Week Six - East India Cocktail #1
6 February, 2011
This week I made yet another curry, but I'm not including a picture of it.
Lord knows, I love curry, but even I have to admit that a picture of one curry pretty much looks like any other - some white lumps in a reddish/brown sauce, flecked with cilantro.
(This will not, of course, prevent me from posting future curries - just not tonight's.)
Also, although this recipe is pretty promising - Sweet-Tart Cheese with Potatoes and Cauliflower in a Vinegar Sauce - I've taken a major liberty with it. I omitted the cauliflower and simply doubled up on the potatoes, which has probably changed the flavor profile of this curry substantially. I did this because I hate cauliflower with the white-hot, burning intensity of 10,000 exploding suns.
But back to the cocktail.
I thought it would be fitting to try the East India Cocktail #1 from the Mr. Boston Guide to go with this curry. It is mostly brandy, spiked with trace amounts of pineapple juice, triple sec and rum, with a dash of bitters.
This may be my new favorite drink.
On first tasting, it wasn't as sweet as I normally like, but as the bitters kicked in, it became more and more... um... err... well, colonial in taste. It has a brisk, Anglo-Indian authority that appeals to me.
Grade - A
[The curry was good, by the way. Not brilliant, but credible. For almost anybody else, the cauliflower would have added a welcome note. But not me. Nope.]
Week Six - East India Cocktail #1
6 February, 2011
This week I made yet another curry, but I'm not including a picture of it.
Lord knows, I love curry, but even I have to admit that a picture of one curry pretty much looks like any other - some white lumps in a reddish/brown sauce, flecked with cilantro.
(This will not, of course, prevent me from posting future curries - just not tonight's.)
Also, although this recipe is pretty promising - Sweet-Tart Cheese with Potatoes and Cauliflower in a Vinegar Sauce - I've taken a major liberty with it. I omitted the cauliflower and simply doubled up on the potatoes, which has probably changed the flavor profile of this curry substantially. I did this because I hate cauliflower with the white-hot, burning intensity of 10,000 exploding suns.
But back to the cocktail.
I thought it would be fitting to try the East India Cocktail #1 from the Mr. Boston Guide to go with this curry. It is mostly brandy, spiked with trace amounts of pineapple juice, triple sec and rum, with a dash of bitters.
This may be my new favorite drink.
On first tasting, it wasn't as sweet as I normally like, but as the bitters kicked in, it became more and more... um... err... well, colonial in taste. It has a brisk, Anglo-Indian authority that appeals to me.
Grade - A
[The curry was good, by the way. Not brilliant, but credible. For almost anybody else, the cauliflower would have added a welcome note. But not me. Nope.]