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I stumbled across the discussions of Japanese men whose wives are not stellar cooks. I don't think I fall into this category but if I had a lot less money to spend on food, a lot less space, a lot fewer utensils and a lot more pressure, it could go anywhere. Anywhere. Feminism rears its ugly head, man. Here's a bunch of adults who are childishly dependent on another human being for food, who believe they are entitled to have someone cook average to above-average food for them every day (sometimes more than three meals a day, and that's a fuckton if you've ever tried). Here's a bunch of adults who carry the responsibility for the health of another human being who doesn't do the same for them, who feel patronized when someone tells them to do it this way or that way.
Also, that guy complaining about exploded croquettes he didn't even have to eat is a troll, I swear to god. Prick.
I wrote most of this entry about mabo curry two days ago, but I didn't post it until now because I felt embarrassed at my blathering about game food.
Mabo curry started as an imaginary food that appeared in Tales games. It is a combination of mabo (szechuan) tofu and your average Japanese curry. The simplest recipes involve just mixing the two finished products until you have what you want. The Japanese parts of the internet have evolved somewhat since, because back in the day when I played Tales of Eternia and tried to figure out what the hell it was, googling did nothing. Now there are recipes to give me ideas.
That House Foods also makes mabo curry shows that Tales is one bigass franchise, much bigger than it was back then.
Mabo curry first appeared in Tales of Destiny. After that it was in the PSX remake of Tales of Phantasia and basically every mothership title that came after. In its first incarnation, mabo curry completely recovered HP and TP and since Tales sure does like a tradition, mabo curry has continued to be one of the best recipes. Being someone who started with Tales of Phantasia and made miso oden before practically anybody in the west knew how, I am (heavily) biased, but I think it's safe to say that mabo curry is more of a Mutsumi Tales thing. Nowadays mabo curry and miso oden both appear in mothership titles.
1 onion, minced like Cooking Mama does it
1 peeled carrot, cut it up
1 peeled potato, cut that up too
2 servings of curry block (check your package of curry and do some math. Many say how many plates are supposed to come from a block and are made so that you can break them up evenly. Kind of.)
4 cups of fancy broth (we used some nice beef bouillon)
1 block of firm or extra firm tofu
1 pound of beef. Haha, yeah I know it's not pork, watch me do it wrong because they don't sell ground pork at the nearest supermarket.
-1 clove of garlic, minced
-2 tbsp tian mian jiang (テンメンジャン)
-2 tsp (TEASPOONS) dou ban jiang (that's right, I like my pussy mabo just fine. Go as high as 1 1/2 tablespoons if you want to die) (トウバンジャン)
-1 tsp of szechuan pepper (or thereabouts. I wasn't super about measuring it. If you can't find any, skip this and add a little more of the other hot stuff.)
pre-1. screw up and fry the garlic first. D'oh! X3 Mix all the ingredients with bullets up there in a little bowl before you start.
1. Fry the onions until they're mostly like what you'd make for curry.
2. Dump in the ground meat. Stir it and break it up. Get it to start shedding a little liquid.
3. Add the seasonings you mixed in a bowl. Get it all mixed with the meat.
4. Add potatoes, carrots, and broth. I like to do the potatoes and carrots dry for a few seconds and then put in the broth
6. Bring that to a boil. Add tofu.
7. Put the whole thing on medium and cover it and leave it alone for 10 minutes and discover that it's boiling at like top speed! Noes! These gas burners sure are strong. Turn that mother down and cook for 15 or more minutes, until the potatoes and carrots are basically the softness at which you prefer to eat them. It's nice when they're not totally melting into the broth.
8. Turn off the heat and add the curry. You may stab the curry block in its container with a fork or knife to make it easier to break up. Stir gently (defend your tofu) until it breaks up.
9. Let it sit on really really low heat or no heat at all until the curry starts to gel up.
10. Eat with rice.
I dunno, man, my dad lapped it up, but it just tasted kind of salty and spicy to me. It wasn't sharp like mabo OR easy like curry. Generic salty spicy stuff. Maybe I need to make roux from scratch. Or shut up and put an apple in there? Less tian mian jiang more curry?
