Thai Pineapple Pork Curry

So tonight, Virginia decided to make something with curry. … I’m not a big fan of curry. I had never been exposed to it until I went to Kuwait, but they put that business on EVERYTHING. I’m pretty sure they had curry ice cream over there. But, I didn’t have any better idea, so… it happened.

So, since I had to suffer through it, so do you.

Step 1. Cook your Rice. The recipe we were supposed to be following called for Jasmine Rice. But, it also called for chicken. Stupid recipe. We made our regular white sticky rice. While your rice is cooking, you can rock on through the rest of the recipe.

Step 2 – Make sure your baby won’t roll off of the table while you’re working.

 

Cut up some chicken… or pork. … We had some pork loin thawed, and no chicken in the fridge, so it was an easy decision.

1” or 1-1/2” cubes should do it. You’re looking to have about a pound – pound and a half. More meat is always better. Toss the meat in a pan with a few teaspoons of sesame oil and start rolling it around, browning it.

Now, get some liquid ready. First mix 1/8 cup red curry paste and a 13.5oz can of coconut milk together…

Note: Coconut milk is kinda disgusting looking. You know how to make it more disgusting looking? Add curry and mix well.

At this point, your meat should be getting a little browned, so dump the goop into it.

Now add 1/8 of a cup of sugar.

and then a can of drained bamboo shoots (1-1/2 Cups)

You’re also going to need to add 2 TBSP of fish sauce. You may have wanted to add a little squirt of Extra Virgin Olive oil to help brown the meat earlier as well… so… here’s a picture of that stuff.

Now, while that’s cooking up, your kitchen is going to smell like hot death. Seriously, I was choking back some rather strong urges to lose my lunch. Virginia didn’t seem to have any problem with it, but she has been changing a lot of dirty diaper lately.

Now, chop some veggies. 1/2 an onion, and the equivalent of 1/2 of two different colored bell peppers.

Then, add veggies to the stuff in the pan.

Bring to a boil and then let it simmer for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, add one cup of chunked pineapple and let simmer for another 5 minutes.

After it’s simmer down and everything is softened up, serve over rice. According to VA, it’s supposed to be pretty juicy, and the rice is supposed to suck up the juice.

BAM. There it is.

It was better than I expected, and once it simmered for a while, it didn’t so much smell like hot garbage. Virginia didn’t have any problem with the smell, and she said that she was happy with the taste of it as well. So, I think VA would give it 2 thumbs up. I’d give it a “ehhh… it didn’t kill me…. as much as I wanted it to.”