Heather Jansz, The Curry Diva

Heather Jansz, The Curry Diva: The Heavy Table reports on eating and drinking from roots to table in the Upper Midwest.

Heather Jansz, The Curry Diva

Heather Jansz, The Curry Diva: The Heavy Table reports on eating and drinking from roots to table in the Upper Midwest.

August 17th 2014

Wow! I have been crazy busy and have not written anything in a while!!
Lots and lots of new little things happening over here in my part of the world

I started something called Curry Diva Wednesdays now. . . . .
This is at Out Kitchen Uptown where I take it over for curry dinners every Wednesday...its fun ... this is where everyone now will be able to get their curry fix once a week at least!!!
So I come up with a small menu and I have a nice sweet little menu board where I write the specials on and everyone will read it and order from.
Working it out with my Maddes girl (Madison)- who everyone loves and talks to she is part of the curry diva family and its all good!

I also make rotti bread more often now and serve that as an appetizer as well and without forgetting that I can do my rotti meals more often because I don't really have to make hundreds of rotties and everyone loves this stuff - its a bit of a good kinda addiction!!!  :)

The other thing that I make every week is the great Diva Chai which everyone loves - its delish ! I will tell you I make it with really good black tea (BOP Tea)
and then add the non dairy milk and spices and of course my famous green cardamom pod and rose water as well....so really settling for the belly and taste great for some activation too!!!

For those of you that have not been there for this crazy little diner activation spot - just sign in on the mailing list and get in on the deal - you can just call me too and come on over 612-250-6556
www.thecurrydiva.com

Desert!!!! This has been a bit challenging for me in a creative way - I am not your simple measure the ingredients kinda gal - so my deserts are what I dream up for the week -moving forward though I plan on asking my desert queen the ever so lovely Ciara - that makes amazing deserts - she said that she will make some for me and I will give her the Sri Lankan twists to all of them as we are planning on what to make....Yum!!

"Nourish the body and Feed the soul"
I will plan on seeing you guys there soon then for some diner style curry fix and some great conversation - whatever subject that may be

cheers!

Hey there - yes it was dinner for one again last night!!
It was such a beautiful day yesterday and I was a bit tired !!! getting stuff
ready for my long over due garage sale - its really a designer clothing sale
because from all those years of being a personal shopper on the side with
my cooking while I was taking care of my daughter I sure had heaps of
clothes that are wonderful and now they all have to go I just have too much
clothes and its time to downsize just a little bit in that department!

Here is what I ended up having for dinner - \
Looking in my fridge I remembered that I had some ground goat that needed to
be cooked so I threw that in a pan with one shitake mushroom chopped up
and some garlic and a bit of diva blend then some onions and some left over
sticky rice = tossed that till it was all done and added a touch of coconut milk
and it was a one pan meal and tasted so YUM!!! really.....

June 18th 2014

It feels like I have not written anything in a long time...
I had a weekend off without any catering events and that
felt good in a way because I was able to just chill..and hang....
But the good news is that I am working on my little diva dinner
gatherings which will start in July - every Wednesday Night there
will be something to celebrate - I will be Our Kitchens featured
chef and everyone will be able to come over there and have
all the old Sri Lanka dishes that I created a long time ago!!!
Yeaaa I am so excited about this...now you can have a rotti when
ever you want - or at least every Wednesday ....so I am thinking
that I should start with rotti night for sure...
maybe even Lamb rotti and veggie rotti and veggie rotti with shrimp.
Yes that is what I will do and maybe even get out the fig ginger chutney
and some hot coconut sambol.......
I should be thinking about what to do for desert - because I will be
only doing one desert - and I am thinking about it for sure - then I am
also thinking about an appetizer as well something simple and maybe even
a nice salad -
What should I do for drinks... I think some great chai tea in the tea
maker and maybe mango juice over ice - keeping it simple
I am excited to "nourish the body and feed the soul"

June 7th 2014
Cooking for a wedding today
Its for an English girl marring local boy
very fun - I loved that she said that she would love
to have pappadams at her wedding for part of the meal
we are making lots of goodies
Buryani rice with lots of cashews and herbs and ghee
and also masala chicken - slow cooked with diva blend of spices
The slaw is with arugula and eggplant and sesame dressing
Curried potatoes we thought would be a Minnesota favorite
Condiment table will of course have fig chutney - yogurt mint
cooler and hot coconut sambol to spice up with

For desert they will have the wedding cake
Its a bit on the rainy side today but that is a lucky thing I am
told on the day of a wedding - showers of blessings from above is
always a great added plus - either way everyone will be warm and happy after this activating meal

Looking forward to it and it will be great!!!
My lovely assistants are Isabelle and Aruie - decided that Aruni will be a good pappadam fryer girl :) 

June 3rd 2014
Dinner for one again!!! 
It was a crazy beautiful day today with the sun shinning and warm weather!!
I had some really nice Australian red wine - and I am sure that most people think that
I am always with people - lately I have been doing lots of things alone!!
I did get lots of things done today - worked on a catering deal - made lots of phone calls
wrote out a wonderful menu for an upcoming graduation party etc

Ok so now dinner time - what to make - what to make -what to make??
I remembered that I had about a cup of crabmeat left over....
So I cooked up some soba noodles - set that aside took about 3 minutes is all....
Then in a little one meal pans - I heated up a little garlic some sweet onions and
a few shitake mushrooms - spiced it with some black pepper and coriander
then threw in the crab and the soba noodles - a bit of Himalayan salt to taste
and it was so so so delish!!!
And of course I tried one of my favorite condiments with it (Lunumiris)
I recommend that everyone try this with even some left over tuna or anything like
that it was so great - and of course I did not take a photo of it!!!

I nourished my body and fed my soul!!!
Now back to work for about another hour or so and then bed