Slacker and my punishment is bad food!

It has been a while since I've written anything here. My focus has been towards other various writing endeavors. Plus I haven't cooked or gone anywhere of worth recently that I can think of... no new recipes... though this morning I realized that I love and loath home cooking...

The best part of cooking at home is that your well cooking at home... I guess. There are a number of reasons as to why you enjoy it, costs, watching the ingredients, you just like to cook or whatever. For me it's the satisfaction of creating something, however there is usually something missing vs say going out to eat, namely the full range of options.  Sure I can make a dish or two of Indian food though I don't always have the other items. Usually it's Naan and rice, but it's not like these are difficult items to procure. Trader Joes offers 2 frozen varieties of Naan, plain & garlic. Though in my pursuit of all things authentic I've traveled to Little Indian on occasion and found that you can get the same items here, plus more! What if you wanted a paratha or a kulcha or a roti? If you happen to know of a near by Indian market you can find these items, which by the way are a bread item in case you didn't know. For me it is single handedly the most dangerous cuisine in the world! Here you have a delicious Lamb Vindaloo what do you do with all of this leftover sauce sitting here... that's where these flatbread items come into play. Paratha's... yummy flakey croissant like flat bread. Naan, nothing compares to fresh warm piece of garlic naan. Roti, butter whole wheeat goodness. Kulcha, stuffed with paneer (cheese), how could you go wrong!

See this is where I get myself into trouble.. now I'm hungry!

But this is the problem, I can make a handful of Indian dishes at home have some mediocre rice and a decent piece of bread but it never compares to the restaurant quality.

Speaking of WHICH!!! There is one new found item of interest from last week!

I stumbled upon a Indian/Sri Lankan place in Anaheim, I grabbed a to go menu and have yet to fully peruse the items... I may try and get the wifey to go next week?!?!?

So.. I did have a major soup fail this past weekend... I attempted a asian noodle soup.. MAJOR FAIL!!

Mami style (Philipine/Chow Mein) do not go well as a soup.. or the stock I had sucked!!

All the flavors where there.. but they just were not cohesive... it really sucked!! Oh well the dogs like it!

So on top of that fail... today I was cursed with crappy instant American microwave cheesey noodle bowl! Betty Crocker Bowl Appetit Rotini cheese noodle crap!

Really I've been off of this processed crap for so long that I now understand that it really is just crap!!!