Sunday, August 09, 2015

Peanut Sauce

2 tsp vegetable oil
1/2 cup onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
1/2 cup peanut butter
2 tblsps fish sauce
1 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp cayenne
1/2 tsp red pepper flakes
1 cup coconut milk, unsweetened
1 tblsp cornstarch
1 tblsp water (may need more water to make less thick)
2 tblsp lime juice

1). Brown onion and garlic in oil until tender
2). Reduce heat.  Add peanut butter, fish sauce, paprika, cayenne, and red pepper flakes; stir until smooth.  Slowly stir in coconut milk until well blended
3). Stir sauce constantly over medium heat until bubbling gently.  Reduce heat to medium-low.  Combine cornstarch and water in small cup; stir into sauce.  Cook and stir 1-2 minutes or until sauce is thickened.  Stir in lime juice.

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

After reading Kathryn Schulz article in the New Yorker, a friend got his hands on the time periods for the major cascadia earthquake dates and calculated the intervals between them to get a sense of where our current interval compares with historical intervals.  He sent some R code that created this plot.  Seems like most of the recorded intervals are even longer than the one we're currently experiencing.  However, anything could happen at any time.

Sunday, January 04, 2015

Piripiri
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piri_piri

Here's a sauce we had somewhere that I really liked.  I don't remember where it was but I've had the ingredients written down on a piece of paper for months and this is my attempt to get rid of random slips of paper.

cilantro
jalepeno
garlic
lemon
brown sugar
salt
oil


Let's see if I ever make it.