January 12

How I Celebrated

I made one of my favorites, coconut chicken Thai curry. I tried to make it less spicy this time (cause Nate has a weak tummy), but I still think he is going to have problems. I'm always worried I am going to miss out on the spice ( I guess coconut chicken wouldn't be too bad).
Nate got some marzipan off of Amazon because we couldn't find all the ingredients for a reasonable price and we couldn't find the finished product anywhere! I guess we could have driven somewhere to get a pastry, but our car isn't exactly reliable right now. It tasted like very strong almond extract and sugar. I wouldn't suggest doing any strenuous activity after. It will make you feel sick.

Diet Helpers 

• Sugar Free

  Marzipan and Doughnuts are going to be hard to make without sugar. Here is a recipe for marzipan, and another for a sugar free glaze and sugar free doughnut.
  Curry Chicken is easy enough to make without sugar, I personally have never used sugar when cooking with curry.



• Gluten Free

  Gluten free doughnuts sound like they would be dense. I have not tried a lot of gluten free breads or pastries, so good luck. Here is a recipe from Food Network.
  Marzipan is usually gluten free and so is curried chicken. Just make sure the sauce is not thickened with flour, and you will have to skip out on flour roti or certain coatings on chicken.

• Vegetarian

  Unfortunately, chicken is not vegetarian. But go ahead and cook veggie curry instead!
  Marzipan and Doughnuts are also vegetarian!

Recipes

• Here is an easy marzipan recipe from The Daring Gourmet
• A Doughnut recipe from the NY Times
• I should ask my dear old roomie for her delicious Fijian curry recipe. But here is a nice one to try instead.
• For the coconut Thai curry lovers, here is a recipe to try.
• Whenever I make Japanese Curry, I always use the Curry Sauce Mix as depicted in the recipe here.
• Here are a bunch of Indian curry recipes

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History

Here is Punchbowl on curried chicken.

Merchandise

You can buy all kinds of marzipan online. Be warned, it is an expensive thing. Probably why I haven't tried it (or if I did, I don't think I knew what it was).
Also, glazed doughnuts from grocery stores are a hit and miss. We tried getting a bunch of assorted doughnuts at Winco, but they were pretty meh.


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Restaurants

• Number one on the search comes up with Glazed doughnut shop in Amherst MA
• Krispe Kreme's original is the glazed, it says it on the sign.
• Before I had even tried a Krispe Kreme, I was partial to the glazed goodness from Banbury Cross in Utah.
• It looks like this Marzipan Bakery is the place to go if you travel to Jerusalem
• First on the yelp list of bakeries with marzipan cakes is Hygge Bakery in LA
• If you are in Little Tokyo in LA, looks like there is a Curry House you can try out.
• Thai curry is one of my favorites. Here are sine if the best Thai Restaurants in LA according to Jet Tila (Thrillist).
• I'll  tell you one of my hidden secrets of where to eat delicious Fijian curry in Hawaii. It is this little place out in Kahuku. So good.

Other Things to Celebrate Today

• Oatmeal Month
• California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month (Prune Breakfast Month)
• Hot Tea Month
• National Soup Month
• Bread Baking Month
• Candy Month
• Egg Month
• Meat Month
• Wheat Bread Month
• Fat Free Living Month
• Be Kind to Food Servers Month
• Cuckoo Dancing Week
• National Vocation Awareness Week
• Universal Letter Writing Week
• Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
• Kiss a Ginger Day
• National Pharmacist Day
• National Poetry at Work Day
• Work Harder Day