curried carrots

The weekly menu planning is such a great success! We were making our list tonight and looking over all of April and were pleased to discover that each week was more enjoyable than the previous. Now we plan a "special" friday night dinner. Last week was spaghetti and meatballs. We were bursting! Brandon seems to be in charge of the ideas for the exciting meals. This week he has taken on a very ambitious menu. Pierogies (homemade) and some manner of cabbage dish. Another reason to anxiously await fridays.

I had another run in with a not quite right Martha Stewart recipe. The Curry Chicken with Carrots and Lime Rice from the most recent Good Cooking magazine. I used half the chicken and carrots but the full tablespoon of curry powder and it was still sort of bland. The pictures in her recipes always get me but then the flavor falls short. Of course, we are having it again this week because the carrots were awesome. Roasted in chicken fat with curry and then doused with lime juice right out of the oven. I am just going to amp up the chicken somehow. Probably just with some salt or a long roasting.