Well, our Feckless Fart-Filled Fascist President had a no good, very bad, terrible, squeaky parade last Saturday. Then he made a complete ass of himself at the G7 Summit. So, naturally, to make himself feel strong and powerful again, he’s going to start World War 3.
MAGA has gone full Real Housewives lately. I mean, what the hell, Pus Twat Tucker Carlson was having none of Creepy Psycho Face Ted Cruz in a recent interview. It’s like, the children are screaming, the children are screaming, and Farter Fuhrer is figuring maybe he’s just going to do all the work himself.
It’s not like the ass hat listens to anyone who disagrees with him, anyway.
So, in celebration of Donald Asshole Trump being an enormous fat chicken (and because it was next on our list) we made Chicken Tikka Masala.
We’d like to think that our CTM is the same as what they served at the Sea World Seven Seas Food Festival which we avoided by making all of these things at home. But who knows?
I have to say, I didn’t think I was going to like this. I chose it not realizing it qualified as a “curry.” I’m not sure anybody really knows what a curry is. It seems like it’s any dish that has a few spices that someone has deemed “curry-ish.” Nowhere in the name “tikka masala” is curry hinted at.
The point being that I have tasted a curry dish at some food festival or other and I did not like it.
But, if chicken tikka masala is curry, then call me a curry lover. This dish was our best yet. And I was pleasantly surprised to find that garam masala was easy to find in the spice section of Publix.
The only things we did differently from the recipe were that we used regular old rice, not basmati. And we only had smoked paprika, so despite the recipe saying not to use that in the curry sauce, we did.
Is that why it tasted so good? Maybe.
And the naan bread was yummy–also readily available at Publix. I love that our local stores are so diverse, don’t you?
Do you remember that episode of The Andy Griffith Show where Andy ended up at several people’s houses for dinner because of Goober’s mistake and they all served spaghetti? Remember how they talked about oregano as if it were some strange foreign spice?
That’s what I was like looking for garam masala and naan.
So, would I eat this again? Well…sure. If I happen to find myself in a restaurant and chicken tikka masala sounds like the best option, I’ll go for it. But it was complicated to make so the chances of me going through all of that trouble again are slim.
But don’t let that stop you. Give it a try. It’ll take your mind of the downfall of our democracy for a while.