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which_chickI didn't do a whole lot today. I dropped the truck off at the shop (has weird 4wd light issue) and I fixed Susie's attic doorknob and door dragging on the carpet issues. I threw more fuel in at 633 b/c it is really quite cold out. I groceried and post officed and then I came home to do nothing all day. Yay!
I wound up going, with cousin Heather, to a covered dish/benefit auction for the son of someone I kind of know. Son was run over by a tractor trailer and survived but has significant bills for medical care, etc. After that, I came home and made curry that had better mediate its heat overnight in the fridge or I'm going to have to break down and make rice to eat with it. (Usually I eat my curries without a starch product to go with them.) Fuck, but it's hot. Seriously, it is hot.
P. 220 in the book.
Spicy Pork with cider vinegar and fried potatoes. (I fried the potatoes but they looked so good that I ate them while I was fixing the rest of the dish and so what I have is actually Spicy Pork with cider vinegar and no fried potatoes. I am omitting the potato part here. If you want to do the potato part, take 1 lb potatoes, slice them thin, fry them in 2 T fat until brown, flip, fry other side until brown. Set browned fried potatoes aside and DO NOT EAT THEM until after the meat is tender, then stir them in gently and cook the lot until the tatie slices are all the way done.)
2 t coriander seeds (I used ground as did not have seeds)
1 t cumin seeds
1/2 t each brown mustard and yellow mustard seeds (you're supposed to pick a color. I like mustard seeds.)
1/2 t black peppercorns
6 whole cloves
3 dried red chiles
1 cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
^^ Put these items in a frying pan on medium high. Heat it, shaking the pan so that nothing scorches, until the mustard seeds start to pop and crackle, things smell good. Maybe a minute or two?
Then put spices in a blender with
1 small onion, coarsely chopped
1/2 c cider vinegar
8 cloves garlic
and blend until blent smooth.
Heat 2 T oil of choice (lard) in large frying pan. Put in
1 small onion, thinly sliced
2 or 3 green hot peppers, sliced into rounds
fry that until onions are getting brown.
Add cubed pork loin, 1 1/4 lbs (I didn't measure this. It was a wodge, a nice sized piece.)
Cook pork loin until browned on all sides. (I get impatient with my browning. I am a bad user.)
Pour in pureed sauce from blender and then put some water in blender, swish it around, and dump that also in the frying pan. Scrape around to deglaze. Stir in
1 1/2 t salt
1/2 t turmeric
Cook on low simmer until pork is tender and done.
Garnish with 2 T chopped cilantro.
Musical selection is Bestrafe Mich, which apparently is one of those questionable song topics that I'm starting to expect from these people. It's just so... catchy, though. Look for an upcoming post along the lines of "Rammstein doesn't suck and here's why it has market appeal for people who don't speak a lick of German." I'm still not sure if I want to be sarcastic about that or not, but it's definitely percolating as a topic for discussion.
Anyway, Bestrafe Mich means "punish me" and it's allegedly a song about religion, so long as your religion involves kinky shit like, y'know, whipping yourself when you've been bad. Probably this only applies to religions with flagellants so most likely you've nothing to worry about because that stuff isn't trendy anymore anyway. (The wikipedia entry on flagellants is totally interesting, btw. Lots of good info there. For example, I had no idea that the popes raised cows.)
I wound up going, with cousin Heather, to a covered dish/benefit auction for the son of someone I kind of know. Son was run over by a tractor trailer and survived but has significant bills for medical care, etc. After that, I came home and made curry that had better mediate its heat overnight in the fridge or I'm going to have to break down and make rice to eat with it. (Usually I eat my curries without a starch product to go with them.) Fuck, but it's hot. Seriously, it is hot.
P. 220 in the book.
Spicy Pork with cider vinegar and fried potatoes. (I fried the potatoes but they looked so good that I ate them while I was fixing the rest of the dish and so what I have is actually Spicy Pork with cider vinegar and no fried potatoes. I am omitting the potato part here. If you want to do the potato part, take 1 lb potatoes, slice them thin, fry them in 2 T fat until brown, flip, fry other side until brown. Set browned fried potatoes aside and DO NOT EAT THEM until after the meat is tender, then stir them in gently and cook the lot until the tatie slices are all the way done.)
2 t coriander seeds (I used ground as did not have seeds)
1 t cumin seeds
1/2 t each brown mustard and yellow mustard seeds (you're supposed to pick a color. I like mustard seeds.)
1/2 t black peppercorns
6 whole cloves
3 dried red chiles
1 cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
^^ Put these items in a frying pan on medium high. Heat it, shaking the pan so that nothing scorches, until the mustard seeds start to pop and crackle, things smell good. Maybe a minute or two?
Then put spices in a blender with
1 small onion, coarsely chopped
1/2 c cider vinegar
8 cloves garlic
and blend until blent smooth.
Heat 2 T oil of choice (lard) in large frying pan. Put in
1 small onion, thinly sliced
2 or 3 green hot peppers, sliced into rounds
fry that until onions are getting brown.
Add cubed pork loin, 1 1/4 lbs (I didn't measure this. It was a wodge, a nice sized piece.)
Cook pork loin until browned on all sides. (I get impatient with my browning. I am a bad user.)
Pour in pureed sauce from blender and then put some water in blender, swish it around, and dump that also in the frying pan. Scrape around to deglaze. Stir in
1 1/2 t salt
1/2 t turmeric
Cook on low simmer until pork is tender and done.
Garnish with 2 T chopped cilantro.
Musical selection is Bestrafe Mich, which apparently is one of those questionable song topics that I'm starting to expect from these people. It's just so... catchy, though. Look for an upcoming post along the lines of "Rammstein doesn't suck and here's why it has market appeal for people who don't speak a lick of German." I'm still not sure if I want to be sarcastic about that or not, but it's definitely percolating as a topic for discussion.
Anyway, Bestrafe Mich means "punish me" and it's allegedly a song about religion, so long as your religion involves kinky shit like, y'know, whipping yourself when you've been bad. Probably this only applies to religions with flagellants so most likely you've nothing to worry about because that stuff isn't trendy anymore anyway. (The wikipedia entry on flagellants is totally interesting, btw. Lots of good info there. For example, I had no idea that the popes raised cows.)
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Date: 2008-12-07 10:49 am (UTC)Hope it mellowed out for you.
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Date: 2008-12-07 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-07 01:07 pm (UTC)Wishing you moderateness.
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Date: 2008-12-07 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-07 09:25 pm (UTC)Also, I thought of you the other day. The local paper's "Taste" section listed this cookbook on their 2008 top ten. Now, of course, I can't find the article (the strib's website is hilariously bad), but it's pretty impressive, all in all. I think I read that there are a thousand cookbooks a year, so to be chosen as one of those ten is really something.
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Date: 2008-12-07 10:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-09 12:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-12-10 04:37 am (UTC)