RECIPE: Beef or Lamb Curry with Cauliflower, Peas, Kashmiri Spices, and Coconut Milk

Our CSA's founding farmer's wife recommended Burlap and Barrel as a good place to get spices, so I bought a few things to try.  One of those things was their Kashmiri Masala, developed by Floyd Cardoz.  I also bought their Kashmiri Chili Powder, because I've never seen it for sale elsewhere, and I have other recipes that call for it.

Last night, I needed a quick meal, and pulled this together using the above mentioned spices.  I have no idea whether any of these ingredients are used in traditional Kashmiri cooking but we enjoyed the meal. 

Regarding the meat: at the end of the summer, when our CSA cows have been on grass for several months, if one is sent to the butcher I will buy 12-14 pounds of stew meat and pressure can it in 7 quart jars.  I get approximately 1.75 pounds in each jar, and it makes its own broth.  Once the meat is canned, it will keep at room temperature for several years.  When I use it, it's already tender and just needs to be seasoned and heated.  Using this meat, I can make this dish start to finish in under one hour!  

I used beef, but you could also use lamb or bison.

Like most curries, this is better the next day, so I make a large amount and we reheat it.   

Beef Curry with Cauliflower, Peas, Kashmiri Spices and Coconut Milk

Serves 6-8

 

INGREDIENTS

• 1/3 cup ghee
• 2 large onions, thinly sliced
• 1/3 cup minced ginger
• 1/3 c minced garlic
• 2 T. Kashmiri Masala
• 2 T. Kashmiri Chili Powder (this will be HOT!  Use less if you can't eat HOT food!)
  
• 3.5 pounds beef stew, preferably home canned (for me, that's 2 quart jars)*
  
• 1 13.5oz can coconut milk
  
• 1 pound cauliflower florets parboiled (I used frozen)
  
• 1 pound petite peas** parboiled (I used frozen)
• Optional: chopped cilantro garnish (I used frozen)
  

INSTRUCTIONS

In a large saute pan, melt half the ghee on medium high and brown the onions.  Push the onions to the side of the pan.

Melt the rest of the ghee in the center of the pan and add the spices.  Stir for 1-2 minutes, then stir into the onions.

Sauteed onions with spices

Add the ginger and stir for 1-2 minutes. 

Add the ginger

 

Add the beef and any juices in the jars.  Add the garlic.  Stir to combine and simmer uncovered until most of the liquid has evaporated, about 5 minutes.  (If you're using raw beef, add it to the pan and let it brown.  Once it's browned, add 2 cups of beef broth or water and the garlic, lower the heat to medium, cover the pan and simmer until the beef is tender, 1-2 hours.  Remove the cover and simmer until most of the liquid has evaporated.)

Add the meat, broth and the garlic.

Add the coconut milk and simmer until the liquid is reduced by half and the sauce is thick and creamy.

Add the cauliflower and simmer 5 minutes.  We like our cauliflower al-dente.  If you like yours softer, cook it a little longer.

When the sauce is thick, add the cauliflower.

 

Add the peas and simmer 1-2 minutes.  If you're using fresh farm peas**, they will take longer to cook, so add them with the cauliflower.   

Add the peas.

Sprinkle with chopped coriander and serve with a dollop of yogurt or sour cream. 

* If you don't have canned beef stew meat, you can use raw but it will take much longer to cook.  In that case, you will need 2 cups of liquid, either broth or water, in addition to the meat.

** I LOVE tiny peas!  When I shuck our farm peas, I separate out the small ones and freeze them separately.  When I run out, I buy Whole Foods brand organic petite peas. 

 

Curry with yogurt

 

 

We hosted a Star Trek party last weekend!

When we lived in Illinois, we would host a HUGE Star Trek costume party, but we archived it when we moved to New England.  Until last week!  This party wasn't the big event we used to host, but it was still a lot of fun.  Here are some photos and links to the HEALTHY food's we served.  Yes, you can host a Sci-Fi party and serve healthy food!

The Kitchen:

 

The Dining Room:

 

The Wine and Spirits:

The Cocktails and Glasses:

We served three cocktails created to highlight the Romulan Rye and Romulan Vodka, 

and one low-alcohol cocktail, a Ferengi Starduster, using Kombucha, Tranya and Langour.

