The food thread

[Charles Darwin]

Doesn't have to. You can let it mix the dough and then you bung it in a tin to bake.

It's the tin I object to, not the mixing of the dough. ;-)

 

[SY]

Do you use any kind of culture to start the idli batter fermenting?

I use a bit of unpasteurized yogurt. Idli sambar as a side to dosas is the second finest food on Earth.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Oysters tonight.

Raw in chili flakes, lime, pickled cuke, cola and salt.

Pan fried in bread crumbs, red chili & soy sauce, ginger, oyster sauce and...I forgot what else she said.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

See, even that country chick is freightened by the Cal cleaver.

 

[tubesguy]

Idli sambar as a side to dosas is the second finest food on Earth.

OK, I'll bite, so to speak. What do you have at #1?

 

[Cal Weldon]

I can answer that as he has said it more than once.

Pizza.

 

[Cal Weldon]

See, even that country chick is freightened by the Cal cleaver.

That country chick grew up in Saigon. And yes, most people are wisely afraid of that dynamic duo 'Cal and Cleaver.'

Freightened? Is that like a phobia of being shipped?

 

[Cal Weldon]

I forgot what else she said.

I like raw but this was really good, whatever it was.

 

[billshurv]

I use a bit of unpasteurized yogurt. Idli sambar as a side to dosas is the second finest food on Earth.

Ah, will need to get some tips from you. Whilst we can outdo the local Dosa restaurant (large south indian population here due to Oracle, microsoft and my crowd), we are still perfecting the sambar and dosa fillings.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Saigon

Chicken Provençale, the picture you posted.

(I wouldn't dream of adressing Mrs Weldon as a/that chick. Frei/Fri, slip of the tooth-ache. In my case, it would be flightened)

 

[Groove T]

In Indian Restaurants around us you will not find Dosa, Idli and so on.
So i have no idea abouth the taste of them, but seems interesting.
Have to read my Indian recipe book again, its in english anyway and we have an asian shop, carrying some indian stuff also. They ask my always wherefrom i know the ingredients i would like to have, but usually i have no clue what it looks like.

With ThaiFood i have some origin experience, pretty different to that usual stuff what we get here in ThaiRestaurants.

But we have a gazillion Pizzerias here and some of them do it really good with those super hot wood fired ovens.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Chicken Provençale, the picture you posted.

Now I feel silly.

(I wouldn't dream of adressing Mrs Weldon as a/that chick. Frei/Fri, slip of the tooth-ache. In my case, it would be flightened)

Secretly, Mrs. Weldon likes the term. Any chance to feel younger I suppose.

Hope the tooth feels better soon.

 

[SY]

In Indian Restaurants around us you will not find Dosa, Idli and so on.
So i have no idea abouth the taste of them, but seems interesting.

It's southern Indian, whereas most European Indian restaurants (IME) seem to be Punjabi or Pakistani.

 

[billshurv]

generally in UK ALL are bangladeshi unless you know where to go. Certainly UK curry houses have no more link to authentic indian food than Bud has to decent beer. But our nearest does do better tandori roti than we can manage. Next move I will build a wood oven for pizza and roti.

 

[SY]

I lust after a wood-burning oven. My wife wanted to build one this summer, but other things got in the way. Next year...

 

[billshurv]

If I were building a house I would also have a soapstone oven Fireplace collection . good ones can still cook pizza 24 hours later.

 

[SY]

Yes, I think she was going in that direction for her plans, but she's the skilled constructor in the family, not me.

Heat capacity is a wonderful thing.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

a soapstone oven

Pretty.

Reminds me of the times when a tea pot was on the heating stove in the living/dining room.

 

[billshurv]

those times were not so long ago for me and I hope to regain them again soonish.

 

[scott wurcer]

Certainly UK curry houses have no more link to authentic indian food than Bud has to decent beer.

Can't be worse than the UK Chinese restaurants.