Rachael Ray ain't got nothing on me!

Our dinners around here are usually a simple affair. Hamburgers, tacos, spaghetti, chicken - you get the picture. After deciding that I needed to plan our meals out better to avoid so much eating out, I started looking for some new recipes to try. I found a recipe for Cashew Chicken Curry that looked pretty good to me. However it contained no less than 16 different ingredients and called for stuff that I normally don't cook with such as coconut milk, plain yogurt, and this.

I have never cooked with fresh ginger in my life, but let me say that it smells wonderful when minced up! So I started cutting, dicing, and chopping. Soon after the curry powder hit the pan the kids come through the kitchen holding their noses saying, "What's that SMELL?" Not looking good for the home team at this point!

After I got to this point I was thinking "Good grief! I could feed the entire cul-de-sac with this huge pan of stuff. I think it was growing!

Look at all those veggies! I figured that the kids wouldn't touch it and I would be eating curry for days.

Mercifully it started to cook down at this point and started to resemble a vegetable stew. Still not looking good as a hit with the kiddos.

After 45 minutes of cooking and some coconut milk, yogurt, and cashews it was looking yummy to me

Served up hot on some rice! I thought it tasted wonderful! Just enough curry, full of veggies and flavor. Tasty and healthy! Now the real test.....

Aaron took one cautious bite and then declared that it was pretty good. "Hey healthy food can taste good" was his reply. Who knew! The 3-year old...not so much. Oh well, you can't win them all. She was content to eat some of the yogurt that was left.

Hey Food Network - Eat your heart out!