Chaos Kitchen: Mother's Day Japanese Curry
Happy Mother's Day! This week we have a Japanese Curry recipe, accompanied by cute critter pictures. If you didn't read last week, check out the story behind the curry!
Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there - Grandmas, step-mas, pseudo-mas and just those that have stepped in and been the maternal influence in someone’s life.
As has become tradition this year, today’s blog has the recipe from last week’s story of Carter and the Mother’s Day Fetch Quest - Japanese Curry!
Our Critters
Our critters are doing well. Dante was practicing to go into the moving business during class this week.
Aki decided having a Mini American as a little brother is okay - especially when he plays with Beleth so neither harasses her.
Beleth and Dante, of course, insist they are innocent of any wrongdoing or mischief. Honest!
Crokell and Frank (our robot vacuum/mop) are also good pals with a deep understanding of each other.
And we took some pictures of random birds around the neighborhood.
Japanese Curry Recipe
Usually with Japanese curry, you make a roux with the base spices that hardens into blocks of spicey goodness, like you might buy in the store. I didn’t want the gluten or extra butter, so I just added the base spices like I might do while making vindaloo.
Japanese Curry Ingredients
Curry Base Spices (dry)
6 tablespoons Japanese curry powder (like S&B)
1 tablespoon garam masala
1 tablespoon hot chili powder
1 tablespoon powdered ginger
2 tablespoons garlic powder
Curry Spices (wet)
Beef stock or Bone stock
3 tablespoon soy sauce
3 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon honey
Meat and Veggies Ingredients
2 pounds of ground beef
2 tablespoon avocado oil
3 medium white onions (sliced)
One bunch of carrots (cut up)
6 red potatoes (cut up)
The Basics
Salt and Pepper
The Instructions
All the meat and veggies get salt and pepper before being cooked.
I used a big cast iron pot.
First, heat the oil and brown the beef.
Pull the beef out and carmalize the onions - doesn’t have to be brown, yellow is enough.
Add the beef and carrots.
Then add all the dry spices. Use enough stock that you can cook the rawness out of the spices.
Add the cut up potatoes and cover the contents with broth and other wet ingredients.
Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally.
Reduce and simmer until carrots and potatoes are done.
Serve over rice and eat with an oversized spoon.
(Not sure why about the spoon - that’s just how it was served in Japan.)
Chaos Tip
If you want curry make sure you have all the spices. A little spice goes a long way, but the wrong spice can clear your nose! Or even the house!
Critter Question of the Week
When is the last time your critter decided you were a chair? How did you handle it?
~Anna and Tod
More IP Writing on the Way!
Anna and I are please to announce that our story, Family Honor, has earned a spot in the Annals of the Auran Empire anthology. Arbiter of Worlds has a blog post with the complete author list and more details. The anthology is set in the Adventurer Conqueror King System Imperial Imprint RPG universe of the Auran Empire. (Think Fantasy Rome.)
Crowd funding opens June 8th, and you can sign up to be reminded via BackerKit now!
https://www.backerkit.com/call_to_action/8b8be898-82a5-4dc9-868d-aa9a9b449f6e/landing
We’re pleased to see our fellow Alpha Mercs joining us: Zane Voss, Sam Robb (the first anthology we were in was also with Sam), B.K. Gibson (who also gave great developmental feedback during edits https://coldlightrpgpress.weebly.com/), and Nathaniel McIntyre.
We think our story has the most interesting one liner in the announcement:
“Family Honor” by A. Kristina Casasent, featuring a Ring Against the Wolf, tells the story of a Tirenean nobleman struggling with the challenge of producing an heir with his new wife.
For more details, checkout the Arbiter of Worlds blog!
