Thanks Andy, I

Having received the news that I need to eat low carb, high fat for the next couple of months to try to rein in my blood sugar levels, I started to think that curries themselves probably fit the bill. OK they have onions within, but being mostly oil, water and spices, I think I can get away with a little bit of carbs from the onion.

What has me really scratching my head is what I could put on the side, as a curry with no rice or bread does not seem very appealing.  What low carb side dish would you serve up to go with a nice oily curry?

Thanks guys, I will probably pick them as it will be easy for me to forget them otherwise, and I don

Hello

I now have about 7 or 8 green finger chillies on my plants - not a great yield from around 12 seeds I started back in Jan.

My question, as a first time chilli grower, is how do you know when to pick them?  They have been on the plant maybe 2 weeks now and do I wait for them to turn yellow or orange or red, or will that in fact happen after picking?

If I wait too long will the chillies go mushy?  Is it even possible to pick too soon or if there

In a BIR I think a vindaloo IS effectively a madras with extra chilli powder, because the core flavour of the vindaloo comes from scorching the chilli powder in the early stir fry stage. In other words it (the chilli powder) is not just there to raise the heat level, it

Well blow me down, I

Thanks for posting the recipe spadge! I

Thanks micky
.youre probably right, I don

Crispy chilli beef sounds amazing!  Agree abihf humidity, I notice this in baking too, where flour amounts really change between summer and winter

Old thread I know, but I didn