 

The Food:

Suliban Swamp Slug with entrails, Lorvan Chips, Moba Fruit Slices, and Quadrotriticale Crackers (Garlic and herb quark cheese log with pimiento pepper center, plantain chips, watermelon radish, and flax seed crackers)

Bajoran Hasparat with Rekja Sauce (Rolled tortilla filled w hummus, watercress, olives, sun dried tomatoes, and optional SPICY Moroccan dipping sauce)

Ferengi Tube Grub Salad (Charred octopus in lemon olive oil – will be good on the salad below)

Leola Root Salad with Humat Pod Dressing (Arugula salad with roasted fennel, caper and lemon dressing)

Bajoran Albino Ratamba Casserole with Pandoran Puffer Fungus (Veal meatballs and roasted mushrooms in asparagus cream sauce (remember, Bajoran food is spicy))

Wentlian Condor Snake (Haricots verts w onions, garlic, tomato, espelette and EVOO)

Mashed Coltayin Root (Mashed Roasted Celeriac with roasted garlic and thyme)

 

 

 

RECIPE: Bajoran Hasparat with Spicy Dipping Sauce

This was the appetizer we served for those people who avoid dairy, garlic, and peppers.  We made half of them with almond tortillas for the gluten-free folks, and they were VERY hard to roll.  We made the other half with wheat tortillas (for the people who avoid nuts).  At the end of the party, most of the wheat ones were gone and most of the almond ones were still there!  I developed the recipe for the party.

Hasparat are supposed to be eye-wateringly spicy, but some of our guests can't handle spicy, so we made the sauce spicy for those people who can.

Bajoran Hasparat with SPICY dipping sauce

Ingredients:

• 1 package of tortillas, preferably wheat
• 1 cup hummus made without garlic*
  
• 2 cups baby arugula, baby spinach or watercress
• 1/2 cup black olives, sliced
• 1/2 cup oven dried tomatoes, sliced
• 1/2 cup spreadable hollandaise made with 1/4 c. roasted red peppers and 2 t. berbere spice

Instructions:

Warm the tortillas to soften them or they won't roll.  We put them in a 350F oven for a few minutes.

Spread each tortilla with 2 T. hummus.

Top with a thin layer of greens, then sprinkle on olives and dried tomatoes.

Roll up the tortilla and cut into 3 or 4 bite-size pieces.

Serve with the sauce on the side.  You could also serve these with your favorite hot sauce or sriracha.

*If you know your guests like garlic, feel free to add it! 

 

 

RECIPE: Bajorn Ratamba Casserole with Pandoran Puffer Fungus (veal meatballs and mushroom in asparagus cream)

This recipe is the star of our Star Trek parties!  Bajoran food is spicy, so both the meatballs and the sauce have added cayenne.  I created the recipe for the party.  

We invited 14 people so I made 360 meatballs.  Yes, that was waaaay too many!  I figured 1/2 pound of meat per person with a little extra for leftovers.  We had a massive amount of leftovers, so we've been eating them every day, and every day we both RAVE about how good they are!

Bajorn Ratamba Casserole with Pandoran Puffer Fungus 

(veal meatballs and mushroom in asparagus cream sauce)

Serves 6-8?

For the party, I used 8 pounds of veal - 6 pounds of ground and 2 pounds of raw - and it made 360 one-inch meatballs or 45 meatballs per pound.  The dish is rich, so we eat only 6-10 meatballs per serving.  In other words, one pound of meat will serve about 4 people!  Use that to calculate how much to make.  

As you can see, there is no asparagus visible in the photo.  The asparagus is creamed and added to the sauce.  It's the secret ingredient that makes it so delicious!  It will turn the sauce slightly green, which is how Ratamba Casserole is supposed to look.

