Chicken Tikka Masala

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You know what is ridiculous? Chicken Tikka Masala take-out from an Indian restaurant. Whenever we order this, we only get about four pieces of chicken with a lot of sauce. It's like I'm just buying a tub of sauce to dip my naan in. This is why I've decided to make my own chicken tikka masala. It's a lot of spices, yes, but once you have your cupboard stocked, you'll be able to make a ton of other things too. (Also it might help if you knew the Chopping Block... because that's where all my spices came from. :D)

Japanese Curry

I think I picked up on another craze in addition to the burger craze. It's curry!

Being a weirdo, I've never really had Japanese curry before. That is, it has never crossed my mind to order curry when sitting at a Japanese restaurant. I had, however, tried a spoon or two of the curry off someone else's order. It had never strike me as good enough that I would pass ordering sushi for curry, so I continued to eat just sushi to meet my Japanese food requirement. Stupid, I know. That's just like only eat phở and say that I always eat Vietnamese food. Silly me.

To rectify this problem, I made Japanese curry found over at No Recipes. Don't worry, he provides recipes.

Burger Experiment #3

To continue on with the Burger Experiment spreadsheet, I decided to make curry burger because it seemed easiest to make for a lazy dinner.

I decided to use Thai red curry paste because it's something I already had in my cupboard.

Gordon Ramsay's Fish Cakes

For those of you who don't know this, I am a huge fan of Gordon Ramsay. Why? Why not? The guy has enough angst to shame a teenager. Well of course, his recipes are also amazingly simple! Well, at least in his current books. I heard his older cookbooks are actually pretty complex and difficult. I found this fish cake recipe on-line from his show "The F Word," which I have to admit, I've only watched a couple of times while I was flying on Virgin America, and yes, that was a shameless plug for my favorite airline.

Lamb Curry

First off, I want to apologize to any Indian readers here (ahem Hiten) for butchering your food. This is the first time I've ever made an Indian dish (besides microwaving Trader Joe's awesome frozen Tikka Masala dishes). I went online and googled "indian lamb curry recipes" and got a lot of varying results, so in the end, I just kind of made threw whatever I wanted to in my Lamb Curry dish, which I think ended up pretty nicely.

Baked Scallops

Garlic Shrimp Curry


Baked Scallops


Mixed Green Salad