Bring on the WK

As well as taking on a vegan diet, my husband has also decided to start cooking with me.  Its nice to have help...at least, it will be once he figures out where everything is, but I figured for his first meal we'd start with something relatively easy.  Enter the Indian spice packets from a new company, Waverly Kitchens, that I received to test out.  Its kind of a whole system, they do the best describing it themselves (since I confess to having no knowledge of Indian cooking besides knowing I like to eat it):

Our product, WK Pacs, are a combination of a two part spice blend (optimizing the Indian cooking process), simple instructions, a thorough shopping list, and online resource community.  All WK Pacs are 100% vegetarian and we recently launched a vegan product line.

They are even vegan conscious when it comes to their vegetarian line, suggesting tofu as a substitution for the paneer cheese that some of the vegetarian WK Pacs call for.

So, what did we think?  Well, the people from Waverly Kitchens are really nice, and my packet came in the mail very promptly, even though they initially contacted me when I was ridiculously busy and took over 3 weeks to get back to them (terrible!!  I publicly apologize).  

These were the packets were received:  

First, they are pretty!  I love their little tree symbol (in the top right corner).  Second, they are REALLY convenient.  On one side of the packet is the list of all the ingredients you will need for the dish.  On the other side are very easy to follow step-by-step directions.  Inside the packet are the two spice packets.  One on the top, and one on the bottom, you just rip them open, cut open your spices, pour and..that's it!  Our packets made Chola Curry (chickpea curry), Spinach Raita, and Peas and Potato Sabji.  For this meal we only had the Curry and Raita (which isn't pictured).  

The idea is to eat all three packets together, but we just had the chola and raita with brown rice, because I felt like I needed something to balance out the curry.  Not necessarily to back off the heat, the raita is obviously for that, I just needed something besides "spice, spice, spice".  We could have make the potatoes and had the rice but....that's just too much food for me, haha.  That being said, this was a really good meal, and we definitely will be making the Peas and Potato Sabji soon!

So, if you want some help with an authentic Indian dinner, I definitely suggest checking out Waverly Kitchens.  You can sign up for a free trial at their website, but be sure to realize that if you don't cancel, they will keep coming, and you will be charged each month!  I definitely recommend trying out their product!!