Ingredients for meatballs:

• 2 pounds of ground veal, either raw or a combination of raw and canned
• 4 large eggs
• 1/4 cup ground chia seeds
• 2 medium onions, minced
• 4 T. ghee
• Seasoning mix for meatballs:
• 1 T. salt
• 2 t. garlic (or 3 t. fresh)
• 2 t. paprika
• 2 t. basil (or 3 t. fresh)
• 2 t. cayenne

Ingredients for sauce:

• 2 12-ounce packages frozen asparagus, defrosted*
• 2 pounds of mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
• 2 large onions, sliced 1/4" thick
• 1/4 c. ghee
• 2 cups heavy cream
• Seasoning mix for sauce, identical to meatballs:
• 2 t. salt
• 2 t. garlic (or 3 t. fresh)
• 2 t. paprika
• 2 t. basil (or 3 t. fresh)
• 2 t. cayenne (or to taste)

Make the meatballs according to the directions here, but using the ingredients listed above.  When the meatballs come out of the oven, remove them to a bowl and scrape all the liquid that exuded into a large saute pan.  Add 1/4c. ghee and heat on medium-high.

Add the onions and saute until lightly browned.  Push them to the side of the pan.
Add the mushrooms and saute until lightly browned.  Push them to the side of the pan.
Add the seasoning mix and saute lightly. 
Add the cream, mix everything together and bring to a boil.  Reduce the heat and keep warm.

Remove any yellow ends from the asparagus and discard them.  In a food processor, puree the asparagus until smooth.  Stir the puree into the sauce, and continue stirring until heated through.
Taste and adjust seasoning. 

Add the meatballs, heat and serve.   

We served these with mashed roasted celeriac, and long-cooked green beans, but they were delicious when we reheated them with just roasted broccoli!  

This did NOT FREEZE WELL!  When I reheated it on the cooktop, all the meatballs fell apart!  it might have been OK reheated in the oven, and not stirred at all, but I wouldn't risk it!

*This would be about 2 pounds fresh, cleaned and blanched,but frozen is so much easier for this recipe!

RECIPE: Mashed ROASTED Celeriac with Roasted Garlic and Thyme

As good as mashed celeriac is, mashed ROASTED celeriac is even better!  

When our farm harvests garlic for the season, I roast as much as I can to tide me over the winter until the next harvest.  It adds umami to this recipe.

Sorry, I don't have a better photo - I served these in a cast iron pot so they would stay warm longer and the photo is very dark!  Because the celeriac is roasted before pureeing, it will be darker than the regular Mashed Celeriac but not quite as dark as the photo!

Original recipe: Mashed Celeriac with Garlic and Thyme

Mashed Roasted Celeriac with Roasted Garlic and Thyme

Serves 8-10

Ingredients

• 4 large celeriac (about 4 pounds)
  
• 1/4 cup ghee, melted
• 2 c. milk, broth or water
  
• 4-8 roasted garlic gloves depending on how much you like garlic
  
• 1 t. dried thyme leaves
• 2 t. himalayan pink salt
  

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 375F.

Clean the celeriac, tossing them into a bowl of cold water to keep them from turning brown.

Cut them into 1/2 - 3/4" pieces.  Toss them with the melted ghee and arrange in a single layer on a cookie sheet.

Roast until the edges are browned.

Transfer to a sauce pan and add the liquid.  Bring to a simmer, cover the pot and simmer until the celeriac is very soft, 30 minutes to 1 hour.  Stir occasionally to insure that every piece is occasionally submerged.

Using a slotted spoon, transfer the celeriac to the bowl of a food processor.  Add the garlic and process, adding the liquid from the pan a small amount at a time until it's smooth and creamy like mashed potatoes.  You may not need all the liquid in the pan, or you may need to add liquid (either broth, water, or milk), depending on your texture preference.  Add the thyme and season with salt.  Pulse to combine.

Serve immediately drizzled with butter.

If there are leftovers, they can be reheated in a 350F oven.  You can also reheat them on the cooktop if you add some liquid to the pan first and then heat them on med-low.  

 

RECIPE: How to Roast Hard-Neck Garlic

I can't believe I haven't added this recipe sooner!  I took the photos two years ago.  It's one of the ways I preserve garlic so that it lasts all winter.  

America's Test Kitchen just published an article on garlic that's started to sprout.  They had previously claimed that the little green sprouts were bitter and should be removed before using, but they did further testing which proved they were dead wrong!  The sprouts are fresh tasting - it's the old garlic that's strong and bitter!  I still use it, but in winter I love the mellow flavor of roasted garlic.

Most recipes instruct you to wrap the garlic heads in aluminum foil, but I don't like foil touching my food so I wrap them in parchment first, then foil. 

