Second Stop- India

We landed on India next and decided to make Tandoori Chicken, Naan and Dal served with Ice Tea with Mint. I've never had Indian food before and was hesitant about these dishes, but they were so good!

The Tandoori Chicken recipe was a combination of several that we found on the Internet. We bought 3 skinned chicken breasts and marinated them in Greek yogurt, garam masala, cilantro, lemon juice, salt, cayenne pepper, garlic and onion. After broiling them in the oven for 15 minutes, they were cooked through but not dry.

We let the Naan rise for over 6 hours just because it fit our schedule. Luckily, it tasted great and we have another new favorite food.

The Dal recipe was too time-consuming for a weeknight for us. So we bought Black Gram Lentils Curry- Dal Bukhara from Kitchens of India. It was very good and we plan to make it from scratch on our second visit to India (preferably on a weekend).

We do have some left overs, so come on over!

First Stop- Chile

We closed our eyes and pointed at a map. The first place we landed on was Chile. After twenty minutes online, we found two appetizing dishes. The first was a shrimp recipe called Gambas Pil Pil. After crushing 10 cloves of garlic and letting them sautee in a pan with oil, we added 1 1/2 pounds of shrimp, with some sliced jalepeno pepper, a dash of cayenne pepper and three tablespoons of brandy.

The second dish was called Chapalelas. It's basically the Chilean version of the potato pancake. First, we made four cups of mashed potato. Then we added 1 cup of flour, 1 egg, 1 tablespoon butter, and two pieces of bacon that we crushed up. The original recipe called for pork rinds, but we swapped that out with bacon.