Cardamom Rice and Curried Cauliflower

Cardamom Rice

Ingredients

• Glug cooking oil
• Powdered cardamom, ginger, garlic
• or substitue with the real deal for the ginger & garlic. I am lazy.
• Salt or MSG
• 1 cup uncooked rice
• 1.5 cups water

Directions

1. Glug cooking oil in pan
2. Flame on low
3. Blort of cardamom, ginger, garlic in pan
4. Let sweat for a little bit
5. Add uncooked rice, stir
6. Let sweat for a little bit more. Less than 36 hours please.
7. Add water & salt or MSG
1. (btw, people in the US get #triggered by MSG. I love the stuff and use it when I can. It's great flavor)
8. Boil, stir, flame low, cook 20 minutes covered.
1. "Alexa, set a rice timer for 20 minutes!"

Curried Cauliflower

Ingredients

• Glug cooking oil
• Half onion
• A foo's worth of ginger
• I use ginger paste because I am lazy. I also don't use ginger paste in the rice because I am a man of mystery.
• Curry powder
• support your local Asian market

• Bit o' Butter, or ghee for authenticity
• Handful o' Chopped spinach
• Half cauliflower, chopped
• Handful golden raisins (shhhh. secret ingredient!)
• Half can coconut milk
• Little bit of water for steaming
• Salt to taste

Directions

1. Glug cooking oil in pan, low heat
2. Add onions and ginger. Let sweat
3. Medium heat, add butter and melt
4. Add a generous amount of curry powder. You're trying to make a gravy here, so not so much that it's powderey, but not so little that it doesn't taste of the curry.
5. stir together. Add more butter if it's too powdery.
6. Add spinch, cook down.
7. Add cauliflower, stir, get it covered in curry
8. Add coconut milk & golden raisins & stir
9. Cover & let steam. Maybe add some water here so the cauliflower steams correctly
10. "Alexa: your rice timer is done, your rice timer is done"
11. Salt & Taste. Maybe add some more curry powder if not curry enough. And vow to be better next time

Eating

Sauce on rice in bowl or plate. Use a fork. Try to get most of it in your mouth. You know the drill.