Happy Birthday jilavre ;-P

[morsla]

An interesting night...

I don't think my neck ever really recovered from going out over New Year's, but a few hours on a dancefloor at Abyss seem to have done wonders I can actually move, today :) It took ages to warm up (yep, I'm still feeling the effects of Monday's wushu, after so much slackness), but I found those secret energy reserves about the time that the music picked up. Probably not a coincidence, that... good music does wonders.

Speaking of music, if anyone chances across some (any!) Covenant, I'm quite happy to "lend" you other music for it - I found another gap in my music collection, that must be filled...

Ended up with a surprising number of people coming over for dinner or just to wish jilavre a happy birthday... Surprising, because not a single response to the "come for dinner" post actually indicated that anyone was coming to eat anything :) Still, I have a habit of overcatering, so the dozen or so who showed up all had food pushed towards them. I should do that more often - mass-preparing food is fun.

For anyone interested, cooking ideas are hidden behind this cut...

Bread: Pita bread makes a reasonable alternative to things like roti, with a lot less oil. Also, I didn't have to make it from scratch, and buying it at 99c a packet sure beats $5 for store-bought roti.

Rice: Apparently, brown rice doesn't go as far as white. I'd never cooked it before, but I think I'll eat it more often in future. Somehow, after really not liking it as a kid, I've ended up developing a taste for it...

Curries: Not many "exact" quantities here, as I've never measured an ingredient for cooking. Add as much of each ingredient to the pot as you can, while still leaving room to add the others :) Both curries were thickened with potato starch.

Green curry: Potato, brocolli, sweet potato, soft tofu (cubed, but it fell to bits), green curry spices (paste), coconut milk. Next time I'll add the tofu last, so it holds together a bit better. I had severe potato-curry cravings, so this was a simple way of fixing them... finely chopped spring onions were added just before serving.

The Other Curry (tm): Sauce was made with a few large spoofuls of Sambal Olek (chilli/tomato/garlic etc, if you don't know it), with a tin of peeled tomatoes, some tomato & garlic paste, and a tin of coconut milk. Vegetables were eggplant, carrot, a little bit of green capsicum, and thin slices of brocolli stalk. It turned out a little spicy, and a little tangy, which is more-or-less what I was aiming at. Might add some pumpkin next time, and replace some of the water with stock to give a fuller flavour.

A glowstick catalogue turned up in the mail yesterday, which was good - more toys to think about buying. I now have about a dozen braids in my hair, thanks to the lovely Louise, jilavre & delphaeus. Sorry if people got bored while my hair was being attacked - but I can claim a bit of moral high ground... I left things a bit late as I was cooking dinner for you earlier ;P

Some braids still have red glowsticks in them, which are glowing nicely. If they're still going after sunset, I'll use them as emergency lighting when I ride to Kensington for a housewarming...

Comments

Re: Mmmm, green curry....

[morsla.livejournal.com]

I try to avoid frying the tofu, as I usually just add it to noodle soups and curries as the final ingredient. Drying it on a paper towel is a great idea, though - consider it borrowed :)

Swapping some music sounds like a good plan - would you like anything in particular, or a dose of randomness?

^_^

[kikilon.livejournal.com]

Randomness sounds good to me.