I love stuff that's fast and easy. These are the recipes that are lifesavers especially when "stuff" happens, for lack of a better word. Dishes that are versatile, and inexpensive to prepare and can be prepared ahead of time are even better. I was looking for that sort of thing this week, after the whole Film Festival craziness and then Alan's eye surgery (he's doing great btw).
We started the week off with cold cold temperatures and hail and are ending it with this..... 80 degrees and the lilies are blooming.
What to do, what to do? Soup, stews, or something cooling??? I found the answer in a special sale on organic carrots at Sonoma Market, and book that Paula Wolfert gave me called the Salads of India by Varsha Dandekar.
This little paperback is amazing and I think I'm going to be getting quite a lot of use out of it. Since I had carrots I thought I'd see what Varsha Dandekar had to say about them. I had cauliflower kleft over from lunch the day before and I decided to pair it with a lovely cooling carrot salad. This is what I did.