Elizabeth's sweet potato with red curry coconut

Sweet potatoes with red curry coconut

From my sister Elizabeth Drake

Ingredients:

6 Medium Sweet potatoes

3 Tsp Red Thai Curry

1 Tsp peanut or vegetable oil

3/4 cup lite coconut milk

1/4 cup agave or maple syrup

3 Tbsp butter

1. Roast the 6 sweet potatoes till soft and peel and mash
2. In a wok, heat 1 Tsp oil till it just begins to smoke. Add 3 Tsp Red Thai Curry and stir fry until fragrant
3. Add 3/4 cup coconut milk (be sure to include both solids and liquid if not using a lite coconut milk
4. Bring curry and coconut to a boil, then turn down to simmer.
5. Simmer for 5 minutes
6. Mix in 1/8 cup of maple or agave syrup, and 2 Tbsp of butter until the butter is melted.
7. Whip in potatoes with a mixer or masher
8. Transfer to a broiler safe pan, put the remaining 1 tbsp of butter and 1/8 cup Maple or Agave syrup on top and broil under the broiler in the oven until toasted on top
9. Serve hot

Serves 6-8 easily - maybe more.

Sriracha and Wasabi Deviled eggs

 

 

I ran across this recipe online and made them up as an afternoon snack.  This is 1/3 the recipe listed below (4 eggs rather than 12). 

What a perfectly FABULOUS Asian variant on an American classic appetizer. These were full of delicious!

You do have to make them ahead of time as the eggs marinate in a mixture for at least 4 hours, but oh are they worth the wait. Hard to see from the picture but you have a nice chestnut brown finish to the outside where the soy, sake, anise, ginger and scallions soaked into the egg, nice and salty and sweet. The yolks were mixed with sriracha sauce and wasabi and mayo - so zippy but not burn your mouth off zippy. The puddle in the middle is more sriracha to zip it up. They are sprinkled with 5 spice powder instead of the traditional paprika.

These are not for the faint of tastebud - they are spicy - but they are not rip your face off spicy.  They could be spicier of course - more Wasabi and Sriracha in the mix.

http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/sriracha-and-wasabi-deviled-eggs/print

Facebook Post by Lee Drake.