Good Real Food

so, this was a weekend of success and failure.

First, for the hall of shame, I present to you, the hockey puck:

the bread that I had such high hopes for didn’t really turn out to be much of anything but a hockey puck. I suspect that when push came to shove, there just wasn’t enough gluten development. Probably, I should just mixed it all together at one time and gone for a more sour flavor by letting it rise in the fridge instead of doing the long rise at ~70 degrees. I haven’t cut into yet, but I suspect that the flavor is pretty good, but the texture is dense. So, it will likely be frozen and used for croutons or something similar.

With that out of the way, let’s talk about success.

After reading some recipes from the Hooked on Heat blog, I had a craving for the flavors conjured up, so I decided that I was going to have a week of pretty much entirely Indian food.

So tonight, we made aloo paratha and chili paneer:

This meal was definitely a family affair with everyone pitching in, and it turned out wonderfully.  Both recipes are from Hooked on Heat, a blog you should definitely check out if you’re interested in expanding your Indian cooking skills.