TV Dinners
I went on a quest to find some healthy food for lunch today. Healthy. Think not-Chinese-resturant, not slathered in grease, not tossed in salt, and not a bloody bagel. Being where I am (middle of bloody nowhere that is called Etobicoke), that is a very difficult thing to do. Here are the choices for food:
Lucky Restaurant - Westernized Chinese food. Greasy.
The Great Canadian Bagel - Dirty.
Tim Hortons - $6.99 for a sandwich? You kidding me?
Wendy’s - I don’t eat fast food.
Candiana Restaurant - If it wasn’t frequented by a bunch of scary looking people, I might go in there someday.
I decided to instead hit the frozen grocery store. M&M’s. I figured they might actually have something that won’t 1) shoot my cholesterol level right up 2) give me a sugar high 3) take up the rest of my daily sodium intake. The problem, however, is that a grocery store to a cook is akin to a candy store to a child. I ended up buying a box of steaks, a box of chicken breasts, a box of oktoberfest sausages, 4 scottish meatpies, and 4 boxes of tandoori chicken entrees.
The entress, however, were very yummy. So yummy they made me sad. Sheesh, if a machine can cook this well, and make my lunch in 5 minutes for $2.99, what’s the point of spending 2 hours whipping up a nice tandoori sauce? I couldn’t even tell that it was pre-frozen. It had no hint of "pre-frozen" whatsoever. Usually after a frozen entree, I think, I can probably do better than this in 5 minutes or less, but this time around I wanted another one.
This calls for a good tandoori recipe. I WILL make tandoori better than a machine, dammit.
