Curried Chicken and Apple Pita

We had this chicken and apple pita for lunch, and it was a good lunch, but we found the recipe had to many apples in it for our taste.  The original recipe says to chop the apples, and then later it says use the apples grated.  I wish I had grated the apples instead of chopping them, and only used one apple instead of two.  Aaron gave this a 5, and the rest of us gave it a 7.  The calories for 1 pita were 258, and the recipe made six pitas for us.  For the original recipe, follow the link above, but here is the way I made the recipe:

1 T olive oil
5 chicken tenders (seasoned)
1/2 onion chopped
2 t coriander
2 whole granny smith apples chopped
1 t curry powder
1 t garam masala
1/2 c ricotta
1 T milk
1 T sour cream
salt and pepper
6 pitas

Heat olive oil in a pan, then add the seasoned chicken tenders.  Cook until done, then add in onion and cook until softened.  Remove to cool.  Mix all the ingredients together except for pitas.  Serve with warmed pitas immediately, or cool for a little while in the fridge.

Like I said, this would've been better with less apples and with the apples grated, but still it was really good.

Gyros?

We had something today that could maybe be called gyros, but I don't really think they are.  Anyway, I don't know what to call it, but whatever it was, it was good.  We used the pitas we had a few weeks ago, they were excellent even after being frozen.  I am never buying pitas again, these were just soooo much better.  Anyway, I just used 1 lb of ground lamb with 1 T of Cavender's Greek Seasoning.  This came together in 10 minutes, with just warming up the pitas on the griddle, cooking the meat, and cutting up the lettuce and tomato.  I didn't even have cucumbers to make tzatziki sauce, so we just used some ranch or caesar dressing to moisten up the pitas a little, and some feta cheese.  The calories for this were 350 with all the ingredients, so fast, and relatively healthy.  We all gave this an 8.  And see the watermelon on the dish there?  That is a delicious desert king watermelon out of our garden.  Yummy!
Tomorrow we're having a pasta dish.

Chicken Shawarma

Yummy Chicken Shawarma!  We had this easy recipe today, and all of us except my dad really enjoyed it.  My mom, Aaron, Noah and I gave it a 9, Owen gave it an 8, and my dad gave it a 5.  It was too spicy for him, and he didn't love the sauce.  However, he did love my homemade pitas, which were also my favorite part of the meal.  I found the recipe on foodnetwork.com, they are fresh pita bread from Julia Child, and they were amazing.   These had great flavor, were soft and waarm and so great tasting.  We all really liked these, they all got 9.  Even if you don't want to brave the shawarma, which is definitely worth a try, the pitas are easy and so great.  The calories for the pitas are 153/pita, and the shawarma meal with all the toppings but without the pita calories are 215 for 1/8 of the meal.  We got 8 servings out of the meal instead of 4.
Tomorrow we're having a shrimp recipe.