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Saag Aloo (Indian Spinach and Potato Curry)

So, here’s a weird thing that happened.  I’ve misplaced a bottle of hot sauce around here.  I know I had it last Sunday morning, because I doused my eggs in its spicy, spicy splendor, as I often do.  Since then, I just…  I don’t know where it is.  How does one lose something like a bottle of Valentina?

I would just buy another bottle.  I’ve never had any qualms about dropping my hard-earned cash on hot sauce.  If I had the fridge space, I’d have a straight-up collector’s collection of hot sauce.  The thing is, I know I will find it someplace like my medicine cabinet, or the freezer, or that weird drawer in the kitchen where I keep hot glue gun refills and electrical tape.

I should go check all those places right now.  I’ll be right back.

…Nope.

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Pumpkin Curry with Chicken

I’m not sure if the super-extremely nice man at the Thai restaurant by the Home Depot near my place will ever see this post.  But if he does, he needs to know that: This relationship?  Whereby the mancompanion and I stop by once in a while for some amazing pumpkin curry?  Rock.  Solid.  You’re not getting rid of us!  I’m not trying to find a way to sidestep you and the restaurant so I can eat warm, coconut-y sweet, spicy goodness in my sweatpants.

In my mind at least, trying to recreate restaurant favorites is not about that at all.  It’s fun, interesting and challenging, and (cheese alert) I swear, in some way it brings me closer to the food and those who make it.  It makes me pay more attention to what I’m tasting.

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