Thanks for the info, i will see if my local store stocks it, i seem to remember someone saying that if mustard oil is cooked at over 250c its ok, that said "edible" is a good word to have on the bottle.

Phil, can you fill me in re the edible mustard oil please, thanks

Ok, so i tried cooking Chicken tikka two ways, one at 180c for about 20 ish mins and the other at 290c for 5 mins each side, both were cooked ok. Other half said the tikka cooked at the lower temp was juicier, i agreed with that but thought the chicken cooked at the higher temp looked the part, slight charring at the tips, dont get me wrong it wasn't dry just a tad drier than the lower temp cooked chicken.

Just wondering as a tandoor oven is hotter than 290c but draws in air from underneath would that mean although the temp is high the air is more "moist",  anyone have any thoughts, experience on this?

Quote from: Peripatetic Phil on January 24, 2020, 03:00 PM
And yet if you read, for example, Churchill's The story of the Malakand Field Force, written when he was just 22 years of age, you will see what a brilliant and inspired writer he was.  I quote just his opening words :

He was Brilliant, he put the Bulldog into the British people and inspired them too

QuoteOn general grounds I deprecate prefaces.  I have always thought that if an author cannot make friends with the reader, and explain his objects, in two or three hundred pages, he is not likely to do so in fifty lines.  And yet the temptation of speaking a few words behind the scenes, as it were, is so strong that few writers are able to resist it.  I shall not try.
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The impartial critic will at least admit that I have not insulted the British public by writing a party pamphlet on a great Imperial question.  I have recorded the facts as they occurred, and the impressions as they arose, without attempting to make a case against any person or policy.  Indeed, I fear that assailing none, I may have offended all.  Neutrality may degenerate into an ignominious isolation.  An honest and unprejudiced attempt to discern the truth is my sole defence, as the good opinion of the reader has been my chief aspiration, and can be in the end my only support.

Winston Churchill
Cavalry Barracks
Bangalore, 30th December 1897

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Reminds me about a programme i saw about Winston Churchill, his secretary said "when he was dictating he used to mumble, so rather than ask him to repeat she used to make it up.

What an absolute low life, and the Hyena bitch laughing, chuck him naked in a vat of Naga Puree, along with his Hyena friend, i hope Karma at some time pays all those involved a visit.

Excellent blog Romaine. Just FYI, you have permission to use more than an average of five words per sentence And there is more punctuation available than just a full-stop.  ~~~~

In Romain's (note no e  ) defence he is running a blog that could be read by people who get short of breath so he is probably keeping them in mind, also you can have far to much Grammarmasala in a recipe you know

Quote from: Ghoulie on January 22, 2020, 04:50 PM
A good m8 of mine was an armourer with the MoD.  He was also a Bisley pistol champion.  Like most people in the sport / work, he had a fair collection of legit guns.  One day, him and his missus went off to work - each thinking they had locked up - but neither had checked their back door!  Sure enough they found they had been burgled via the unlocked back door when they got home & worst of all his gun cabinet had been forced open. Missing was a shotgun, 0.22 live rifle and a magnum 0.45. He reported this himself at the local nick in Widnes - where they detained him for 48 hours & gave him very intense interrogation over the 2 days - then releasing him.  The shotgun was found thrown into a field nearby - but no trace of the other 2 guns.  A fortnight later CID called on him and his missus saying there would be no charges brought against him for the gun loss - but said a strange thing to his missus as they left - asking her why it was she varied her route to work in Liverpool.  Turns out they had both been under surveillance for 10 days - cops concerned they may have been involved with say the IRA or similar - allowing the guns to be nicked !  Fair put the brownstuff up my m8 Steve.

I can imagine Ghoulie, I had four guns which were kept in a locked heavy steel cabinet bolted to the floor, which was a conditional part of the certificate, that said when i went away on hols i used to put them up in the loft under the insulation and take the starters out of the strip lights, so it would be a torch job, i felt happier that way.

Quote from: Madrasandy on January 03, 2020, 11:54 AM
Like this...

Just checked the Naga plant today and there is a sign of buds, so looks like for the first time I've got one through the winter.....yay

Quote from: Peripatetic Phil on January 20, 2020, 12:53 PM
Good Lord, the Second Coming.  I never thought it would happen in my lifetime ...

The more the merrier Phil