Going for a curry tonight.
Mrs Vagabond has managed to contract a cold. A cold! I know! In this weather!
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:14, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

Sag paneer. Mmmmm.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:15, Reply)

Chicken korma, chips, five pints of Cobra.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:21, Reply)

And some poppadoms.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:21, Reply)

Nowt wrong with that.
Like a scouse "chicken dinner" with curry sauce.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:22, Reply)

Yer.
Don't want any of that foreign muck.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:28, Reply)

Poppadom Preach

( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:30, Reply)

Mmmm ... crispy.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:31, Reply)

Chicken Saag when I'm 'ere*
*unless 'ere is Imrans, Sparkbrook; in which case it is lamb.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:22, Reply)

I watched one of them programmes, right - turns out most houses use only three types of sauce.
Then they just add the meat you wanted, and spice it up according to how hot the dish is meant to be.

The rest is just talk.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:33, Reply)

Yeah. I've got a book on how to do it.
Once you do the prep you can bash out a curry house quality meal in ~15 minutes.

However the reason I'll only eat lamb saag in Imrans is because it's the only curry house i've been to that serves lamb so soft you don't need to chew it. And mediocre chicken is preferable to mediocre lamb.

This book covers it (pdf's on google).
www.amazon.co.uk/The-Curry-Secret-Indian-Restaurant/dp/0716021919
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:38, Reply)

Ah-ha!
Mrs Vagabond (a keen chef) has that. She does make a damned fine curry.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:41, Reply)

The Hairy Bikers curry book is pretty good as well.
I've not made that much out of it, but their madras is very good (not quite as good as the one in that book, but you don't need to do the prep first) and they've got a one pot chicken pilau that makes LOADS of servings that's really easy as well (just leave sultanas out because people who put sultanas in curry's should be turned in to soylent green).
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:50, Reply)

In a way one could argue that putting sultanas into curries was a prototype of soylent green.

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:53, Reply)

The beef vindaloo is superb, King-gheeee!

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 15:59, Reply)

I'll look into that.
In other beef news, I'm planning on doing a bourginion this weekend.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:03, Reply)

Nice.
One of my favourite things to eat. I cook loads and freeze it. It's even better after a month in the freezer.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:04, Reply)

I did a nice one of those in the slow cooker a while back
must dig out the recipe again.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:06, Reply)

This is going to be a slow cooker job.

( Slippery Mick ‏, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:18, Reply)

Use beef shin or cheek if you can get it.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:07, Reply)

That is the only reason I don't buy tinned curry.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:00, Reply)

you couldn't be a hairy biker
you couldn't grow a beard
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:01, Reply)

True enough, Si.
You could though.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:05, Reply)

not again
your mum said it tickled
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:06, Reply)

that's a terrible thing to say about my mum.
Admittedly I didn't care for sultanas in my curry back then either, but they were simpler times.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:03, Reply)

IT CAN HAPPEN

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 18 Jul 2014, 16:01, Reply)