Underestimating the amount of time aka the Chicken Tikka Masala thread

All day long while the stock was reducing, I was remembering the old Steve Martin line -- "How I Turned a Million in Real Estate into 25 Dollars in Cash."

Maybe I should take some pics but I ph34r the quantity doesn't justify the amount of time I spent on preparing this dish. Is it normal that you only have about a quarter liter tikka masala sauce? It seems a bit low. This is my stomach speaking of course. And that I'm used to getting a huge amount at the local curry restaurant. The latter probably puts a HUGE amount of food coloring in it, something I found dubious. :-) Anyway, today will be EATING chicken tikka masala day, not preparation of it. HURRAH. :-)

That said, it's great fun preparing food. I missed it so. It's been a long time I actually took some effort and prepared a new dish. :-)

We ate it. My husband said he hadn't eaten so good in the last six months. Oops, guess I'll need to focus a bit more on my cooking abilities ey? :-D

Lesson for today: Do not start making the pizza dough when you are already hungry, because by the time it is all done, one pizza is not going to be enough.

Make three at a time, let one ferment until tomorrow.

See, that would have been smart, which, today, I am not. This was from your "1 hour makeout session" pizza post, btw, which I printed out ages ago and never tried. Sun-dried tomatoes, arugula, chopped up garlics, and parmesan. No making out, due to continuing illness :(

My only experience with homemade Indian food was watching an episode of Julia Childs. The curry recipe (which took up the entire show) looked ridiculously complicated. I had no idea.

Today, it's all about beef stock, which I need for the beef barley soup I'm making for Friday's Seattle fap/dance/basement dryout.