How about cooking something that smells so good, even the next morning, you’ll want to stand in front of your refrigerator in your pajamas eating leftovers straight from the pot?

Food Ideas

• Love to Cook: Curry (beef, chicken or sweet potato) with basmati rice
• Weeknight Reality: Same as above, just use a recipe with shorter cooking time
• Need a Miracle: Quick Pho Ga, using prepared chicken stock, rotisserie chicken and rice noodles (with cilantro, lemons, sprouts, onions, peppers, etc.)

Recipe Links

• Fragrant South Indian Beef Curry – Food & Wine (time: 2-2 1/2 hours)
• Fragrant Beef Curry with Rice – bon appetit via Epicurious (time: about 2 hours)
• Sweet Potato Curry – bon appetit via Epicurious (time: about an hour)
• Fragrant Coconut Lime & Ginger Fish Bake – food.com (time: about 30 minutes)
• Quick Chicken Curry – Real Simple (time: about 30 minutes)
• Quick Massaman Beef Curry – BeefandLamb.com.au (time: about 30 minutes)
• Fragrant Basmati Rice – Food & Wine (time: about 40 minutes)
• Quick Pho Ga – Steamy Kitchen via Love & Olive Oil

Parting Thought

When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered…the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls…bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory.

Marcel Proust (via goodreads)