They cost 3x as much too.

2/5 would buy again if I had to do so.

This is a pretty standard Thai green curry recipe with the added spin that the chicken is fried separately and the curry is poured over the top after, an idea I stole from Bang Bang in Portland, although theirs is way the frick prettier than mine is.

I've never made curry paste before, except for one time I made Rendang. I usually just use those Maesri cans:

I used this recipe this time, more or less exactly as written:

https://www.recipetineats.com/thai-green-curry-paste-recipe/

I managed to locate every ingredient on the list, although some things were harder to find than others. If you can't find kaffir lime leaves, you could just omit them, it wouldn't make a huge difference. The hardest ingredient to find was dried shrimp paste, but only because in the US it doesn't look like whatever google says, and there is very little english text on the package. This is what I got:

FYI, that stuff smells so bad you will almost give up on putting it in your food. Like seriously, it smells like a large animal zoo shit. It's also the common ingredient in most Thai curries, so think about that the next time you order one!

Before you go and buy all this stuff, a word of caution: aside from the aforementioned poop jar, the recipe also contains lemongrass and galangal, and you should be aware that there is no amount of knife skills with which you will chop either of those things into small enough pieces where they won't irritatingly stick in your teeth and be terribly chewy, even if you cook them for hours. You NEED to use a food processor or a blender (or a mortar and pestle if you're a cave person) or you are going to be unhappy after all the work you put in.

After you make the curry paste, in order to turn it into delicious curry, all you have to do is:

1. Heat up a wok or stainless steel pan to medium-high.

2. Add some heat resistant oil (grapeseed, canola, peanut, etc).

3. Stir fry about 4 tablespoons of the curry paste for 1-2 minutes. I stopped before it started to brown, you don't really want to brown this.

4. Add like half a 16 oz can of coconut milk. If you have one of the good cans that has the thick shit on top, make sure you get all of that in there.

5. Add 1 tbsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp fish sauce, some sugar (1 tsp but really to taste), and add lime juice 1 tsp at a time and carefully taste before adding more.

6. Add a bunch of thai basil and kaffir lime leaves if you got em.

Turn the heat down to medium. Consider removing the lime leaves and basil after 5 minutes, especially the lime leaves because they are inedible.

Toss the veggies in if it tastes right. If you don't want to fry the chicken like I did, toss that in there too. Cook until everything is done.

If you never made curry before, consider just using the maesri can instead of bothering with the homemade stuff. It is like 80-90% as good as making it yourself. You still need to follow the steps above with the can, you just don't need to follow the linked curry paste recipe. I did a side-by-side taste test between the homemade curry paste and the can and my observation was:

1. Most of what makes green curry green is cilantro, and the homemade version tastes very heavily of it and is fresh and herbal as a result. The can completely lacks this quality.

2. The can has lime juice and sugar in it, which is a good thing actually because you have to add those things sooner or later anyway.

!goyslopenjoyers better times

!boozers !besties

Recipie:

2kg chicken carcass

Add 1 onion for stock.

Fill with cold in pot, no butchering needed

Boil for 1 hour.

Take chicken and onion out

Add chopped onion, carrot, courgette, garlic, chilli, ginger, cabbage, radish and celery.

Boil veg for 30 mins with salt and pepper, turmeric, oregano and dill.

Take apart cooked chicken and keep bones for later roasting for more stock.

Chop chicken to whatever size you want.

Simmer for 15 mins

Serve with celery leaf and olive oil paired with buttered bread!

!besties

/r/iamveryculinary believe there should be no barriers around food, that no food belongs to any one country, that recipes are gatekeeping... but also that American food is superior to all others. As such, they are not amused by this YouTube Short in which an Asian woman suggests that American food boils down to burgers, ketchup, fries and self-service cola machines.

Let's see what the commenters say:

Oh boy, my favorite subject that makes me become extremely patriotic.

America has some of the most diverse food in the world, and its culinary scene is among the best if not the best in the world (in terms of things like global impact, food diversity, world-renowned dishes, Michelin stars, etc)

The American culinary scene is so vast that it varies dramatically even by region, with each region having unique styles and recipes inspired by dishes around the world. Even excluding cultural fusion foods, America still has incredible food that was entirely originated in America.

Oklahoma puts onions in their burgers and New Yorkers don't use mustard on their hotdogs.

Number one burger defender.

America simultaneously has no authentic food and no unique food.

Where's the lie?

The same people that complain that American immigrant food isn't authentic because it's not exactly what they have back in their country also say it's not American, because it's a copy of what they have back in their country.

America is a young and diverse country of immigrants with many agricultural zones, so of course what "American food" is will challenge the concepts held by anyone who's country is old, mostly one ethnic group, and mostly one agricultural zone.

"Which agricultural zone should we dine in tonight? Corn Land or Potato World?"

And then 15 separate comments that boil down to "ummm your point is invalid because of cajun food".

The YouTube comments are also pretty good:

They're unironically right, American food is basically airport food.

American food is diverse because there's a panpipe cover of "My Heart Will Go On" in the background of this video pooping on American food.

@r-slur @Lappland @Dramamine defend your culture and try not to mention tater tots this time x

Please, please stop shaming people for using convenient food. Disabled people exist and it can be the difference between them/us eating or not. https://t.co/LSXqeZ0ppj

— Candace D. (@DiaryofaSickGrl) July 25, 2024

Original tweet (ratioed and deleted):

Boiling eggs is really hard you guys:

https://x.com/shanewallick/status/1816286745773642033

https://x.com/megaforte84/status/1816296864431419663

https://x.com/DiaryofaSickGrl/status/1816299652981088693

Cripples mad:

https://x.com/VelvitMonroe/status/1816134471894327387

https://x.com/seezusthekid/status/1816093019809996990

Typical brazilian salgadinho/snack which is always present in birthday parties. !macacos

Fun fact, right-wingers are called "coxinhas" because São Paulo cops eat them like burger cops eat donuts.

This is my best year yet for blueberries. There's still a lot more on the bush that are still green. Unfortunately the bush that grows the pink blueberries bloomed way earlier than the others so nothing got pollinated, maybe next year.

also some steak

i can drop the recipe…. if any of you even care…

just buy a grill lmao neighbor just smoke your own meats

I love onions

Thank you for ruining like 4 pounds of chili

This is literally inedible

don't be a dummy like me. Plant it in a container. Getting it out of the ground is so much effing work.

And by """least offensive""", i mean "humerous".

It's a German advert, no less. The Krauts would probably lock you up on hate crime charges if you filmed that commercial in current year + 8.

Just a regular old beef stir fry, but this one has lionsmane mushrooms in it too, which are easier to see in the second picture:

Stir fry is as usual, but the sauce is:

Stir fry stuff was flank steak, lionsmanes, bell peppers, garlic, and scallions.

😲 pic.twitter.com/DARLcogVF1

— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) July 17, 2024

Literally no one knows what black means anymore:

Sysbm is african american btw.

Thankfully someone does get back on topic:

Thank you Yakub, very cool!: