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Cooking Methods / Re: The Tilted Pan
« on: August 27, 2025, 01:51 PM »
Can I say, although I don't really post on here or make many curries anymore. please keep posting your pics and recipes Rob. Love 'em.

Why don't you make currys any more? Is it for health reasons? I fear for anyone who consumes more than a single BIR style curry each week, given all the oil and salt. I've been told my blood sugar level is too high. I am labelled as pre-diabetic. Eating lots of kormas in the 1980s and dhansaks more recently can't have helped. MY GP also says my cholesterol is/was too high and I should consider taking Statins. I switched from full cream milk to semi skimmed and made a few oither changes to get the cholesterol under control. I'm still working on the blood sugar because they can only test it (hba1c) every 3 months, at least if there's much chance of picking up a change.

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Lets Talk Curry / Britain's most delicious curry houses
« on: August 27, 2025, 01:42 PM »
Supposedly based on review rankings plus some kind of expert input. I haven't heard of any of these places. Have you?

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/foodanddrink/news/ranked-britain-s-most-delicious-curry-houses/ss-AA1Kjcqb?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=68aefbd7f5ff4b30a2d2d07c1f97dce6&ei=18

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Al's Reviews
« on: May 27, 2025, 06:43 PM »
He may be the most successful of the white British individuals trying to promote BIR recipes. His following on youtube is significant and still growing. It probably generates quite a high income but I bet it's hard work. How can you really relax and enjoy a meal if needing to concentrate on filming and talking the entire time? He even had a visit from Gary of the gary eats channel, treating Al's kitchen a bit like a restaurant. I'm not persuaded Al's home cooked dish was good enough to warrant Gary's high mark but how can we know?

Just watched my first Gary Eats video George.

https://youtu.be/TGIdfWr6_uM?si=KfCXG2w0jMBcjpd8


When I clicked on the link, it went to a curry review by the channel Rich Rates Food. He has just over 3,000 subscibers whereas Gary Eats now has more than 300,000

Try this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0BEghiNLds

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: Al's Reviews
« on: May 06, 2025, 10:52 AM »
He may be the most successful of the white British individuals trying to promote BIR recipes. His following on youtube is significant and still growing. It probably generates quite a high income but I bet it's hard work. How can you really relax and enjoy a meal if needing to concentrate on filming and talking the entire time? He even had a visit from Gary of the gary eats channel, treating Al's kitchen a bit like a restaurant. I'm not persuaded Al's home cooked dish was good enough to warrant Gary's high mark but how can we know?

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Next base to try
« on: May 06, 2025, 09:21 AM »
It's not expecting BB code between the [ IMG ] tags, George, just the URL.

Yes, the image host page also provides a direct URL. I tried looking up the image on my chrome browser. The web address came up blue, suggesting it's valid. The curry recipes image host page opened with a line saying 'loading image' but the photo never appeared. I fear the whole site is neglected with bugs all over the place.

Here is the web address if you can achieve anything with it, or perhaps the photo will appear here.

https://curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/#09ac36d4943c919de7cff56b00af346e.jpg

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Next base to try
« on: May 05, 2025, 03:52 PM »
I'm growing more and more frustrated with the forum.  It is obvious that several others of the last of us are also falling off as well.

I haven't visited the forum much for ages and haven't posted for even longer. The worst change here seems to be advertising which interrupts me in almost full screen when I log on or move to a new section. And there's a similar banner advert at the top, right now, from a company I use to book trips as it happens. So irritating,

You also said: "It really pisses me off that I can't just post a frigging photo."

I always used to be able to print photos. Let's see if I can post one here, as a test. It's a photo of a burger I enjoyed at a cafe in Agadir a couple of weeks ago. Good food is so affordable in Morocco compared to prices in rip-off Britain. The meal cost about £3.50 As I think I have said before, I have cut right back on the number of visits I make to BIRs. Rent, rates and energy prices have no doubt forced them to increase prices to a level which I no longer find enticing.



Well, that failed. I uploaded an image to the image host section and pasted the Bulletin Board code in between 2 img codes in square brackets. But nothing. So what's happened?

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Vindaloo / Re: Rik’s vindaloo
« on: August 26, 2024, 01:49 PM »
I think what I can say straight up is that the store bought paste is more acidic. 

Do you have any means of checking the acidity, especially between one item and another? I use paper strips, mainly. I also have an electronic device as sold for use with hydroponics. All readily available, low cost and, in my opinion, worth having.

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Grow Your Own Spices and Herbs / Re: Curry Leaves
« on: August 19, 2024, 08:03 AM »
Livo, my findings are that you are spot on with your comment about trying to grow tropical plants in near freezing conditions. Seeing as one plant has bounced back, I may try building a very small chamber which can be kept warm with minimal electricity from my solar PV system, for next winter. All my power comes from solar. I no longer use any mains electricity and. as a result I save a small fortune. I may also try growing plants from grocery bunches of branches and leaves. But, as you suggest, is it even worth it, if it's not a very useful ingredient?

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Grow Your Own Spices and Herbs / Re: Curry Leaves
« on: August 17, 2024, 04:05 PM »
Update: more than two years after my previous post on this thread. All but one of my curry tree plants have died. For a start, none of them grew a very dense root system. I'm not even persuaded that my variety of curry leaf plant has aromatic leaves. I gave up using energy to keep them warm in a heated chamber.  Last winter, and so far this summer, the two surviving plants were being grown hydroponically in nutrient solution. But they can't have liked the winter temperatures, down to almost freezing in my house. Not only did the leaves all fall off but the branches fell off, too, leaving simple upright stems, now 4 or 5 years old. I think one of the two plants has now died. The remaining one is growing new branches and leaves fast and there is a new plant growing out the bottom of the pot.

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: ‘Strue……
« on: August 17, 2024, 12:55 PM »
Too oblique for me, sorry.  But why does Cliff look such a prat ?  I'm sure that when he recorded that video his "animation" wouldn't have seemed in any way unusual, but viewed today, I'm sorry, but he just looks a complete prat.  He should have stuck to singing with the Shadows !

I agree the choreography isn't great but I think he produced better music as a solo singer, notably one of my favourite tracks by any artist - Some People. That said, very few artists release more than half a dozen tracks which are to my liking.

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