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I'm mainly eating at this moment wholewheat penne with some salt and pepper, a little cheese, and a dash of balsamic vinegar. I felt like simple food tonight.
What's for tea tonight? (pt6)
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Spag bol from the freezer.I love that I have a freezer full of chilli and spag bol and I can have it whenever I want in 15 minutes. Fucking great.
I've just had that as well.
It always tastes better than the first time round as well. 
May Kasahara
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Ready meal bombay potatoes and onion bhajies, probably with some rice. On me tod for tea tonight and can't be arsed.
ScallyWag II
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Quorn cumberland sausages and cheesy mustard mash with gravy. Was very tasty mmmmm
Orang Utan
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Wow, that dried chipotle is hot! Next time, I'll chop it up finer though. Ouch!
as we speak i'm eatin' chicken tikka masala and saag paneer with fresh boiled white rice
the chipotle is a fairly mild hot pepper....you should try a red savina habanero pepper, it'll rip you two new assholes, but you probably can't get them over there
wiki/Scoville_heat_index
Orang Utan
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You can get them here too - there's a stall dedicated to chilis in Borough Market - the chipotle is measured 7/10 on the packet. Habaneros are marked 9/10.
yea well that is bullshit...you should try some REAL mexican peppers, not that crap you get over there
May Kasahara
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How the fuck do you know what we get over here?
Besides, I spent nearly 4 weeks in various parts of the US and never ate a single meal that peeped over the parapet of 'mild'
and that includes chilli that made a lot of big claims about its hotness.
Besides, I spent nearly 4 weeks in various parts of the US and never ate a single meal that peeped over the parapet of 'mild'
and that includes chilli that made a lot of big claims about its hotness.
Orang Utan
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They were real Mexican peppers - it's a Mexican stall, doofus
oh sorry OU, I didn't know you have real mexican people in teh UK
i didn't think they were into temperate climate zones
Bag of ill informed shite. If there's one things brits know about these days it's pepper and spice. A curry is virtually our national dish over here.
Down here in little old London we've got far more of a mix than even old NY city - signigicant Portuguese, West Indian, Asian and African populations, all of whom know how to use a chilli or two. My local shops sell scotch bonnets, bird eyes and slim greens amongst others. Most American food and tastes - particularly given the propensity of eating out - is far blander. Mexican ain't even that good on the heat of their chillis - it's more about the flavour and habaneros tend to be used far more sparingly than, for example, the similarly hot bonnets in West Indian cooking.
And besides, us Brits can even lay claim to the hottest chilli in the world, grown by yokels - the Dorset Naga.
Orang Utan
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I don't really want to get into a competition over who's got the hottest chilis - I was just saying that the dried chipotle I had was hot - maybe not the hottest in the world, but pretty hot and should be used sparingly!
since i am now officially unemployed i'll be eating celery sticks and canned beans for tea tonight 
takeaway is history...too expensive
takeaway is history...too expensive
Did you buy the Cool Chile company stuff, the whole (wrinkled looking) morilla Chipotle or whatever they're called?
Can't remember them being particularly devillish if I'm honest, but they add a great flavour.... and your chilli also had a day livening itself and maturing up in the fridge.
I'm suffering a little today - I think I added a few too many peppers into my sag aloo chicken and dahl last night. Bloody lovely, but I feel a little hollow this morning.
aqua
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oh no what happened?since i am now officially unemployed i'll be eating celery sticks and canned beans for tea tonight
takeaway is history...too expensive
tonight I'm on my own so not got a clue
Orang Utan
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Yep, the heat was bearable, but I came across a big lump of it that made me cough and the lump of chili ended up in my nasal cavity, so gave me a coughing fit and a streaming nose - still, it was real tasty.
May Kasahara
take me to the feeling
Haddock fillets, if they haven't gone orf. Can you jerk haddock? I might do that, if so.
Orang Utan
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Last time I cooked haddock, I rolled them in seasoned flour and chopped anchovies and tarragon, then fried them - well tasty
Heh. Remember those things being a bit of a pig to cut up. Think you should soak in lukewarm water and then chop, adding the soaking liquid to your chilli, to make it easier.You buy from Borough Market, or find somewhere closer to home?(crossed fingers)
Tonight and it's the leftover sag aloo chicken curry thing to clear the fridge for us. I'll have to make some more dahl to accompany it, and I think I'll make another attempt at making consistent roti/chapati. I don't recommend those frozen parathas FWIW - cooked them for the first time last night and, whilst they do layer nicely, they tend to let out a fair bit of water and absorb too much grease as a result. Nice enough, but tasted a bit like greasy puff pastry really.
Orang Utan
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From Borough, I'm afraid
mrsfran
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Cooking for myself! Coooookiiinnngggg for myseeeeeeelllfff! I love cooking for myself.
I have not yet decided what I will cook, but it will involve at least one of the following: seafood, mushrooms, a massive heap of spinach, steak, liver.
OR I might have the boudin blanc I brought back from Paris. Or just a tin of soup. Who knows? Coooookiiinnngggg for myseeeeeeelllfff!
I have not yet decided what I will cook, but it will involve at least one of the following: seafood, mushrooms, a massive heap of spinach, steak, liver.
OR I might have the boudin blanc I brought back from Paris. Or just a tin of soup. Who knows? Coooookiiinnngggg for myseeeeeeelllfff!
ringo
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oh sorry OU, I didn't know you have real mexican people in teh UK
i didn't think they were into temperate climate zones
The habanero on my work windowsill is just starting to flower. Those at home braving it outside not quite there yet though, and considerably smaller.
The seeds are imported from Mexico but the heat of the chilli depends on the growing conditions. Grown indoors in a hot room by the window they're as hot as theyt normally are. Grown outside in the UK they're a bit cooler.
They're all nice though.
Last night I had slow roast chicken with green beans and saffron couscous at Tagine in Balham. To start we had a meze of hot and cold starters, including some delicious lamb sausages and aubergines with roast peppers. Delicious.
Tonight its canapes and champagne, darling.
Tonight its canapes and champagne, darling.
I failed miserably to make chunky chickpea soup. Instead I had pasta with some jarred sauce chucked on/in, with grated cheese and some black olives.
Think I might do a really fast thai red king prawn curry tonight. Even my miserable tired self can manage that, surely
Think I might do a really fast thai red king prawn curry tonight. Even my miserable tired self can manage that, surely
Orang Utan
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There is a bottle of 357 Mad Dog Chili sauce in the office - 357,000 Scovilles - some have tried just a pinhead's blob of it and it's blown their heads - should I give it a go?
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