Mom: Melissa, do you make curry?
Me: UMMMM yyeess.....why?
Mom: Well..........Bob and Lucy are coming into town, and the temple is closed for two weeks, and they love curry, and you never know when they will just show up on your doorstep, and when the temple opens.....(I am now officially lost in the details!!)
LATER that evening:
Me: Do you make Curry and what recipe do you use?
Anne: Yes, why?
Me: UMMMM.....Bob and Lucy......the temple closing.....they love curry....etc....and I am not sure what recipe to use....
Anne: Good luck!!! I've got to get ready for my boyscout overnight....I mean Andrew has to get ready for his overnight.....BYE HAHAHA!!!!
The reason for the recipe inquisition is that my mother has put her family curry recipe in print, and its the one I use and it never tastes the same as my mothers. Anne informs me that the printed copy does not contain the same amount spices, AGHHHH! I have been a "failure" at curry and its not my fault!!!!
I will be going down to my ancesteral home ( like that touch) to make curry. I will be making copious notes, sans the details, i.e. the temple closing etc, as my mother gives me the actual recipe!!! Them maybe I will have a fighting chance in the family curry making.
Here are a few of my own details; Grampa Emmett went to Japan on his mission, he came home and tried to duplicate a dish from his mission, Curry, which has become the family dish.
Its genetic, the details, how will anyone get the whole picture if you don't give them all the details?
1 comment:
The third time is a charm - I hope. I think I might have this figured out.
So I am swearing you to secrecy - which is kind of silly since I am posting this on a blog for the whole internet to see - but my secret is that I use John and Norda's receipe for curry. After several frustrating attempts to make curry using the recipe in the cookbook I got Uncle John's recipe and although it isn't exactly the same it comes close enough to satisfy my "follow the recipe" personality...and besides which if you use chutney, crackers with butter and lime jello with cream cheese and pineapple heaven is just a step away!
Bless you on your journey to our ancestral home and your quest for the perfect curry. I need to do the same for toffe...I depend on your for the pickles!
Patty
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