So, we finally watched a season of "The Next Food Network Star" (a first for us! Shocking, I know)....and I have been drooling over almost every single dish that Aarti has made this entire season! For the non-viewer, Aarti's "theme" revolved around adding "Indian flare" to everyday dishes. ANDDD (spoiler alert!) now that she's the big winner I am COUNTING DOWN until her show, "Aarti Parti," makes its debut on Sunday afternoon!! Sunday's dinner MIGHT just revolve around whatever she makes;)
Andddd this all matters WHY, you ask?? Welllll...because it will explain how very excited I was to try out an Indian-inspired dish for the evening last night!!
We had Curry Crunch Chicken salad (OVER salad;). I used Rachael Ray's recipe this time, as I found it while flipping through one of her magazines the other day...but I REALLLLLLY loved Ellie Krieger's version a lot better. (maybe RR's had TOO much spice???)
But let me tell you: Scott was a NON-believer that any PART of this dish was going to be good (Curry, grapes & almonds in a cold salad were NOT exactly his ideal dinner:) and even HE enjoyed it! It had GREAT textures between the creamy dressing, sweet grapes and crunchy almonds/cashews!
And, ya know, THE REAL reason I'm excited to 'try out Indian' = a Great excuse to eat this:
I opened this bag and was WHACKED in the face with the lovely smell of ...sighhhhh...garlic! AND LOTS of it, at THAT!!! :)
Any reason to eat CARBS, sounds like a good enough reason to me;)
So we'll see where Aarti leads us too on Sunday...but this attempt went pretty well;)
Wohoooooo...Friday folks!!! How happy are you??? :) I'm going to, what I think will be, a QUITE interesting dinner tonight....if nothing else, it should DEFINITELY be 'blog photo friendly'!
Stay tuned....;)
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