Friday, July 4, 2014

Tasty Thursday - Enchiladas



Enchiladas

Ingredients

Olive oil
2 tins sugar beans
4-5 tomatoes (crushed/grated – i.e. put in food processor)
Rye
Ujmo
Hing
Urad
1 tsp ginger-garlic
½ tsp chilli powder (I use curry powder – Hot rather than plain chilli powder)
2 tsp chillies (or more if you want it hotter)
Salt
Sugar
2-3 tbs Butter
2 cups Milk (warmed)
2 tbs Flour
Black pepper
Dried Mixed herbs
Leftover Roti or tortillas
Cheese

Method

Open the tins and place into a pot to heat on low flame.
In another pot, heat some olive oil, then add the rye, ujmo and hing.
When the vagar is done (the spices have warmed and started to pop), add the tomatoes, urad, ginger-garlic, chilli powder, chillies, salt and sugar and stir to mix through.
Leave to cook on a low heat.
When cooked, add a few serving spoons of the tomato mixture to the beans and stir through, keeping the rest aside.
In another pot, add the butter and when melted add the flour.
Allow to cook slightly then add the milk.
Add salt and pepper and cook until thickened (stirring so it doesn’t go lumpy)
In a casserole, pour some of the white sauce to cover the bottom.
Arrange the roti in U shapes to fill the casserole
Spoon beans mixture into the U’s adding enough gravy to spill out
Fold the tops of each U down to make a burrito shape.
Layer tomato mixture on top of this and then add another layer white sauce.
Top with cheese ad decorate with mixed herbs and the chilli powder.
You can store this in the freezer to pull out on that rainy day when you don’t want to cook or pop it straight into the oven and bake until the cheese is melted and bubbling.
Serve with a beautiful salad of your choice (I like either a fresh green salad or a tomato, feta and basil salad to go with this)


Sunday, April 27, 2014

Song lyrics - Human

You know how some lyrics speak the words that live in your heart unspoken? Today, my husband came to me and said "I heard a song that made me think of you." When he played it for me, it made my heart jump into my throat and stay lodged there. Tears flooded. No, it's not a romantic ballad, it's more. That he understands me that well,that he is able  to think of me when he hears someone singing the words in my heart, that's more romantic and more loving than any love song could ever be.
So, this is me. Those of you know me, who have followed this blog through my ups and downs and long pain filled silences will recognise me in this song. Just as he did.
"Human"
~ Cristina Perri
I can hold my breath
I can bite my tongue
I can stay away for days
If that's what you want
Be your number one
I can fake a smile
I can force a laugh
I can dance and play the part
If that's what you ask
Give you all I am
I can do it
I can do it
I can do it
But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
I can turn it on
Be a good machine
I can hold the weight of worlds
If that's what you need
Be your everything
I can do it
I can do it
I'll get through it
But I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human
I'm only human
I'm only human
Just a little human
I can take so much
'Til I've had enough
'Cause I'm only human
And I bleed when I fall down
I'm only human
And I crash and I break down
Your words in my head, knives in my heart
You build me up and then I fall apart
'Cause I'm only human

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Time and again you betray me,
But fool that I am, I still hope.
Still dream.

Is this constant dashing of hope a penance, I wonder?
Some misdeed
I had perpetrated
In this life or before,
Is this my payment?
I cannot walk away
I am stuck here
And somehow,
I cannot convince myself to stop

Hoping.

Believing.

And every time I begin again,
You betray me.
This body is weak, it will not provide easily,
What others take for granted.
Every step forward must be fought for
Begged for
And even when progress is allowed
There is a price.

Is it worse, I wonder, to face
The betrayals
Or to pay the
Prices
That victory demands?
For every victory, there have been countless
Lost battles.

Stubborn Fool
My heart
Chooses to fight,
What life is there
With no dreams?