What's for Dinner

The past two nights Matt and I have been feasting on this.

What is this concoction that may or may not resemble something digusting?! It's Penang Curry, and it's freakin' delicious.

Our friends Brian and Miyoung found a world food market located in Daejeon that caters to mostly other Asian cuisine. There you can find 10 kilo bags of jasmine rice, durian fruit (one fruit I WON'T try), and an array of different spices and curry packets.

Taking their advice, we visited and left with penang curry, chicken masala mix and a couple cans of coconut milk.

I've surprised myself with the dishes I've made since coming to Korea. I am not a big fan of cooking ever since I made stuffed shells without cooking the shells first (okay, you can stop laughing now) and cried like a baby. My mom ended up un-stuffing each shell, cooking them, re-stuffing them and baking them again. It was a mess.

But I have slowly taken it upon myself to try new dishes. Matt has been a blast to cook for, especially since I don't need to impress him..or maybe I do..besides..we're not married yet...haha.

Here's the dealio with the penang curry:

First, cut up a healthy portion of carrots and onions. Take a couple sweet potatoes and zap them in the microwave until soft. Cut those up too. Along with the curry mix and cocunut milk, you're good to go.

Now, since we're not vegetarians, we also add a generous portion of chicken. In one skillet, brown the carrots, onions and sweet potato. In another skillet, brown the chicken. Add the curry sauce packet to the chicken and mix thoroughly.

Yes, it's a two burner operation. Thank god we were given a stove and not just a hot plate! It's the little things in Korean life.

Anyways, once everything is nice and cooked and brown, add the two skillets together and pour in coconut milk until it looks good. No, I didn't measure anything when making this dish, sue me. hehe.

After letting the whole thing simmer, you should get something that smells absolutely to die for.

Most of the time one would eat curry with either long grain rice or naan bread. Because we had neither, we decided to use some plain old bread. It did the trick.


This time the consistency was a little thicker than last time, but no matter. YUM. We had ours with a side salad.

We're on a tight budget this month, but that's because we were able to send home a bunch of money and put a significant amount into savings. That's right, SAVINGS. Along with paying our bills, we cut out some other expenses and put aside our first large amount of savings. It feels SO good. This money will go towards the wedding and future travel. We're not too upset about having to make this meal more than once, along with some other cheap favorites. Tonight I am prepping black beans for a crock pot Mexican stew. Who said eating at home had to be boring? :)