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Chicken Curry Bought a little too much of fresh food this morning. I have beef, chicken and vegetables. And yes besides the seasoned mackerel steaks and the petai or stink beans that I had bought yesterday! Final decision to cook chicken curry was my last minute choice. Without coconut cream and lemon grass (serai), I went ahead to prepare for it while waiting for ER to pick up both items from the supermarket since he was already on the way home from work :) Yes, he had to buy each item from two different places when lemon grass was not available from NTUC Fairprice supermarket. Shown here is my improvised curry. To get a much more pungent aroma and stronger spicy taste extra whole spices were added. I love this and my family always says it is inclined to Indian flavours. Today I used some dried chillies and only two small chilli padi were added to the "ground ingredients" as my family prefers a mildly hot curry. Turmeric is another lovely spice I use often in cooking. It is a member of the ginger family and a significant ingredient in most commercially produced curry powders. Known as “kunyit” in Malay and “huang jiang” [??] in Mandarin, the fresh root is an important spice in all my curries. Beside the wonderful yellow-orange colour, the addition of fresh root gives that extra aromatic and spicy fragrance to my dishes. Recalling, the basic curry that my sisters and I used to cook was always a buffet item when my maternal home was entertaining guests. And when my children were kids, I trained them to eat curries that I cooked with just curry powder without the extra addition of chillies. Texas Gulf Coast
I took off a few days this week and my wife and I joined my friend Dave at a beach house in San Luis Pass on the Texas Gulf Coast. San Luis Pass is the southern-most section of Galveston Island. My buddy Dave and I had a great time fishing in the surf for spanish mackerel and speckled sea trout while my wife took it easy on the beach laying in the sun and catching up on her reading. We also did quite a bit of cooking smoking a pork shoulder, grilling some steaks and having a shrimp boil last night to top things off. All in all, a great time on the Texas Gulf Coast. See also: recipes for cooking pasta cooking history film cooking schools in dallas tx cooking bream cooking barley cooking with oils egg cooking times cooking fish in the oven cooking classes cincinnati oh zombie burger cooking game |