Experimenting with some totally new flavor profiles.

[troymeister]

I love cooking on the 26

[Mr. Bones]

Looks delicious, Troy!
Please, tell me more...

[JCGrill]

Funny. I have a bunch of frozen cod and I have found that I like cod best when I mask its flavor a bit. So the other day I found a recipe for coconut curry cod. It was GOOOOOD. I'm definitely keeping it in the arsenal. Looks like you did chicken and some kind of meatballs? Details!

[troymeister]

I was in a creative mood.

I put some freshly picked tomatoes, shallots, garlic in a food processor. In a sauté pan I added pinch of this and a pinch of that and toasted the spices. I added that to the tomato mixture and simmered a while. Then I added the freshly picked broccoli then the lamb meatballs. It was awesome. Similar process for the chicken except no tomato mixture. Instead i added a few cherry tomatoes.

Mrs. Troymeister (Linda) and guests were happy happy happy.

I did use an Indian website as a guide for spice proportion.

[Thunder77]

Looks great!

[HouseHomey]

Money!!

[Pirate Scott]

Awesome Creativity.

[hoovarmin]

Word

[Jerod Broussard]

Word

Ditto!

[EdF]

It's short for "That's the truth"! But it's also short for "You're sh****ng me"! Depends on the inflection.

[troymeister]

Strangely I have never heard that before. Ya learn something new every day.

[JCGrill]

troymeister one of the 'Lethal Weapon' movies (I think the 3rd one) is the first time I saw it used. Danny Glover had a similar reaction.

[tbob4]

My son's mother-in-law is quite a cook from what I understand. He holds his own in the kitchen and so he is allowed to help her prep meals. He is learning Southern Indian cuisine from her and I've told him he needs to teach me a thing or two. Your photos emphasize that.

[troymeister]

tbob4 Much appreciated. You already have the skills and methodology to create anything you want. Many years ago, learned a saying from an older woman from Jamaica. She said, (with a strong Jamaican accent) "From you can cook, you can cook any..ting." That saying alone has guided me through many unknowns and has given me the confidence to at least try. Give it a whirl, you'll be fine

[tbob4]

I agree, wholeheartedly. However, I think he may have learned a few secrets and I know he has passed on some of mine. So I figure he can share a bit back. Heck, the family was without power in Houston for a couple of days and he was BBQing for them.

[JCGrill]

I completely agree. The biggest question is are you shooting for a particular style or are you just putting some flavors together. For the first option just getting some ideas off the internet works. For the second, throw caution to the wind!

[EdF]

This one is really good: https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library...ooking-revised

and this one:

https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/11997/classic-indian-cooking

Let me know if those links don't work.

[tbob4]

The links work EdF. Thanks.

[EdF]

Indian food is a whole new collection of worlds.