Here's a rough recipe for the curry cause someone asked for it
First of off this is a veggie curry so if you want to turn it into a meat curry the directions will be similar but you will want to add the meat at a specific point.
Will ask my mother what the exact recipe is but we tend not to work from recipes for the asian food we make. Off the top of my head it's close to this:
VERY finely chop the following:
1 stock of lemon grass
5 or 6 cloves of garlic
Large nodule of Ginger
2 or 3 shallots.
Now fry this mash in a pan with lots of oil till it starts to brown nicely.
Grab about 1/4 cup of water and make a slurry with the following, curry powder, turmeric powder, saffron powder, other spices to taste.
Add this mixed slurry to the stuff browning in the pan. You want to fry this all together till it begins to almost burn "but don't actually let it burn of course" it should be a rich dark paste by this point. If you can't help but cough when you smell it you know you are going in the right direction . Now add several cups of water and bring this all to a simmer.
In a seperate pan prepare all the veggies you want to put in this. It doesn't really matter what veggies you use. For this one we had a mix of carrots, cabbage, egg plant, broccoli. Stir fry these with some garlic and ginger till they are still not quite done but getting close.
Now add the stir fried veggies to the simmering curry soup and cook the whole mixture down till it's thicker.
Serve over a bed of rice.