Monday, May 23, 2011

when life hands you galangal


i'm back tracking a bit, but as i was looking through some photos from our recent trip to india i had to post this one. in month 4 or so, i really began craving different cuisines. i realized how lucky we are in the bay area to have so many cultures mixed together and to have so many food traditions woven together. i thought hard about what i could make while in our house in chidambaram, going to the markets and smelling different greens and roots and decided i would make a thai feast.

i decided to make a green curry and a peanut, red chili eggplant dish with brown rice and green mango salad.


5 comments:

Nitsie said...

Nice! What's galangal called in Tamil? Nits.

plants people said...

Hey nits! Galangal is manga ingee in tamil!

Karthik said...

Didn't know there was Galangal in Tamilnadu!

Anita Kumar said...

Stumbled on your blog when I was looking up Galangal. Actually, manga inji is probably mango ginger, which is Curcuma amada. Galangal I think is different. I'm really no expert, just got my facts from Wiki.

pushpa said...

galangal is chitharathai in tamil