Curry the right way!

A few details......in 3 short acts:



Act I

Stopped for gas, so I didn't have to on the way home and be late picking up Warren and Wyatt for our grandma sleep over.

Phone rings.....



Mom: Where are you?!!


Me: Getting gas


Mom: AGHHHH!! Hurry!!



Act II

Arrive at mom's house, ground beef is already browning (not so subtle message). I start to chop the onions, get out the pressure cooker, put onions in the pot.

Mom: What does the recipe say?


Me: ummmm...brown the onions with the wa.....


Mom: Is that what the recipe says????


Me: (I know this answer just let me think!!!!) Put the onions in with the wa....


Mom: The recipe says to brown the beef, then put the meat in the pressure cooker and THEN, put the onions in the same pan and put the water in with the onions...


Me: Can't you put the onions in the pressu.....


Mom: That's not the way daddy made it!

(There you have it!!! I'm not just up against making my mother's curry recipe I have to do it the way "daddy" did. ( in case you didn't know, its not my daddy its hers).....I never met him and I've got to channel his culinary spirit in order to do this right!!!! Where is a psychic when I need one!!!



Act III

Mom leaves the kitchen, whew!!! I brown the onions, put the spices in, double what is printed in the book. Mom comes back into the kitchen...


Mom: Did you put the salt in?


Me: AAAHHH, what did I do know? Yup


Mom: How much?


Me: 4 Tablespoons, double the recipe.


Mom: Didn't you see me salt the meat? (another loaded question,, or is it rhetorical?)


Me: Yesssss..... I guessss...... I didn't notice how much you put in........is it bad?

Mom: silence

I try to catch Anne's eye, she's fighting with the carpet cleaner, Kendall enters the kitchen....

Me: Kendall wanna go for ride with me for a hotdog and A-1 Sauce?

Kendall: I can go get it for you....

Me SHHHHH!! (quietly) come on honey you can help me carry the hot dogs......

Kendall: OH! Ok, sure come on lets go......(nieces are awesome!)


Post Script:

Carolyn Hillam (our other mother) came by, we laughed about ourselves and a few others, said how it was a sin that they moved out of the neighborhood and then sent Carolyn home with some of my curry for Ray, (I love that man!!!!)