Comments on: Tight Ass Tuesday: Shake What Your Pantry Gave You

By: diva

diva — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:39:58 +0000

i really want a good curry with rice. not the fried dry curry one would eat with naan bread. so this is really what i want and i can’t have it cos it’s on a laptop screen. could you throw in an iCurry as well pls for me? i’m too lazy to cook and i’ve got zero food in the fridge or pantry. sad times. x

By: Erica

Erica — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:20:49 +0000

Yum.
All my Thai curry recipes tell me to add palm sugar to the recipe to temper and balance the curry paste, but since I never have that, the kind author of my cook book (Sompon Nabnian, you’re a good man) tells me that I can add honey in exchange. Dark brown sugar sounds like an equally good substitute.

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:26:35 +0000

vera, great tip. i have the green, and it is damn tasty. i was actually going to use it for this, it’s such a good, easy meal with a can of coconut milk.

By: Vera

Vera — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:04:20 +0000

Tip. if you walk into an asian store, on the shelves with all the pastes and sauces, there is always a series of teeny cans, like the size of deviled ham cans, that are one meal’s worth (well, a family dinner of like 3-4 ppl, so you can split) of true curry paste: yellow, red, green, panang, massaman, etc. and those lil cans are generally .79 cents! i mean, GOOD curry! just add meat/veggies/coconut milk

look for it!

By: michelle

michelle — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:40:56 +0000

jkc, awesome. you can be the opening act for failed flaming coconut.

pam, i know, i actually love the peach tree, and the fruit is damn tasty if hard to eat. i’m just still really bitter about the whole missing-the-whole-harvest thing, especially because i’m sure it’s secretly my fault for be a poor peach tree monitor.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:36:07 +0000

Some people would be happy to have a peach tree, even a cling peach tree.

By: jkc

jkc — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:12:25 +0000

Despite the “tweeness,” the colors of the first picture made the scent of the dish come pouring out of my monitor….I’m drooling. Also, “Passive-Agressive Peaches” will be the new name of my underground rockabilly-punk band.

By: michelle

michelle — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:01:00 +0000

dabree, my condolences for your gastro-intestinal difficulties.

tina, oh, i’ve seen it. that’s why it’s so upsetting. i’m still not sure what possessed me.

By: Tina

Tina — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:40:19 +0000

The recipe sopunds great, but admittedly, the top photograph does look a bit like something out of one of the little cookbooks I inherited from my mother. They were published in the 50′s as part of a grocery store promotion and have color photos of the most bizarre foods. If anyone is interested, there’s a website that actually features these types of pictures, called the Gallery of Regrettable Foods. The link is http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/index.html. Once you’ve seen it, you’ll understand.

By: Dabree

Dabree — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:09:37 +0000

Too bad my neighbor who cooked me her version of indian food the other night didn’t subscribe to your 1 tbsp. olive oil regiment. I had the shits at 4:30 am.( 7:30 am, 8:30, 9:30, 11:30…) If Mc Donalds doesn’t do it, a cup of olive oil sure fuckin will!!

Looks good. If something doesn’t coagulate, cream it.