[Elise] Wild Rice Curry

This is a yellow curry with wild rice and onions, topped with pan fried sweet potatoes. Yum.

 I love sweet potatoes. If I could put them in every single entrée I make without everyone I cook for being absolutely sick of them, I would. For a change of pace I got some yellow fleshed sweet potatoes. They're a little starchier but still sweet, providing a nice crunch to contrast the soup.

The recipe I got a few years ago from La Fuji Mama  and when it's done it is the most vivid yellow. It was this yellow that stuck in my mind while I took off for the grocery store without a list and not having looking at the recipe since the night before.

I went to the store knowing I had all but three things; a can of coconut milk, yellow curry (right? I mean, the soup is so yellow, how could it not be yellow curry), and... something else. What was that something else?
I went to a few different grocery stores which all had the same selection of "Thai Ktichen" curry pastes: one red, one green, a chili paste, and a satay peanut sauce. Finally I went to a Vietnamese market, where I finally found yellow curry, and big cheap tub of it instead of a little expensive jar. I need to remember to go here more often. I'm also going to need to make a lot more yellow curries.

Finally I got home and started cooking only to realize that the recipe actually calls for red curry. Go figure.

I did find that the yellow curry tasted wonderful in the recipe. It had a very warm spice that was more than I had expected without being overpowering.

Also, I got a round about compliment from my dad, when asked if the two week old bread tasted any good, or if it just tasted like stale bread with good soup on it.