Indian spices waking up the senses

Judy suggests to have Theo eat more flavorful food so I took an Indian cooking class today with Kaumudi Marathe at Surfas located in Culver City. I like the fact that it is what her website says Un-Curry. Theo likes chilly too, but I can make un-chilly dishes and just add some chilly for him to wake up his taste buds. He also tends to over stuff his mouth with food which means low muscle tone.

The class I took was called Meat Feast. We cooked up chicken, lamb and shrimp, since some students doesn't eat lamb, we used beef instead. A wonderful selection of spices were introduced, I never used cinnamon in meat dishes besides for dessert and sweets. I love the smell of green cardamom, coriander seeds and cumin seeds.

Both my kids like the westernized version of Indian food with a lot of tomato paste added to make the flavor more acceptable. Now that I have learned something new, I am going to add that to my cooking repertoire.

Definitely check out Kaumudi's cooking classes if you are in Los Angeles. I find not only the class was fun, but very informative in the historical aspect of India being that she is also a journalist by trade.

http://www.un-curry.com