Alexandria ([info]sandrylene) wrote,
@ 2008-04-09 12:08:00
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Current music:Thea Gilmore - Lidocaine Baby (in my head...forever)

I know I post proportionally too much about work and not enough about Other Stuff. I swear this is not an accurate representation of my life.

So, to attempt to balance, while I am feeling compelled to ask for good mojo on my yearly review (doing that in about an hour with my boss), I will also post my egg curry recipe here, which I now owe two people, anyhow, and which I will presumably follow tonight.

Egg Curry (Unless you want to feel cool and cultured and call it "Anda Masala")
Ingredients:
eggs - hard boiled, then halved (between 9 and 12 is my usual batch)
tomatoes - chopped (I usually use either four or five plum (roma) tomatoes, or two to three if they're larger)
onion - chopped (half a decent sized one)
ginger - grated (a thumb's worth)
garlic - finely chopped (I'm a four or five clove kind of girl)
cilantro - coarsely chopped (to taste - if you don't like it, leave it)
whole spices - I use cumin, cardamom (seeds, not pods, but as you like), cloves, mustard seeds (a lot!), a cinnamon stick (sometimes), and occasionally toss something else in, but these are my standards.
asafoetida
salt (to taste)
coconut oil

Okay, so I recommend chopping up as much as you can beforehand so that it doesn't mess up timing, but I don't actually follow my recommendation. :P

Grab a frying pan, put enough coconut oil in it to just grace the bottom with a layer and put the stove on medium high heat. Once your pan is warmed up, toss in all of your whole spices and wait until they've started popping a bit. Once those are good, toss in your chopped onion, and get that cooked down enough to be somewhat translucent. You want to be stirring pretty frequently. You can toss the ginger and garlic in when the onion is off to a good start.

Once your spices have seasoned the pan, place your halved eggs in (I usually start with them flat side down, then try to rotate them once they've cooked somewhat) and turn down the flame just a bit (to medium). You'll probably end up having bits of yolk fall out as you're cooking the eggs - I am wholeheartedly in favour of this. I think it makes the sauce better. I usually over-encourage at least one egg to lose its yolk entirely.

Once your eggs have gotten a little browned and gotten seasoned a bit, toss in your diced tomatoes and put the flame back up (medium high or high). At this point, toss in your salt and asafoetida and just keep the thing going until the tomatoes cook down into your sauce. Season with cilantro (if you like), and serve.

ETA: I forgot serrano chiles (diced, if you like spice, which I do, though I usually seed them as a concession to a) my teeth, and b) [info]genarti who isn't quite as much of a spice nut as I am).

Also, I got a ten percent raise and glowing review. Yay. :D




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[info]magicninja
2008-04-09 04:43 pm UTC (link)
Good luck with your review. Eggs arent my thing, so I got nothin on your egg curry.

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[info]sandrylene
2008-04-10 03:41 am UTC (link)
Thanks! And uh, more curry for me. *grin*

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suddenly, comic book in-joke!
[info]magicninja
2008-04-10 04:26 am UTC (link)
Yay glowing review. But be careful, of that glow, could be radiation. Or, you know, you could be The Incredible Sandry-Hulk. Like She-Hulk, without all the Juggernaut sex. ....Unless your INTO Juggernaut sex, then hey, by all means, you get you some.

...maybe I should use an avatar that *isnt* juggernaut? Yeah, I think so.

Also: is that the same kind of curry that Lister ate on Red Dwarf? Doesnt seem like it'd be hot enough, but then again, my cooking knowledge isnt what it used to be. But when I think curry, I think Red Dwarf. Well, not egg curry, but you get where Im going with this, right? Maybe a little?

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Re: suddenly, comic book in-joke!
[info]sandrylene
2008-04-10 04:34 am UTC (link)
*grin* Uh. Yeah, um, I would imagine that Juggernaut sex would be fairly dangerous. I'm imagining "wait, I no longer have a torso!"

Also, I so love the Kermit icon. It's awesome.

And I am so shamed! I do not have a clue what Lister ate on Red Dwarf because I have never seen any Red Dwarf. I am suck a geek failure. I really have to at some point.

Edited at 2008-04-10 04:34 am UTC

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avoiding RD butchery, because I dont want cheesedanish to kill me.
[info]magicninja
2008-04-10 05:07 am UTC (link)
But, you'd be The Incredible Sandry-Hulk, you could take it. ha HA, double entendre. (for clarification, she-hulk fucked juggernaut, unless it got retconned. im not up on my shehulk)

Kermit icon has gotten rave reviews, Im proud that I stole it when I did, from wherever I got it.

Red Dwarf: youre SOO missing out. Red Dwarf is great stuff. I dont remember the exact line I need to reverence for this, and I dont want to butcher it, but it involves a Curry Monster, and a teeny lister defeating it with *beer*! Kryton has a great line as to why this will work, too.

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[info]genarti
2008-04-09 04:56 pm UTC (link)
mmmmmmmmegg curry. *totally and utterly predictable*

Good luck!

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[info]grumqa
2008-04-10 12:54 am UTC (link)
Dear Auburns,

You did not make 'asafoetida' up.

Love,
Wikipedia-savvy Lions

PS: I thought you did.
PPS: Though I'm being a butt-head, I really liked reading this, and if I wasn't hopeless at hard-boiling eggs without having the shells stick to the eggs, I'd be tempted to try it (though probably after s/asafoetida/something/, because I am weak).

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[info]sandrylene
2008-04-10 03:41 am UTC (link)
*grin* You are clearly TalentLions!

Also, yeah, I'm not as good at the egg boiling mysteries of life, but Beth helps. <3

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[info]laurdragon
2008-04-10 07:28 am UTC (link)
That curry sounds wonderful! Apart from me not really liking hard-boiled eggs. But mmmm curry.

Hope your review went well! Also, that song is AWESOME and super-stick-in-your-head, for sure.

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2008-09-28 10:02 am UTC (link)
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2008-10-02 08:56 pm UTC (link)
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