Chai Tea

I finally pulled out the tea set from China that we were given as a going away gift when we left China. I washed out the teapot and a couple teacups, and we used them. I made Indian Chai Tea. It was delicious. We loved drinking the tea from the fancy teacups.

deep dish pizza

It's spring break for my husband. Tonight I wanted to do something other than rice for something different to kind of have fun. I decided on pizza. Then I thought I'd make my pizza deep dish since I have never done that before, and I have been wanting to. I made my own crust recipe and sauce recipe. Then I googled "chicago style pizza recipe" to check on layering my "Chicago-style" pizza correctly. The first and only recipe I looked at was Food Network's Chicago Style Pizza. Sure enough, it was as I thought, the cheese goes directly on top of the dough. The sauce goes on top of the cheese. The toppings go on top of the sauce.

Anthony and I had some pretty interesting dinner conversation. We both agreed that perhaps an Indian chicken curry pizza would be good sometime, or a cauliflower curry pizza. I was going on about what I should name my deep dish pizza, and something about it being pizza with an identity crisis. It was almost too thick to be a Chicago-style crust, and the pizza had Philly cheese-steak toppings. Then I extrapolated about inventing a new pizza genre, the Clemson-style pizza. It would have to be new and different. Maybe instead of the NY-style (crust, sauce, cheese, toppings) or the Chicago-style (deep dish crust, cheese, sauce, toppings) my future Clemson design could be crust, toppings, sauce, cheese.

Full of ideas, I asked Anthony for our next trip if we could go to Mars. We went to China last year. I've been to Russia, Ukraine, Israel, and Canada. I said maybe we could go for research or something. I was pretty much joking of course. He said that there is a company that is actually working on sending some people to Mars to settle there. Anthony said that it takes 2 1/2 years to fly/shuttle there. He said it would be quicker to go to the moon. It only takes 3-4 days to get there. I said maybe he could do some 3D printing research up on there. I could run a Clemson-style pizza shop on the moon, and everyone would love it because it would be the only pizza shop up there.

apple pie pancakes

apple pie pancakes taste amazing! just dice 1 mcintosh apple, add it to your regular pancake batter. add cinnamon and nutmeg. your pancakes will taste like apple pie without even adding butter or syrup! our pancakes also had a hint of funnel cake flavor! 

Indian Recipe For Yellow Squash

I had a good bit of yellow squash in my fridge so I needed to find a recipe to use it up. Thought I would do an Indian one if I could find one since I have a lot of Indian ingredients right now. I found a recipe that calls for yellow squash, "Udipi Sambhar" on Simple Indian Recipes website.

It turned out pretty well. I did not get my lentils smashed enough. Maybe until another time I could puree them. The dish was very spicy. I would leave out some of the red chili peppers until another time. We added some leftover raita (chilled yogurt sauce) to manage the spiciness. Honestly, the recipe seemed to take a while. I would probably combine a few steps next time. There were almost twenty ingredients in the recipe . . .grr.