{tried & true recipe} spicy thai chicken curry.

Since we've moved to Downey, we have been eating a lot of pizza and curry. I think I've made one or the other at least once a week. Trader Joes pizza dough is seriously our best friend these days. :) We've been making 1-2 pizzas a week!  Today I made both - pizza for dinner and curry for tomorrow's lunch!

We decided to make BBQ chicken pizza today since cilantro/corn/tomatoes were on sale and my BBQ sauce was only 68-cents (holla!) I made two smaller pizzas hoping that we'd just eat one for dinner and freeze the other for a rainy day - but we ended up eating both... Woops! It was just too good. :)

This pizza had chicken marinated with lime/salt/bbq sauce, bbq sauce for the base, mozzarella cheese, red onions, corn, tomatoes. We garnished it with fresh cilantro and lime juice.

For dinner I tried a super easy thai chicken curry recipe. Trader Joe's has really good canned/bottled curry. It's not as fancy and exotic as making your own - but it tastes good and it makes life/cooking easy so that's good enough for us!

First you boil your potatoes and carrots until soft. Drain the water. 

Add chicken, diced tomatoes and green bell peppers. Saute together with some EVOO.

Pour in Thai Green Curry sauce.  It's spicy!

Add half a can of light coconut milk (This is crucial, in my opinion!)

It  will also help lighten up the sauce so it's not too overwhelmingly spicy.

 Let it come to a light boil, then lower your heat and keep it at a simmer until the sauce thickens. 

Break up your potatoes! It helps thicken the sauce and makes the potatoes more bite-sized. :) 

I always add the other half of the coconut milk to my rice. 

Basically wash your rice as you would usually (Long grain rice is best - our favorite is basmati rice!)  

Cook your rice with half-half ratio of coconut milk (the remaining portion in the can) + water.
You can always add more water if you need to!

We actually ended up adding the leftover corn from dinner and garnished it with cilantro. Yum!

(This was a very small sample plate for Eugene - not a second dinner. Don't judge us!)

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Give Thanks -  a day full of learning from doctors and nurses, our extremely fun sub-neuro class (!!!!), pink at starbucks, iced black tea, the smell of lime, driving by PCH on my way home (Thanks for the rec, Lucy Loo!)