Yellow Curry with pork (Kang Karee Moo)

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005 at 9:51 pm

This morning I sent email to ask HG what he would like to eat tonight since we did not have any meat in the fridge. He replied and said he felt like curry today which meant I had to cook tonight. So I went to the freezer in our scary garage. I could not find any chicken so I took a package of pork fillet out instead. I could not make up my mind yet which curry I should cook between Massaman Curry and Yellow Curry. Since the ingredients for these two curries are similar so I did not have to make the decision until the last minute.

Ingredients 2 tbsp Yellow curry paste 1 tsp curry powder Coconut cream UHT 200 ml semi-skimmed milk Pork fillet 6 potatoes (not just potatoes but they were new jersey royal potatoes) 1 large onion 1 can of Bamboo Shoot sweet pepper vegetable oil

Actually, I was supposed to use red chilies but I did not have it so I used green and red sweet pepper instead. I cared about the look of my curry as well as the taste. Started with heating the oil over the medium-high heat in the wok. Add the Yellow Curry paste. Low the heat down to medium-low. Stirring constantly for about 2-3 minutes until the curry paste is slightly toasted and the oil turns to be yellow. Add the curry power and stir well for another 2 minutes. Then add the coconut cream. Then add the pork, stir and turn the heat up to medium-high. Once the pork is cooked, add milk and some water, I don’t like my curry to be too thick so I put quite a lot of liquid. Then add the potatoes. Cook for 5-6 minutes, add onions and bamboo shoots and cook; stirring occasionally. Add sweet pepper, soy sauce and sugar and stir well. Cook and stirring occasionally until the potatoes are cooked. I had it with Thai rice and Thai style omelets. It was so good.

This morning on his way to work, my sweet and lovely husband stopped his car to take photos of the flower of horse chestnut(Aesculus Hippocastanum) for me. Horse chestnut is a very big tree, when you saw it from the distance its flowers looked like candles.