Aug 30 2006
Sloppy Vindys
I’ve been a fan of Vindaloo for ages, originally brought about by my watching Red Dwarf this dish rapidly became one of my favorites, and many was the visitor to my work whos eyes would water on the approach to my office.
While Lisa doesn’t have the same genetically imprinted taste for thermonuclear hot food that I do, she enjoys the dish and we’ve long made a habit of treating ourselves by ordering in some Vindaloo from local restaurants where ever we have lived. It’s a bit expensive that way of course, and so I was pleasantly shocked when we discovered Pataks Vindaloo Sauce (scroll all the way down) making it much less labour intensive to throw together a batch of spicy food at home.
A week ago or so we were both in the mood for something spicy, but the only meat in the fridge was some ground chuck. Figuring what the hell, we tried beef vindaloo for the first time. Reminding me more of a sloppy joe poured over rice it was a pleasant change, and one we repeated last night. I think we’re going to stick with this variant, it appeals to the meat lover in me and significantly increases the amount of sauce we have per meal.
Cooking instructions with Pataks are simplicity itself. Peel and chop a few potatos. Grill up some ground chuck. Get the rice going. Mix the Pataks sauce (out of the can) with an equal amount of water and place on low heat. Mix the potatos in when the beef is 3/4 cooked. When the beef is cooked mix it in and let the sauce stew for a bit until the potatos have soaked a fair bit in. Dollop out the rice, slop the Vindy over it and tuck in.
Not a traditional meal, but makes for a happy tummy none the less (Pataks also sells Pompadoms, the Naan you’ll have to obtain for yourself).
Damn!!! And to think I’ve been making Vindaloo from scratch all these years!!
I’m glad you found an alternative to the restaurant variety.
Remember the time at VGH where you sucked up the remaining vindaloo sauce with nothing else but pita bread Mon?!
Damn Patrick, thanks for reminding me about the VGH cook offs. My crew was always pissed that they were not working with you. I tried trading/transfering you to my shift but the other SSO’s would not go for it.
Really? the other SSO’s wouldn’t go for it?! Damn, I knew Donna W. had a thing for me!
How’s school by the way Dan? How much longer do you have to go before your a full Psyche Babysitter?
I passed biology. I heard that biology is the number one reason for failure in nursing school so I’m pretty thankful that it is over. It seemed like they crammed two years of bio into one. Tough course.
Still a long way to go before I can say goodbye forever to hospital security.
ps. What I did not tell you that Donna had a thing for you. I think that I scared her away when I said that the problem with having sex a chinaman, is that an hour later you need to have sex again.
In regards to “sex with a Chinaman” I think it’s contingent on where the “Chinaman” is originally from! In my case, I think I’ve already shown her how much and how well I can cook!
Patrick I think you’ve had enough marriage proposals already based on your cooking at the hospital.
Yeah, but gettin’ proposals from GUYS like Carl don’t count!