What is your favourite curry?

[merciasounds]

Tonight we are having a few people round so I'm doing Chicken tikka, and some onion bhajis to start, served with a lemony mint and yoghurt sauce, and salad garnish, then a lamb bhuna, a beef Madras, and a chicken and prawn dopiaza, dhal, bombay potatoes, pilau rice, naan breads, chutney/pickles and poppadums. Lassi/sherbet or Indian lager to drink. Tropical fruit salad and mango kulfi for pud.

[mccfluff]

as 'orrible as murph is i do not want a snot faced boy brat in place of her

[cazzz1975]

you can have my neighbours, their children have screaming competitions in the garden, the sweet sweet treasures..

[Barmaid]

I'll swap my OH for next door's microlight. Sounds like a fair deal for me.

I am currently loving my latest recipe book "Gordon Ramsey's Best Menus". Chicken tikka masala is quite good from that. His malaysian chicken curry is also delic!

Mercia - it must be really nice having your brothers being so good to you with their farms and their fishing, but do you ever consider the carbon footprint? I am getting more and more conscious of the cost on the environment of how our food gets to us and try to source local ingredients (or if I am out on a job at, say, Lowestoft, I call in at the fish mongers). Is that a valid concern do you think? Perhaps that is a thread I should start.

[ummmm]

My neighbours are sound (except for her big gob)

[cazzz1975]

which she knows you have mentioned ummmm

[Ankou]

i quite like the thai meal for two ones you get in morrissons, saves all the faff of cooking and having your relatives bombard the house/drive for miles.

[ummmm]

I know....feel a bit bad about that. True though....she wakes us up in the morning!! and she smokes weed...

[ummmm]

Ankou...have you tried cooking your own?

[Ankou]

i have umm

[Ankou]

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(posted too early)

[ummmm]

Do they compare?

[Ankou]

compare to what ?

chicken tikka, onion bhajis, lemony mint, yoghurt sauce, salad garnish, lamb bhuna, beef Madras, chicken and prawn dopiaza, dhal, bombay potatoes, pilau rice, naan breads, chutney/pickles, poppadums, lassi/sherbet or Indian lager, tropical fruit salad and mango kulfi ?

...probably not.

[mrs.chappie]

Rogan Josh, lamb or king prawn. Don't make it myself.....M & S do very nice curries. :o)

I used to make my own Bombay Potatoes. I used to cheat a bit with a packet of mixed spices, might have been Colman's but I've not seen the packets around for a long time.

Glad to hear you're on the mend, Mercia. Wish I had you as a neighbour.....mine fell out with me when I had my extension built and now she won't speak to me at all. How daft is that!

[slinky.kate]

i once tried a pelican curry-it was ok,but the bill was enormous?

[mrs.chappie]

Lol@kate!

[ummmm]

Ankou - lol...I meant in the real world though :-)

[Ankou]

ummmm, i have and do cook quite alot and i particularly like my homemade curries as i can make it as spicy or not as i like. i do like to keep it simple though, we aint big eaters, hence the supermarket takeaway thingymajiggybobs are often enough food for me and mrs kou, and taste great on a friday night after a hard week. and all the growing, rearing, harvesting and butchery are all done for you without any bartering from me at all.

[pastafreak]

My favs are all in my Madhur Jaffrey cookbooks.....Chettinad Pepper Chicken,and Chicken in Fresh Green Coriander.....much better than restaurant stuff.

[boxtops]

Persian chicken biryani, complete with a baked banana on the top.