Other cooking adventures of recent:

Other cooking adventures of recent:
- White bean soup, made with several types of white beans, herbs, wine, onions, celery (just for the flavor building - you don't know it's in there), garlic. I decided to use some bacon and render that fat, use it to cook the onions, garlic, and celery, then later, for thickening, mashed up some of the beans with it to make a thickener. Finally, serve the crumbled bacon on top. Could have used fish sauce for umami, but there's plenty of salty flavor in the bacon, so didn't.
- Massaman curry with traditional beef, potatoes, and onions. Didn't use peanuts, but I like it as is. Yay for stores with real Thai curry pastes without msg (I don't always, but I can get really bad headaches from it). Only downside of that is that my mom, who is moderately allergic to peppers (read: lots of bad coughing but eventually able to breathe, as opposed to straight up anaphylaxis), cannot eat anything with the premade pastes, because they all have some degree of hot peppers in them.