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It's Not Fishy to Curry Favor with Me (Thai curry whitefish)

Ahh this recipe.  I pulled it originally from  this site , but a) I have to double it and b) I have altered the recipe (pray I don't alter it further).  It's so easy, takes me maybe 45 minutes in total to make, and ... y'all it's just so good .  Comfort food to the max that doesn't have all the bloat-y carbs you usually get with comfort food. It's not at all authentic Thai food, but who the hell cares?  It's delicious and I love it, so there. It's Not Fishy to Curry Favor with Me (Thai Curry Whitefish) Ingredients 2 bell peppers, one red and one yellow, cut into 1/2"ish pieces 2 carrots, diced into 1/4"ish pieces 1 medium-large yellow onion, course-chopped 1 cup frozen green peas 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 tsp salt (do NOT omit) 2 Tbsp curry powder 1 tsp red pepper flakes 2 Tbsp lime juice 1/4 cup neutral oil (I use peanut oil, canola would work too) 15ish oz coconut milk 1.5-2 lb whitefish (halibut or haddock) Fresh mi...

So Beautiful or So What Gumbo

This recipe is lifted pretty much wholesale from John's Foodwishes.com blog , but I've posted it here for two THREE reasons: 1. He doesn't put okra in his gumbo, which is ridiculous (in my opinion), and since it's not in his recipe, I nearly forget it every time; and 2. He doesn't have the instructions written down. Anywhere. You have to watch the video to get the cook-times and order of additions. 3. His ingredients aren't listed in the order you use them. Of all my massive, enormous, RAGING pet-peeves when it comes to recipe-writing, THIS IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST. I'm sure the whole watch-the-video-every-time thing does wonders for jacking up his hit-counter on YouTube, but it also does wonders for jacking up my cooking, which considering how often I cook this after a full day of work and too many miles of bike-commuting, is not cool, dude. Not cool at all. So here it is, Chef John's chicken and sausage gumbo, which I learned to cook because o...

Don't Make Declarations against My Body Cabbage Soup

Several years ago, I found a recipe called  Fat-burning Cabbage Soup , and where the ingredients all sounded delicious, I'm not a fan of recipes that make declarations about my corporeal form, so it took me approximately eight thousand years to actually get around to trying it.  The results were ... okay, I guess.  The soup was SUPER bland and tasted like something you'd only eat if you were desperate to meet some sort of social standard for your physical appearance (which is stupid and you shouldn't do it -- you're beautiful how you are). However, I had this GIANT soup-pot of disappointing soup to deal with, now (this recipe makes a LOT of food), so I added some spices and garlic and an egg on top, and all of a sudden, I had a dish that I really liked and my partner couldn't get enough of.  Seriously, the look on his face when I said I was going to make another batch?  You'd've thought Christmas and his birthday had both teamed up to bring him cheer and h...