I find what the british call curry very strange, I prefer south Indian and sri lankan style some good things here https://rakskitchen-recipeindex.blogspot.com
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It’s all down to taste isn’t it. I would be very surprised if everyone on here liked the same thing food wise.
I’m very much a French and Italian food lover, that said as I’m getting older I am noticing I prefer something with more spice.
What put me off curries was at the age of 15 having a girlfriend who’s father was obsessed that eating the most powerfully hot curry he could make, was some sort of competition and some how proved him better than other people. I’m still not quite looking for anything as spicy as that was, but food with a kick it much more interesting these days
that's what i mean by British curry, if you go to certain parts of London, Birmingham and Leicester you can get what people in India actually eat. i often find i am the only white guy in a packed restaurant (pre covid) you know its going to be good food then.
chennia dosa in ipswich was good when they first bought the franchise and had the chefs from east ham there training them, but a few weeks after they left they reverted back to what it was like before the name change, but you can sill get a nice dosa there.
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My mother used to dabble with making curries. Best result was 'tolerable', mid-way between 'tasteless' and 'frightening'. A bit like the wine making variatons, now I think to compare.
One day, a curry was so hot, a tiny taste was more than enough, so was left to cool in the pan, whilst an alternative simpler dinner was done.
After dinner, we found a large hole dug in the congealed curry. The cat had seemingly enjoyed it. We did not enjoy the resultant 'windy' cat for two days.
Best Indian restaurant I've experienced was in Inverness, next to the river, and I think painted yellow outside. A long time ago now, probably 1994 or 1995.
That will be the Shapla, still going strong today.
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Brings back memories of my first multi-media PC. That went wrong once too often and I executed it with an axe. While foolish and VERY expensive, I felt so so good for weeks afterwards not battling with it every waking moment. It was all down to some automatic update that installed something it did not like in Adobe software. Off and on does often help, more so these days I think.
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I had many BX's back in the 90's. One put up the most cacophonous racket imaginable upwards of about 38mph. In the end a technician at SLough looked at it and diagnosed the airbox lid was over sized. He cut 5mm off the underside lip and refitted it. Problem solved but not soon enough to begin the end for me with Citroen it was about 30,000 miles to late! Its good to hear they sorted you out, greater confidence in service in my book is paramount.
I owned my Cordoba 1.9 tdi from late 2000 to 2016 so I knew that car absolutely inside out but it developed a very annoying rattle from somewhere under the bonnet but only when the engine was driving the car with a moderate amount of throttle applied. At idle, when rev'd standing still or on full throttle it didn't do it. Took me nearly 2 years of on/off investigations (I got very demoralized at my inability to find it so would take breaks) before I tracked it down. It turned out to be a captive fitting which was pressed into the inner wing behind the battery on the N/S inner wing which supported the turbo pipe which ran from the turbo itself to the inter cooler (or it may have been the tube from the inter cooler to the inlet manifold - I can't quite remember). This fitting was a sort of spring steel speed nut "thingy" which was internally threaded. The spring steel bit was meant to grip securely into the sheet metal of the wing and the bolt which secured the clamp around the pipe screwed into the threaded bit. I must have checked that this bolt was tight on at least two or three separate occasions as the sort of noise it was and the circumstances under which it rattled was very consistent with something like this being loose. What I hadn't realized was that it was the steel spring clip part which was just loose enough in the hole in the wing to allow it to rattle under just the right conditions. The tightness of the bolt in the middle was irrelevant as it was holding the pipe to the clip but the clip could still "rattle" in the hole in the wing!
I found it when I had to remove the turbo pipe to renew the rubber sealing pipe where it joined onto the inter cooler. It was cured by just slightly bending the metal so the clip gripped the hole tightly. Being able to accelerate without hearing that terrible rattle was absolutely wonderful and very satisfying! It's almost unbelievable that it took me nearly 2 years to find it though isn't it?
'Targeted Advertising'
As I looked at the forum this morning..
I got an Ad. That read :
Apply to reside in Wales..
IN ITALIAN
Not sure the Welsh Government got good value from that..
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As I looked at the forum this morning..
I got an Ad. That read :
Apply to reside in Wales..
IN ITALIAN
Not sure the Welsh Government got good value from that..
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My mother in-law made fantastic beef stews. One day she'd got one on the side to cool. When she went to serve the tide mark was down about 1" and the cat was looking very contended. We sent out for Fish n Chips.
How the cat coped with hot caserole and how she shifted the lid is anyone's guess.
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'Targeted Advertising'
As I looked at the forum this morning..
I got an Ad. That read :
Apply to reside in Wales..
IN ITALIAN
Not sure the Welsh Government got good value from that..
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South Wales actually has a significant Italian population.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Italians
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/wales/entries/fdcff8e1-66dc-34e2-b279-a6e7280958cc
South Wales..
Who will have lived here for 60+ years..and their children born here
(I dont qualify on either front..
So a pointless Ad. )
had to nick this
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They already live there though so it a bit after the horse has bolted.
I think either they meant to put this on an Italian web site or someone pressed the wrong button. You are quite right though there are strong links beween the two countries.
The space X high altitude test took place last night and the reporting “exciting” landing was pretty spectacular, everything else went as planned
I think I caught (listening through the kitchen door to the TV in the living room) that Elon Musk, quite amusingly, referred to it as an "uncontrolled disassembly"? He's saying that they got pretty much all the info they were after though and I - as a life long SF nut and enthusiast for all thing involving space travel - applaud their efforts with enthusiasm!
Oops, just caught it again on the BBC news. He actually called it a "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" I do like that!
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Lol, yes I believe the phrase he coined was a “rapid unscheduled disassembly”
