First up, let’s get to know Heather and Cyrus!
1. Tell us a little bit about you and your blog:
Arousing Appetites is a food blog on a quest to learn the recipes, cooking methods and ingredients from cuisines around the world. We’ll make adjustments for healthier and clean eating where we can, but we try to retain as much authenticity to the recipe and the hometown cuisine.
2. What is your favorite thing to eat?
Our favorite meals are typically very achievable at home and packed with flavor from easily source-able ingredients at your local grocery store. One of our absolute favorite things to make at home is a deep dish pizza in a cast iron pan. Two layers of cheese, two layers of sauce.
3. Coffee or tea?
Both!
4. What is your favorite restaurant?
Basically any restaurant that doesn’t have a menu in English (surprisingly a lot of them around DC!)
5. Alright, it’s Monday night. What are you making for dinner?
After a weekend full of eating, our Mondays are pretty low key. A good go-to for us is salmon en papillote and steamed broccoli to help us deflate
6. Do you have a job outside of blogging? If so, what do you do?
Indeed we do! Heather works in marketing and communications for a healthcare company, and Cyrus runs several businesses he either founded or co-founded.
7. What are your 3 favorite blogs?
Besides Rhubarbarians, we love: 1) David Lebovitz 2) Mimi Thorsson 3) I Am A Food Blog
8. Beer or wine? (or none!)?
More wine, although a nice cold one is pretty good from time to time.
9. Alright, what is your favorite recipe from your blog?
This is a tough one, but there’s a ceviche-style salad from Tahiti called Poisson Cru that we both really enjoy. And it’s so simple to make!
10. Where can we find you on Social media?
Here are the best places to find us:
Pinterest – http://pinterest.com/arouseappetites
Instagram – http://instagram.com/arousingappetites
Facebook – http://facebook.com/arouseappetites
Twitter – http://twitter.com/arouseappetites
And the blog! – http://arousingappetites.com
Hi Everyone!
We’re so happy to be here – thank you Trish! – and to share with you what we think is a really awesome (and super authentic) way to make a good Thai curry. We both had the massive fortune of learning this recipe while trekking in the jungles of Chiang Mai (shout out to Bundito!), an experience we’re so incredibly grateful to have had.
As you’ll see in the recipe, the key to making a really amazing curry comes with the paste you make. The better the ingredients are mashed (if you use a mortar and pestle) or are blended together… the better your curry. For this recipe, we made an all-vegetarian version, although meat is more than welcome in a dish like this. In order to make the dish vegan-friendly, you’ll have to swap out the fish sauce for something like soy sauce. Removing a key Thai ingredient like fish sauce does make take away from the magic, but obviously it’s worth it if needed. One of the most beautiful ingredients of this recipe are the Thai eggplants, a form of eggplant that absorb flavors so well (and are far less high-maintenance!) than their other eggplant cousins. If you’re well-versed in the land of eggplant, you’ll notice that there’s no soaking or salting needed before cooking… just throw them right in! Otherwise, the dish is fairly simple and so worth making. Enjoy!
Check out Arousing Appetites for more exotic, healthy, easy recipes!
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