2 posts tagged “indian food”

I'm quite pleased at the moment as I've pretty much finalized the new layout for the redesign that I'm doing of my friends website (Wassyart.com, might as well drop another link plug in). Now I need to rip it out of Photoshop and actually make it into a website, A process which I will be starting in a few minutes here on my lunch.

Pretty happy with how it turned out. I'm undecided if I want to post a little preview image up here or hold it until the redesign goes live. But the process was really rewarding. Well, it was also really frustrating too at times when things weren't working right. But as soon as everything clicked, and elements started falling into place it was extremely satisfying watching it all come together. More satisfying than progress on some of my other side projects anyway. I do think I'll keep doing this stuff as a hobby, at the very least. I'm excited about perusing it more.

Also last night, for dinner my friends and I went a little Indian. Our favorite keeper of the recipes, Pioneer Woman posted one for Chicken Tikka Masala. Considering this is one of our most favorite Indian food items, we decided to give it a shot. I took care of the cooking which went without incident except that I burned myself on the oven door pretty good. Owwww.

The end result was very awesome. I made it just a smidge too spicy so that next time I do it, I'll have to pull back a little bit on the heat, but we're definitely going to keep that dish in the rotation. It's fairly cheap too, now that we have all the spices and such for it. Tasty win.

Last night I went over to my friends apartment for some mid week hanging out. And massive hanging out it was...we didn't really have anything planned except to grab dinner at an authentic indian restaurant in the area and hang out after doing...whatever.

The Indian food was good. My friends got me to try it a few weeks ago, and I ended up liking it well enough to return there. It's set up as an all you can eat buffet type deal so you can try a little bit of everything to find something you  might like. They also have great service, making sure your water is refilled and pointing out foods you might enjoy and serving things right to the table...inclding Naan...mmm...Naan... I think we scared one of the waiters when he brought over a basket of Naan, asked if we would like some and Wassy said "YES!" I think he was just going to give us each a piece but he decided to just drop the whole basket off and practically ran away..scared for his life.

Another interesting note is as we were finishing up, I had a tap on my shoulder. I turned around and one of my bosses was standing there (he is of Indian descent, so I suppose I should have expected he would eat there) wondering what I was doing. Aparantly, I didn't strike him as somebody who would experiment with indian food. It seems he was wrong.

After that we went back to my friends apartment and hung out. Massive hanging out. Wassy and I were playing Star Ocean Second Evolution for the PSP and watching TV while Jay was doing laundry...just sort of a normal hanging out sort of situation. At one point there was a trip to the grocery store...

Just some nice relaxation in the middle of the week..which as always, feels like it's very, very long...