Yogurt curry

[koganbot]

--Went to an early party in south Boulder on Saturday evening. One thing I noticed on the 5:05 RTD bus from Denver to Boulder was that a lot of the passengers were sloshed. Middle-aged men, mostly, and not rowdy, just weaving while boarding. On the way back (caught the 9:14 at Table Mesa Drive) the bus was packed with young people in their late teens and early twenties, and the merry-making was already underway, the city still three-quarters of an hour down the road. Some card playing, singing, a lot of tank tops and cleavage, soda bottles being passed containing what looked like soda to my naive eyes. The riders were exuberant but weren't plastered, not yet. As for the singing, there was a verse or two of "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall," unfortunately. (It's early in the semester. Maybe as the term progresses the freshmen will be taught new drinking songs.) But also, a guy sitting to my right (I was standing) started in with, "I'm at the Pizza Hut, I'm at the Taco Bell, I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell." He made it two-thirds of the way through the song before he got distracted. A fellow on my left was conversing with the young woman in the seat in front of him. Was heading in for the clubs, said he was into "bass." I didn't question him as to what he meant, since I didn't feel it was my place to interrupt the flirting.

--The party was hosted by my friends Andrew and Maggie. Maggie is pregnant with a girl, so a note pad circulated on which we were to recommend baby names. My suggestions were Nia, Chadrisse, Laredo, and Dallas.

--The local Albertsons has stopped carrying Kitchens Of India's curry paste. I'm unhappy about this. The store still has S&B's curry sauce, which isn't bad, but it's not the same thing. The store has shrunk the Asian section and gotten rid of a lot of specialty foods. I'm not surprised. Albertsons introduced many of them about a year and a half ago, along with a number of health foods, partly to attract up-scale customers, I surmised. Then this nasty old recession hit...

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Noes - is there anywhere you can stock up on spices and make your own paste? I know Madhur Jaffrey recommends making up a big batch of vindaloo paste and freezing it into blocks so you can just break off & reheat a bit whenever you need it...

[koganbot]

What I need to do is find a friend who is free to drive me to an Asian supermarket (I could walk about a mile and then take a bus to the market on Alameda near Federal, but that's an awful lot of travel time if I'm only going to get several things); I'm sure I'd be able to find curry paste there.