Okay, we're definitely sorted on nibbles and dessert!

and someone, who ever it was bring that cloud thing... please :-)



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Sylvester says.... *plock*




actually he says peep, cheep, chirrup, squalk,muttermuttergrumblegrumble, oh and now he falls off his pirch whish is followed by a sheepish peek round to see if anyone was looking and a quick scramble back up

That, if I'm not mistaken, was Dave.



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That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
(Llewelyn the dragon, Ozy and Millie)

Sarah

Oooh, Keralan food.

Happy memories!

And not impossible to get a really good fix -- there are at least four Keralan restaurants in London (Rasa, Rasa W1, Rasa Samudra and the Rasa lunchtime cafe place whose actual name I can't remember -- yes they are all owned by the same bloke. And they're all pink.)

In Cambridge unfortunately we only get the standard Bangladeshi/North Indian style curry houses -- nice food, but it gets boring.

There's a Gujarati corner shop about 50 yards from here -- wish they'd open a restaurant. (There are also some fine Gujarati restaurants in London -- notably Rani in Finchley.)

And of course for the most authentically Indian food experience in London, you need to go to Sakonis in Wembley, which is so Indian it even does Indian Chinese food -- heaven! (anyone who's been to Bombay will probably understand this -- the Szechuan noodles at Leo's cafe are so addictive; and you can get them at Sakonis. Hurrah)

Ahem. Culinary reverie over.



Jesus saves; Buddha does incremental backup.

Guy - Coincidence collision there, my Keralan cookery book is actually by the owner of the Rasa restaurants: Das Sreedharan. I think its an amazingly good recipe book. I'm very glad to have tried it out, I didn't do much Indian cooking before. I've eaten at a couple of friends houses, one of whom is from the Gujerat and I didn't think I could get it to taste the same, after all they've had so much more practice than me! I do miss a certain pickle though, my friend's mum made it from a green vegetable I think is called 'tindora'. She made it with chillies and it has a sour but spicy taste.

I have visited Sakonis, went there after visiting the Swaminarayan Mandir in Neasden, they do the most wonderful tiffin nibbles and I ate lots! Well worth a visit, even if you have to wait for a table.



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