Coincidentally, I googled マーボーカレー to do some research for this entry and discovered that they're selling instant mabo curry in December to celebrate Tales of Graces f. House Foods already makes a Mabo Curry, so the Tales one will be "Special Mabo Curry," have boxes with characters on them and probably come with a prize. That's right, you watch me try to get either one of these on Rakuten. I'm gonna do this. (When I can make perfectly good food myself. I'm going to try to steal their recipe.)
Also, that guy complaining about exploded croquettes he didn't even have to eat is a troll, I swear to god. Prick.
I wrote most of this entry about mabo curry two days ago, but I didn't post it until now because I felt embarrassed at my blathering about game food.
Mabo curry started as an imaginary food that appeared in Tales games. It is a combination of mabo (szechuan) tofu and your average Japanese curry. The simplest recipes involve just mixing the two finished products until you have what you want. The Japanese parts of the internet have evolved somewhat since, because back in the day when I played Tales of Eternia and tried to figure out what the hell it was, googling did nothing. Now there are recipes to give me ideas.
That House Foods also makes mabo curry shows that Tales is one bigass franchise, much bigger than it was back then.
Mabo curry first appeared in Tales of Destiny. After that it was in the PSX remake of Tales of Phantasia and basically every mothership title that came after. In its first incarnation, mabo curry completely recovered HP and TP and since Tales sure does like a tradition, mabo curry has continued to be one of the best recipes. Being someone who started with Tales of Phantasia and made miso oden before practically anybody in the west knew how, I am (heavily) biased, but I think it's safe to say that mabo curry is more of a Mutsumi Tales thing. Nowadays mabo curry and miso oden both appear in mothership titles.
1 onion, minced like Cooking Mama does it
1 peeled carrot, cut it up
1 peeled potato, cut that up too
2 servings of curry block (check your package of curry and do some math. Many say how many plates are supposed to come from a block and are made so that you can break them up evenly. Kind of.)
4 cups of fancy broth (we used some nice beef bouillon)
1 block of firm or extra firm tofu
1 pound of beef. Haha, yeah I know it's not pork, watch me do it wrong because they don't sell ground pork at the nearest supermarket.
-1 clove of garlic, minced
-2 tbsp tian mian jiang (テンメンジャン)
-2 tsp (TEASPOONS) dou ban jiang (that's right, I like my pussy mabo just fine. Go as high as 1 1/2 tablespoons if you want to die) (トウバンジャン)
-1 tsp of szechuan pepper (or thereabouts. I wasn't super about measuring it. If you can't find any, skip this and add a little more of the other hot stuff.)
pre-1. screw up and fry the garlic first. D'oh! X3 Mix all the ingredients with bullets up there in a little bowl before you start.
1. Fry the onions until they're mostly like what you'd make for curry.
2. Dump in the ground meat. Stir it and break it up. Get it to start shedding a little liquid.
3. Add the seasonings you mixed in a bowl. Get it all mixed with the meat.
4. Add potatoes, carrots, and broth. I like to do the potatoes and carrots dry for a few seconds and then put in the broth
6. Bring that to a boil. Add tofu.
7. Put the whole thing on medium and cover it and leave it alone for 10 minutes and discover that it's boiling at like top speed! Noes! These gas burners sure are strong. Turn that mother down and cook for 15 or more minutes, until the potatoes and carrots are basically the softness at which you prefer to eat them. It's nice when they're not totally melting into the broth.
8. Turn off the heat and add the curry. You may stab the curry block in its container with a fork or knife to make it easier to break up. Stir gently (defend your tofu) until it breaks up.
9. Let it sit on really really low heat or no heat at all until the curry starts to gel up.
10. Eat with rice.
I dunno, man, my dad lapped it up, but it just tasted kind of salty and spicy to me. It wasn't sharp like mabo OR easy like curry. Generic salty spicy stuff. Maybe I need to make roux from scratch. Or shut up and put an apple in there? Less tian mian jiang more curry?
Coincidentally, I googled マーボーカレー to do some research for this entry and discovered that they're selling instant mabo curry in December to celebrate Tales of Graces f. House Foods already makes a Mabo Curry, so the Tales one will be "Special Mabo Curry," have boxes with characters on them and probably come with a prize. That's right, you watch me try to get either one of these on Rakuten. I'm gonna do this. (When I can make perfectly good food myself. I'm going to try to steal their recipe.)
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