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Mackerel Curry

I am still feeling emotions of deep sadness where I am totally depressed and crying my heart out where I am in my bed all day long sobbing my heart out then extreme anger over missing my father. These feelings come about over what little time I had my dad all to myself without his abusers or my main abuser who wormed her way in to our lives and destroying it with her utter poison.

The poison happens to be the millions of lies she told to break up my parents and ensnare my dad. Allah is good that I thank him from removing these parasites from my life and giving me someone to comfort me in my extreme sorrow to let me vent and wipe my tears who is Mr. Riaz. He too misses my dad a lot and I know life goes on. It is part of Allah’s plan I know. I can’t argue with Allah to bring my father back. I am happy my dad is up there free away from people who hurt him and is not suffering anymore as much as I miss him.

Lies are terrible. They are haram because it destroys lives, marriges, starts wars, the only way you can tell a lie and get away with it if you are to save your life or someone elses. The example I am giving if you have a gun at your head and this person will shoot you have to make it look very convincing you won’t call the police. From here you will be lucky if they do not kill you or try to maim you in some kind of way and it happens. I was stabbed once and I had to tell my attacker I am not calling police and this was just before I met Mr. Riaz. There are times I could have died before my dad but thanks to Allah I didn’t and I bounced back stronger then ever because I am a fighter.

Now I am going to write this recipe for this post which follows. You will need 1 whole mackerel which are caught fresh but they freeze them uncleaned. These are available at a lot of grocery stores. From here you can thaw in the fridge overnight. Next day they should be thawed out and you can remove the gills and make sure the scales are removed. Actually it is a smooth oily type of fish and the fat on them is normal because mackerel is a fatty fish and this is a good fat rich in omega 3 fatty acids.

Use a small pairng knife if you do not have a boning knife to cut the belly open by starting to cut near the tail and end up near the head and remove the insides of the fish. The insides gets tossed in to a plastic bag so it does not stink up the house. Cut the fish in to several steaks and if you want you can cook the head too. Rinse this with cold water and add 1 capful of lemon juice to kill the smell of the fish.

in either a wok or cast iron skillet add 1/4 cup of either corn, canola or vegetable oil. Add 3 tbs of either coconut or mustard oil on high heat. Add 1 onion or shallot cut in to half moon slices and brown. Purèe 1 tomato in a mini food processor. Add 1 pinch each of coriander seeds and cumin seeds in a mortar and pestle and grind in to a coarse powder then set both of these aside.

Add 1 small piece of ginger and 4 cloves of garlic chopped and cook until the rawness goes away. Add 1 pinch each of pink salt, turmeric powder, red chili powder, the contents of the mortar and pestle, stir and add the contents of the mini processor which is the tomato I pureed. Stir and add the fish to this and cover and reduce heat to low. If you are using canned mackerel which either comes in brine or tomato sauce then you can add this in place of the freshly frozen whole mackerel that you have cleaned earlier if you do not have it on hand. Use this undrained and for the one in tomato sauce then you do not have to pure a tomato. Cook for 2 minutes and then add 1 can of coconut milk and let it cook for 3 minutes more on low and then turn heat off. Just be careful that the fish will not break and scatter all over the place and serve this with either rice, millet, bulgar or even roti.

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