I roast some of them until they're very soft and caramelized, and others until they're just barely soft with a stronger garlic flavor, like the ones in the photo below.  Sometimes I use EVOO, sometimes I use ghee.  I keep the roasted cloves in the fridge and use them all winter long.

Our farm grows hard neck garlic, which keeps longer, but the hard neck is difficult to cut through!

Original recipe: How to roast garlic

How to Roast Hard-neck Garlic

 

Ingredients:

• As many whole heads of fresh garlic as will fit in your pan - I used 10
• 1-2 T fat for each head - I use either EVOO or ghee
• Parchment paper cut into squares large enough to enclose one head
• Aluminum foil cut into squares large enough to enclose one head
  

 

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 400F. 

Our garlic is hard-neck, and it's dried with the roots and stalk intact.  These need to be removed prior to roasting:

Using a pair of sharp scissors, cut off the roots close to the bottom of the head.

 

Using a sharp knife, cut through the top 1/4" of each clove down to the stalk.

 

Using the scissors again, cut through the stalk.

 

Wrap each head in parchment, then foil, but do not close the tops!  Arrange them in a baking pan, using additional foil to insure they remain upright.  Add 1-2 T of fat to the tops of each head and twist the top closed. 

 

Roast for about 30 minutes.  I make some batches to be very soft and caramelized, so I will leave them in for a little longer.  I also make some batches to be less caramelized with stronger garlic flavor so I start checking them after 25 minutes.  Depending on your oven, you might need more or less time.

Remove the pan from the oven and let the heads cool, then remove the cloves from the head.  Some of them will squeeze right out, others will need to be pried.  I prefer to separate each clove and remove them as close to intact as possible! 

 

Store them in the refrigerator, covered with EVOO or ghee, until you use them.  You can also freeze them without covering them with oil.

 

RECIPE: Suliban Swamp Slug With Entrails

We hosted a Star Trek party last weekend!  We've done that before, many years ago, and we used some of the recipes from our earlier parties.  This is one of them.  

It's cream cheese seasoned with garlic and herbs, and then formed into a snake-like slug pattern with a center of thinly sliced spicy roasted red peppers.  When you cut into the slug, you expose the peppers, which can be mixed into the cheese or not, depending on each diner's preference.  

We served it with sliced watermelon radishes, plantain chips, flax seed crackers, and cassava chips.

 Suliban Swamp Slug with Entrails

Serves 10-12

We set a stainless tray in the center of a large white plastic sheet pan, formed the slug on the stainless tray, and then surrounded it with the dippers.  We also provided several serving knives which are not pictured above.  

In the past, I made this with cream cheese, but now I use our farm's Quark cheese which is creamier and looser than cream cheese, so I drained it overnight to make it stiff enough to hold its shape at room temperature.  It's winter, so I used the herbs I had frozen last summer. 

This is sort-of an un-recipe, because people's tolerance for herbs and garlic varies.  If you like highly seasoned food, use the larger quantities.  We made our slug with a highly seasoned head, an unseasoned tail, and a medium-seasoned middle.   You can see the transition in the photo.

Ingredients

• 4 pounds Quark cheese
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup chopped dill
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup chopped parsley
• 1/4 - 1/2 cups chopped scallion tops
• 1-3 cloves garlic, grated on a microplane
• 1/2 a small red onion for the 'spines'
• 2 small scallions for the 'eyes'
• 2 peppercorns for the 'eyeballs'
  
• 8-16 ounces roasted red peppers
• 1-2 T. balsamic vinegar
• 1-2 T. honey
• 1-2 t. cayenne pepper
• Himalayan pink salt
• Chips to serve it with. 

Instructions

Drain the cheese. I placed it in a muslin cloth and hung it over a strainer set over a bowl to catch the whey.  After 24 hours, about 2 cups of whey had drained out. 

Quark draining - before and after

 

Thinly slice the peppers and mix them with the cayenne, balsamic and honey.  Taste and adjust seasoning - it should be sweet-sour-spicy.  Add salt to taste and set aside.  You can keep this in the fridge for a few days for the flavors to penetrate the peppers.

Roasted red peppers, sliced thinly

 

Mix the drained cheese with the garlic, sliced scallions, herbs, and salt to taste.

Minced dill and parsley

Mixing the seasonings into the cheese.

