So much for curry

It was worth a try, but it didn't work.

I've been having trouble with spice—specifically, with capsicum-based hot foods—since I had the surgery last spring. Periodically I try something, and once in a while it works (the best results have been with the orange-flavored chicken from a local Chinese restaurant, but even that isn't 100% safe).

I used to make a shrimp curry for myself and cattitude; I did it fairly often for a while, then less frequently as we started getting almost all our fish from the Greenmarket (shrimp aren't local, so we don't find them there). I'd been thinking that I could modify the recipe a bit, using a milder curry powder and less of it, balanced with more ginger. I got some of that curry at Aphrodisia a couple of weeks ago.

This evening, I stopped off on my way home from the gym, and bought a half pound of cooked shrimp, because they're less trouble than raw shrimp I'd have had to peel (and I had a shrewd suspicion that if I bought raw shrimp, they would go to waste). I mixed up some spices, the aforementioned curry and ginger, a bit of extra turmeric, a couple of cardamom pods, and some flour to extend them (that's in the original recipe). Defrosted some chicken stock, chopped apple and onion, made rice, made the curry.

It was fairly mild as these things go; Cattitude confirmed this. But the bite was enough to make it less appealing, and not entirely comfortable, for me. At least he liked it. It wasn't as bad as some spicy meals have been in the last few months: I did eat it, but with more stops to buffer things with mango nectar, and less enjoyment than I'd hoped.

I think I need a good, not too complicated shrimp recipe that isn't a curry. Ideally something creamy, like this. And more recipes that make use of ginger, garlic, horseradish, and/or black pepper.

( also, here are gym numbers )

So much for curry

It was worth a try, but it didn't work.

I've been having trouble with spice—specifically, with capsicum-based hot foods—since I had the surgery last spring. Periodically I try something, and once in a while it works (the best results have been with the orange-flavored chicken from a local Chinese restaurant, but even that isn't 100% safe).

I used to make a shrimp curry for myself and cattitude; I did it fairly often for a while, then less frequently as we started getting almost all our fish from the Greenmarket (shrimp aren't local, so we don't find them there). I'd been thinking that I could modify the recipe a bit, using a milder curry powder and less of it, balanced with more ginger. I got some of that curry at Aphrodisia a couple of weeks ago.

This evening, I stopped off on my way home from the gym, and bought a half pound of cooked shrimp, because they're less trouble than raw shrimp I'd have had to peel (and I had a shrewd suspicion that if I bought raw shrimp, they would go to waste). I mixed up some spices, the aforementioned curry and ginger, a bit of extra turmeric, a couple of cardamom pods, and some flour to extend them (that's in the original recipe). Defrosted some chicken stock, chopped apple and onion, made rice, made the curry.

It was fairly mild as these things go; Cattitude confirmed this. But the bite was enough to make it less appealing, and not entirely comfortable, for me. At least he liked it. It wasn't as bad as some spicy meals have been in the last few months: I did eat it, but with more stops to buffer things with mango nectar, and less enjoyment than I'd hoped.

I think I need a good, not too complicated shrimp recipe that isn't a curry. Ideally something creamy, like this. And more recipes that make use of ginger, garlic, horseradish, and/or black pepper.

( also, here are gym numbers )