Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Culinary Conquests – Super Easy Thai Green Curry & Awesome Pasta

We love this dish.  I picked up my secret ingredient on one of my many trips to Trader Joe’s and it blew me away the first time that I made it.  Super tasty, a little spicy but not too much.  Check it out:


Step 1:  Cook chicken
Step 2:  Add chopped red & yellow peppers (optional if you can spare the time)
Step 3:  Add secret ingredient, heat through, serve over rice. 

Ok, not a conquest.  But it’s so tasty that I will probably never attempt to make green curry from scratch.  Try it—thank me later.

If you really want to act like you are cooking, try this pasta sauce.  I got lucky once when I happened to have all the ingredients on hand and cooked them together.  So tasty that it is now a regular meal in our house.  The two secret ingredients:  spicy chorizo and this sauce:


Step 1:  Cook chopped onion, mushroom, and 2 links of ground mexican chorizo sausage until sausage is cooked through.  (adding an yellow or red pepper is also tasty)
Step 2:  Add sauce, simmer for 5 minutes.  Serve over pasta of your choice. 

The sauce by itself is not all that flavorful--the chorizo is what brings it to life.  If you try it with something like ground beef, you will be disappointed.   

I love Trader Joe’s.