Broccoli Rabe, Sweet Potato Omelet

Here's one more of my crazy omelets. The craziest thus far, I think.

For the "curry"

Broccoli Rabe -- 1 bunch
Sweet potatoes --- 3 small
Purple onions -- 2 fist sized
Mustard seeds
Fennel seeds (Saunf), -- a teaspoon
Oil for cooking -- I used coconut oil
Garam masala
Turmeric
Chili powder

The Method:

Boil the sweet potatoes in water, peel and break them into small pieces
Heat some oil, and add the mustard and let it sputter.
Add the fennel seeds and let it turn slightly brown.
Immediately add the onions and saute them until transparent.
Add the garam masala and and fry until the aroma smells cooked.
Drop the broccoli rabe and saute it
Add the chili powder, turmeric, salt and saute until almost completely cooked.
Add the broken up sweet potatoes and cook a little until the flavors blend.

For the omelete:

As always, break the eggs, whisk it until the yolk and albumen mix well, spoon in as much "curry" as you would like and make your omelet as per usual.

Makes 2 2-egg omelets and 2 3-egg omelets.

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Spicy Acorn Squash Chips or Fries or Crisps

Finally I got back my cooking mojo. I tried out an inspired acorn squash, chips/fries thing. I have made acorn squash soups before, but I wanted to try making a baked chips like thing. It came out awesome!

The Ingredients:

1 Acorn squash
garam masala
aamchur (mango seed powder, which is available in most Indian stores)
salt
chili powder
organic, extra virgin, cold pressed coconut oil (or whichever you prefer)

Method:

Pre-heat oven to 400F
Peel the acorn squash
Cut it in half, remove the seeds
Cut the acorn in as thin strips as possible
Make sure that you get about the same size so that they all cook at same rate
Take a large pizza pan or similar and cover it with foil.
Melt the coconut oil and mix the garam masala, red chili powder, salt and amchur into the coconut oil.
Throw the acorn squash slices into the oil to coat it.
Alternately, you can simply dribble coconut oil over the slices and then sprinkle everything else on top.
Place the coated squash slices on the pan and put it in the oven.
Bake for about 40 minutes or more. Since oven times varies, I would start with the timer set at 20 minutes and see how it goes.

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Equity is Important

If you have been wondering what's up with me; if in fact, there is/are a you out there, I have been dealing with Sandy and the aftermath. But meanwhile, I came across this video which speaks to me in so many ways!

http://www.upworthy.com/2-monkeys-were-paid-unequally-see-what-happens-next

If the capuchin monkeys can realize that pay equity is important, what's preventing some humans from realizing this?

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