Spinach potato curry

Spinach with potato

The pleasures of green spinach and the ever present potatoes, all diced up. To make the curry, dice up half an onion, about a quarter of tomato, one or two cloves of garlic, stir fry the onion, tomato and garlic till they are about to brown up. I use mustard oil but it has a strong odour, refined oil will also suffice. Now add a teaspoon of turmeric powder, some fenugreek and fennel seeds. Fry the concoction for about 3-5 seconds. 

Stir fried diced onion, garlic, tomato and spices

Add the spinach ( about one sheaf ) and the potatoes ( one large potato ). I use a pressure cooker to do the frying as well as cooking, it saves on gas. Mix the whole stuff up so that the spicy aroma permeates the green leaves. Now add salt to taste, water as per the curry requirements. If you would love a drier curry, about four tea cups would suffice. You can also manage the curry by using the pressure cooker timer. The more you cook it, the lesser the water, as the cooker valve will keep expelling water from time to time ( as steam ).  

Spinach, potato added to the fry mix, along with water as per requirement

That's it ! Cook it on a gas stove for about 3-5 minutes and one or two whistles should bring you home. Switch off the gas and let it simmer cook in the pressure cooker for about 10-15 minutes. The dish should be ready.

In all honesty, the reader can try out several variations of the above, adding more vegetables to the mix and maybe less or more of the spicy stuff. I am not detailing the exact quantities here, because tastes vary vastly over the globe. We like it spicy here and that may not suit other readers.

Carbon Free Living

As someone who is quite sensitive to air pollution, the dream of living in a carbon free world always appealed to me. To this end, I have adopted a lifestyle that would border on being a metropolitan recluse. The car is used sparingly, travelling in mass transport systems or on my bicycle is the norm and living a vegan oriented lifestyle is the way to go for me.

Why do I do this ? Simply put I am a sufferer and then there is the issue of the being a responsible global citizen. Would I like to bid adieu to this world regretting that I did not try making it a better place ? Not for me. Each one of us adds to the pollution decimating our planet. The vehicles spewing non stop smoke, industries belching venom and then the ubiquitous plastic which has gone on to form garbage patches in oceans, like the Great Garbage Patch in the Pacific ocean.   

There is more to it, carbon free living is healthier than the more obvious lifestyle that we tend to follow globally. The human body was never meant to be a couch potato with a T.V. remote or mobile in the hands. Proper human digestion requires physical effort and this is particularly true for the kind of rich, fat laden food that we hog today. Air conditioning is not a necessity, let us not contribute to CFC emissions that are depleting the ozone layer.

Nothing effects us more than the type of food we eat. And the news is not good. Our insatiable greed for meat and dairy has changed the global landscape. Going vegan oriented is not a question of being morally superior but cutting back on those carbon footprints that millions of dairy and meat animal rearing farms are generating worldwide. 

Let us do the right thing and give a better world to our coming generations.

You can follow more about my lifestyle and habits at: The Rabid Cyclist