Lesson Learned
Generally speaking, it's okay to give your nine-month-old babies the food you are eating.
Generally speaking, it's okay to chop up a bunch of chili peppers and add some greater-than-called-for quantity to the mushroom curry you are making (for the first time).
However (generally speaking), it is not such a brilliant idea to combine those two practices.
Poor kiddies. After some tears (and nursing) they ended up having just beer bread and baked apples for dinner last night. Not that I think they minded much in the end...but it's a shame, since Rita at least seemed to be digging the saag aloo before she got a mouthful of the hot curry.