Planet Tokyo

Planet Tokyo The Kitchen [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] Beef Madras [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] Beef Madras (again) with Vegetables [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] Minestrone [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] Steamed Pudding [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] [CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE] COMMENT Noodles in the Minestrone are huge, because I underestimated how much the 'scrap' noodles I had in pantry would swell.   That's on the dense side, because I like Minestrone like that rather than runny.  But this is probably a tad denser that I normally like. Madras Beef Curry is from scratch, using Martha Stewart's 'Madras curry powder' recipe as basic guide/inspiration for the 'paste' (ie  curry gravy/base).  Adjusted it to my taste. In the curry itself, I threw in loads of tinned tomato, some tomato paste, and once I had a curry powder and tomato 'paste' cooked down, I threw in loads of coconut cream and hot water, before letting the entire thing cook down.   Yes, coconut cream.  Just water it down to taste. This is just improvised 'Madras' curry, rather than the real deal.  It tastes good to me, whatever it is.  LOL I'll have to remember to go a bit easier on the spices next time.  Was rather heavy handed in my very loose by-feel estimates. Yes, the dinner serves above are enormous and the presentation is shocking.  It's just how I've slopped things on plate.  Very basic.  LOL Beef Madras with vegies is my dinner few nights later, in front of computer.  Enormous again.  Probably won't get through this.  Think I need to be banned from serving up food, because I serve food like a hungry shopper shops.  LOL The batch of curry I cooked was enough for something like 5 or 6 frozen meals on standby, which is cool.  Makes for very easy (and economical) dinners. Steamed pudding was made in the slow cooker, in a greased metal bowl that then gets slotted into the ceramic bowl of the slow cooker (along with hot water, for the steaming).  Works very well.  Nice puddings, although mine tend to be dense and heavy.  Need to work on getting lighter results ...  LOL.  Still taste good with vanilla ice-cream.  :) This is just some of what I've been up to.  But mostly I'm slack, shamefully useless, and reading history or playing with pictures, or whatever pointless activity absorbs me for hours on end, on any given day.