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Well, it’s late, but it’s still Thursday. And I came home from work like a good girl and made this week’s Craving Ellie in my Belly recipe. This week Liz of The Not So Skinny Kitchen picked Thai Style Halibut with Coconut Curry Broth on page 232 of The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life by Ellie Krieger. (Jeez, can I fit any more links into that paragraph?)

I have to say that Nick and I are generally anti-curry. It’s just not really something that appeals to us. Though I have not really had much experience eating curries, I find the aromas to be unpleasant.

I always associated curry with Indian food. However, it was not until we were at the grocery store that I realized that there is Thai curry and Indian curry. We picked up a can of Thai red curry paste, read the ingredients and thought maybe this would be better than we thought.

I was still a bit hesitant to make this with the curry, but I figured, what the hell. If it’s terrible, we have a pizza rule. (Which is, you can make anything you want, but if it sucks, you have to pay for the pizza).

I used tilapia instead of halibut and I made the sauce per the recipe. I used my own chicken stock and surprisingly I already had a can of light coconut milk in the house (I am sure this is leftover from one of Geoff’s escapades in our kitchen ). Now, if you know us at all, then you know that I definitely left out the grossness that is cilantro. I was being adventurous, but I was not trying to ruin my meal entirely!

I served this with a brown rice/wild rice mixture and instead of steaming the spinach, I sautéed it in a ton of garlic and Nick’s garlic basil olive oil. I love super garlicky spinach.

The verdict: This was surprisingly good. I don’t enjoy spicy foods, so for me, this had just the right amount of spice. Though if you do like spice, I could see how you would want it to be much spicier. The flavors were good and the curry was not nearly as offensive as I was expecting it to be.

Nick also liked this a lot. I believe his exact words were “I like this, and I don’t care if you don’t". That’s my man. Always sweet and charming.

So, I’m glad I stepped out of the comfort zone here and made this. I don’t know that I will be using Thai curry paste a lot, but I won’t completely write it off in the future. And I would make something with it upon request by my newly curry loving boyfriend Nick.

Check out what the rest of ladies thought at the Craving Ellie blogroll.