Maggie's Farm

My mom made turkey curry, extremely spicy, with the leftovers from Thanksgiving and Xmas, which was the only time we ever ate the boring bird. THe curry was the best form: She wd fry an onion, then add garlic and fresh ginger chopped, then apple slices, celery, sweet peppers, eggplant diced, some very hot pepper like jalapeno or whatever else was around, cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, standard curry powder (whatever was around), and add the diced turkey pieces, then pour in either water and add two TBS peanut butter and stir OR 1 can of coconut milk. Add raisins. Simmer. At the last minute, stir in fresh cilantro, a little bit of salt, and some red pepper if it wasn't hot enough (nowadays you can just burn everyone's mouth by putting in commercial Vindaloo curry paste with coconut milk, easy, easy, easy).

Served over rice (in the days before rice steamers at home, this was rarely as good as it is now) with some steamed green beans with coriander chutney, and dishes of mango chutney and plain yogurt on the side.

This was our comfort food on a horrible grey English evening. Warmed you right up. And actually really easy to make. Just toss in spices with abandon, and whatever veggies you had around that the family would tolerate. It's one drawback was that the turmeric stained messy kids' clothes something awful...But the combination of sweet and spicy--YUM!