$0.39 tacos at Del Taco

Spaghetti for the family and I had a large fry from Mcdonalds after a night of crafting.

Tikka Masala Curry with rice

I thought I would go all fancy and take pictures of some of the steps while cooking today. I like to pretend that I'm special and people actually care what we're having for dinner.
This was an experiment dinner that turned out super yummy. I usually make my curry from scratch which takes a long time so we only have it like once a year. I will be doing this more often!


I started with this sauce. There's no particular reason why I picked this one, it was probably on sale.

I cut up about 4 chicken breasts and covered them with about half of the sauce. I let is sit in the fridge for about 4 hours. I wanted the chicken to really soak up the flavors.

While my rice was cooking I sliced up half an onion, two potatoes, and a zucchini. You could use any vegetables you had on hand. I usually add carrots but I was lazy today and I didn't want to cut anything else.

I cooked them until they were just about done and then removed them from the pan.

I added a little but more oil to the pan and cooked the chicken till it was cooked through. then I added the vegetable mix back to the pan along with a little bit more of the curry sauce. Since I was just playing around with it I added a little at a time till it looked right.

Then I added about half a can of this heavenly liquid. Does anyone else love this stuff as much as I do?

I think I used about 2/3 of the curry sauce. I would just taste it and adjust till it was right. Sorry for the lack of a recipe here. This is what it looked like once I got the perfect ratio. Doesn't it look good enough to eat? Since everything is cooked you can eat right away or let it simmer for a little while. I was waiting for the family to return from football practice so I think mine was cooking away for about 20 minutes.

About 5 minutes before we were ready to eat I added about a cup of frozen peas. I've got to sneak as many vegetables in the kids meals as I can right?

What do you think? Would you try it?

Pizza...again.
I have post party exhaustion.

Crab salad and chicken salad sandwiches, pasta salad, green salad, chips and salsa,and spinach dip and chips for Ewan's first birthday party.

Chicken corn chowder topped with bacon and sour cream (because everything is better with bacon)

I got this soup from Costco.



I will be heading back for more. YUM! I was pleasantly surprised by the spiciness. I'll admit that I had seconds. If I didn't have to feed the kids, I probably would have gone back for thirds!

Hmmm...what should we call this one? Pork and zucchini casserole? Doesn't sound very good huh? It was a clean out the fridge day. It was good though. A great way to get the kids (and the hubby) to eat zucchini!