The Curry Leave Quest
A recipe I'm making calls for curry leaves. Methinks that this should be an easy thing to find. Curry powder is abundant and cheap. After visiting a Walmart Supercenter, Price Chopper Superstore, Hannafords, Asian Food Market, and Lee's Asian Market, I was still curry-leave-less. I began to get desperate. I began to call friends who cook a lot. "Do you mean bay leaves?" "Curry leaves....hunh..." "Do you mean curry powder?" I began to question reading the recipe correctly. I returned home, and to my surprise, the recipe really did say curry leaves. I contemplated using curry powder instead. The question becomes: how much curry powder equals one curry leaf? While looking up curry leave substitution on Google, I found the following on websites: "can substitute with bay leaves" and "never ever substitute them with bay leaves." I finally googled and found an Indian food store. I called them, and ended up getting a whole zip lock bag full of fresh curry leaves for 99 cents. Apparently, curry leaves do exist. This concludes the tale of the curry leaf.