Meal 12: Potato salad, Thai beef curry, strawberries w/vinegar

Another good meal, with just a couple of recipe flutters.

The potato salad was great, just watch (when cooking for six) that the ratio for the capers aren’t a third of the amount called out for cooking for 20, so I doubled/tripled what was called for. Pretty interesting flavors, it generally rocked.

The Thai beef curry had another error, where the amount of curry paste called for was 1/3 of a cup for 20 people, it calls for only 1 teaspoon of paste when cooking for 6 — I used a heaping tablespoon. Also, the water called for seemed really excessive, it took quite some time to reduce the cooking stock to something resembling a sauce. I removed the meat, as it was falling apart already, and cooked the stock off for more than an hour. Be sure to reduce it though, the meat has little flavor on its own right out of the pressure cooker. Again, it was pretty good.

The strawberries were great, I used balsamic vinegar instead of red wine vinegar — very interesting flavors. Be sure to mind the recipe when putting the water into the caramel, it creates quite a lot of steam. I served it with some sweetened whipped cream which helped balance out the strawberries, which were just on the verge of getting ripe.

All in all, another sold set of dishes.

Cooking Ferran Adriá’s The Family Meal — The Errata