Hi Natty! How's it going? I hope you are keeping healthy and safe. How's your cooking coming along? Oh, don't be discouraged, my love. Everybody fails, what matters is that you practice, practice, practice. Eventually inshaAllah, you will be feeding your family, and the most annoying feeling in the world is having your family refuse to eat your cooking. Start with the things you like to eat, and perfect them. Please your stomach first, then please your taste buds. Just don't give up OK?
Everything is curry for me today. I bought a whole lot of curry yesterday to steam my fish head, then to slow cook a kilo of cheap cut beef. Which left me a lot of curry left over, so I had curry noodles for lunch. I also made lentil fritters which has curry spices in it (I'm becoming hooked on the stuff. It's best when hot, but it's still a great snack to nibble on 8 hours later while I'm doing wardrobe with Mary Unknown7), plus curry pups for dinner. I used steak instead of ground beef for the curry pups and boy, they are heavenly. Yeah I do get tired of curry, but not yet. Maybe tomorrow. It's not as if everything is seasoned up to 11 with curry, sometimes the effect is very mild.
My theory of curry is curry spices seasoning a fond (sauce) then expanded with a fatty milky broth. Some people argue that you need a different curry blend for fish over meat, but I don't see it that way. I just use my favorite curry powder for all my curry recipes. What makes the difference is the quality of fish or meat that you use. For example, the cheap beef I bought was buffalo meat from India. It produced a great steak, but the curry left over had a distinct aftertaste. It tasted like... India. I've never been to India, and I don't have the desire to go there either. All I need for my India fix is a good curry.
