Tom yam is always sooooooooo
curried vegetables, and why i’d like to hibernate now, please
i intended to post a 4th birthday blog for baby rambutan. instead i took a little break…. anyway, belated happy birthday, blog! it’s been a roller coaster ride.
thanks for helping me meet a lot of new friends. 
it’s getting quite crisp and nippy around here.
i would rather sleep through the fall and winter months really, in hibernation mode.
while some people love this so-called “sweater weather” (admittedly i kind of like it too, just because i can wear big, dark-colored, and roomy tops to cover up what i gotta cover up, if you get my drift…) this time around i can’t help but feel anxious and ever more glum.
it’s more than just the heating oil and gasoline and grocery prices.
it’s also election year. *sigh*
after the last two i can’t help but feel that it doesn’t really count for anything, my going to the polls. and then there’s all this strident, mud-slinging, downright dirty campaigning. 
i know i have to step up my fitness and health endeavors (that *&#@ scale just won’t budge!), and get into a money-making gimmick, and near the top of my to-do list, is to get in touch with old friends i’ve neglected.
lately i notice that i’ve been extra forgetful, and it worries me because sometimes i blank out totally and don’t know where i’m headed while i’m driving.
i’ve even left a pan heating up on the stove! husband had to ask gently…”you do know you have the stove on?” and then bluffed my way out of it.
my high school classmate told me about cumin, and about its anti-Alzheimer’s disease prevention properties.
unfortunately my family is not too crazy about its fragrance and its taste.
i mean to induct them into cumin-enriched dishes slowly, gradually.
here’s one dish that they enjoyed. aloo gobi is one of the dishes from the omnivore’s one hundred. it is a mildly spiced cauliflower and potato dish. i added spinach to use up the half-bag in the crisper.
and is an easy dish to prepare without one bit of meat in it.
egad, a vegetarian dish?!
the recipe is from “The Taste of India,” which i’ve misplaced (that’s why i need more cumin in my diet!–i used whole cumin seeds instead of powdered) but here’s a very similar recipe with a reference to that Keira Knightley soccer movie…
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
..just dropping by neybur! at ang bunso ay kanina pa nangungulit at na-m-miss na ang bunso mo:) but i have a feeling mr. indi has got so much to do with this
belated blog-anniv!
ces’s last blog post..Lasang Pinoy, Sundays: Fried to a Golden Brown
September 24th, 2008 at 1:15 am
Happy Blog Birthday!! Naku Chef, away with the blues, nakakahawa eh
ditesh din, glum but let’s fight it….wawa bodies and mind natin kung d tayo mag-aala Gabriela Silang, fightttt!! 
Sabi nga ni Doc Oz sa program ni tita Oprah, kaya daw mababa ang % ng may Alzheimer sa India ay dahil sa cumin…pero kailangan natin mamili between kilikilipower (syempre lahat ng klaseng luto ng curry yan) at Alzheimer he he….payag na ko sa una, may deo naman eh
kol kita pag may card na at time…mit u!!
September 24th, 2008 at 6:55 am
Hi, Stel. Belated happy blog-a-versary to you; here’s to many more!
Love the colors of your aloo gobi, too.
Midge’s last blog post..A Birthday Post - Celebrating Life
September 24th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Belated blogversary, tita Stel!
ako rin yata, may nakalipas na blogversary pero nakalimutan ko rin. lol! Those symptoms sound familiar… mommy syndrome yata. Nakakainis. Kung minsan napapaikot ako literally dahil sa pagka altzheimerish 
I think us mommies need a vacation
JMom’s last blog post..LaPiS - FRIED Okra
October 8th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Belated blogversary to you!
Talaga cumin can help prevent alzheimers? Sige na nga gagamitin ko ng mas madalas kahit na amoy kili-kili sya.
celiaK’s last blog post..Ludlow Food Festival 2008
October 21st, 2008 at 4:04 am
luv this dish i’ll try it tonite. ive been teaching in a buddhist temple in brooklyn. last week was quan yin’s birthday and they had a feast of vegetarian meals cooked by this cute (one armed) chef from mainland c.
i have more time to stir the pot now that i come home early from work…..wish me luck 
October 21st, 2008 at 4:07 am
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! coffee can really prevent elz….mers..it can make u mucho alive too