Real ales are great to drink, and they give you that warmth that lagers don't. Lately too I've been having a small brandy once or twice a week as a treat to myself. Tesco's do a good brandy pretty cheap, can't recall the brand at the moment, but I did some research before I bought, and it has good reviews.

I'm not a purist, so I take coke in my brandy (and scotch if I have one). Blasphemy I know, but I don't care.

That's such blasphemy. And as a right-thinking Christian, I'm thoroughly offended.

It only suffices for me to say... Holy shitballs! How hot is that?

Looks good, I love a pizza now and then.

Chicken tikka pizza anyone?

I wonder how that compares to their kit version.

Well actually it doesn't work out too bad for price. I get bulk chicken from musclefood.com, works out ?5/kilo (quality fillets too). Plus the kit at ?3.95. That's ?8.95 for 3 good portions, or 4 sensible portions. That's ?2.24/portion. That's excluding postage, which'll vary depending how much meat and kits you get per order.

I think my maths is about right.

My order came today, including the U-cook garlic chicken and a jalfrezzi.

Easy as pie to make, just add hot water, simmer, add pre-cooked meat, simmer a bit more. I must say I was impressed with it (I made the garlic chicken this evening). It was lovely, and very much restaurant style, in my eyes. They say 4-6 portions, but I got 3 healthy 'man-size' (read, greedy) portions out of it. For ease of use and quality it's really good, probably better than anything I could make myself, I can't speak for others' culinary abilities.

Hope that helps.

I'm going to put an order in with them Monday or Tuesday. I'll get a couple of their ready made kits, and I'll report back on the verdict in the near future.

I hope this is the right section.

So I was perusing an online Asian supermarket, and noticed they do their own range of ready made curry kits, supposedly restaurant style. Has anybody tried them before? I'm tempted as a cheat to try one or two.

http://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk/u-cook-curry-kits-1-c.asp

What do you guys use WS for/in (if at all)? There must be loads of things it would pep up.

Quote from: Secret Santa on January 06, 2016, 08:04 PM
So where did it or you go wrong? Your method was correct and adding salt was a good thing. Old spices perhaps?

That's what I was wondering, the spices were from jars opened roughly 6 months ago, maybe slightly older. I was under the impression once opened jars had a good 6 months usable life. Not sure where I heard that from. But if it was the spices being too old, why was the smell so good. Maybe my taste-buds are bad.