K-Fam's journey through My Father's World

• Jul. 15, 2009 - China and Aloo Gobi

Copyright 2008-2009 Sweetpetunia. Well, we've altered our summer school schedule again.lol. Big surprise. Tink is simply too interested in China, Japan and Russia to spend only a week on each of them. She asked to spend the full two weeks scheduled in the ECC manual and since I'm very interested in these countries as well I thought she was right. We're currently in the second week of China and we're reading Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze. We also checked out the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, but we may not get to that one quite in time and that's okay since we own that book. It's in storage right now though, so it's a bit of a pain to get to. Now for the Aloo Gobi: We bought the ingredients last week  and were finally able to cook the Aloo Gobi this week instead of two weeks ago when we were studying India. I got the recipe from the DVD extras on the Bend It Like Beckham movie.lol. I'm not saying this is a good movie for your children to watch, so please do your own movie screening. My children did not watch the movie but I did let them watch the director cooking Aloo Gobi in the DVD. It was pretty funny watching her aunt and her mother correct her. Again, please do your own screening first. The director let a word slip out that I missed until the girls were watching it. So here is the Aloo Gobi in the first stages. Tink wanted to take these first two pics so I let her do it. I wanted her to take a picture at this stage because of the pretty color the Turmeric gave it. Unfortunately under the fluorescent lights, it doesn't quite look true to life. This is a shot of an interesting little spice mixture I had a bit of a time finding. Luckily DH remembered there was an Indian store in our old neighborhood in Fresno and since we happened to be in the area at that time, he was able to find it for me. It's called Garam Masala. This is what the package looks like. And here is our finished dish. I think it looks very pretty with the chopped cilantro on it. Or coriander. From what I've read, they're the same thing? It wasn't bad. I didn't know what else to serve with it so I steamed some green beans and we heated up some tortillas with it. I figured they were close enough to chipattis.lol. Hmmm, wonder what we're going to make on Friday for our study of China?

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