Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday**.....and well...curry too;)

So i realize i R.A.R.E.L.Y post on here, because well...i rarely cook, but...in my defense i cook for one, so...i think it makes it a wee bit more challenging because though i LOVE leftovers, i cannot seem to eat a meal more than 5 times within a few days...sorry i guess just a quirk of mine;)

With that said since im all about trying to marry off my friends (and who knows perhaps i will marry off myself one day as well:)...) so i have been creating "opportunities" for my nearest and dearest to meet:) I have been having dinner parties 4 guys/4 girls or 5/5 6/6, so...i get to subject potentially 7-11 strangers to my cooking;) yahoo. !!! I have been forcing myself to do the main dish then assign out desserts, salads, sides etc. though i'd rather just do the salad or dessert b.c we all know you can't screw those up, but...nonetheless i have been trying to stretch myself, and though we've had a few minor mishaps ...(filling up my parents house with smoke, leaving them to clean it up, then rushing home to try the same recipe at my house only to have my roomates help me air out the house before we (scratch that ME) set off the smoke detector again....but i'm learning, so that counts right?;)

We did a curry night a few weeks ago and i think it went rather well. I made 2 and my friend made 2, we were cooking for 10-12 that night i can't remember, either way we had way too much food, but the idea was...if 1/2 of them tanked (since neither she or I had made them or curry for that matter) then we would have 2 other ones.

Here are the 2 that i made (and when i say "i" i mean my 2 friends and mother who came to the rescue as i hopped in the shower and they finished off the recipes, though i did prep everything (minus the chicken because it scares me...like i wont touch the stuff)...so it counts as "helping" with the recipe right?;)

http://www.bhg.com/recipe/chicken/mango-chicken-salad-with-coconut/

* note from my sister, which i didn't read, and it was a bit too spicy, not bad, but i just wanted something a little softer with mango/coconut as the ingredients, maybe this would have fixed the problem;) "This is one that my friend Jen has tried--it is one of their family's favorites--they do take our the jalepenos though (I read in the comments that it you want to use jalepenos, take out the seeds and then cook them before adding them to the recipe. this will take out most of the heat)"

oh and we put it over rice as does my sister, so...to each their own;)

http://www.melskitchencafe.com/2009/09/basil-chicken-in-coconut-curry-sauce.html

both were fantastic, oh and melskitchencafe had a nan recipe that i didn't dare try because well...i was running behind on time anyway...everything from missing ingredients to "Empty" gas lights coming on while you are frantically trying to get home:(


Sorry this post is so long, you wonder why i dont post often;) If you do have any ideas for my future dinner parties i would LOVE to have them. Whether its just a main dish idea or you have sides and all sorts of other ideas to add to it, because i make-up a bunch of stuff that i think a normal family would eat together then make food assignments. (because if it was me i'd be eating peanutbutter and jelly with my thai food because...i love both thats all, no rhyme or reason besides that)

OR...if you are afraid i might botch your tried and true family recipe, then..if you have any single gentlemen in your midst you would like me to include in my dinner parties, im all about opening my social circle, come on! us singletons need as much help as we can get in meeting new people;)

**totally not my version of how you would quote Princess Bride but IMBD seems to think it does it justice, so...hope you weren't TOTALLY perplexed the entire post;)