14th January 2024

I have been working on an Indonesian curry recipe - rendang to be specific.  Today I wanted to give it another test run and so set about cooking it, the smells and flavours are just wonderful.  Today however when I was checking it just before the liquid all cooks away I just thought what I really wanted was fluffy white rice and sauce.  So just like that I decided to cook rice and stop cooking away the sauce on the rendang.  I have to say it really did hit all of the things I needed.  So I will now need to do another final run in a few weeks' time of the rendang.  I did sort of grapple with myself but it is what I always tell people, do what you fancy not necessarily what the recipe states.  If you do this you just need to understand that if it is not what the writer intended, it might not work out exactly the same, but that is also fine.