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Nice People Thread Part 9 - and so it continues

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  • My sister lost weight in her pregnancies.

    I never managed to use the pregnancy-excuse to hoover up all grub in sight. I was either being sick or feeling sick all day, every day for 9 months. It rather put me off pregnancy as an idea. Throwing up and being in labour at the same time seemed rather harsh.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • zagubov
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    Happy Birthday Chewie!:beer:
    Enjoy the ice cream!

    PN what sauce do you make for the pakoras?
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • lostinrates
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    I've been Money Tipped!
    I never managed to use the pregnancy-excuse to hoover up all grub in sight. I was either being sick or feeling sick all day, every day for 9 months. It rather put me off pregnancy as an idea. Throwing up and being in labour at the same time seemed rather harsh.

    My sister bloomed all through pregnancy. Some 'morning sickness' but nothing extraordinary. Funny cravings, but we often do :D she loves being pregnant. Her skin looked great, her hair looked great and her normals op end of size eight post pregnancy was bottom end of size eight. :).

    She should have been a professional surrogate it suited her so well.
  • zagubov
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    misskool wrote: »
    if anyone needs another kitchen appliance (ish).

    www.codlo.com

    i covet one but don't need or have much great use for it.


    Wouldn't you need to know precise temperatures?

    After working in a path lab, I find this looks very resistible. I'll be giving it the body swerve.


    On height, DD is taller than me and I expect DS to be so as well. I'm the tallest in my own family.


    Used to have a flatmate who was 6'3". His girlfriend was about 4 inches taller.


    If she'd waited for a taller bloke.....
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  • lostinrates
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    I've been Money Tipped!
    Never made them before .... bought about 6 in my life. Never had a sauce with them ... and nothing here to make sauce.

    So I had 4 of them dry.

    What sauce should I have had?


    I'd have had them with a yoghurt sauce. Ready to slap me yet? :D
  • PasturesNew
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    I'd have had them with a yoghurt sauce. Ready to slap me yet? :D
    pfft... although now I'm wondering .... I've had a couple in an indian with a green minty sauce.... er ... is that yoghurt? The yoghurt I'm scared of? Well, I had the green minty sauce with poppadums, but when they try to snatch the sauces away I always grip hard and keep them.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    pfft... although now I'm wondering .... I've had a couple in an indian with a green minty sauce.... er ... is that yoghurt? The yoghurt I'm scared of? Well, I had the green minty sauce with poppadums, but when they try to snatch the sauces away I always grip hard and keep them.

    Yeah..that's yoghurt...with a lot of sugar in it, and mint as you say. Its nicer, IMO, when its not sweet and not watery.
  • zagubov
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    edited 5 August 2013 at 11:49PM
    Never made them before .... bought about 6 in my life. Never had a sauce with them ... and nothing here to make sauce.

    So I had 4 of them dry.

    What sauce should I have had?


    There's lots of variations- where I'm from there's a red sauce I've never seen in London. There's a recipe on here you could try but there's other ones based on lemon juice and mashed onions.

    JiuvyJ's might be the most realistic, but pakoras are too dry without something.

    For anyone here who's veen to the middle east, it's not much different from felafels.

    I'm going on my hols soon and will be eating it a-plenty and washing it down with Schiehallion!
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • zagubov
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    Yeah..that's yoghurt...with a lot of sugar in it, and mint as you say. Its nicer, IMO, when its not sweet and not watery.
    Yep you can get a minty yoghurty sauce with onion bajhias here in london and it's better than nothing.
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • PasturesNew
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    zagubov wrote: »
    There's lots of variaytions- whereI'm from there's a red sauce I've never seen in London. There's a recipe on here you could try but there's other ones baced on lemon juice and mashed onions.

    JiuvyJ's might be the most realistic, but pakoras are too dry without something.

    For anyone here who's veen to the middle east, it's not much different from felafels.
    The trouble with recipes is: achievability/desire .... all I did earlier to make them was chuck some mash and veg into a bowl, mix that with some curry/garam massala and chop and onion and lob in an egg. Then shape into rough balls and lob in the oven..... 1 hour 10 minutes later .... they were cooked. It's a lot of wait/faff for what should have been simple. Packet of instant noodles would have taken me 4 minutes and resulted in less washing up.....

    If, on your link, you mean the recipe that says: 4 medium onions (approximately 1 lb), 4 oz caster sugar, 1/2 cup red wine vinegar, 1/2 cup tomato ketchup, 2 tbsp tomato puree (paste), 3 tbsp dried mint

    I'd [a] not want a pint, just 2 tablespoons, and never have any red wine vinegar, don't have any tomato puree, not got any dried mint.

    Most of the ingredients in most recipes would need to be planned ahead. I only made pakoras because I had some spare mash and veggies that had to be eaten by today :) And I also had an onion (well, 2/3rds of one as it was going manky/soft).
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