The weekend is here, which means I have a bit more time to play around in the kitchen. My job (Conversational English Teacher) allows me to do a lot of my work from home meaning that I can do quite a bit of cooking. Unfortunately, I often have lessons to teach just before dinner time and often just after the dinner hour as well. So, sometimes I don't get to do as much cooking as I'd like to do.I was flipping through old cooking magazines last night and came across a couple of recipes I'd like to re-visit. Today's dinner was one of those dinners.Tandoori cooking at home can be a bit difficult for me, here in Japan because it's hard to come by various spices. Last year, tandoori paste in jars appeared in stores and I was overjoyed. Typically, the joy was short-lived because the tandoori paste disappeared and will probably never appear again. Luckily I have my own secret stash of tandoori seasoning brought back from a previous trip to Canada.Rather that use bigger pieces of chicken, the recipe I followed uses ground chicken to make chicken burgers. These can be cooked up fast for a quick weekday dinner.I added a little of this and that to the chicken tandoori mixture, including a block of tofu for moistness (ground chicken can be dry when BBQ'd). Also, seeing that I'd BBQ the chicken burgers, I decided to make some naan to cook on the BBQ as well.A quick sauce made with yogurt, mint and cilantro, and some quick pickled cucumber slices added nice finishing touches to the chicken burgers.Muffin, my daughter and I sampled the odd little bits of chicken that stuck to the BBQ grates, or that stuck out from the burgers and we concluded that they tasted pretty good.Completed, with all the extras (sauce and pickles), these were incredible little burgers. The pickles were sour/salty, with bits of mint and cilantro flavouring, the sauce made with the same herbs was cool and herbal, the meat was smoky, with tandoori spices adding flavour and a touch of heat, and finally the naan which was pillowy soft and buttery but also a touch smoky from being on the BBQ.Dinner was good! I hope yours will be as well. Happy cooking.