{"id":461,"date":"2008-01-07T23:32:34","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/2008\/01\/07\/oafe-pataks-vindaloo-curry-paste\/"},"modified":"2008-01-07T23:32:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T04:32:34","slug":"oafe-pataks-vindaloo-curry-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=461","title":{"rendered":"OAFe – Patak’s Vindaloo Curry Paste"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am fairly new to the world of spicy foods.\u00a0 I never liked them, could never handle them and never understood why anyone would want to burn their mouth off rather than just taste the food.\u00a0 Dan, on the other hand, loves spicy foods.\u00a0 He’s not quite a ‘suicide’ hot, but he’s pretty close.\u00a0 We spent the first part of our relationship not sharing certain meals because mine were too bland and his were hotter than all hell.<\/p>\n

Then a group of us went to an Indian restaurant in the Byward Market.\u00a0 Haveli’s is well known for it’s fine cuisine and we were not disappointed.\u00a0 I admit that, before walking through the door, I was afraid.\u00a0 I did not have much experience with what I considered ‘exotic’ cuisine and if the food was going to be spicy or fishy (yet another food group I had decided I didn’t like before ever trying it) I knew I wouldn’t like it.<\/p>\n

The waiter must have sensed that most of us hadn’t tried Indian before and offered to just start bringing out dishes so we could sample everything rather than try to order on our own.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was that day that changed my opinion about spice (and Indian food, for that matter).\u00a0 I finally understood that spicy didn’t just mean hot.\u00a0\u00a0It was also tasty.\u00a0 Very tasty.\u00a0 So tasty, in fact,\u00a0that Dan and I regularly make our own Indian dishes (from scratch) at home on a very regular basis.<\/p>\n

While the time it takes to make these feasts isn’t always at our disposal, we found an easy way to get our fix.\u00a0 Patak’s.\u00a0 This company makes the delicious sauces from any of the Indian dishes you’ve ever enjoyed in a restaurant – and sells them in a jar,\u00a0at your local grocery store.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A few years after the first Haveli’s experience, I ordered Beef Vindaloo at a restaurant in Winnepeg.\u00a0 It was so good.\u00a0 I have since ordered Beef Vindaloo every single time I’ve seen it on a menu.\u00a0 So when Dan brought home a jar of Patak’s Vindaloo Curry Paste, I was ecstatic.\u00a0 Vindaloo at home!<\/p>\n

Turns out that Patak’s makes the hottest Vindaloo (or anything) that I’ve ever eaten.\u00a0 And it came pretty close for Dan too.\u00a0 It was beyond hot.\u00a0 I immediately started sweating, my stomach cramped a little and I could barely feel the back of my throat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I actually only got through a quarter of my plate before I had to stop.\u00a0 It became physically painful.\u00a0 Dan agreed, though he was brave enough to finish his plate.\u00a0 I think he saw it as a challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over the holidays, we decided to try it again, though this time we halfed the recipe and added more tomatoes.\u00a0 That would have to help.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 It was still blazing hot.\u00a0 I was starving and ended up finishing half of my plate, but, again, had to stop.<\/p>\n

So you may ask why this is getting an OAFe if I can’t even eat it.\u00a0 Well, I figure that if a jar of curry paste can scare off the experienced (Dan) and amateurs alike (me), I figured it’s worth the mention.\u00a0 If you like spice, love Vindaloo and are short on time, give this stuff a try.\u00a0 Though\u00a0I warn you, you may not thank me for it.<\/p>\n

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I am fairly new to the world of spicy foods.\u00a0 I never liked them, could never handle them and never understood why anyone would want to burn their mouth off rather than just taste the food.\u00a0 Dan, on the other hand, loves spicy foods.\u00a0 He’s not quite a ‘suicide’ hot, but he’s pretty close.\u00a0 We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[15,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}