Quote from: Naga on April 11, 2013, 07:42 AM
...I persuaded her to try a lick of some Mr Naga pickle straight from the jar the other day. Her reaction was predictable - "Yeeeuuugghhh! How can you eat that stuff!"

She spent the next 5 minutes spluttering and muttering under her breath then, about 15 minutes later she said that, bizarrely, the lasting taste was really good and, yes, maybe she would try it in a curry after all!

I think I may be on to a winner here!

I got a similar reaction but was not as lucky with the outcome, it was a comedy moment though.

The dish looks packed full of flavour Naga, nice one.

Quote from: Graham1 on April 10, 2013, 07:45 PM
But what ever you do DO NOT use Olive oil, not only does it ruin the taste but it burns as a lower temp and can be worse for you than veg oil.aspices.com[/url]

Utter nonsense, if you want to spam at least get your facts right!

Quote from: George on April 10, 2013, 07:28 PM

Quote from: Secret Santa on April 09, 2013, 11:31 PM
Do you guys not think this is the reason we often have trouble moving on when you both unnecessarily continue to refer to the recent problems?

I must say, I agree. My reaction when I saw the thread title was disappointment. Why not call the thread something related to the excellent photos and evening's cooking?

I posted a recent thread about Patak's sauce. I could have called it something like 'an on-topic thread at last'. It would be no different.

Priceless! :

Thats great Graham, do you have any spam recipes?

To be honest George, i'm still quite taken back by the fact you are still eating korma and from recent posts, haven't yet cooked a madras. The one thing that I have taken onboard is that a dedicated heart into all things curry, is quite a journey of taste exploration. Maybe you should take a leap of faith, like I did.

Hi CH

As Phil asks, I too am interested to here exactly what qualities the milk adds. What I would also like to ask is whether or not you have tried the milk without washing the rice? Primarily as I have noticed soaking and/or washing rice thoroughly, has a bug impact on the finished rice. The texture is always lighter as well as the taste.

Picked up a TA last night, had Tandoori Chicken (breast) and asked the chef to make an alternative rice. I had plain rice with fried onions, peppers and mushrooms. The chef fried fresh onions really hard almost tobacco with finely chopped green pepper and mushrooms, then stirred through plain rice with chopped coriander, it was one of the best rice dishes i've had. Going to try it on my next home cook.

Cheers,

Malc.

George you've lost me, how did you ever expect to get a BIR experience out of a Pataks jar? :

I am normally a sceptic when it comes to things like the supernatural, but I have had a similar thing happen to me, or at least that is what I am left to believe. As a child I used to dream I could fly, quite a normal occurrence it later learn in life. But I do remember that I would fly down the stairs and out the front door the and over the house etc. On one occasion I dreamt of flying over the back fence which is tree lined and over the neighbours garden behind it. Well the following day I had an image in head of te neighbours garden which I had never consciously seen and made an effort to find a spot in the house where I could peer into the garden. Imagine my surprise when I found the garden looking the same as my dream! I ask myself though, if I could peer into the garden, maybe I had already done this but forgotten, who knows.

Dreams are quite odd though. Following a serious accident in '95 I was invited by the doctors and nurses of my local hospital's ITU, to a 4 week induced coma. That was an interesting 4 weeks, I can tell you. Completely knocked out I lay in a constant dream state where my subconscious put dream like images and situations to the sounds my ears were actually hearing. Not that I new any different and to this day I have some pretty odd memories of those dreams.

The mind plays some very interesting tricks though take Daja Vu for instance, i've had that several times .

Very nice Rich, could do with a bowl of that right now.

Is it me or do those kidney beans look huge?

Bob, don't keep us in suspense!

The latter sounds very interesting.