Election Day, Part 2

Well, that was pretty cool.  I am surprised and not entirely thrilled that the pollsters got pretty much everything right.  I think pollsters getting things wrong would keep this world a little more interesting.  But I suppose I can't complain too much.

And a completely non-election-related discovery today:

Japanese curry is really easy to make with a packaged curry mix, and comes out tasting exactly like it does in a restaurant.  Maybe everyone who would ever dream of buying this product already knows this, but I didn't, and it was an exciting surprise for dinner tonight.  I really like ethnic supermarkets.  I really like buying things that my grandma wouldn't recognize as food, and then figuring out what to do with them.  Like mentaiko (cod roe), which, a google search informed me, goes nicely on pasta (and it does).  The first time I bought it, I didn't realize that the roe is actually in a sac, and I have to squeeze it out of the sac, otherwise it won't really work the way it should.  The second time I bought it ended up being a much greater pasta triumph, with the roe successfully evacuated from its sac.  Anyway, last week I bought some packaged curry mix, not even sure if it was liquid or powder inside the box, or what I would make with it.  And tonight, I had a cob of corn and a sweet potato from the farmer's market that I was starting to worry would spoil before I used them.  So I cut the corn off the cob, chopped up the sweet potato, added some onion and carrots and a green tomato (I bought three green tomatoes at the farmer's market on Saturday.  I fried one in cornmeal, I pickled one in vinegar, and now the third was in for the curry -- yes, I have a little too much time on my hands), and did what the curry box said -- saute in some oil, then add water and let everything boil until cooked.  And then I added the curry -- it's a curry brick, that dissolves in the heat of the liquid, like a bouillion cube I guess -- and it turned out really quite delicious.  I was very impressed with the product.  And then I watched election returns.

Comments

[RES]

I'm beginning to wonder whether you and Raffi (ie, Waddling Kitchen, f/k/a Waddling Thunder) are two sides of the same person :-). Okay, not really. But the parallels are amusing.

[JJB]

My girlfriend also just discovered the greatness that is the japanese curry in the box. If I hadn't seen it myself, I would have sworn she got it from a restaurant.