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Making chicken feed of my mortgage

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  • Greying_Pilgrim
    Greying_Pilgrim Posts: 6,619 Forumite
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    edited 4 May 2015 at 5:23PM
    Thanks MWC, momentarily carried away to an exotic land where beer is only 15p a drink :)

    I agree edinburgher - and what do you think that the abv might be on such a brew? :D

    muddywhitechicken - we have eaten the Cambodian Aubergine Curry, it was Saturday night's tea :D But the recipe (including the Kroeung spice paste) is HERE and of course, you will include all the additional things like shrimp paste/fish sauce that I miss out due to being veggie - so I hope that it tastes super awesome for you :D I love it, it is so fragrant :D I have, however, used up all my kroeung paste now - I make a batch and freeze in big (tablespoon?) cubes and it works great from frozen, loses nothing of the fragrance at all. I didn't take a pic of Saturday night's offering, but there is a pic of a version that I made on my other diary. However, the blog pic with the recipe is much better shot than I could ever manage to get :D

    And I agree with karmacat - the veg market photos are awesome - wish I had access to markets like that, I'd be in culinary nirvana :D

    Oooooh, super-liking the Anna Barnett linkie too...... looks very much my type of thing. Ta MWC :D

    Greying x
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  • muddywhitechicken
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    Mmmmmmm - thanks Greying - that looks delicious :drool:

    No shrimp paste here either... I developed a shellfish allergy a few years ago :(
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  • greent
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    Fab pics :D


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  • Goldiegirl
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    Thanks for posting your pics, they were great to look at
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  • muddywhitechicken
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    :mad: still no hatching eggs - hopefully they'll arrive tomorrow *fingers crossed*

    Would you like to see some more photos or have you seen enough?!
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  • XSpender
    XSpender Posts: 3,811 Forumite
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    More photos please :)
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  • muddywhitechicken
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    edited 6 May 2015 at 10:55PM
    Day 11 - we took the overnight sleeper train to Sapa

    Day 12/13 - we trekked in the mountains and visited local villages :)

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    Bought a snack from a mobile steamed rice bun seller!

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    Red Dao

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    H'mong

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    We also visited a school with gifts of exercise books, pens/pencils and sweets

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  • Alchemilla
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    Wow. What an adventure!
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Adventure is the right word! MWC, these are brilliant - and I love the photos of those women, they're really connected, not normal tourist photos at all. Thank you so much.
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  • muddywhitechicken
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    The hatching eggs are here :j

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