The Evil Living Curry of Doom

We had some bad luck recently with our cooking. We had a ton of vegetables to use up so we figured we'd do a massive veggie curry in our big pot and freeze half of to eat some time in the next few months. Rachel has a veggie curry recipe for lentils and tofu and whatever veg is around, involving mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry powder and coconut milk, and she also threw in a tin of Patak's Korma curry sauce too to give it a bit of zing.

Now we still don't know exactly where the evil contaminant came from. It might have been the Korma sauce, but it could have been something else. We cooked it late on a Friday night and left it on the stove overnight with a view to finishing the cooking in the morning and adding the coconut milk (which isn't supposed to go in until you're done with simmering). When I lifted the lid in the morning, it had a weird "head" of froth. I didn't think much of it at the time and just gave it a stir and turned the stove back on low.

Later, after we'd transferred it to plastic containers to cool, we discovered that it had actually started to dribble over the edges of the containers, still doing this weird frothing thing. By now, the kitchen smelled of this weird creamy curry smell that wasn't entirely appetising. We were wondering what could be in there that could make it froth like this. It's not like there's any yeast ingredient, and anyway if there was something in the Korma sauce it would have been neutralised in the long simmer. We were starting to doubt whether we could actually eat it at this stage, but for a lack of a better idea we put two big containers of it and two smaller lunch containers in the freezer.

Rachel got the other curry from the freezer - the Madras curry we made a month ago to freeze for a rainy day - and put it in the fridge because we needed the room.

By the next day, we had decided to get rid of it. Freezing it helped because we could tip it out into the green bin (can't use plastic bags cos it's organic waste, so there's an extra messy logistical problem...). I got them out of the freezer and dumped them. 2 or 3 containers' worth, I can't remember, but there was bucketloads of it because we had used a ridiculous number of vegetables in it. It was such a shame because it was so much food to go to waste. But it really did smell very strange. At least it didn't smell as bad frozen. (I _hope_ I can get the smell out of the plastic containers...)

The next night, we were going to eat the Madras curry (the good one from the freezer from a month ago) and I got it out to microwave it. When I was scooping some into a plate, I noticed something funny. This was definitely not the beef Madras I was looking forward to all day! It had lentils and tofu and that weird smell ... oh crap! Hang on, if this was in the fridge then that means I threw out ... oh crap!

Or maybe what really happened is that the Evil Living Curry of Doom evilly twisted our perceptions so we _thought_ we were throwing it out when really we were throwing out good food! Or maybe it switched places! Or maybe it infected other containers in our freezer so that they _all_ contained Evil Living Curry of Doom!

Right now it's on the front lawn lurking in the un-emptied green bin. The garbage truck usually comes today but didn't. _Maybe_ it's because they always come a day later when there was a public holiday on Monday (Thanksgiving Day for Canada), or just _maybe_ it's another Evil Plot! Given how much time it's had to melt, I'm really quite scared of what I'm going to see in the green bin after emptying. I couldn't really do a very good job of wrapping it in newspaper because there was such a big dripping wet half-frozen mess of it. It may require some sort of exorcism if this continues.

If anyone has any holy relics that are useful for exorcising your house of Evil food, they would be very helpful about now.

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