Original Recipe: Celebration/Lost Recipe Curry

I was asked to make a slow cooked curry that I’d made once before by someone who had many things to celebrate, including graduating and obtaining a job.  Certainly worth a celebratory meal.

After trying to remember the book/site from which I obtained the recipe, I gave up and decided to create a new recipe.  Unfortunately there was no yogurt, coconut milk, coconut cream etc in the house and the vague memories I had of the curry indicated it needed these.  There was also many vegetables which were looking as if they would be inedible in a few days.  In addition passata and stock which had been partially used for another meal that would expire within a day needed to be included in the curry.   So it had to be a curry that included stock, passata and various vegetables.

It was cold and no one volunteered to go to the shop to buy further ingredients.  Only the items in the house were available.

So the challenge was to make a curry without the required ingredients.

Not so simple.

Bad Temper Curry

This is a bit different from our usual entries.  This recipe is based on an actual recipe created when it was impossible to find a recipe that provided a slow cooked beef curry without coriander, yogurt and most important store-bought curry sauce or paste.  And, yes, one of us was in a bad temper when they prepared this curry.

Important Preparation

To begin this meal you must wake up in a reasonable mood.  This is important.  It helps if the last 6 months have been extremely stressful and you have decided to put this behind you and have a pleasant, productive day.

The next really important thing is to go to some appliance/piece of technology you use regularly, like a computer, car, drill or microwave.  When you attempt to use it, it must fail for some stupid reason.  Please note: it cannot be broken but will require at least half an hour to an hours effort to restore it to working order and it should have done the same thing in the last week.

To complete the setup you now need to go shopping for fruit and vegetables on a busy Saturday morning at a popular place where most people own 4 wheel drives and know the right fashion items to wear to this exclusive event.  You are dressed to keep warm from the biting wind.  Make certain while there to let people push in front of you and trap you near the broccoli while they chatter about sport or a party they attended.  Do not try to ask them to move.  You are wearing the wrong clothes.  You will be ignored.

On arriving home unpack and wrestle with the limited space in the vegetable bin in the fridge while others stand around watching.  Sigh and leave some of the vegetables in the other part of the already crowded fridge.  Place ‘Cleaning the fridge’ on your mental list of things to do.  Do not try to locate the top of the mental list.  Place make a written list of the mental list on the mental list.  That will solve everything (in an alternate universe perhaps).