A rare Saturday night at home. I was overly ambitious and should have started earlier but we were off bouncing at the trampoline park. Carter had requested chicken tikka masala, and I found a promising recipe at Serious Eats (I know that is not a very Indian website, but I figured since it isn't exactly a very authentic dish anyway...). It wasn't really too involved and would have been a snap if I wasn't working on 5 other recipes at the same time. Also made: mango chutney (delicious) and naan (our best effort so far. Jason has mastered the rolling and cooking) from My Bombay Kitchen, sweet potato/spinach bhajia (these fritters looked intriguing but were annoying to work with and did not fare well being deep fried. After a few I switched to shallow frying instead and had better results. I also liked them better reheated the next day) with a tamarind chutney (the addition of cane syrup did nothing for the recipe) from My Two Souths, plus another request from Carter for kheer. I found this recipe here. It was easy to make and would have been even better if I hadn't toasted the spaghetti (my own addition) too much. Also found that I need more sugar than the recipe called for. But Carter approved.
Anyway, the chicken was all that Carter hoped, the naan was great, the fritters were so-so and I think we all liked the dessert. The amount of dishes in the sink was truly epic.
I also was baking a pound cake but won't know until Sunday how it turned out.
No comments:
Post a Comment