I’m having a mild freak attack. I am. I’m not sure what’s actually happening. If it’s reality, a dream, if I’m looking at someone else’s life, or if this is really mine. I need someone to pinch me, slap me across the face, pour a bucket of ice cold water to snap me out of this.
…..It’s raining outside.
If you know me at all, you know that I’m utterly and completely obsessed with rain. I absolutely love it. It could rain for 2 weeks straight and the giddiness in my heart would hire a band, rent a strobe light and get in trouble for dirty dancing.
When it rains like this, things happen to me. My voice involuntarily jumps 2 octaves, I jump around like a 4-year old, and I crave the ultimate in comfort, rich, creamy, soul-innards-massaging food.
I crave curry, baby.
So that’s what I did. I skipped around in my kitchen. I drank red wine. I merrily listened to the thunder roll and watched the rain soak our city, and I let the curry do the rest.
Thai Shrimp Curry:
What it took for 2:
* 2 cups cooked jasmine or basmati rice
* 1/2 pound shrimp, peeled and deveined
* 1 (14.5 oz) can coconut milk
* 3 Tbs. red Thai curry paste
* 1 Tbs. brown sugar
* 1/2 red bell pepper, finely sliced
* 1/2 bunch asparagus, ends trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces
* 1 lime
* 1/4 cup fresh basil, torn
In a medium skillet, bring 1/4 cup coconut milk to a boil. Add the curry paste, whisk together and bloom for 30 seconds. Add the rest of the coconut milk and bring to a boil. Add the brown sugar and stir to combine.
Add the red bell pepper and asparagus to the skillet and cook until crisp tender, 6 minutes. Spritz in some lime juice, uh huh.
Add the shrimp and cook until opaque, 3 minutes.
Serve curry over rice and top with torn basil and more spritzed lime!
Now I have a new idea for that pound of shrimp in my freezer! Yah!! Love your story above and I love it when it rains too! There is a song by Chris Young called “Rainy Night In Georgia” you might like. Check it out on itunes.
yum yum! surprise – we actually wound up having a dinner party with our neighbors last night.
you have got to try tomatoes in your thai curry – amazing. our recipes are very similar – you could just add chopped, seeded tomatoes to this version. promise you’ll like it.
yum yum! surprise – we actually wound up having a dinner party with our neighbors last night.
you have got to try tomatoes in your thai curry – amazing. our recipes are very similar – you could just add chopped, seeded tomatoes to this version. promise you’ll like it.
Oh I usually do add tomatoes! I just forgot last night. The thunder sent my memory to another place. A beautiful, perfect place.
Next time!
I’m totally with you. I love the rain! Unfortunately the Air Force has sent us to live in the desert for a while so I’m going through withdrawals.
This curry looks fabulous and so easy!
Thank you Carrie!
I can’t imagine living so far away from rain. Do you cry often?
This looks amazing. I like to enjoy curry, just have never made it. The brown sugar addition sounds awesome!
I always have shrimp in the freezer. This looks so warm and just delicious. I don’t make curry often enough.
YUMMY does THAT look fantabulous!
Seriously my mouth is watering looking at this! DELISH! You have AMAZING recipes!!! Love it!
I love the rain, but I’m also soaking up this sunny day in the mid 70s (as my husband would say, ‘perfect Cedar Point weather’–Cedar Point is an amusement park he’s obsessed with). Whether rain or shine, that curry looks like the ticket to mealtime bliss. Mmmm!
I tried this recipe, and I LOVED it! It’s super easy, too! I think next time I make it I’ll put a little bit more curry. I like things hot.
Thanks, Beverly!
I LOVE this recipe SO much!! Amazing!! Isn’t coconut milk and red curry paste a wonderful marriage?! I didn’t have asparagus on hand so I used a red and green pepper and some cauliflower. Delish! Would be great with scallops too