It's been at least a week since I hit a dinner "home run". I say that because while my children might count grocery store pasta with Rao's sauce and baby carrots as a great meal, to me it was merely sustenance on a busy night. A and I are coming up on our 14th wedding anniversary. Through 14 years , 2 children, 2 houses, 2 states, 3 goldfish and 1 dog, we've held onto almost all of our wedding gifts. Some I use daily, like my silverware, and my knives. Some hold sentimental meaning, like the chafing dish from my late godmother. Others are comic relief, both used and unused (I'm thinking of you leopard print bowl and crab-shaped platter.) Like many couples, A and I were blessed with a waffle maker as one of our wedding gifts. Once upon a time, I routinely used it, cranking out Belgian beauties on weekend mornings. Then it went to the basement. And it had been there, likely more than a year.
I've been following the waffleizer on twitter. Bread pudding was interesting, s'mores, tempting. But when he made Indian bread in the waffle maker, I was sold. So I made alloo parantha for dinner, and I topped it with the cilantro chutney. In the middle, I added some Indian spiced lentils. I heated some peanut oil, added a bit of garam masala, and simmered the lentils until they were tender. Before serving, I mixed in some more of the onion mixture from the bread filling ( I tripled that recipe), and some spinach sauteed in ginger infused canola oil.
