May the gods have mercy

[pasithea]

Dear gods of cooking, forgive me for this transgression I have wrought.

Last night, I created the truly unholy.

It was a green thai curry that used durian as the base and thousand year eggs as the 'meat'...

I wrought a great evil by actually making this combination rather tasty.

Comments

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Really??! I've tried both of those and while the durian wasn't as bad as I feared, those eggs were downright disgusting -- they reminded me of eating the soapy sludge that collects in the lint trap of a washing machine.

My roommate has always tried cooking experiments like this -- mind sharing the recipe?

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

The fact that those eggs exist at all leads me again to wonder why most people find vegans to be so odd...

[centauress.livejournal.com]

Hungry people around the world...

Never heard of century eggs... until now.

[sslaxx.livejournal.com]

Do share the recipe? Sounds... intriguing.

[schlake.livejournal.com]

I doubt I'll ever be able to make a second attempt to eat a thousand year egg. Durian I still need to try.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Durians are weird. Most describe them as either tasting like "vanilla custard" or "stinky-feet-smelling cheese". The one I tried actually tasted like both .. some parts were custard-like, some were stinky-cheese-like.

[viesti.livejournal.com]

....wow. That's a rather impressive achievement.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

I described this to my roommate and he wasn't surprised this combination would work out well. All the 'evil' would cancel itself out.

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Yeah. That was kind of the idea. The scents, flavors, and textures were fairly opposite so I used them to balance one another. Thai curries are sort of sweet to start with and often have onion. Durian being sort of sweet and oniony, it seemed like it'd work. I was pleased that it did.

In addition to those items, I used the green Mae Ploy curry paste, a 1" chunk of ginger, an entire bulb of garlic, a couple of chilis, some chili oil, a bit of coconut milk, and kept adding water to thin it.

Sorry it's not a real recipe. I kind of went by taste until it worked out.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

Again -- he can imagine that 'symphony of tastes' (sorta like what Remy the Rat described in 'Ratatouille') working very well together.

He recommends if you wanted to make the initial ingredients even more horrible add 'balut'.

Or if you wanted to TOTALLY SCREW IT UP just add blue cheese.

[paka.livejournal.com]

Wow. I missed this. This proves my theory that curry and coconut milk is the magic Thai combo to making everything taste good.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Wasn't curry invented to hide the taste of long spoiled meat?

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I've heard horror stories about the Durian. Did you wear self contained breathing apparatus during it's preparation? Did you actually cut into it *in* your apartment?

I have never heard of a thousand year egg, however. What is it?

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

It's a Chinese delicacy: an egg that's been preserved in a caustic mixture of mud and ash. The yolk turns stinky and green, and the white turns into brown jelly. It doesn't take a thousand years, but when it's done, the egg *looks* like it's a thousand years old. :}

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I did imagine it didn't actually take a thousand years to make, but yes, it does look like a sort of desiccated mummy of an egg.