Curry leaves+cumin+potatoes+roasted poblanos = Taco fillling

This post should really be titled,'Lazy taco filling' or  ' How to make people feel you have slaved hours in the kitchen'. There really isn't a recipe. You preheat the oven and chop up some potatoes into a baking dish. Then you swirl around some oil.  Toss spices over the potatoes, shake it about and put it in the oven. While the potaoes are roasting, you take a pobalno pepper (Pasilla pepper) and roast it directly above a gas flame. If you don't have a gas stove; put the peppers under the broiler. When it is nicely blackened on all sides, put it in a bowl and cover it with a lid allowing it to steam. After about 40 minutes or so, when your potatoes are ready, pull them out of the oven and then add the roasted, peeled and chopped poblanos.
For the recipe
Oven  - 375 degrees ( Convection Roast)
Russet potatoes  -4 diced
Cumin seeds - 1tsp
Curry leaf powder - 1 shake around the baking pan
Chilly powder or paprika - 1/2 tsp or to taste
Salt

Variations: Substitute yams or sweet potatoes for the russet

Recipe Exchange

I succumbed when I saw the words - 20 new recipes, new ideas and all the promises int he recipe exchange email from my fiend Kirti. This is a chronicle of what the chain mail yielded.There are no pictures in this blog..just some recipes (without precise measurements either), you will have to use your imaginations a little. For measuring you will have to use 'Kai alathe' as my grandma used to say - that just means eyeball it.

Of course, since Kirti started off this chain of events, I asked her to send me her recipe first.

Simplest cabbage potato sabji

K says,"Simplest curry you can think of: goes well with rotis or plain white rice or just by itself"

1) 1 teaspoon of canola or olive oil

2) 1/2 teaspoon of cumin seeds

3) 1 teaspoon of chilli powder

4) 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric powder

5) cube size small potatoes

6) salt to taste

7) roast potatoes for a while...when cooked, throw in a pack of cole slaw.

How many potatoes, what kind- you ask? 

The what kind answer is easy: whatever you have on hand.

 How much? Well, you need to decide on your cabbage to potato ratio: more cabbage then if you have a 12 oz. pack of Cole slaw- you will want to use about a cup of cubed potatoes. It will be fine either way. 

Now if you wanted a further shortcut... nuke the potatoes in the microwave. While they are cooking, continue browsing other delicious looking blogs that have pictures.