Cooked another Indian meal last night because I wanted to try my hand at chicken tikka masala.

Unfortunately, the chickpeas weren't as good as last week. I think I like them a little more watery. The chicken tikka masalas was passable, but very obviously suffering from a lack of (even more) heavy cream and butter/ghee. Pam and I had a brainstorming session, the result of which is that I think I need to use tomato sauce instead of pureed canned tomatoes to get the smoothness I'm after. And really cooking down the sauce would help as well. We won't feel like eating Indian for awhile, but when I figure it out a recipe will be posted.

My latest project. I've been knitting a lot lately. The primary reason is I really want to/need to use up my yarn stash. I can't let myself buy more yarn when I have balls and balls of it piled up in the closet. The second reason is I don't want Christmas to roll around again and not have a box of goodies stashed away to pick out for people. I learned the hard way that starting in December is not the way to go, both because I don't own a knitting machine (yes, they really make those! You can knit a sweater in a day) and because this is a good way to spread out the spending.