Chocolate and Beyond

Recipes: Lime & Coconut 'Green' Curry

Starting as I mean to go on with adding recipes to my 'new-look' blog, this is a really delicious curry that I cooked up for dinner the other night, after spotting I had several tins of coconut milk in the cupboard and some green vegetables that needed using up!

Depending on how hot your chillies are, you can make this curry hotter with a pinch of extra red chilli powder too. But my red chilli was especially long and quite fiery, so it was enough (obviously, use less if you're not soo keen on hot, hot, hot!).

The sauce in this curry is fairly thin - the picture above is from a day after, when the sauce had thickened and dried a bit. But add more desiccated (shredded, dried coconut for US readers!) if you want it thicker.

7lbs lighter, new directions, and 'coming out' as vegan

Hello again. You may have noticed I haven't been around that much. That's literally true, because I'm about 7lbs lighter since the start of this year - hurray! So there's less of me. But we'll come to that in a minute.

I have been 'absent' because I've been busy with my blog Butterflyist, which was the result of a column I had in the Guardian. I was tied up doing all the work I needed for the column, and writing the blog, and I've been working on building it up. That's now milling along nicely overall.

I've also had a few ideas on how to give a bit of a revamp to Chocolate and Beyond too, because times have moved on since I began this blog, and it needs a new direction. Especially as I've taken such a new direction in my own life, regarding my diet and my general philosophy (that is, now I am a commited vegan). I think that I need to bring this blog in line with that.