Recipes for scrumptious and reasonably healthy food

No worries, dude. She sez 'yer welcome' :)

Marco.

Recipes for scrumptious and reasonably healthy food

Well, it's not a recipe.
Some people will definitely consider this to be quite the opposite of scrumptious.
It has more oil in it than anyone should ever eat, so making it nothing like reasonably healthy.

.........however, if a strong flavoured, Asian kind of thing is up your particular alley (oo-er Missus!), then you are going to love this!
We were in a tiny Asian grocery shop yesterday, stocking up on a few spices and whatnot, when I spied this humble little jar sitting on a shelf:

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/2462/dscf4336l.jpg

Now, having spent a good portion of my early life in rural Pakistan, I'm rather partial to this kind of thing, but this is extraordinary!
Monstrously strong - 65% of it is whole cloves of garlic.
I should imagine about 20% is chillie pulp. It's very salty and sour like the best lime pickles & the oil is vividly red.
We tried some last night with a couple of curries - chicken for me & veg, lentil & chick pea for Mrs Wazzles - along with a big old bowl of onion salad (onions, cucumber, tomato, mint, chillie, fresh coriander lemon juice and salt) and some popadoms.
YIKES!!!! I've never eaten anything like this in my life - it's a bit of an assault course for your taste buds but I think we may be having curry again two or three times later this week!

Sounds fab, Chris! I love garlic (and lime) pickle (the latter used in one of my favourite curries, chicken or lamb Achari), but that one sounds a bit special!

Looks like you can get it from here:

http://www.eurowideexports.co.uk/

Marco.

& how did the bedroom smell this morning Chris?

Botty-burp city! :D

Marco.

Good God! What exactly are you implying?

I was thinking breath wise 65% Garlic cloves

As long as they were both eating it, it don't matter! :eyebrows:

Marco.

Hehehe!!
I'm a forester, matey - both my botty & my breath always smell 'pine-fresh'.

We're doing this Thai Green Curry recipe tonight for dinner:

http://www.templeofthai.com/recipes/...reen_curry.php

Should be good! I'll let you know :)

We bought all the ingredients yesterday from our favourite Chinese supermarket, W.H. Lung, in Liverpool: http://goodfoodshops.blogspot.co.uk/...nd-tai-pan.htm

...and afterwards had a superb (authentic) lunch, with Dim Sums, and all sorts, next door in the Tai Pan restaurant, before popping into Probe to buy some records.

It's one of my favourite days out! :cool:

Marco.