Apropos of Nothing

Michael does not like chicken curry. He would rather open a can of sardines than dig into the dish. He says he can’t stand its taste.

Poy also cringes away from anything with curry on it. He says he does not like its smell. During college, his boarding house served curry dishes for the Muslim students. I doubt if he even had a taste of a curry dish. The smell was enough to discourage him.

I love chicken curry. Until I was exposed to other Asian cuisine, chicken curry was the only dish I knew which had curry on it. Thus, I looked at it as a unique and memorable dish. I love the yellow color too! I can’t remember any distinct smell so it must be some other kind of curry being in used in Poy’s boarding house.

Estela and Zsa also likes dishes with curry on it. I remember having cooked Pork Curry some time ago and one of them (can’t remember which one was crashing in our house that time) loved it.

So that leaves me two guys who needs some converting.

Thanks to the greatest food blog around — www.pinoycook.net, I was inspired to take a risk with my boys and prepared a winning chicken curry.  They liked it because —

   1)it’s red (the use of thai red curry lessened their negative associations to the yellow version);

   2)it’s hot (used sambal oelek), and

  3) it smelled wonderful (thanks to the lemon grass and fresh thai basil — yup, we are already harvesting from the plants we purchased the previous weekend).

Finally, I can try all the other curry dishes out there without threat of having to consume it all by myself.

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