For dinner this evening I made a faux-chicken curry stirfry with Kitchens of India’s chicken curry paste. I’ve been eating a lot of Indian food lately, following a month of Thai foods. I’m pleased to be expanding my palette more and more, and a lot of that experimentation has come as a side-effect of becoming a vegetarian. It has forced me to be mindful and curious about food in a way I was never consistantly before.
On the topic of foods, I’m actually toying with making a collection of recipes and ideas over the next year year that taps into my love of all things maple. I came up with the notion today as I was flavouring some tea with some of the maple syrup my parents gave me for Christmas. I started thinking that it would be nice to do something tied with maple because it’s such a powerful taste and scent for me. Maple products have long held a wonderful sentimental impact for me, so I’m sure it would be a very enjoyable project to undertake.
Earlier I mentioned enjoying the video for M83‘s “Don’t Save Us From the Flames.” Since then I’ve bought the first three albums from the duo-turned-solo project, and have been blown away. M83, Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts and Before the Dawn Heals Us are progressively lush and beautiful albums that resonate with romanticism and energy. Before the Dawn Heals Us hasn’t left its spot in my daily listening, and it has sent roots down into my heart. It’s full of romantic apocalypse, and has conjured up longing for putting it on repeat and having an endless cycle from coquetry to love making. It’s an album for lovers.
P.S. Be sure to go right now and download a live performance of “Esther” done by the always astonishing Stuart Davis.
10 comments on “Curry, Maple, Healing”
Gawwdang my LJ friends are in a writing kinda mood!
*blink* Didn’t I file a comment on this tonight?!*
peek what appeared in my “Friends” immediately before this by you, in‘s LJ … I replied to him about “social distance” in Cape Breton.
cheers
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Ah, that was an nice read. has an interesting style.
It’s been a few years since I was last in CB. My mother’s family’s from there, so I spent a good deal of time in Sydney Mines and the surrounding area. There’s definitely a lot more happening there socially and culturally than most folks of the mainland take notice of.
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I passed a link to your page but he couldn’t get to it … guess you’re set friends only.
I dunno … I was in the CBC and music circle up there … didn’t find it all that romantic. But I don’t want to start raggin’ on NS …
stay well
*gawd I miss The Gardens, you know? and busking on Spring Garden Road*
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Yeah, I keep LJ friends only and use FrozenTruth.com for public stuff.
I wouldn’t romanticize Cape Breton or most of Nova Scotia, because I’ve seen the good and the ugly, but it’s not quite the dull, unchanging place a lot of folks seem to think it is.
The gardens have been coming along since the hurricane. They still feel too open, but I still walk through them when I can. Nothing seems to take away from the essence of there and PPP.
I always look forward to the busking in the summer. Did you hear that the actual Busker Festival is no more? I guess the sponsors weren’t happy with the returns, so it won’t be happening this year. It was often repetetive, but there were some good acts now and then (I remember one Australian duo I dug a lot, who played dulcimer, djembe and didgeridoo).
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I’m guessing Point Pleasant has re-opened to the public … yes?
Wow, that sooooo dates me … the Chronically Horrid had an interview with me and the mayor the year the festival started, me saying how it wouldn’t do local buskers any good at all. (In fact, from all reports and in my experience, income dropped dramatically, year after year, from ’84 through my last year.)
There for for sure some good acts … I liked checking out the smaller acts … got a few good cassettes.
One year I crashed with the buskers at the college dorm … what an amazing collection of people!
Thats funny thats actually the exact reason I originally went veggie. Not for morale, or health, etc reasons but simply to force myself to change and investigate new food ideas/options.
I did it for all and every reason. I researched for weeks before making the final switch.
I eat anything healthy but dead animals, so I suppose I’m not a dead animal.
Spicy is fun and bland is not so much.
I happened to see a cookbook at one of the bookstores downtown (the Coles or whatever it is in Scotia Square) that was traditional Nova Scotian recipes. I saw a whole section on Maple-based recipes, so it might be worth checking out (it was on the very bottom shelf of the cooking section).
I’ll have to see if I can find that.
I love your icon, by the way.