Normally this is where I would post a picture of the fabulous recipe I just cooked alas the picture did not turn out well and I didn’t have the energy to properly set up another picture. So instead I am posting a picture of my very guilty looking cat Claire (wait did I say “guilty looking”? now that I’m examining this portrait she looks down right indignant).

So the other night David had plans to hang with a friend, so I made concurrent plans to veg out in pajamas and eat Indian food (which he hates). I placed my Indian food order and I drove out and back to pick it up (at least a 45 minute round trip). I came home, put on my pajama’s, prepared my plate of food (butter chicken, raitha, pankora, and naan). I found the perfect channel on the TV and I sat down, curry in my lap, with a deep contented sigh.

All of a sudden I hear a flurry of activity and I see Annyoung ( my oldest cat) chasing Claire (pictured above) down the hallway and before I can react Claire vaults off the arm of the couch and lands directly onto my dinner plate. I stare at her in horror and she begins to panic and as she panics her back feet begin to slip in the curry and she begins to projectile launch the curry all over my face, the couch, the floor and the wall. Finally she gained enough traction to get herself off my plate leaving shear devastation in her wake.

I cannot describe to you the sound that came out of mouth. It was a loud wailing that can only be categorized as deep insatiable grief. The next hour was filled with tears and laundry and vacuuming all while watching Claire carefully eat all the butter chicken out of her paws (so infuriating as I had not even had a chance to eat my food yet but here she was all licking her lips). Thankfully I still had some food left and so I ate what I could after cleaning up.

But that was a long emotional into for this very quick bit of info. I decided to make a  home made version of Butter Chicken that I found off the Tasty Kitchen blog.  Find recipe here.

It was fabulous, not a truly authentic version, but the ingredients were simple and the process was easy unlike most Indian food which requires special everything.

Definitely worth trying, just lock up the pets.

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