What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Bruce Rioja]

Tonight was a return to the remains of last Friday's six veggie curries. Fab. Poss even better.

Ended with us combining the miniature remains of each into one bowl and having a couple of spoons of six-dish curry... This may become a new favourite... It really was good!

(Was a red Rioja again. Nigh on perfect).

Never cook and eat a curry the same day, they are far better left till the following day or a couple of days later, they mature.

Aye. A mate and his Mrs have invited me over for a curry night on Friday; they started prepping the curry this evening. I swear that, bar about three or four, they rustle up a better curry than any Indian restaurant I know.

[William the White]

Tonight was a return to the remains of last Friday's six veggie curries. Fab. Poss even better.

Ended with us combining the miniature remains of each into one bowl and having a couple of spoons of six-dish curry... This may become a new favourite... It really was good!

(Was a red Rioja again. Nigh on perfect).

Never cook and eat a curry the same day, they are far better left till the following day or a couple of days later, they mature.

Would that affect the chilled Albarino ???

Never any leftovers from the Albarino... strangely...

[William the White]

The green tomato glut (not much sign of them ripening anytime soon) in a Garden in Harwood has turned our kitchen into Chutney World...

We will be running out of empty jam jars round about thursday...

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

Some home made doner kebab meat cooking in the oven. Smells great, hoping it tastes as good

[bwfcdan94]

Pasty barm

[Prufrock]

Had a couple of salads this week with stuff the missus' parents gave me to bring back from their vegetable garden-y thing. Much like home-made soup, I've never really got the point of that kind of thing - homegrown lettuce etc...-; it's pennies in the supermarket and I couldn't be doing with the hassle. Not tomatoes though. I'd forgotten what tomatoes really taste like. Utterly wonderful. Proustian sensation of the smell and taste taking me back to my granddad's greenhouse and that viney smell. Ace!

That said, my 'healthy salads' tend to stray from the puritan's handbook. Tomorrow we've got salmon salad (leftover salmon marinaded in sweet chili and soy, then wrapped in Serrano ham) which is some lettuce, cucumber, pepper and these tomatoes, a bit of pickled betroot, a feck* of coleslaw and some big chunks of mozzarella and stilton. But it's a salad, so it's healthy right. Oh, and little pot of the sweet chili/soy mix that the salmon was cooked in as dressing.

[Bruce Rioja]

I've never understood people growing their own tomatoes when if you buy the vine ripened ones in the supermarket they cost pennies, taste of tomato AND smell of greenhouse.

[Prufrock]

I thought that until I had these! Mind blown. Those ones in the supermarket really don't. Not even the sent top of the range £3 still on the vine ones!

[Bruce Rioja]

I thought that until I had these! Mind blown. Those ones in the supermarket really don't. Not even the sent top of the range £3 still on the vine ones!

I'm taking the piss.

[Prufrock]

[bobo the clown]

You do know the aroma almost all comes from the actual vine itself, not the tomato ???

[Prufrock]

Yep, they've still got the little green bits on. I've never been this excited by tomatoes before!

[KeyserSoze]

People what have been to new york. Anyone been here?

http://www.mercatonyc.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I've been recommended it rather enthusiastically. Can anyone corroborate?

[bobo the clown]

People what have been to new york. Anyone been here?

http://www.mercatonyc.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I've been recommended it rather enthusiastically. Can anyone corroborate?

Nope .... though it looks like a smaller, less wide-ranging menu of my fave in NYC ... Carmines. Make sure you book and go with a party and agree a $per head and just ask them to "bring food". I have never, ever, seen so much, such variety, nor eaten so well.

http://www.carminesnyc.com/locations/th ... trict-nyc/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bruce Rioja]

People what have been to new york. Anyone been here?

http://www.mercatonyc.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I've been recommended it rather enthusiastically. Can anyone corroborate?

Nope .... though it looks like a smaller, less wide-ranging menu of my fave in NYC ... Carmines. Make sure you book and go with a party and agree a $per head and just ask them to "bring food". I have never, ever, seen so much, such variety, nor eaten so well.

http://www.carminesnyc.com/locations/th ... trict-nyc/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Never tire of recommending this place if you're up near the Lincoln Centre, Soze. Best Italian I've ever eaten by some tune:

http://www.cafefiorello.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Also, if you're near the Flat Iron building there's this tremendous place called 'Eataly' which is this fantastic contemporary Italian food market with various little eateries within it as well as having a great rooftop restaurant. You can have whatever suits your fancy - nibble a bit of cheese with wine downstairs or head upstairs for something something a little more (yet still in) formal. The place in itself is a fantastic experience.

http://www.cafefiorello.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[KeyserSoze]

Ta bruce - so good you put the link in twice?

Will have a look out for it. I'm working near Tribeca so not too near, but will have some time to spend so will wander around.

thanks again!

[Bruce Rioja]

Ta bruce - so good you put the link in twice?

Will have a look out for it. I'm working near Tribeca so not too near, but will have some time to spend so will wander around.

thanks again!

Sorry mate

http://www.eataly.com/nyc/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[William the White]

i am sipping a glass of Aldi champagne - very cheap, very fizzy.

and shortly will be putting a plump sea bream in the oven.

I think salad, but have some french beans in the garden.

[bobo the clown]

i am sipping a glass of Aldi champagne - very cheap, very fizzy.

and shortly will be putting a plump sea bream in the oven.

I think salad, but have some french beans in the garden.

... and he gets all snotty when called a 'Champagne socialist'.

[thebish]

i am sipping a glass of Aldi champagne - very cheap, very fizzy.

and shortly will be putting a plump sea bream in the oven.

I think salad, but have some french beans in the garden.

are you sure it's a sea bream - they're not usually "plump" fish...