I finally managed to get back to Steph and Mike's wedding album. I really want to finish it so I can give it to them, so I did a few more layouts.
And another...
And as if I could let a post go by without posting a close-up (and I told you those handmade paper roses were going to start showing up everywhere. lol).
Whew... two more down! Just gotta keep going now.
And another bit of happiness, my herbs are starting to sprout! I moved them to my kitchen table near the patio door so I could open the blinds a bit to get them more light. Cilantro, parsley and sage don't want to play nice (yet), but the rest of them are sprouting little bits of greenness :)
And finally, I could NOT let the weekend go by without using my tagine. I took a recipe from my new cookbook and changed it just a bit. I took out the onions (because hello, gross!) and used chicken instead of lamb since it's a lot leaner and would still work well with the other flavors in the recipe. I think lamb or beef would make a nicer sauce during cooking though, so I still might try that sometime.
I added a pound of cubed chicken breast to cinnamon, cumin, fresh minced garlic, fresh ginger and a bit of chili powder and water and cooked it on low for about 1 1/2 hours. It made the chicken so moist and tender! Then I added 1/2 pound of dried apricots and after another 20 minutes I added 7 ounces of chick peas and cooked another 10 minutes or so. I absolutely love the smell of cumin and cinnamon cooking together. It's so warm and tangy!
I served it up with some whole wheat Greek flatbread and a little tzaziki sauce. It was a bit odd to have this kind of flavor profile as home cooking, but at the same time it was pretty delicious. And now I have yummy leftovers to hold me over until my next culinary adventure!
Anyway, I've had a raging headache all day that no amount of medicine has been able to get rid of, so I'm heading off to bed to read for a while and see if I can make it go away. TTFN!
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