the purple carrot: Chicken tikka masala, Local & organic food expo

I’m not sure where spring weather is hiding, but it has to come eventually, right??

Our weekend has been pretty good, though Erik’s back has been bothering him a lot lately. It seemed to not bother him on Saturday, but today it’s been hurting more. He’s been taking it easy, and I’m trying to be a good nurse!

Delicious Twist

Friday night’s dinner started out as quick & easy pasta, but ended in a delicious twist!
We added sound mini ground chicken meatballs that were cooked in olive oil on a skillet. Erik magically seasoned them, and they tasted awesome!
Eat Local & Organic Food Expo

Our Saturday morning started out at the Eat Local & Organic Food! EXPO put on by Kansas City Food Circle.
It was filled with local organic farmers with info about their farms, different CSAs, starter plants, baked goods, etcetera. We came home with a nice big pile of reading material.

This EXPO was held in Independence, and for those of you who live in the KC area, there’s another EXPO being held in Shawnee this coming Saturday (April 2nd) at the Shawnee Civic Center from 9:00 to 2:00.
We might go to that one too Smile
We came away eating this Greens Plus bar. It was a lot like Amazing Grass. The only problem with bars like this is that they’re pretty $$$.
Whole Foods Time

Needless to say, we also picked up a few carrots while we were out (excuse the messy hair): CCC Okay, maybe a lot of carrots, ha. After we left the food expo, it was off to Whole Foods. We decided we wanted to start juicing more, which will be coming up in future posts.

Of course we couldn’t help ourselves and got much more than a giant bag of carrots, and I’ll be featuring some of our other fun finds soon. But for now … some delicious, fresh carrot juice.
Chicken Tikka Masala

For this week’s Operation Motivation, my baked good and main dish recipe was contained in one meal:
Chicken Tikka Masala with homemade garlic naan bread. I roughly used this recipe for the masala, and worked off the naan recipe from here.

I don’t usually follow recipes exactly, but I always need something to work off of!
I would enthusiastically tell you my adaptations and post the recipes, because we love Indian food. But truth be told, we hardly ate any of this dish! The sad part is, it tasted really, really good. The problem was that it was way too hot! Next time … no cayenne at all!! Anyone really like spicy food? Maybe I could overnight the rest to you? Haha.