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3 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

Are both samples from the same cat?

They were sides with a  Sunday 'special' fish curry at the local show no mercy Sri Lankan restaurant. 

The vegetable curry sides that came with it were actually three distinct and seperate dishes. I was sort of expecting one curry made from three different vegetables.

The missing dish from the pic was the sort of veg curry you'd get with a biryani. That green one was fairly zingy, but not just empty heat.

The grey thing was possibly the most unappetising looking dish that's been put in front of me for quite a while. Looks like astronaut food from a tube

It was lovely actually, a very pleasant surprise when we'd plucked up the courage to try it. I'm guessing aubergine, but can't be sure? We chucked it in a chana dish that was drier than expected, and it was polished off in short order.

Sri Lankan restaurants offer different sundries. We had puttu, which is a cylinder of rice coated in coconut, and kottu which is grated bread, spices and egg in our case, but you can get meaty kottu as well.

They do different specials every day. Saturday is string hopper day, which are rice noodles. Friday is thali day, a meal comprising of a number of little curries.

 

The bedroom was choice this morning.

She was gagging on the noxious fumes when she returned from the shower :D 

 

 

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We’ve easily got about a dozen Indian takeaways and restaurants locally here, all within sort of extended walking distance.

But every last one of them is just generic Indian. Prawn biryani, tandoori chicken, tikka masala.

You’d imagine one of them would take a punt and be different. But it’s all shuffling downwards to the end of the market where they now also do pizzas and kebabs and pie and chips. Everywhere turning in to a takeaway that does every takeaway. 

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7 minutes ago, Xann said:

They were sides with a  Sunday 'special' fish curry at the local show no mercy Sri Lankan restaurant. 

The vegetable curry sides that came with it were actually three distinct and seperate dishes. I was sort of expecting one curry made from three different vegetables.

The missing dish from the pic was the sort of veg curry you'd get with a biryani. That green one was fairly zingy, but not just empty heat.

The grey thing was possibly the most unappetising looking dish that's been put in front of me for quite a while. Looks like astronaut food from a tube

It was lovely actually, a very pleasant surprise when we'd plucked up the courage to try it. I'm guessing aubergine, but can't be sure? We chucked it in a chana dish that was drier than expected, and it was polished off in short order.

Sri Lankan restaurants offer different sundries. We had puttu, which is a cylinder of rice coated in coconut, and kottu which is grated bread, spices and egg in our case, but you can get meaty kottu as well.

They do different specials every day. Saturday is string hopper day, which are rice noodles. Friday is thali day, a meal comprising of a number of little curries.

 

The bedroom was choice this morning.

She was gagging on the noxious fumes when she returned from the shower :D 

 

 

Not the only thing she was gagging on. 😜

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1 minute ago, chrisp65 said:

We’ve easily got about a dozen Indian takeaways and restaurants locally here, all within sort of extended walking distance.

But every last one of them is just generic Indian. Prawn biryani, tandoori chicken, tikka masala.

You’d imagine one of them would take a punt and be different. But it’s all shuffling downwards to the end of the market where they now also do pizzas and kebabs and pie and chips. Everywhere turning in to a takeaway that does every takeaway. 

What we have here are take aways that specialise in Indian and Italian foods... Chef is Indian, I ain't eating Italian from there! 

To be fair to them my local in England (sher e punjab in kiddy) has a good specials menu including a top notch venison in sweet chilli sauce starter but with how seldom I get to eat Indian its rare I eat anything other than CTM, usually convince the missus to try something new so I can finish it when she doesn't 

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Talking of which, this evening will be my first meat for a few days.

Got some slow belly pork going on in about 30 minutes time.

Mooney would have loved my Sunday lunch yesterday:

Roasties

Carrots, peas, onion and celery.

Cauliflower

Brocolli

Various bits of broccoli and cauliflower stalk and leaf, green leaves, and ends of peppers and whatnot all stir fry zapped together with some sesame seeds and a veggie stock cube.

It was bloody amazing AND mopped up the remnants and leftovers of the veg drawer in the fridge.  

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Chinese takeaway tonight = fat basterd mode on

 

Pork Yuk Sung

Salt and Chilli Chicken 

Singapore Fried Rice

Came with “free” sesame chicken toast and prawn crackers. Not even half done and I’m full 

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Salt and chilli chicken is probably my favourite Chinese take away dish

Add some spring rolls, prawn toast, prawn crackers, char siu chow mein, a pot of hoi sin sauce on the side and then something wet - usually satay skewers which have a better thicker sauce than the main satay dish or kung po

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1 hour ago, mikeyp102 said:

Chinese takeaway tonight = fat basterd mode on

 

Pork Yuk Sung

Salt and Chilli Chicken 

Singapore Fried Rice

Came with “free” sesame chicken toast and prawn crackers. Not even half done and I’m full 

That's breakfast sorted tomorrow then !

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Made my own herb pastry and made a non-meat pie lunchtime, it was bloody gorgeous.

So now for me tea, its cold veggie pie, salad, pickle, and lashings of old school salad cream. That’s right, salad cream. From the fridge.

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Went to a restaurant last night. It was so **** good we came back today. Between us the last two days we ate:

 

Horse tartare with lard, mussels with cheese, skirt steak, burnt egg cream / pork neck maczanka, ostrich stomach, brownie and goats cheeeecake / mini donut with duck, beef ribs, caramelised pear / raviolo, horse sweetbreads

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10 hours ago, fightoffyour said:

Went to a restaurant last night. It was so **** good we came back today. Between us the last two days we ate:

 

Horse tartare with lard, mussels with cheese, skirt steak, burnt egg cream / pork neck maczanka, ostrich stomach, brownie and goats cheeeecake / mini donut with duck, beef ribs, caramelised pear / raviolo, horse sweetbreads

Have you been to my local donor kebab house again? 

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2 hours ago, Phil Silvers said:

fightoffyour should enjoy this........

Homemade shallow fried crispy chicken tenders for tea with peri peri fries...... used the following 

 

 

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Too right, great condiment lineup too. Were they beer battered or is that to wash it down with?

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