Palong (spinach) and beet (beetroot) shaak bhaja (sautéed)
This week's partial menu This Friday I bought some beetroot, those had some leaves on it. Then I bought a bunch of spinach, one cauliflower, and three big eggplants. After coming to the USA, I started using this word, 'eggplant'. Before that, brinjal was the common English word for me as an Indian to describe 'Begun' (বেগুন). Anyway, I was not sure what exactly I will do with those three big brinjals. But, this vegetable is one of the favorite vegetable for us. Therefore, I kept those three in the cart. We had some pieces of sea bass fish and a slab of paneer (Indian cottage cheese) in the freezer. Other than those, I had all other ingredients to make beetroot-paneer curry, fulkopi-r roast (white cauliflower curry), begun bhaja (fried eggplant), begun bahar (eggplant curry), macher jhal (fish curry), shaak bhaja (sautéed green leaves) and musuri-r daal (red lentil soup). These all for the coming week. We will have it with rice or roti (handmade, whole wheat flatbrea