Tracy > wrote:

> If a recipe, say for Thai Pineapple Fried rice, included curry powder-
> what exactly do I need? I have green and yellow curry paste, but I have
> never used just plain old curry powder. I do have access to a large
> Asian grocery - I just need to know what to look for.

You need to look for a better recipe - one that calls f rusing curry
paste rather than curry powder. Southeast Asian curry preparations
never come in powder form - at least not decent ones. I've never
seen them.

Use the yellow curry paste you have - at least 5x as much as the
recipe calls for the powder.

> http://thaifood.about.com/od/vegetar...ifriedrice.htm

The recipe doesn't look too bad. Use half as much *real* fish sauce
and 1 TB of yellow curry paste. And forget the raisins.

-sw