Curry from package

After moving in for a whole month I finally felt settled enough and decided to do some cooking. Well, some of you would probably call it...er...something else, but I think it's good enough to be cooking if some people called their microwavable TV dinner cooking for them...

So the ingredients are as follows:

1. Bag of carrots
   
2. bag of pre-diced mushrooms (gotta love the modern convenience...I used to dice them by hand myself...)
3. 1.5 lbs of chicken or more...whatever...depends on how much meat you like...as long as it fits your pot

*note: meat can be replaced with pork or beef. I just don't have any cravings for meat



4. 1 Onion
5. 2 potatoes



6. a box of Vermont Curry or whatever, I got it because it was on sale. As long as they are blocked curry...the portion should be right. Don't get the small kind...

So...the damn directions:


Peel the potatoes! Just...you know...get rid of the skin... Make sure you rinse it after you peeled them. Sometimes when I peel I notice a lot of dirt on the skin and it might get into the peeled part when I rotate it to peel.


Dice them and put them in pot.
I recommend using non-stick pot for this, because once everything is in, you don't need to put too much efforts in stirring because things tend to settle and burn on the bottom. It not only put a coffee flavor into your cooking, it is also a nightmare to clean.


Dice the onions and saute them. Well, just fry them till the smell comes out...
I never get teary from dicing onions...but this one I used was strong... I should sneak these little bastards to funerals where I felt like I should but can't cry.


Strip the chicken. If you had beef or pork, cube them, because they don't fall apart while you boil them like chicken.


Put chicken and onion into the same pot and fry them.
The reason why I do this is because onions cook faster that way and it brings out the smell in the pot of curry.
Also, the cooked chicken will fall apart slower than raw chicken in boiling water. (I think...)


After the surface of the chicken turns white, dump everything in pot, add enough water to cover everything and BOIL!
Boil for many, many hours until you think the carrots and potatoes soften.
then......


Add water to a saucepan or some small pot, bring it to boil, and break the packaged curry apart and drop them in.
Stir them till it turns into liquid and slowly mixing them to the pot. As you pour, remember to stir.

Put the heat on simmer for 40 minutes until the taste of curry gets into the ingredients.
It's critical to stir occasionally if you did not use it non-stick pot, because things will burn in the bottom since curried soup does not allow heat to escape from the bottom as easily. So stirring prevents things on the bottom from getting burned.


add rice and enjoy.

*note 2: I forgot to take a picture of the food, so I stole a picture from Internet. They all look pretty much the same anyway...

This is pretty much the only other decent dish I could make besides turkey...
My sister taught me how to make this, and I usually make a large pot and eat it for 5 days. I have to say, the later it is when you eat it, the better it tastes because the potatoes eventually breaks down, and the meat gives it a better broth.