sarea | Cheesecake and Indian food ahoy!

T-23 minutes until I head over to my cousin's. I decided to make 3 dishes and naan as well. The dishes: murgh makhani (butter chicken), aloo gobi (potato and cauliflower), and palak paneer (spinach and Indian cheese), except without the paneer. >.> LOL. I decided to do it at the last minute and didn't feel like making the cheese (and don't have an Indian grocery store near enough to make buying store-bought paneer worth it), which I'm not a big fan of anyway. Aloo gobi is a dry dish, and I felt bad that my cousin and I would have the butter chicken curry as a sauce for the naan, while her husband wouldn't have anything sauce-like. Hence just the palak.

I made the cheesecake last night. While it doesn't look as aesthetically perfect as I might want, it looks pretty darn good. I was fearing that it might not set right, as I only used 1 cup of sugar rather than 1 1/2 as the recipe calls for. I just removed it from the springform pan, and tasted a couple of crumbs that fell off ... man, the crust is darn tasty. I just hope the cheesecake part is good too. I also made a strawberry sauce to go with it. More pictures of the full meal later, once we have it, but here's a shot of the cheesecake

Now I just hope that the naan dough will rise properly, it's the biggest question mark of the meal right now because it has to half rise here, rise some more in the car, and then finish rising at my cousin's. I hope the cooler environment won't stall it. Plus I'm using a new container of yeast, and it's always iffy (to me) whether or not it'll work.