First, a BLT, but with fried gold tomatoes. The 'maters were green when I bought them, but by the time I was ready to eat them, they had turned yellow-orange, though not ripe enough to eat plain. First I sliced them and then lay them out and salted them. After about 5 minutes, I dipped the slices in a buttermilk-egg mixture, then coated them in a cornmeal-flour mixture. Salt and pepper was included in each step. They were so juicy and tart and sweet, and perfect with the bacon (the same bacon as for my most recent pizza) and Companion sourdough toast.
Then I attempted to make laksa. But I cheated and used store-bought Thai red curry paste. I accidentally used too many noodles, and wished I had used ramen instead of rice noodles (I couldn't find singapore or laksa noodles, and I didn't have time to go to the Asian stores). The broth is just curry paste, chicken stock, and coconut milk. Veg are carrot and broccoli, because that's what was in the fridge; red bell pepper would have been awesome. The shrimp were fantastic. It's topped with some basil (not Thai, because, again, I couldn't get it) and a wedge of lime. There were shrimp-less leftovers, into which I cut up some pressed 5-spice tofu. That was also very good.
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