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.

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.

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.