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becky + cooking = recipe for disaster?

I cooked dinner for family today! An ambitious menu of Green curry chicken and Tom yam soup to boot. Cooking is quite fun yeah, but I don't think i'm terribly good at it. The green curry was kinda watery, not thick enough, but i figure its cos the stuff in the jar was meant only for one serving but i stretched it for at least 4 people. That and the fact that I used milk instead of coconut milk cos i couldnt find any. It was going pretty well tho, till I left it unattended for a while to work on the tom yam, then it boiled. So suddenly from this homogenous soupy thing, it separates into watery thing with bits floating around. Not very visually appealing. Used the wrong kind of eggplant cos I could'nt find the pea type in the supermarket. And it was kinda hard, though i cooked it pretty long, maybe should boil em first? But other than that it was pretty good! Think i just need to get more jars of the green curry stuff and i'm all set. The tom yam was really spicy and a bit on the salty side. I don't really like the paste, shall try another brand next time. I had envisioned big, juicy, succulent prawns drifting about in the soup, but I only had tiny frozen ones, just didn't hit the spot. But the mushrooms were so good, two types, straw and button. Shall put in fewer stalks of lemongrass next time, I just dumped everything in, and it was too much. Got a LOT of leftovers, cos I cooked too much. I also ate alot, tried to finish it, but didn't even finish 1\8th of the curry. Dad can't take spicy food and mum doesnt eat much. And darryl still can't eat spicy food, the wuss. So lots and lots and lots of leftover! Also made agar-agar, but it wasn't sweet enough. But I like added so much sugar already la! Sigh, subsequent batches have never been as good as the first time I made...

I guess the real test is whether my family comes down with food poisoning. Stay tuned folks!

posted by beckyboo @ 11:11 PM