Country - India
Food - Shrimp in Coconut Cream Sauce
Cookbook - Flavors of India: Authentic Indian Recipes, by Meena Pathak; pp.51
Movies - Outsourced, Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime
The first movie I saw was Outsourced starring Josh Hamilton, Ayesha Dharker and Asif Basra. It was somewhat humorous if you can keep to the back of your mind all the jobs that were lost in the U.S. when the jobs were outsourced in a tough job market. It was released in 2006, not long before the recession. Bad timing.
There was a TV show of the same name that followed in 2010 starring Ben Rappaport, Anisha Nagarajan and Diedrich Bader.
I thought the series was better and the banter had a kind of "Better Off Ted" feel to it.
I also went over to YouTube and watched Jeremy Piven's Journey of a Lifetime. This 2-part video follows the actor's vacation through India.
Part 1
Part 2
Tonight's meal was Shrimp in Coconut Cream Sauce. Since I'm only cooking for one, I made some modifications to the book's recipe.
I cut the shrimp from 2.5 lbs. to 1 lb. In addition to a reduced number or portions it was also a cost saving measure. I increased the tumeric from .75 tsp. to 1 tsp. I knew the coconut milk and yogurt were going to cool the recipe flavor down so the extra tumeric kicked it back up to my preferred level of spicy.
I also skipped the rice since I already have a couple of other recipes this week that call for rice and the dish was filling enough on its own.
I wish smell-o-vision had been invented because my kitchen smells really good right now.
Until tomorrow, I leave you with these pictures of my finished dish.
Michael
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