantic efforts you may be making with cold running water and ice. Ow.
(Also, stirring thick goo continuously for half an hour will be quite painful in the shoulder and hand-al regions. But that will bite me much harder tomorrow and isn’t really a problem at the moment.)
But it’s worth it. I found the best food blog today - Sailu’s Food - and I made Chandra Kaantalu. Or am making it, still; right now I’m on the “waiting to cool” step. Oh my goodness, this is delicious. It pains me to be able to smell it in the kitchen and not eat it. But it’s not for me. It’s for K’s yoga class, which is having a makeup class tomorrow and doing a peace chalk drawing thingy, and I thought it would be nice to take a snack, since most of those kids probably won’t have eaten since lunchtime and it goes ’til pretty late. (Ok, also since I won’t have eaten since lunchtime and I’ll be there even later. Still. My first thought was for the children! I swear!)
Yeah, ok, so it’s really sweet. But it’s got dal AND cashews, both of which are protein! Therefore, it is a health food. (I choose to ignore the fact that there is sugar in equal measure.)
Regardless, this blog was a lucky find. Her photography is amazing, and she’s got that “it’s only fifty thousand ingredients, all of which you should be able to find in your pantry, and it can be thrown together in under three hours!” thing going that I really admire in Indian cooks. (I buy my paneer pre-made. The shame!) I feel equal parts envy and inspiration reading her entries, and I really don’t think you can do better than that.
And I’m always fascinated by street food stuff. I live in DC. Our vendors vend hot dogs, and that’s it. Why so dull, DC?
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