 

To form the slug, spread a small amount of the cheese on your serving platter in the shape you want the slug to take.  We made the tail narrow and the head wide.

Deposit the sliced peppers in the middle of this shape to form the 'entrails'.

Arranging the entrails on the slug template!

 

Using gloved hands, form the cheese over the peppers into a slug shape.  

Cut the root ends off the two scallions, and slice off a 1-2" piece of the white part.  I think 1" would look better than the 2" pieces I used!  Push a peppercorn into the smaller end, and push the larger ends into the 'head' of your slug.

Cut the red onion into triangular pieces and arrange them down the back of the slug.

Red onion spines and green onion eyes!

 

Stab your slug to expose the entrails, so people know they're there!

Spread your dippers around the slug and serve!  We arranged the radish next to the slug so it wouldn't cause the chips to get soggy.

 

The next morning, when I took photos before starting to clean up, this is all that was left:

RECIPE: Leeks Coddled with Beans and (optional) Lamb

Yotam Ottolenghi posted the original recipe for this on his Instagram page and I was drooling!  I made it a few days later, replacing the olive oil with ghee.  I also added some lamb, because lamb and lentils go well together and I wanted to serve it as our meal.  

The leeks and lentils are delicious on their own, but the leek cream takes them to the amazing level!  

I followed the recipe mostly as written, but I suspect it would be just as good with any other bean, and much easier if you use canned!  I also suspect you don't have to baby the leeks they way they describe in the original recipe.  I'll post photos the next time I make it.

Original recipe: Confit leeks with lentils and lemon cream

Leeks Coddled with Beans and (optional) Lamb

Coddled Leeks with Lentils

Serves 2-3 as a meal

INGREDIENTS

• 5 leeks, cleaned and dark green leaves removed
  
• 10 garlic cloves, halved
  
• 1/2 t. dried thyme (I used powdered)
  
• Himalayan pink salt and freshly ground black pepper
  
• 1/4 cup ghee, melted
• 1 18 oz can lentils, white beans, or garbanzo beans, drained
• Optional: 1 c. cooked lamb (I used canned stew meat)
  
• 1/3 c. heavy cream
• 2.25 t. Dijon mustard
• 5 T. lemon juice, divided
  
• 3 T. parsley chiffonade
• 3 T. minced dill
• 1 t. dried tarragon, crumbled (use 1 T fresh if you have it, I rarely do!)
  

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350F.  Melt the ghee in an 8" x 12" baking dish while the oven is preheating. (I made this in our toaster oven, which was exactly the right size,)

Slice the leeks into 1/2" pieces.  Arrange the leeks cut side up in the preheated baking dish and nestle the garlic between them.  Baste the tops with some of the melted ghee.  Sprinkle with thyme, salt and pepper.

Leeks, garlic, ghee, and thyme ready for oven

Cover the top with a piece of parchment paper, then cover the dish tightly with foil and bake for 30 minutes.  (The parchment prevents the foil from touching the food.)

Remove the dish from the oven, remove the foil, and gently turn the leeks over using 2 forks or a pair of tongs.  Replace the foil cover and bake for another 30 minutes, until the leeks are completely soft.

Raise the heat to 400F.

Remove the dish from the oven and transfer 1/2 cup of cooked leeks and 5 cloves of garlic to the bowl of a food processor.  I transferred the light green leeks and left the white ones.

Add the drained beans (and the lamb if you're using it) to the pan with the leeks, season with salt and pepper, and toss gently to combine.  Return to the oven and bake for 15 minutes to heat the beans.  

While the beans bake, make the leek cream: add the cream, mustard, 1 T. lemon juice, and 1/2 t. salt to the leeks and garlic in the processor bowl and then puree until smooth.

 

Remove the pan with the leeks and beans from the oven, stir in the remaining 4 T. lemon juice, and sprinkle with the herbs.  Stir gently to combine.  Serve alongside the leek cream.  

In the photo below I stirred the leek cream into my portion.

Leeks, lentils, and leek cream - sublime!

 

 

RECIPE: How to Roast Kabocha Squash Whole

I LOVE roasted sunshine kabocha squash - it is smooth, sweet, and creamy - but the larger ones are very hard to cut in half.  My friend roasts butternut squash whole so I decided to try roasting kabocha whole and it worked perfectly!

