Rut-Ro...

I am constantly trying to improve my cooking repertoire, but it is very easy for me to fall into the chicken and rice rut. I usually make stir-fry with my own homemade teriyaki sauce, and steamed white rice. My husband thinks I am the best chef in the world... and that is why i love him. He could eat chicken and rice every single night and never grow tired of it. But lately I have been craving a little more diversity in my diet, and I like to try new things for the fun of it. I like cooking, and hope to become better, and they say practice makes perfect... So I collected a few recipes, and I am gonna start trying them out, starting tonight! Tonight I am making Tandoori Chicken. I know, sounds like chicken and rice again, but baby steps! At least it is an interesting way to cook the chicken. I have the chicken marinating right now in a mixture of yogurt, curry spice, paprika, ginger and garlic. Then I am going to bake it in the oven and serve it with basmati rice and steamed broccoli. Sounds yum, right?! I'll update later tonight to tell you if it works, and share the recipe if it's good!

This is sort of a strange thing to share on my blog, (especially considering some of my friends who read this blog will know exactly who/what I am talking about) but I had my feelings hurt a little bit today. An old friend, a friend who due to a loooong story, is no longer really a close friend, did something that made me very sad. And I have to quietly wonder to myself, why? The sad part is that I will never know why things are the way they are between us. I know this is so ambiguous, to the point where one would wonder why I even shared it, but I needed to get it off my chest. I guess what I really need to do is let it go, and move on from it. It's just hard sometimes to lose a friendship that you once really valued. That's all.