Topic: What's for dinner, Josephine?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Nice looking plate of food, especially the rice 

Thank you.  It was, without doubt, the best pulao rice I have ever cooked.  Normal microwave oven method, but this time I fried the whole spices first in a mini-wok :  star anise, cassia bark, torn Indian bay, green cardamom, and just a /little/ aniseed & kala jeera.  The rice was fried separately in the microwave oven, then the whole assembled, salt & 1/3" excess water added, then cooked at 100% for 12 minutes.  On this occasion I cooked two cups of rice rather than my normal one, so at 12 minutes it was still a little dry -- I added further boiling water and gave it a further five minutes at 100%, then fluffed, added one drop of each of the three colours, and back in at 10% for ten minutes.  Best ever !

** Phil.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Let's just say hand-stretched (by a not very accurately calibrated pair of hands).

Thank God you don't work at Trollh

[chewytikka]

nice camouflage rice CT, tikka looks good

Agree MA,

[london]

Chewy,

Do you just use the Dhansak power instead of mixed power if so how much.

London.

[SoberRat]

This was not my tea tonight but my OH. CTM.

[chewytikka]

Chewy,

Do you just use the Dhansak power instead of mixed power if so how much.

London.

Hi London
Just a touch of Mix powder for colour and a good H1tsp of MANGAL + H1tsp KashChilli,
2 very good glugs of wooster, likewise same amount lemon dressing.

cheers Chewy

[fried]

A bit late but Photobucket was refusing to work yesterday.

This was the starter and the best comfort food known to man. It's a Turkish disk called cilbir, basically 2 poached eggs served with garlic yogurt and a drizzle of turkish red pepper in butter. Add 1/2 a baguette and you're done.



Main course was Jamie Oliver's 'fantastic' roast chicken with red cabbage. Desert was Homemade lemon meringue cheesecake. Everything else got eaten too quickly for photos to be taken.

[SoberRat]

Braised steak with carrots and onions, 20 minutes in the pressure cooker. Roast potatoes, sweetcorn and peas. Lovely!

[Sverige]

Ooooh that looks good soberat. How did you make the gravy?

[SoberRat]

Thanks. It's just water added in the pressure cooker and a couple of Knorr stockpots.