Thread: Dinner

Originally Posted by panama hat

You're lucky up your area - lots of fantastic Indian and Chinese, mainly Kanto, food. Looks really good

You are right about that this place is over in Bellevue not far from the Microsoft campus so lots of Indians there place was loaded with hot Indian women. The Garlic Naan was fantastic.

The quality on this thread has dropped right down...

The Indian Meal looks very nice, and Dilly's attempt at cooking Korean looks ok, but the supernoodles and Greggs and plastic cheese slices...

Roasted the second half of the wife's home grown pumpkin this afternoon and turned it into a robust pumpkin soup with the help of a generous amount of chili flakes, sauteed onion, carrot and a head of garlic, chicken stock, cream and seasoned with rosemary, thyme, cracked black pepper and salt. I enjoyed it, the wife less so, but did say it was better than the soup made last week with the first half. No pleasing some folks. The Labrador pup knocked back a generous hunk of bread used to clean the bowl with no complaints.

Originally Posted by Shank

Would you offer a soup instead of english breakfast if requested in advance?

Fook off plies.

I'm not sure I'd want a person with those tastes for breakfast under the same roof as me and the wife (and Lab pup). We're doing English, Asian and a continental breakfast for the homestay now, that's enough.

Originally Posted by Shank

Would you offer a soup instead of english breakfast if requested in advance?

That pumpkin soup looks good. Will try that. Cheers

BiP trust me with the toasted cumin, thats the missing ingredient - makro sell the seeds, cheap too

Thought I had some NPT but was mistaken. Hitting Makro in Nan tomorrow and on the lookout for another pumpkin since the wife only produced one this season. BTW, I've currently got more than seventy bottle of herbs and spices in the kitchen.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

BiP trust me with the toasted cumin, thats the missing ingredient - makro sell the seeds, cheap too

Originally Posted by Dillinger

That pumpkin soup looks good. Will try that. Cheers

Well worth the effort, Dills.

Been going native lately Jeff and trying to up my tolérance of fat burning chilis

Su su

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Been going native lately Jeff and trying to up my tolérance of fat burning chilis

Su su

Nice...

Nice looking creamy green curry with decent sized eggplants.

Not like the pea sized egg plants you get in green curries in the UK.

If you get them at all, mostly they'll chuck in some green beans and Aubergine.

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Been going native lately Jeff and trying to up my tolérance of fat burning chilis

Su su

Make your own and ditch those inept tasting eggplants!

Dave's dodgy green chicken curry cheat ... https://teakdoor.com/food-and-drink/1...ml#post3907379

Go through all the hassle of buying the ingredients, preparation and cooking? When I can buy a Thai chef cooked one for 120 baht? NAH

Looks nice though.

^That's my attitude to Thai food as well. Let some old dear (from the region the dish comes from) who's been cooking it nightly for the last 20 or 30 years do the work, and pay her the equivalent of 1 beer for doing so. Everyone's a winner

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Been going native

Don't. The Thai diet sucks big time - why 10% of adults are diabetic - and its going to get worse.

In addition the coconut milk in that dish is going to screw you over time.

Man up - eat your chillies raw.

^ it's pretty healthy compared to the Hooters I had this afternoon

Although the M. I. L has just been diagnosed with diabetes.

well stop taking her to hooter then Dill, christ

Got 'em NPT...but forgot to look for a pumpkin.

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

BiP trust me with the toasted cumin, thats the missing ingredient - makro sell the seeds, cheap too

Originally Posted by BoganInParasite

Got 'em NPT...but forgot to look for a pumpkin.

they will sell them in any of the markets, never buy them in a supermarket.

getting there though.

Noticed this afternoon the wife has 4-5 growing in the vege patch, but 2-3 months away from picking so will hit a local market. Mind you still have two meals left sitting in the refrigerator. Pumpkin soup till Monday I suspect. Regards, -BiP

Originally Posted by NamPikToot

they will sell them in any of the markets, never buy them in a supermarket.

getting there though.

Use some pumpkin for these Safrican treats

https://tastyrecipes.sapeople.com/pumpkin-fritters/

Great with added sultanas too and with syrup.

Greedy for water but easy ti grow. I may have recalled this before but we had some growing when we first bought the land and we also had bloody cha om, accacia - nasty thorny smelly orrid stuff. Anyway we were cuting back the cha om and then noticed a few has fuk tong growing in the middle like they'd decided it was safer to fruit in there bastard to get out though.

I find Thai pumpkin very different than the western kind. Not as much taste and much more fibrous, like its held together with strings.. I can never get the taste or texture of a real pumpkin. I see why Bogan adds so many spices to his soup. No taste as the base. If he used creme or water rather than chicken stock I would think it would be close to tasteless other than the spices. Sorry just my two cents worth. Same as I only eat Thai cherry tomatoes as they have flavor but the Thai normal tomato I am not a fan of at all. Especially haven eaten and grown heirloom tomatoes all my life until coming here.

I have tried to grow tomatoes here but with no success at all. Lots of flowers but then no fruit..

Originally Posted by Dillinger

it's pretty healthy compared to the Hooters I had this afternoon

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