[boar_d_laze]

I see what you mean. You know more about India than I do, but it seems very trans-regional at least the potato-cauliflower combination which to my understanding is ubiquitous. But you were talking nuance, and I should have been more sensitive to that.

There's a pan-Indian stir fry that uses them together in its southern/eastern versions like Bengladesh and Sri Lanka (the guy who taught it to me was Sri Lankan), but sweetened, called jalfrezi. So maybe we're looking somewhere around the Bay of Bengal?

I use coconut a lot in my Indian cooking. It's an easy way to marry flavors and control heat.

BDL