Potatoes…

My missus cooked chicken curry…

…that day using that instant curry paste that we have been using since 2008! Ever since I blogged about it way back then, a lot of people have followed suit and have been using it too. It is available in Australia, this much I know so my cousins there are in this same boat as well.

In my growing up years, my mum would cook curry from scratch which, of course, would entail a lot of work. Nonetheless, I remember getting to enjoy it quite often – I suppose my mum did not mind, seeing how everybody loved it so much.

Using this instant paste has made it so very easy and most importantly, it tastes great. Perhaps we are not the only ones – others are doing the same and thus, the price has been going up…and up…and up! Another thing that I noticed these last few times was how my missus’ curry seemed extra spicy. At first, I thought she added more chili of her own as she loves anything and everything super-duper spicy but she said no. The paste is getting to be VERY spicy these days, not that we’re complaining. We actually like it hot so we are fine with it this way.

My mum would always add potatoes to her curry and sometimes, brinjal too and we would do the same at times…

I’m o.k. with brinjal in my curry but I love the potatoes a lot more.

There are different types of potatoes, some from China, some from Australia, some from God knows where. I, for one, can’t tell one from the other so I would just ask the seller whether it is good, whether it is liam-liam (sticky/creamy) or not. They will be able to tell me and more often than not, they are right!

We do add potatoes to some of our other dishes like this soy sauce chicken with Bombay onion…

…for instance. At one time, my missus cooked this dish so very often that I got so sick of it that I would lose my appetite at the mere sight of it. For reasons unknown, she does not cook it that often now and believe it or not, at times, I found myself craving for it. The other day, I told my girl and I think she told the mum so we had that the very next day. I love the potatoes in this dish too…yum yummm!!!

We always have potatoes in our corned beef dish…

…too. I find that it tastes nicer than when we just fry it with the onions just like that.

Incidentally, we ran out of corned beef so I went to the shops in the next lane from my house to look for my favourite brand…

There wasn’t any at the time but a few weeks later, I saw that the new stock had arrived and the price had shot up from the usual RM10.00 to RM13.00! I guess at this point in time, if we have the money, we might as well just buy and enjoy – there isn’t much else we can do these days.

Going back to the potatoes, sometimes, we fry minced beef with them, cut into little cubes…

Other than eating it as it is, this is good if used as the filling when making pies.

I would also add them to my beef soup…

…too and this is my late maternal aunt’s recipe…

…where she would fry the chicken lightly in butter first. Among all the other ingredients, she also added potatoes to the soup and yes, it IS very nice.

Of course, we have them in our ABC soup…

…as well.

What about all of you? Do you add potatoes to any of your dishes? Perhaps you would like to share and tell all of us about it so we can give it a try too?