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Polynesian Chicken Curry
Here is my Grandma’s curry recipe you asked for!
Ingredients:
MEAT
6 Chicken Thighs*
Water to cover
1/2 teaspoon saltSAUCE
2 Granny Smith Apples (peeled and sliced crescent style)
1 Yellow Onion (sliced crescent style)
vegetable oil OR butter (enough to coat bottom of pan +)
Handful of Raisins
1 Tablespoon Curry Powder (or more if you like it hot)
1 can coconut milk
SLURRY
2 Tablespoons corn starch
2 Tablespoons water
CONDIMENTS
1/2 pound bacon fried crispy in small pieces
1 can Spanish peanuts
1 can pineapple tidbits drained (reserve juice)
2 tomatoes chopped
shredded or flaked coconut
more raisins
4 green onions, chopped
1. Put chicken, water and salt in crockpot. Set on high and cook until tender. (usually about 2 to 4 hours depending on your pot).
2. In a large frying pan, saute onions, apples until translucent. While cooking, sprinkle a handful of raisins and curry powder.
3. Remove chicken from crockpot and cool enough to handle. Take skin off and remove bone. Chop into bite sized pieces.
4. Pour reserved pineapple juice into broth.
5. Pour coconut milk into broth.
6. Thicken broth mixture with slurry while cooking.
7. Return chicken to the broth.
8. Add the cooked onion, apple and raisins.
Serve over sticky rice and top with your choice of the condiments.
ENJOY!
* You can use boneless, skinless chicken pieces. I like the broth, but you can substitute 1 boullion cube dissolved in 1 cup hot water.
OR
2 Lamb shanks
* If you do not have coconut milk, pour 1 cup of boiling water through 1 cup of coconut in a seive, three times. Use the wet coconut later for cookies or muffins.
If you make this, let us know how you liked it!
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making muffins… on the floor!
Did you know you can make muffins on the floor? Me neither. It never even crossed my mind before until we had a play date at my good friend Jbomb’s yesterday. She let’s her kid cook on the floor all the time! How does she do it? She mops every single day. Her floor is spotless! Her whole house is spotless for that matter.
A lot of you commented that you’d love to do crafts or make cookies with your toddlers but you just couldn’t handle the mess. I totally understand. I think it all comes down to what your comfort level with dirt/clutter/chaos is.
It may be a blessing in disguise that I grew up in a pretty messy household. (think: Clean House) I don’t love dirt and grime and shooing the cat off the table right before dinner but it doesn’t make me wither and lose my appetite either. Sometimes I wish I was one of those people who washed their hands a thousand times a day. I’d probably get sick less often. But then again I don’t think I’d like having to put stinky lotion on my dry chapped hands because I washed every last molecule of natural moisture off my skin either.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that there is a happy medium somewhere and my happy medium might be way over yonder from where your happy medium is. Different strokes for different folks and all that… It won’t hurt my feelings if you toss the plate of cookies I brought over into the trash five minutes after I leave your house because you spied a cat hair on them. I understand.
Sigh.
However! I didn’t mean to take up this whole post getting on my soap box about dirt. It’s really about having a fun time with my friend Jbomb and her little boy Max. Where there is a will, there is a way! And making muffins on the floor is pretty fun if you’re two and handle a mixing spoon like Mix-master Max!
I thought my friend’s way of handling toddler messiness was pretty creative. The kids loved it and mixed to their hearts content. Baby Bug even did rather well spooning the batter into the little paper cups. There was actually very little mess to clean up and it kept them occupied long enough for Jbomb and I to get into several deep discussions about mopping. She still hasn’t won me over though.
I’d much rather blog than mop the floors.
