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exhilaration) wrote2012-06-02 04:52 pm
exhilaration) wrote2012-06-02 04:52 pm
I Had Fresh Cilantro And Tomatoes And Didn't Make Salsa
For the record, I generally don't make salsa anyway, due to disliking the tediousness of so much chopping and not being much of a fan of raw onions. But cilantro kinda screams "salsa!" at me, so.
I had fresh cilantro because mine bolted - do you know what bolted means? I didn't, I had to look it up. Try googling "what is growing on top of my cilantro?" :) There is a small bed next to my back porch and we planted some food things in it - some cherry tomatoes and some herbs and stuff, and some stray flower bulbs that came in a pack and didn't fit in the garden in the front. One thing was cilantro, which grew really tall really quickly and then suddenly made flowers! Google says that means it's time to eat it! So today I made red-and-green curry with it.
The basic curry recipe I adhere to is a thai green curry (Bevan also makes curry frequently but his is something ENTIRELY different) with green curry paste, coconut milk, fish sauce, lime juice, thai basil, a hot pepper, and a vegetable and a protein. I love to swap any and all of these ingredients out for other more convenient things to the point where it might be more accurately called "food made with curry paste" than actual thai green curry. This time I used lemon instead of lime juice (cause I had no limes) and fresh cilantro instead of basil (so already I've entirely changed the taste) and crushed red pepper flakes instead of a fresh hot pepper (cause I don't have any) and my vegetables were vine tomatoes and arugula. My protein was soybean and seaweed salad with sesame seeds. It turned red because of the tomatoes, but it's not actual red curry so, it's red-and-green curry and VERY tasty!
I had fresh cilantro because mine bolted - do you know what bolted means? I didn't, I had to look it up. Try googling "what is growing on top of my cilantro?" :) There is a small bed next to my back porch and we planted some food things in it - some cherry tomatoes and some herbs and stuff, and some stray flower bulbs that came in a pack and didn't fit in the garden in the front. One thing was cilantro, which grew really tall really quickly and then suddenly made flowers! Google says that means it's time to eat it! So today I made red-and-green curry with it.
The basic curry recipe I adhere to is a thai green curry (Bevan also makes curry frequently but his is something ENTIRELY different) with green curry paste, coconut milk, fish sauce, lime juice, thai basil, a hot pepper, and a vegetable and a protein. I love to swap any and all of these ingredients out for other more convenient things to the point where it might be more accurately called "food made with curry paste" than actual thai green curry. This time I used lemon instead of lime juice (cause I had no limes) and fresh cilantro instead of basil (so already I've entirely changed the taste) and crushed red pepper flakes instead of a fresh hot pepper (cause I don't have any) and my vegetables were vine tomatoes and arugula. My protein was soybean and seaweed salad with sesame seeds. It turned red because of the tomatoes, but it's not actual red curry so, it's red-and-green curry and VERY tasty!
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So does Bevan make Indian curry. That stuff is THE BEST :)
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Same here! I had a picture of cilantro running away from you in my head!
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good posts
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He makes Chinese curry - chicken, carrots, onions, potatoes, ginger, and jalopenos in a pot with a curry brick... I have a feeling the "real" recipe might call for chiles and I complain that it's too spicy and don't eat it, so a substitution has been made...
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When I lived by myself I never cooked anything other than scrambled eggs or grilled cheese or something unless I had company. Cooking delicious stuff isn't much fun if you can't share it/show it off, IMO. But... if you are still trying to cut out any and all sweetener, maybe that's a motivation right there to cook things, cause most pre-prepared stuff (unless it's organic and therefor EXTREMELY expensive) has some type of sweetener in it.
I had a hard time finding the curry paste. The international aisle in ANY of the supermarkets didn't carry it. I found it pretty easily at an asian supermarket, but where I live now I can't get there by bus - I eventually found it in another international/asian supermarket but it took a looooooooonnnnnnggg time to find because the store, while some of the signs were sort of in English, they weren't the right signs (the "sauce" aisle was full of candy and bottled drinks, etc)
Sorry, lol. This comment is way too long.
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