Spicy Thai Red Curry

Yesterday, I made a pretty nice Thai Red Curry with Acorn Squash, Japanese Eggplant and Basil. Considering it was my very first jab at making Thai food, it was pretty great. Since it was my first time, I stuck to using a pre-made thai red chillie paste. Since it turned out well, the next time I will attempt at making it from scratch. Hopefully it will be better :)

Anyway here's the recipe I sort of made up as I made the dish.

Ingredients

Oil 1 tsp

Red Chillie paste x2 tsp

Eggplant x1

Acorn Squash x1

Green Pepper x1

Basil about 10 leaves

Coconut milk

Fish sauce 2 tsp

Thai Chillies x6

Very little salt (make sure you taste the dish before adding salt)

Steps to make

Cut squash, eggplant and green pepper into 2 inch pieces.

Fry the red chillie paste in about a tsp of oil. Add 2 tsp of fish sauce and minced thai chillies. Add coconut milk (use about half a can and add water to make a light broth). Let it boil for a minute.

Add cut veggies. Let it cook for another 5 minutes. Taste then add salt (this is dependent on how much salt is already present in the thai red chillie paste and fish sauce).

Turn off the heat. Add basil leaves just before serving with a wedge of lemon and a bowl of rice.

Just a note - This is much lighter than the restaurant versions I've eaten. If you like really creamy heavy sauces, I recommend using an entire can of coconut cream and nixing the water. However this version is very light but very heavy in flavor.

Enjoy!

River Rafting Labor day

OMG! I just came back from rafting in the Deschutes river for labor day. Go me YEAHHHH!!!!!!!

Screw you Fibromyalgia, I will work up my energies to do what I like and so what if I feel like shit later, at least I got to have some fun. Yeah I did a class 2-3 instead of my pre-FM rafting of class 4-5. But so what? its a start. I am very excited to see what else I can do. Yeah after the experience I had spams for a couple of days. But overall not too bad at all. I couldn't imagine doing this even six months back. I was in too much pain for that. Hopefully I can use this new found energy into doing something more fun and things that I have missed before :) Gosh I love the water, it was soo welcoming. Awesome!!!!!!!!!!

Deschutes is one of the few rivers which actually run south to north, about two three hours from Portland Oregon, the Deschutes has a desert backdrop quite different from all the other rivers in Oregon. Its a pretty great river to raft on specially if you've never done it before. The river is classified as a Class II and few IIIs.