Recuperating: spice

[redbird]

I decided to chance a moderately spicy dinner tonight, so we had a Chinese restaurant deliver orange-flavored beef (and a dumpling appetizer).

I think I mentioned here that, since the surgery, spicy food hurt my mouth: specifically, the capsicum spiciness was a problem, though ginger, garlic, black pepper, and horseradish were all okay. For better or worse, I was noticing this on the first bite. A few weeks ago, cattitude got wontons in hot oil, and I tasted a bit, thus confirming that it was still a problem.

Tonight, I tasted a bit of the beef, and it was fine, so we shared the dumplings. (Had it been a problem, I'd have had all of them, and then probably eaten fruit and white rice.) I ate a reasonable amount of the beef (and bits of orange peel), and white rice. After a while, I got to a point where the spicy was moving toward unpleasantly sharp, so I stopped, and had a little more rice. I may have milk and cookies before bed.

I'm going to be a bit cautious for a while, I think, but it's good to have my repertoire back, as an eater and (though less so) a cook. I think there's a shrimp curry in my, cattitude, and julian_tiger's near future.

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAY!

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Hooray for spicy food, for regaining your tolerance thereof, and for you. :)

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Speaking as someone who's "not exactly _allergic_ to lots of spices, but...", the advantage to making your own curried whatever (from scratch) is that you can adjust the nature, as well as the amount, of the spices used. (LArea fan Barry Gold does a slow-cooker chicken mild curry that's almost precisely to my taste.) As far as I know, there's no real necessity for "curry" to contain any chili pepper, and I'm always happy if a dish contains no more than the barest hint of it.

[redbird]

Oh, certainly. If this had gone on for years, I'd be doing so. But I had missed enjoying hot peppers: there are flavors there I like, in addition to the spice heat. And now that I'm enjoying at least some of that heat again, I can have the rest of it back. I do suspect that the first batch of curry is going to be on the mild side, with the tabasco sauce there if cattitude wants his hotter, and even more skewed toward ginger than is my usual habit.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

julian_tiger likes curry? My guys are only interested in plain meat, no sauces. Although back when Smokey was alive, he always ate the peppers from my Kung Pao chicken.

[redbird]

Yes, he likes curry. My curry sauce contains both milk and lime juice, and he likes it quite a bit. (He likes lots of things, though.)