FitLifeSF

Last night at FitLifeSF HQ, I made one of my favorite meals, but I have to say it didn’t go as well as hoped. This is part of the reason I’m so glad to be committed to this feature on the blog- it forces me to actually make note of what I’m putting in the pot so that I might be able to recreate things with some accuracy. I have several “favorite recipes,” among them Chicken Lettuce Wraps and certain soups and stews that are knock-your-socks-off awesome sometimes, and “OK but not great” others.

As for dinner last night? It was was a Chicken Curry with garbanzo beans and spinach. Usually, I can make a super yummy/spicy “Chicken tikka masala” knock-off. In fact, for the month of October, it was my pre-and-post long run staple. Last night, though, I think a new brand of garam masala and too much tomato puree left me with something not as wonderful as I’d have liked. I am committed to spend some time getting the recipe repeatable for y’all.

In the meantime, here is a recipe from Cooking Light for Murgh Makani, a reasonable substitute, which is a tikka masala-esque Cashew Chicken dish. When I made this recipe, I increased almost all of the spices. (Also, note that this recipe is not nearly as “healthy” or “clean” as the curry I made last night. Hence this one is way tastier, but not exactly cleansing food. As an aside, this is my biggest gripe about Cooking Light magazine– if you really dig into it, the recipes aren’t super healthful, and they shrink the serving sizes to next-to-nothing to make the numbers acceptable.)

As a wonderful balance to our less-than-stellar curry night, we were watching Superstars of Dance last night to catch the Shaolin monks when, much to my surprise, there was my old intern, Mythili Prakash, demonstrating bharata natyam dance for team India!