Indian food

It’s the perfect food when it’s cold and rainy, and you go over to your friend’s house to study and she takes you out for a delicious lunch, like today. And somehow, it’s still perfect on the steamiest of summer days. I love that it’s so easy to find amazing, delicious Indian food around here. I really want a good recipe for matar paneer, but neither of the girls are all that into Indian food, and it’s silly to just make it for myself. Which is why getting to go out for Indian food with somebody is extra awesome.

In other news, without my girls here, it is so hard to get to sleep. I basically have to read myself into a coma. It’s no fun.

Makin’ it from scratch

So, see, here’s the situation. We are broke and poor and this isn’t likely to change soon: We’re both students and we have a toddler. Good planning, eh? We exist on a combination of student grants, student loans, and several different part-time job sort of things. It works, but just barely. So I cut corners wherever I can. This means making things from scratch, a lot. It takes extra time but I count it as leisure time since I can listen to music, watch TV, or interact with D. while I do it. I don’t mean just making dishes from scratch that you can buy frozen… I bake a lot of our bread myself. It only saves about 80 cents a loaf, but it adds up since we eat so much bread. Plus, I can make it wholewheat and preservative free. Other baking-type things we regularly make ourselves are tortillas and rolls. Lots of my starting recipes come from here. The Beginner’s Bread is what I started on before branching out. I’m still looking for a good, easy, plain bread recipe that I can make completely wholewheat without it getting sort of brick-like…