butter chicken
I remember vividly when and how I fell in love with Butter Chicken. The month was May, the year 2011 the place a small, ramshackle restaurant in New Delhi, India. I had been in Delhi studying since early March of that year and had months to go before heading back home to Cape Town to finish off my degree. Most of the food I had been exposed to in the city until then had not been to my liking, mainly because I did not at the time have much of a palette for hot and spicy food. One day when my friend and I went out as we often did to get out of the campus, I decided to try out Butter Chicken, which I was assured was the dish with the least heat on the menu. I was immediately hooked. For me it was the creamy texture and how the spices were tempered with yoghurt and tomatoes that made this meal a winner. Fast-forward to 2021, I’ve been enjoying this meal for a decade. The recipe below is my take on this delicious meal and I hope you can use it to switch up your chicken meals once in a while.
Scones, Scones, Scones
This is my recipe for yumminess produced in under an hour. These scones are perfect for a weekend or weekday morning. All you need to do is set your alarm an hour early to make sure that you stay in your family’s good books for an entire week! My scones are light, fluffy and golden. The sugar content ensures that they are sweet enough to enjoy on their own and not too sweet that you can’t add jam and cream. I really like adding ½ a teaspoon of cinnamon for that added bit flavour. You can also add a teaspoon of nutmeg for that additional flavour pop. Go on, give this recipe a try and let me know how popular you become in your home.
ABOUT
BECAUSE I LIKE NICE THINGS
One day a friend of mine sent me a message encouraging (almost directing me!) to do something about my love for cooking, addiction to travel and penchant for the nice things in life. He called it his gift to me. I might have preferred a gift that I could touch and feel had I not been alive to the potential happiness that I could bring to others by sharing my life, experiences and stories.
My friend’s message jolted me into finally bringing to life something I’d been thinking about for some time, something that had been suggested to me by many others before him including my sister and hubby.
This is a story about my world and everything that makes it go ‘round. I’m passionate about life and living it to the fullest. Whether its travelling and meeting people, developing recipes and hosting dinner parties or finding pieces of furniture that turn a house into a home, I want it all! And most importantly, I want to share it with you.
Because I like nice things is about exploring what the world has to offer us and finding what we ourselves can pay forward to others. It’s about the many different ways I experience life and how I show up
in the spaces I move in.
I hope through our interaction I can inspire you, bring you joy and encourage you to step outside of your comfort zone into the unknown. You can expect to find a lots of different gems on this blog. It’s eclectic, maybe a bit chaotic, but certainly inspiring and thought-provoking. It’s real and true to who I am and who many of us are - lovers of life, imperfect, flawed, messy, beautiful and persevering.
What I really want you to do is to pick the parts of this blog that make sense to your existence. I invite you to replicate what you see, adapt, or to merely use me as inspiration on your journey of life. Most importantly, I want you to remember to live your truth as I do mine, do what you love and share it with the world because we’re all in dire need of joy, positivity and maybe a few giggles.