Divakar’s Tandoori Chicken

8 Chicken thighs (bone in) (skinless)
½ tsp salt
½ tsp ginger paste
½ tsp garlic paste
¼ bottle Spicy Tandoori Sauce (Available in Superstore – President’s Choice – Memories of Kashmir)
¼ cup yogurt
¼ tsp chili powder or ground black pepper

Marinate chicken with all the ingredients for at least three hours (preferably overnight).

Grease baking pan. Arrange the chicken pieces pour the sauce over the pieces. Bake at 350 deg for 20 minutes. Turn the pieces over, bake for 20 more minutes.

Thin Pizza Dough in the Bread Machine

1 package instant yeast
1 tbsp honey
1 c warm water
2 3/4 c flour
1/4 c olive oil
1 tsp salt

Mix in machine on dough setting.
Roll out. Makes 3 13-inch pizzas.
Add toppings and bake at 475 degrees.

Grandma Forstrom's Pastry

5 c flour
Sift into the flour: 1 tsp salt and 1 tsp baking powder
Cut in 1 lb lard

Take a 1-cup liquid measuing cup:
Lightly beat 1 egg in the cup
fill with water to 2/3 c
add vinegar to 3/4 c

Combine and roll out.
Makes about 5 single crusts.

Grandma’s filling for Butter Tarts

3 ¼ c brown sugar
½ c butter
1 tbsp flour
5 eggs
1 2/3 c raisins or currants or combination of fruit and nuts.

Mix sugar, butter, salt, flour and vanilla.
Add eggs (2 at a time) and milk, beating smooth after each addition.
Add fruit and nuts.
Bake at 400 for ten (plus) minutes
Makes 3 ½ dozen.


Deb's variation Butter Tart Filling
(not as runny, more like the ones at Tim’s on John St.)

2 eggs
2/3 c coconut
1 tbsp flour
¼ c butter
1 ½ c brown sugar
½ c currants
Makes about 2 dozen, depending on the size.