Sure, you could go out and buy curry paste. You can, and it’s not bad. Sometimes it’s even pretty good, if you’ve got a decent Indian or Thai market nearby. We recently scoured the Little India neighborhood in Queens and couldn’t find what we were looking for, and it’s hard to find in the large Chinatown markets, too. So of course what does he do? He decides to make his own! This is the man who makes homemade pickles and mustard for me, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by today’s task….but it still amazed me. Again I say, for the Nth time: I’m a lucky girl.
This morning, our trip to Chinatown yielded a couple of very nice codfish steaks that just cried out to be smothered in a sumptuous curry sauce. He provides the recipe for the sauce - starting with the homemade curry paste - after …