All the sleeping, reading, snacking, walking, swimming, baking, iced coffee-ing, chatting, and picture-taking of my chubbiest cheeks sweet baby nephew Charlie… eek! It’s almost like I could just live here and never come home. And/or this has morphed into my home. We’ve always been fortunate to have the summer schedule of teachers that allows us to come up to the cabin for at least a week every summer, but this year things hit a whole new level because it’s not even like we need to go back home after the first week is done to do any classroom prep or attend any back to school anythings (imma blogger now), and we can just stay here foreverer and then some.
Instead of heading back home to get back to work, we just make the most of our vacation by getting up early every morning and sitting at the table where I’m sitting now, tapping away on the computer and getting blog aka “work” things done while drinking our coffees and looking out over the lake .
Which, by the way, is freezing cold and the sun has been hiding basically the whole week and I’m not even grouching about it at all except WAHHH! When you suffer all winter long only to have to wear long sleeves and jeans in the summer… ugh. I am a summer weather snob.
But chilly days are good days for slow cooked, fragrant, make your house smell amazing beef biryani
Beef Biryani - slivered almonds, golden raisins, saucy beef, warm spices, and fragrant basmati rice. Love this one!
If I’m being honest with you, it takes a loooong time to make biryani as I discovered when I made this last week. Remember when I posted the chicken shahi korma deliciousness with paneer and raisins and that heavenly creamy sauce? That was about the time I went on an Indian food cooking binge and just raided my old school but awesomesauce cookbook (this one) and YouTube and blogs and websites for all the best inspiration for some delicious homemade Indian food .
Thumbs down to me for being a food blogger who posts long, slow-cooked recipes in the summer. I’m sorry – I’m more of a make-what-you-want-to-make-because-you’re-craving-it-right-now vs. obligations to the rules of blogging kind of cook.
But five hundred thumbs up for how good this tastes. The biryani (and the beef! I mean, guys, I never do beef so this is a big deal) gets so much deep flavor and tender loveliness from all the time spent cooking with the simmer sauce that I’ve decided I want this to be my new Christmas meal. It’s the kind of meal that needs day of TLC in the kitchen – you’re going to start a few hours early and cook it and love it and smell it and simmer it and then you’re going to heap it on a plate and have it taste like food magic in your mouth. So that’s Christmas , right?
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