Chicken in Cashew Nut Sauce (indisch essen)

Indian Food. Ahh...nothing quite like it and I know it's found throughout Germany. (Yes that was my attempt to keep the blog relevant and "on topic.") We were at Barnes and Noble and Ryan found a Indian Food cookbook in the discount area. Why not? Let's try! After buying it (along with an espionage spy novel for moi) we sat in our car and picked a dish to make. Chicken in Cashew Nut Sauce.



We rushed to Central Market and quickly bought the rest of the ingredients, cookbook planted firmly in the cart. We had a bit of confusion trying to find Gram Masala (is it a sauce? powder? ahh...blend of spices...) but finally returned home and I started cooking. The food processor was a Christmas present from Ryan and I've used it a ton -- this night was no exception and it did so well.



Yes, it tasted as good as it looks. I didn't know the Indian food has so much Cilantro -- I've always associated that with Mexican food.



It surprised me how easy the dish was - we're moving on to a Chicken Korma, one of my FAVORITE dishes. But I couldn't find Curry Leaves or Onion Seeds at the store...so maybe an Indian Foodstore might be open tonight to help me out.



Bliss. Last night we hit Ranch 616, one of my favorite restaurants in Austin; we've eaten there on my birthday for the past two years. The food was spectacular and the city was abuzz. We hit Molotov to watch the cars and bikes putter on by...it's the bike rally. Most of the time they're nice...but on my way to watch the soccer game yesterday I was crossing the street with a "WALK" sign protecting me...and some turning yuppie roadpigs told me to "Fucking go man!" as in walk faster. Eat shit -- you and your wrinkled broad are nothing but posers and next time we meet at Whole Foods and you're in your dry-cleaned white button-down picking up a Vouvray to go with your take-out pizza from Homeslice...I will still kindly put the rubber "Thank You For Shopping" stick down between your wine and mine.

Tschüß!