Omaha Limited

There are many things I specifically do NOT like about living in Omaha. One of these many things is that it's very hard to find certain types of food. While it might be possible to obtain 'speciality' ingredients in the city, one would have to literally take a 32 mile roundtrip drive to some of these stores. And that might just be for one single ingredient, now what if there are more and you have to now go 10 miles in the opposite direction? Who has that time???

So unfortunately I am not going to be able to cook all the recipes in my cook book. I simply do not have the time to search the city for (or have the money to pay for ) these specialty items :(

However, I am not throwing my towel in to the cooking arena. One must still eat!

My dear Mama told me about the BBC good food cooking website and I have signed up for that. I am now officially on the lookout for bargain recipe books too.

Tonight, brought to you by the BBC, we had Easy Thai Prawn Curry . The recipe called for tinned tomatoes, but I used fresh tomatoes and instead of a 50g sachet of coconut cream (what is that? Is it a powder? Who does liquids in weights??) I used about half a can of coconut milk.

I also used fully cooked frozen shrimp by accident.

The recipe was super easy and only took about 30 minutes start to finish. I am a big fan of curries that have coconut milk in them, they are creamy and have a distinct sweetness that is able to cut through the spice of the red thai curry paste.

Additional seasoning was required, probably due to the fact that I didn't use canned tomatoes. I wasn't happy with the depth of the flavour in the dish. It required something 'extra', but I don't know what would have done it. Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Due to reading my Uncle Ken's cooking blog I half expected my cousin Victoria and her cute children (Poppy and Joey) to pass by. Alas, they didn't.... they live in Wales.

I would definitely make this dish again, it would be a nice one to serve when having guests over as it was super quick, easy and could be offered with a variety of side dishes to help contrast and cool. I often find that when I'm cooking for company I choose things that make me sweat all over, smell of garlic and set on fire!!!

Right, I'm off back to the BBC Good Food Cooking website to look for the next meal!

And, as always, don't forget to kiss your cook!