Nope, never had one. People are always surprised when I say this. Well, Indian food does of course exist in the U.S., here and there, but certainly not on the scale as here in the U.K. And having coeliac means going out for one has never been a possibility, and truthfully, when you've never had something, you don't miss it, do you?
But I do hear people talking about having a great curry, and wondered what all the fuss was about, so I decided tonight to go to Waitrose, get a jar of the Seeds of Change organic sauce (I chose jalfrezi for my first one), add some chicken, steam up a bit of rice, and see if I like it or not.
A jar, you say? Yes, a jar. I'm really not going to spend hours on something I may not even like, and the challenge hasn't been so much about cooking from scratch, but just getting out of my food-rut. And a new food, albeit from a jar, still accomplishes that goal.
Well, upon opening the jar, I thought I'd made a mistake. But I went ahead -- chunked-up the chicken breast, cooked it in a skillet in a touch of oil, added the sauce, simmered 10 minutes, and spooned some over rice.
I like it. This kind tastes very much like enchiladas, oddly enough (but really, many of the spices are the same, as well as having chicken in it, and the rice under the sauce makes me think of Spanish rice). So now I have 2 more dinners all prepared, so, what will I cook tomorrow, becomes the real question. Hmmm.
In the weeks to come, I plan to try all 5 kinds of Seeds of Change Indian curry sauces, then move on to Thai curries as well (they have red, yellow, and green in Waitrose).
(That's an Irish coffee there in the picture -- just in the mood for one tonight. Odd with curry, I'm sure, but I wanted it.)
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