Every week I like to make a curry. From time to time a bit different. It all depends on the ingredients available. I like it hot & spicy. Not every region has proper chili peppers. Yesterday I did it again, I wasn't sharp enough myself...but the dish?
In my home country (The Netherlands) the main supermarkets have almost everything. Quite an International range of food and ingredients. The chili peppers are a bit mild, so I mostly buy fresh jalapeños. And if it's not spicy enough, I will go to an Asian shop. In Portugal I am also happy, good spicy stuff, fresh from the field. In Germany they don't have that much of a spicy range in the main smaller markets, the only thing I could find was this small bag of peppers, that looked similar to the mild ones in The Netherlands. And the other ingredients? Loads of veggies, rice, yellow curry paste, coconut milk, nuts, lime and chicken. I do marinate the chicken as well, besides using the paste. Using a lot of spices, to let every bite melt in your mouth.
When I cook, I don't wear my office glasses. They get blurry from the heat. But yesterday should have been a good time to use them before cooking.... That first bite whoooohaaaah. Hot and spicy. Melting tongue turned into a burning tongue. Tears in my eyes...I tried to remove them, but probably the fingers were not washed good enough. Tears for fears, I was afraid that this bag of peppers was maybe a bit different than I expected. Seed in my eyes...perfect (when you translate that into Dutch, It has a totally different meaning). After putting on my glasses and trying to read the details on the package, it became clear. It was packed in The Netherlands (they seem to export the good stuff), but the habanero and rawits were from Israel and Morocco and they were extremely 'scharf' (how they say it here in Germany). I was not that sharp with reading, in small letters it said "Hellfire". Now I got blurry from the heat myself.
Cry baby
I really enjoyed the dish, at least it was one to remember. I was winking with my eye for some time. And what about the other 'eye'? Well, Johnny cASS came by on the playlist with his toe tapper "Ring of Fire". Burn burn burn...my ring on fire. Curry-ous what happend? Luckily, it all went down well. Like the man where this Johnny Cash song is about, I am a dangerous man 😂
