Recipe: Burmese Curry Paste

"This makes my mouth sing"

Curry paste cooked with carrots
and a side of mashed cauliflower

This recipe is still a bit rough around the edges. I received it through a friend who is of Burmese descent.

Ingredients

• 1 Large Onion. Cut fine
• 5-6 tbs Canola oil 
• 1 inch ginger
• 3 cloves garlic
• Half teaspoon Turmeric powder
• Optional: half teaspoon chilli powder 
• Half teaspoon paprika
• Half teaspoon prawn paste (can skip if you dont have this, or maybe use fish sauce instead)
• 1 tablespoon crushed dried prawn (I don't have this so I would just use more shrimp paste)

Method

Crush Ginger and garlic is crushed in mortar and pestle to a paste. Start cooking onion and oil first until soft. Then add ginger garlic, turmeric and chilli 

Add paprika, prawn paste, and dried prawn last as it burns.


Use this curry paste and cook with any of the following:

• eggplant
• eggs
• pumpkin
• laksa - you can make a kind of laksa by adding coconut cream, chilli, konnyaku noodle, and prawns

Custard apple for Prostate & Proctitis?

It is far too early to make a call on this but it looks promising. Here are my notes so far. 

Log: Custard Apple

Key: soursop

-- Observation summary --

* small brief sharp pain in prostate area

* custard apple is known to kill prostate cancer cells in the lab

20140530 Custard Apple ***

Pretty sure custard apple clearer my Proctitis. I should have reacted to the sticky rice, the sugar in the Korean sauce and also for having sweet food after dinner. 

Dinner: Custard apple (desert, lots of it). Sticky rice. Green curry fish w green beans. Pork belly w Korean BBQ sauce (ask Dave for brand). Chinese greens w ginger. 

20140521 & 23 Prostate

Twice I had some custard apple and noticed some small sharp pains in prostate region. They were brief and transient. Rather than being bad for the prostate, I'm going to run with the theory that this is a type of "healing crisis" reaction. Reason: lab tests show custard apple kills prostate cancer. Also, prostate health was very good after the pains went away, and this is unusual.