Sunshine kabocha is sort of squat, deep orange, and has a dark green star on the blossom end.  I apologize for the crummy photo of the star below but it's the only one I have!  The stem end is thick and also hard to cut through.  Sunshine doesn't keep well, so I roast it, puree it and freeze it.  Green kabocha isn't as sweet as sunshine, but it keeps longer and gets sweeter as it sits. 

How to Roast Kabocha Squash Whole

On the left: sunshine kabocha squash green star.  On the right: roasted sunshine kabocha puree.

 

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 425F.

WASH the outside of the squash!  Even though you won't be eating the skin, if there is dirt on it it will enter the flesh when you cut it open.

Arrange the squash on a baking pan - no need to pierce them - and roast until the outside is blistered and a knife can be easily inserted through the flesh.  No, they will not explode if you don't pierce them.  If anything, they will IMplode.  Remove from the oven and allow to cool on the baking pan.

Whole roasted sunshine kabocha squash

Remove the skin from the top half and discard it.  

In the photo below, I have my salad spinner bowl in the sink on the right, and I'm discarding skin and seeds into that bowl so we can put them out for the deer.  We don't put the seeds in our compost because they survive, and we don't put them in the trash because they attract bears.  We toss them in the forest behind our house and hope the deer find them before the bears do.

Remove the skin from the top half.

Remove the flesh from the top and transfer it to a food processor.  Take care to leave the seeds behind! 

Remove the flesh from the top exposing the seeds.

Remove the seeds and discard them.  Some people roast them but I've never had success with that. 

Remove the seeds.

Scrape the flesh from the remaining skin and transfer to the food processor.  

Remove the flesh from the bottom half.  A flat edge ice cream spoon is best for this.

Remove as much flesh as possible!

Process until smooth and creamy.  

I've never tried to do this in a blender.  I'm not sure it would work because the flesh is fairly dense and it might cause cavitation.  If you try it, please LMK whether it works!

Sunshine kabocha before and after being pureed in my food processor.

Transfer to a glass jar and refrigerate or freeze until needed.  

 

I use this to make pumpkin lattes, pumpkin soup, pumpkin mac and cheese, pumpkin martinis (recipe coming soon), and I'm going to attempt a pumpkin roll. 

RECIPE: Pumpkin Latte

Notice that I said PUMPKIN Latte, not pumpkin spice latte.  This latte is made with roasted pumpkin puree, not the spices used to make pumpkin pie!

I use sunshine kabocha because the flesh is slightly sweet and very creamy.  It's high in fiber and makes a rich low-dairy drink.  If you can't get sunshine kabocha, you can use pie pumpkin but you might need a little extra sweetener (I need an additional teaspoon of maple syrup when I use pie pumpkin).  I suppose you can use canned pumpkin, but I haven't tried that.

Roast the squash or pumpkin whole, remove the seeds and rind, and then puree it in a food processor.  I keep it in glass jars in the back of the fridge.

Pumpkin Latte

Makes 1 serving

INGREDIENTS

• 1/4 c. sunshine kabocha puree
• 1 T. maple syrup
• 8 ounces strong coffee
• Heavy cream to taste
• Optional: pinch of pumpkin pie spice 
• Optional: 1 scoop of collagen peptides

INSTRUCTIONS

Heat the pumpkin puree with the maple syrup.  I put it in a custard cup and set it on my coffee mug heater (This is the mug heater I like best. It gets hot quickly, has a large surface area, and has two heat settings.  It also has an auto-shutoff.).  You could nuke the puree, but I prefer not to nuke my food.

Heating the pumpkin and maple syrup on my mug warmer

While the pumpkin is heating, fill a large - at least 12 ounces - mug with hot water, and microwave it for a minute or two to heat the mug.  Leave the hot water in the mug until the pumpkin is hot.

Throw out the hot water in the mug and transfer the pumpkin to the hot mug.  Fill the mug with coffee, stir to combine with the pumpkin, add the collagen peptides if you use them and then add cream to taste.  

Sprinkle with a pinch of pumpkin pie spice if you like.

 

NOTE: You could also make this by heating the pumpkin, maple syrup, and 6 ounces of milk in a small saucepan, and then adding 2 oz of espresso, but that's one more pot to wash!   I would do it that way only if I was making more than one.