[Sca-cooks] red curry paste v green and army food

[vicki shaw]

Reminds of the time my x and I cooked a feast for an open house during which
a hundred people passed through!  He made satay and the sauce took us hours
to prepare cause he had to saute several pound of peanuts and then we
crushed them, then shallots, then garlic, then ginger.  We spent the night
pounding.  And then we had to throw it all away because he didn't like the
cane sugar he had got, so we started all over again!!!  Oh yea, and let's
not forget the pounds of beef that had to be sliced!
Besides the satay (skewered and grilled flat strips beef for those who dont'
know), I made a Moroccan couscous and Moroccan chicken stewed in almonds,
prunes and honey, and Moroccan chicken in olives and preserved
lemons.....other stuff too....

Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
Barony Beyond the Mountain
East Kingdom
vhsjvs at gis.net

> 5 years ago phlip was astonished at how little work my middle eastern
> duckfest was, the hardest part was when the hummus we had went funny,
> and we had to make white sals by sitting there and pounding the walnuts
> and garlic, and mustard and whatnot together into a paste. was a lot of
> fun, husband rob and i sat there and chatted and sang and pounded for
> about 2 hours to make enough. came out nicely, used sumac and dried
> parsley to make a nice elaborae swirl pattern on the top even though it
> wasnt mentioned in the recipe=) would have been nice to have had a huge
> mortar and pestle, but what we had and used was freezer ziploc bags and
> pounded with discharged propane 1# cylinders=)
>
> Phlip wrote:
>
> > Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>Thanks but no thanks, I am not wild about the red one.
> >>Tubs?  I buy them by the itty bitty can!  lol!  But then again, I
haven't
> >>been cooking for armies.
> >
> >
> > Margali doesn't cook for armies, other than our Pennsic gig, but I like
hot
> > stuff, so I kinda tend to go through the curry paste- dis the better
part of
> > a tub in the last year and a half- and this stuff is great- it doesn't
go
> > bad. I suspect any nasty little buggies are afraid to get near it ;-)
> >
> > I do a lot more carbs, particularly rice than they do, too. Rob tends to
> > bring it home for me in 25 lb bags ;-)
> >
> > Saint Phlip,
> > CoDoLDS
> >
> > "When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
> >  Blacksmith's credo.
> >
> >  If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
> > cat.
> >
> > Never a horse that cain't be rode,
> > And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
> >
> >
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