My uncle was in a
surfing accident when he was 20. No joke. He's been in a
wheelchair for over half his life now, longer than I've been alive. I don't know whether he's
quadraplegic or
paraplegic, because he's retained some use of his arms (enough to make quite a respectable living as a programmer for the city of
Jacksonville, FL, albeit with a heavily modified keyboard and mouse). I don't claim any sort of expertise on what happens when you dive off a
surfboard into shallow water. You break your neck. If you're my uncle, you remain one of the coolest people I have ever been blessed to meet. I've been trying to
assimilate him. He resists admirably.
Resistance is futile. Anyway, the point of all this is to
segue into the recipe. He requires attended care-read:
live-in nurse. The latest in a long line of these
tweaks, freaks, and just all around weirdos hails from
Barbados. Nice lady. A little too attached to
Jesus for my tastes, but nice. So, she makes this wonderful meal for me, whenever I'm visiting.
I love it. I honestly can say that I feel emotion for this food
stronger than like. I demanded it on my
graduation night. I plan to do so again on my next
milestone birthday. And, in
my infinite generosity, I have decided to share it with you all.
Look grateful.
Chicken Curry
Ingredients:
2
chicken boullion cubes, dissolved into
1/2 cup boiling water.
2
Tablespoons Cross and Blackwell steak sauce (can usually be found in the
gourmet section at the supermarket).
4-6 chicken breasts,
cubed. (NOT to the 3rd degree. Cut into cubes.)
2 Tablespoons
Lea and Perrins worchestershire sauce.
1 teaspoon
minced ]
garlic.
1 teaspoon minced
ginger.
dash Spike. (
buggered if I know what a 'dash' is. I'm just typing what's in the cookbook).
dash
cayenne or 1 teaspoon for
H-O-T.
dash onion powder, or fresh grated
onion.
Mix above ingredients,
marinate chicken at least one hour in
refrigerator, covered.
Then add:
1 teaspoon
Patak's curry paste into the marinade.
(Again. Out of
Nashville, I have no idea where you'd buy this. Here in town, there's a little market on
Church Street, this side of the bridge, that carrries it. Probably you could find it at any
Indian food store.)
Cube 3-4
Yukon Gold potatoes.
Saute meat in 2 Tablespoons
oil. When
chicken is pretty thoroughly done (use your own judgement.
Salmonella is
neither fun nor for the whole family.), add remainder of marinade and 1 1/2 cups of water, and the potatoes. You may want to put in more
curry paste to
suit yourself.
Simmer for at least an hour, more if you can wait. It would take
a stronger lass than I to do so with that smell
wafting through your kitchen, but the longer you leave it be, the better the return.
Serve with or without
rice,
makes no difference to me.
BAR and I stole tupperware containers full of this and took them back to Chez Wonko to play chess and watch bad movies. impishlaugh and I cooked in my dimly lit kitchen and retired with our spoils of war to watch Hamlet. I caused NightShadow to bleed internally after eating this, while aphexious was forced into watching Buffy.