by spiceaholic on February 7, 2010
I have just been off the whole day. Mother Nature can keep her crappy gift and that’s all I’m going to say about it.
Before I talk about today’s eats, I’d like to back to up to dinner last night. Mr. Spice and I went to our friend Lopa’s place for some dinner with our other friend Angela and some Beatles Rock Band to round things off.
As usual, dinner was awesome. It was typical yummy homemade Bengali food.
Starting from 12 o’ clock: rice, dal, potato tikki (Angela’s contribution), chicken and potato curry, begun bharta (spicy eggplant mash), and mango pickle. I stuffed myself and then went back for seconds.
After dinner we broke out the Wii and played some Beatles Rock Band. Well, us girls played, while Mr. Spice sat absorbed in his iPhone. We took turns with guitar and drum duty and I abstained from singing since I am painfully tone-deaf. This fact was confirmed by Mr. Spice. Hmmph. This was a really fun game though and I hope we play it again soon. Hint, hint. 
So now onto today.
The morning started off well with a breakfast sandwich and grapes. I was going to be experimenting with making a chicken korma in the crockpot and had to fortify myself beforehand.
By the way, if you ever need a great torture device, just make someone slice onions. Wow. My eyes were stinging and I was blinded by tears. It’s gotten worse over the past couple years since I have dry eyes due to abusing my contact lenses. I had to stop a couple times and rinse my eyes with cold water. I usually make Mr. Spice handle onions, but he was busy snoozing away.
Anyway, experiment safely cooking away in the slow cooker, I rested up a bit before making myself some lunch.
Nothing fancy. Just some chicken breast, Korean hot and spicy ramen, and veggies.
After some more laziness, the chicken was finally done.
Looks can be deceiving. And so can scents. This looked and smelled great, but it was not tasting great. I over-cooked the chicken, so it was falling off the bones and dry and the chicken was bland. And it didn’t even turn out like a korma, it looked like a curry. I’m not posting the recipe since it wasn’t what I intended.
Lots of salt and spicy vegetable pickles made it edible. I hate when stuff doesn’t come out right and there are tons of leftovers.
Oh well, enough with the whining. I have some TV to watch and some books to read. Not a bad way to end the day!
by spiceaholic on February 6, 2010
Hey guys!
I’ve had people ask me about certain recipes I’ve featured on this site and I realized that it wasn’t very easy to find them, so I have created a Recipes tab and will be listing recipes on them for your easy reference.
I have also started to receive emails asking if I accept samples. Yes I do! I also realize there are some new disclosure rules for food bloggers regarding samples, so I will be creating a product sample and disclosure tab in the near future.
While we’re cleaning things up, is there anything you’d like to suggest?
by spiceaholic on February 4, 2010
What girl doesn’t like getting packages in the mail?
I came home tonight to a box from my parents packed FULL of awesome stuff. They were in Bangladesh visiting family recently, and opportunist greedy girl that I am, I sent them off with a wish list of stuff to keep an eye out for. I didn’t think they’d actually get most of the things on it! And there’s more to be sent later!
There’s all the goodies ready to be unpacked and “oohed” and “ahhed” over. You can see some clothes already bursting out of the box.
Some earrings. I got a couple more pairs in addition to this. Aarong is one of my favorite places to shop in Bangladesh for a few reasons — 1) no haggling, since my American-accented Bangla gives me away right away 2) CUTE stuff for the house 3) fun jewelry, and 4) it’s all for a good cause — it’s a fair trade organization and helps to support disadvantaged women, among other things.
Yay for cute sandals! I love Bata sandals, they are SO comfy. Can’t wait to wear these when it’s warmer.
My parents and relatives did not disappoint me when it came to books. We are a book-loving family. And as you can see we like our mysteries and suspense stories!
This is a famous Bangla cookbook by Siddiqua Kabir. It’s like the Bangla equivalent of “The Joy of Cooking.” I can’t read much Bangla, but I’m hoping to learn with this cookbook. I already have a shorter English version of this, but I wanted the original.
My limited Bangla skills — I know this is a recipe for some kind of kabab. That’s as far as I got. Any Bangla-literate readers want to help me out? Mom??
I’m a lucky girl — thank you, Mom and Dad! 
by spiceaholic on February 3, 2010
Okay, who else watched this last night? I was intrigued, confused, excited, and sad all at the same time. That’s all I’m going to say so that I don’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it yet.
First things first.
Ameena of Fancy That, Fancy This had a fun giveaway last week. She was giving away a copy of L.A. Candy, by Lauren Conrad (from “The Hills”) and I won! I got home last night and saw that it had arrived.
Thanks Ameena! I can’t wait to read it.
After all the drama last night on LOST, I was feeling a little drained this morning and almost talked myself out of getting up to exercise. But dang it, that little voice in my head convinced me to just get up and do it and so I did. I did sneak back into bed for a little nap afterwards.
I went back to my tried and true breakfast sandwich after trying a couple other options this week. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Ran to Borders at lunch to get this month’s book club selection — we are reading Shutter Island, by Dennis LeHane. The movie comes out in a couple weeks so we’ll read and watch and compare. Once I got back I heated up a Lean Cuisine and dumped it in a bowl to make it look like an actual meal.
I snacked on some grapes and a grapefruit segment later on.
Then we had some work drama, which I can’t and won’t get into on here. But needless to say, the rest of the afternoon was shot and I snacked to make myself feel better.
Tonight the plans were to try out a recipe I’ve seen on the Weight Watchers boards for another guest post. Yes, I know the past few days have been full of me trying out things. I have 2 coming up and I finally was able to get the first one done and will be working on the second. I’ll be sure to let you know when they’re coming up so you can check them out! So this is my way of saying no dinner pic.
And that’s all for tonight!
