The Joys of Cooking Japanese

Jason is a big fan of CoCo's which serves Japanese style curry, which is more like a gravy or a stew served over rice than Indian Curry. So the other day while wandering threw the Japanese grocery store on the mission of 'Find Organics' and 'Operation Try New Things' we found a 'box mix' for curry that clearly labels how hot the curry is (which is important for me).

Well the first box we looked at had pictures depicting a bag of curry was inside, we boil the bag in water to heat it and then eat it. Seems easy enough, no need for hefty translations or guess work. Well some how we managed to pick up the boxes (one very hot for Jason and one Mild for me) that have no pictures and only Japanese directions.

We discover this only after we have cooked the rice and are ready to make the curry. Poised over the pot with curry in hand we find that curry is a brick. The curry is not heat and eat. Now its time to guess what the directions say and how much water we should be adding, assuming we should be adding water.

So Jason boldly begins the guess work and before to long with a little fiddling, we have curry. And pretty good curry too! Jasons is hot enough that he needs bread and milk and mine is mild enough that I can actually eat it with out all the pain and agony that goes along with me eating hot things.

So now we can eat curry at home for pretty cheap (cheaper than CoCo's) and its a quick fix dinner. Toss some rice in the rice cooker and when its almost done add water, stir, heat and then eat. You just have to be adventurous, just because you have no idea how to cook it... doesn't mean you can't figure out some way to do something with it that's edible.