Monday. Rogan Josh from Madhur Jaffreys first ever BBC series.
Tuesday. Kofta curry from Cooking with my Indian mother in law.
Tonight. Ma Goa Pork Vindaloo from Capital Spice.

This "take medication with food" is working out ok and is gradually clearing out the freezer.

Does anyone have a tried and tested recipe for this delicious South African recipe? I had one that used Mrs Balls hot chutney but cannot find it now, and there is a little South African food outlet at Liverpool Street station that sells the chutney which brought it back to mind.

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I hope this link to the original recipe, in Spanish, is not too offensive.

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Someone online recommended a Spanish pheasant recipe and as I have two brace hanging in the shed I thought I would give it a try. Unfortunately the recipe was in Spanish. Never mind thinks I, use the online translation. Here is what came out.

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Mmmm.. Any ideas?

I never even considered taking it back to complain. Had I been sitting in the restaurant I would undoubtedly have made an issue of it.

I suppose it could be a different chef, front of house staff are always the same but I have never seen the chef/s.
Thing is we used to have a few good take always in town and one by one they have all gone downhill and this was really the last one to knock up a decent curry.
When I had the good dhansak last week the wife had a rogan josh and she said hers was really poor and she wouldn't have it again. It looks like we have run out of take aways now.

I'm just getting over a short illness that resulted in me losing my appetite for about six weeks and consequently about two stone in weight. Appetite still not great but last Saturday I fancied a curry, first one in over a month. Chicken dhansak; beautiful. Nice balance of sweet and sour, hot but not overly hot. Enjoyed it so much that I went back for a repeat performance from the same place tonight. It was awful. The heat nearly stripped the bumps off my tongue and the flavour was bland, bland, bland.
How is it that there can be so much of an inconsistency in one week. Needless to say the dhansak ended up in the bin and I'll go back to cooking my own.

My spice cupboard. What does yours look like?

I found this in my fridge today, I bought it at Borough Market a few weeks ago and completely forgot about it. It's from the Carribean (Grenada). I think this will join the others at work on Monday. It's made from Scotch Bonnets and will give some of the others a run for their money!

Quote from: fried on May 31, 2014, 10:34 AMGetting hold of Pandan leaf proved impossible

The Asian Cookshop in Braintree does dried and fresh Pandanus Leaves by mail order

http://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk