What are you Having for Dinner Tonight?

[pomps]

^ and a cheeky glass of ice cold beer

Day 3 in Fat Hamlays diet.

Breakfast - Quakers Oats with apple and cinnamon
Morning Snack - Red Bull, 2 Coffees and nuts
Lunch - Lamb curry with naan bread
Dinner - Parma Ham and Strawberries

Maybe morning snack and lunch were questionable but other 2 not too bad. Dinner was only strawberries until the wife opened a packet of great Parma Ham and made me help finish the pack.

No booze since NYE. Feeling great apart from Covid which I smashed in a day anyway

Nuts are fine cashew/almonds/walnuts all good,lamb curry perfectly acceptable parma ham good saturated facts so a good start

[Shado]

A wild large plateful,think the wife would like that and am sure just a large glass of iced lemon tea to wash it down with
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The wife and niece each had a Heineken, I had my usual cha manao. I think the dish might be called pad cha talay. It was really hot/spicy. When the wife keeps repeating "phet, phet" you know it's spicier than normal. I thought is was delicious and I because the recipe includes a lot of phrik Thai (white pepper) as well as chilis it's a bit different "hot" than the normal "Thai hot". I've noticed that white or black pepper tastes much spicier to the wife than it does to me. I can't come close to her ability to handle the heat of Thai chilis though.

[pomps]

A wild large plateful,think the wife would like that and am sure just a large glass of iced lemon tea to wash it down with
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The wife and niece each had a Heineken, I had my usual cha manao. I think the dish might be called pad cha talay. It was really hot/spicy. When the wife keeps repeating "phet, phet" you know it's spicier than normal. I thought is was delicious and I because the recipe includes a lot of phrik Thai (white pepper) as well as chilis it's a bit different "hot" than the normal "Thai hot". I've noticed that white or black pepper tastes much spicier to the wife than it does to me. I can't come close to her ability to handle the heat of Thai chilis though.

Wife has a number of plants doing well,seeds bought through Lazada,advises the hottest chilis in Thailand ,maybe Mrs Shado can increase the spice level a notch

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[Shado]

Wife has a number of plants doing well,seeds bought through Lazada,advises the hottest chilis in Thailand ,maybe Mrs Shado can increase the spice level a notch

Those chilis resemble Scotch Bonnets or some hybrid thereof. Healthy looking plants and fruit. We brought back Habanero, Bhut Jolokia (ghost chili) and Trinidad Scorpion seeds to Thailand from the States but had no luck getting them to germinate. They may have been too old, I just don't know. The missus actually preferred the Habanero chilis when we are there. They are usually available in the markets and pack a pretty solid punch.

I've been eating Mexican and Indian food for ages and Thai restaurants are becoming more popular in the States. However, none of the the Indian or Mexican dishes come even close to the "blow your head off" spiciness of some of the Isaan concoctions I've tried to eat. I think it is just the huge amount of phrik kee nu that they use is what makes the difference.

[Shado]

Beef tenderloin (300 gm), baked potato with butter and sour cream and fresh sweet corn.

[Niggly]

Yellow curry

[pomps]

Beef tenderloin (300 gm), baked potato with butter and sour cream and fresh sweet corn.

Whenever see Shad's photo with the dark buttered bread,always reminds me of soreen malt bread,lashings of butter applied and the whole loaf eaten in one sitting were small loves anyway ,back to the photo,does look a healthy sized piece of meat

[Shado]

I buy a full loin at Thai-French Beef and cut my own steaks. Can usually get a dozen or so. A little thicker for me who likes them a bit rare and a little thinner for the missus who prefers hers medium to well. She is starting to get the idea now though and will eat her steaks when "pinkish". By having both thick and thin steaks they will come off the grill at the same time but cooked to different levels of doneness.

[Butch]

Poached eggs on toast.

[Niggly]

Lovely meal at Ku Garden last night. The Boys treat so it tasted even better