Leftovers

Dinner on Monday was leftover tofu tikka masala.


Still hungry, I had the rest of the leftover rice with some hoisin sauce.


For dessert, I had the last of the tapioca pudding, heated up, with some cinnamon.

Tofu Tikka Masala

For dinner on Sunday, we made some tofu tikka masala with the sauce from Costco.  We started, though, with a random salad: tomatoes, avocado, carrots, and cucumber.  It was actually pretty good!


Then the main course, over some rice. It's tofu with peppers, tomato, and onions.


I had a Hornsby's crisp apple cider.


And I opened this pineapple marzipan dessert, but it was so old that it didn't taste good, so I only had one piece.

Experimental Dessert At Lunchtime

During lunch yesterday, I thought it might be fun to try to make some tapioca pudding, since I had some taro-flavored tapioca pearls. I started by boiling 3 cups of milk.
Then I added the tapioca pearls (this was just 1/2 cup, but I later added the rest of the container, probably 1.5 cups or so.
Just barely boiled them for 5 minutes.
Then I mixed in a half cup of sugar.
Boiled for another few minutes. Then, elsewhere, beat two eggs, and mixed some of the milk/tapioca mixture back into the eggs to warm them up so they wouldn't turn into scrambled eggs when I mixed them into the pot. Then I mixed them into the pot and boiled a little longer until it thickened up.
Then I let it cool until after dinner. Now it was time for some lunch. I had some pre-packaged palak paneer with some jasmine rice I made in the rice cooker. Quick and easy.

Indian Food On The Company Dime

After "District 9", we set off for Mehfil Fine Indian Dining in Redmond Town Center for an early supper.  I started with a mango lassi, which was good, although it could have been a little colder.


Next, I put a few items on my plate: a paneer and peanut/coconut sauce dish, some chana masala, aloo gobi, and paneer sagwala.  There was also some paneer stuffed naan, which was just OK.  The paneer and peanut/coconut sauce dish was excellent, though.


We got some complimentary gulab jamun, which I am not the biggest fan of.  It's basically a soggy donut hole.  I ate it anyway.

A Quick But Satisfying Dinner

Tonight was supposed to be falafel night, but Costco didn't have any pita. I tried to pick up pita yesterday at Fred Meyer, but Keziah decided she wanted to scream the whole time, so I wound up having to hurry up and get out of the store. So, instead, we decided to give this tikka masala sauce from Costco a try. I got some pre-fried tofu (for the extremely lazy) at the Asian grocery yesterday, and decided to use that. First step, start some brown rice.
Next, bust open a Fresh Express Asian Supreme salad. These things are super handy when you are as lazy as I am. Pop 'em open, toss in a bowl, ready to eat. I haven't really tried any of the other varieties, because this one is clearly the best. Mmm, orange sesame dressing.
Grabbed some veggies from the fridge: 1 yellow bell pepper, a large onion, and half a tomato I had lying around. I only used about half the onion, though.
Have to say I was skeptical about the sauce - I've been burned by Indian-food-in-a-bottle before, especially the Patak's tikka masala sauce. It smells great, but when you go to eat it, there's just something missing. I sauteed the onion in a tablespoon of canola oil, followed shortly by the pepper, then threw in the tomato. After another minute or two, I added the tofu and about 3 cups of the sauce (3/4 of the container). Let it simmer for 15 minutes and voila!

The sauce came out tasting great, and the tofu really absorbed the flavors of the sauce and the veggies!

Now for the damage:

• Bag of salad with dressing: 360 calories
• Fried tofu: 1000 calories
• 1.75 cups (before preparation) of short-grain brown rice: 1260 calories
• 3 cups of tikka masala sauce: 840 calories
• 1 tbsp of canola oil: 116 calories
• 1 yellow bell pepper: 33 calories
• 1/2 large onion: 30 calories
• 1/2 tomato: 11 calories

Grand total: 3650 calories! Jeebus!

Oh wait, I didn't eat it all by myself. Let's see, I had half of the salad, so that's 180 calories. Then, a high-ball-park estimate is that I had 1/4 of the rest of the food (although probably not that much of the rice). So that's 822 calories. A total of about 1000 calories. Huh. I guess I'm going to have to work hard at not going back for seconds.