Cooking tips and wonderful flavour combinations
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Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Are they another Shana product? Their frozen parathas are amazing (if phenomenally unhealthy) - they're basically frozen sheets of dough rather than frozen bread, so you're actually getting freshly cooked paratha in two minutes.
Another question - is there anything actually nice to do with beansprouts other than put them in stir fried noodles? In all other contexts they just seem to be a tedious anti-flavour that you have to chomp through.
Another question - is there anything actually nice to do with beansprouts other than put them in stir fried noodles? In all other contexts they just seem to be a tedious anti-flavour that you have to chomp through.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Shitlaods, but I can't recall off the bat. french dishes certainly. Bengali/Bangladeshi fish dishes certainly use them too, and arent' curries as such.
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
discovered you can buy frozen roti canai's.
They're not as good as the real thing trust.
nochexxx
harco pronting
don't recall the name of the brand but yeah, it's frozen sheets of dough and they come out nice and fluffy. i did think about buying parathas, but the idea of frozen veg mix turned me off.
i lived in KL for 6 years and ate fresh roti pretty much every other day, but i still think these frozen ones are pretty good in comparison.
nochexxx
harco pronting
beansprouts are good for combating fat and work best alongside one other fatty ingredient imo.
stir fried beef and beansprouts works beautifully for example.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
http://foodandspice.blogspot.com/2007/04/staple-corner-how-to-make-your-own_14.html for example.
They have loads of masal pack sin INdian stores that I'm sure you've bought at one time or another, which have good spice lists, but should be able to find most on the net. There's nother great site I can't remmeber the url of at the moment, with everythign in one place.
They have loads of masal pack sin INdian stores that I'm sure you've bought at one time or another, which have good spice lists, but should be able to find most on the net. There's nother great site I can't remmeber the url of at the moment, with everythign in one place.
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Ooh, good call. Beef is off the menu thanks to the veggie girlfriend, but I used flakes of fried wonton wrapper (ottolenghi idea, see upthread) and a bit of cabbage, spring onion, coriander leaf etc and it came out pretty well - it actually turns the wateryness of the beansprouts into a bit of a feature.
(Cambridge geekery - which is the spice shop near your place ie are you at the mill road or histon road end of town?)
Dr Awesome
Techsteppin'
Yeah, they're not bad by any means. I've just got (permanent) cravings for the real thing.
Something about seeing the little Indian man whip it out over the hotplate, and the smell of the ghee (I think it was ghee) in the fresh mixture.
I'd murder a Roti Telur right now....
(what was it with onion too, my pidgen behasa isn't really upto scratch any more - Pisang was banana wasn't it? )
nochexxx
harco pronting
Al Noor, off Arbury Rd, not far from Histon Rd. it's a small but well stocked Bangledeshi grocery/butchers. i get my lady fingers there.
next door to Al Noor is a good butcher, you can buy rare breed pork etc further down is Arbury Court. the Art of Meat butcher makes the best sausages, sometimes one off recipes brought in by customers. i personally love the Italian Stallion one. aparently there's an Italian chap who buys their entire stock at once. the chippy next door does the best fish n chips in Cambridge, cooked to order naturally.
Mill Rd shops are probably better and you have all the Asian supermarkets down there as well.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Here's an oldie but goodie:
Anchovies, broccoli, lemon zest, lj, possibly sumac, on pasta (orrichiette int he classic recipe, so I'm told)
Anchovies, broccoli, lemon zest, lj, possibly sumac, on pasta (orrichiette int he classic recipe, so I'm told)
Slothrop
Tight but Polite
I'm about three minutes walk from the mighty Nasreen Dar at the bottom of Histon Road, which seems to be pretty much top for anything indian and unexpectedly good for all sorts of random continental stuff. Mill Road seems to be the way to go for chinese / SE asian, though - I need to find something to do with the banana leaves that they sell in the place nearest the railway.
I'll take note of those butchers for the next time the veggie is away.
Cambridge is a pretty ace place to buy food, all told. Kind of makes up for the shortage of decent cheap restaurants...
nochexxx
harco pronting
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Orange and fennel salad, with grated parmesan and sprinkled juniper berry, on spinach leaves. Overdid it on the vinegar(much better to use lemon juice, doesn't overpower the fennel so much), but otherwise, lovely.
viktorvaughn
Well-known member
lovely in a sour/hot soup. i made one with mackerel but I think you could do veg or gently poach some pork or chicken in there too.
other than that maybe chop up thin and stir fry with some veg or chuck into fried rice with any left overs and some pickled chill, dash of soy/sesame oil..
you can give them a light rinse before use but it's not a big deal, just salty water.
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nochexxx
harco pronting
supposedly Cho Mee has a fresh delivery of fish every Wednesday morning from Billingsgate. if i need anything Chinese, then that's certianly one of the places to go.