Progress

Skills

What I want to learn, what I'm actively working on, what feels solid.

✓ Solid

Milk → paneer

⌛ Learning

Milk → curd · tempering

• Todo

Butter, ghee, khoya, dosa, chutneys, sauces

🥛

Dairy

Milk → curd → paneer → cheese. One ingredient, five outputs.

🧀

Milk → paneer

✓ solid

Split with acid, drain, press.

practiced 8×

🍶

Milk → curd

⌛ learning

Warm milk cultured overnight.

practiced 3×

🧈

Milk → butter

• todo

Churn cream until it splits.

🫙

Butter → ghee

• todo

Simmer, foam, brown the solids, strain.

🍮

Milk → khoya

• todo

Reduce milk to a soft dough.

🌰

Spice work

Tempering, blooming, roasting, blending.

🔥

Tempering / tadka

⌛ learning

Hot fat + whole spices bloomed at the start or poured at the end.

🍂

Home garam masala

• todo

Toast, cool, grind a small-batch blend.

🌿

Chutneys

The little thing on the side that makes everything sing.

🌿

Green chutney base

• todo

Coriander + mint + green chilli + acid.

🍯

Tamarind date chutney

• todo

Sweet-tart, keeps for weeks.

🫙

Ferments

🥞

Dosa batter

• todo

Rice + urad dal, ground, fermented overnight.

Principle

A skill is solid when I can produce it from memory in a distracted kitchen.