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Post by amipal on Feb 23, 2021 10:47:43 GMT
Morning all.
My evening could have been better. I felt adrift: lost at sea. My seemingly set-in-stone plans washed out of my mind and replaced with ghosts of ideas.
TVblog: Friends, of all things. Not my choice, I assure you.
Amigablog: downloads some demos from the Scene to watch. Alas, supplied as ADFs - which are fine if you’re emulating, but my A1200T’s floppy drive doesn’t seem to want to write valid disks anymore. I must look into that.
Ended up playing Ambermoon, a seriously impressive RPG. Some very interesting gameplay mechanics.
I died against the first spider I encountered. 4*
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Post by amipal on Feb 23, 2021 10:48:52 GMT
I made another curry - a 'curry' with the master-sauce yesterday. It was ok. It resulted in a thick, bhuna-like gravy. It was similar to a take-away curry but I think ... on balance ... I prefer the curries detailed by Madhur Jaffrey. Madhur Jaffrey knows what she's talking about. Moribund chat. I am fully invested in currychat. I feel that you are on the cusp of a grand discovery. |
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Post by lazybones on Feb 23, 2021 10:50:21 GMT
I'm considering pouring the master-sauce into a patch of the garden to enrich the soil.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Feb 23, 2021 10:59:40 GMT
I have a recipe book from The Spicery and a few tubs of their pre-mixed spices. Most are excellent and the Chicken Balti was superb. I tend to make my own now as opposed to getting takeaways.
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Post by lazybones on Feb 23, 2021 11:13:26 GMT
I can get acceptable results by: - Roasting the vegetables separately
- Popping mustard seeds, adding curry leaves, asafoetida, onion and garlic, and ... other ... spices (usually aleppo pepper, cumin and turmeric)
- Thickening the sauce with tomato, coconut milk or ... 'master-sauce'
- Possibly adding sugar and vinegar or lemon juice
- Adding the vegetables into the sauce for another ten minutes' cooking
I'm beginning to wonder if the key is ... a new master-sauce. Not this slapdash compromise sauce I cobbled up. |
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Post by lazybones on Feb 23, 2021 11:16:24 GMT
I have also started using bouillon powder instead of salt.
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Post by crankcaller on Feb 23, 2021 11:19:36 GMT
Crank - I have this as my keyboard:{snip} Please bear in mind all mechanical keyboards cause a right racket when typing I have looked at that keyboard. I ended up getting a (no doubt fake) Royal Kludge RK61 from bang good or whatever it's called for about £35 - it's arriving some time in the next millennium when I've forgotten about it. Noise? Pfffft. So you've not desoldered the switches and replaced them with cherry pink silent ones, added damping rings, lubed the switches and put some foam inside the case? Do you even game? Here's a 3080 for you... www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/lpqiek/a_spinning_rtx3080_vga_keycap_ftw/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb |
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 23, 2021 11:20:44 GMT
The easiest way to get a curry to taste like a take away is add half a pack of butter to the recipe.
Unless it is a massala etc in which case you should add half a pint of cream as well.
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Post by crankcaller on Feb 23, 2021 11:21:55 GMT
Is a curry master sauce this lockdowns sourdough? Have I missed something?
Talking of which I'm looking at making bagels at home. Seem simple enough. Famous last words.
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Post by lazybones on Feb 23, 2021 11:23:35 GMT
I realise the term 'master-sauce' looks suspicious.
The internet refers to it as 'BIR base-sauce' (British Indian Restaurant base-sauce).
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Post by lazybones on Feb 23, 2021 11:27:22 GMT
I think the key to great curries might be having a gas stove like the after-burner of a MIG-19.
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Post by Sheep2 on Feb 23, 2021 11:33:06 GMT
I think the key to great curries might be having a gas stove like the after-burner of a MIG-19. Good quality ingredients and low expectations are the keys to success. |
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Post by crankcaller on Feb 23, 2021 11:37:45 GMT
Gawd. I'd love to go for a couple of pints and then pop into the Dhabba on Candelriggs for their Monkfish from the Tandoor and piles of other stuff. Drooling.
When's lunch?
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Post by lazybones on Feb 23, 2021 11:43:08 GMT
Our favourite take-away closed down.
All that knowledge - lost in time.
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 23, 2021 12:26:52 GMT
Well Star has been added to Disney+ and it has all of American Dad and Family Guy, so that's my day time viewing sorted.
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Post by scamander on Feb 23, 2021 12:29:13 GMT
Amipal
Is there a reliable Amiga emulator? I want to play Football Masters, but it all seems a bit convoluted.
cheers
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Post by RollingEscargot on Feb 23, 2021 12:31:21 GMT
Last night I drank some beer that my friend had made at home and given me a 2 litre plastic bottle of. Pouring that into a pint glass gave me a proustian pub flashback much stronger than the standard lockdown can-swigging routine. Next time I'm going to complete the experience by turning the telly up too loud and getting a couple of old guys to shout drunkenly at each other through my letterbox.
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Post by Felice Landry on Feb 23, 2021 12:32:17 GMT
Amipal Is there a reliable Amiga emulator? I want to play Football Masters, but it all seems a bit convoluted. cheers I imagine the answer will be "buy an Amiga, you doofus*". *He may not add the last bit. |
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Post by scubar on Feb 23, 2021 12:56:18 GMT
Legal question, the woman who owned the house before us got into a car accident shortly after the move, but hasn’t changed her address with the insurance company, and a cheque has just arrived covering her insurance excess. How has it got to two months later and she hasn’t changed her address?
I guess it’s not a legal question really, just baffling and infuriating. And now I need to sellotape the envelope back up and send it back to the insurance company.
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Post by MrTiddles on Feb 23, 2021 13:03:20 GMT
Trying to get a £55 refund from British Gas is proving harder than I thought. Agent 'Vandana' spent more time flirting with me than actually doing anything worthwhile.
There are downsides to being Mr Tids, I suppose...
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Feb 23, 2021 13:11:55 GMT
Legal question, the woman who owned the house before us got into a car accident shortly after the move, but hasn’t changed her address with the insurance company, and a cheque has just arrived covering her insurance excess. How has it got to two months later and she hasn’t changed her address? I guess it’s not a legal question really, just baffling and infuriating. And now I need to sellotape the envelope back up and send it back to the insurance company. Did you break the law by opening someone else's post? Yes. Best to chuck it in the bin and ignore it. |
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Post by lazybones on Feb 23, 2021 13:15:32 GMT
I think maybe just tape it up and send it back.
A five minute job. Maybe 15 minutes if the post box is far away.
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Post by MrTiddles on Feb 23, 2021 13:20:34 GMT
I guess it’s not a legal question really, just baffling and infuriating. And now I need to sellotape the envelope back up and send it back to the insurance company. Best to chuck it in the bin and ignore it. This is incorrect BabyF. |
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Post by scubar on Feb 23, 2021 13:20:47 GMT
Legal question, the woman who owned the house before us got into a car accident shortly after the move, but hasn’t changed her address with the insurance company, and a cheque has just arrived covering her insurance excess. How has it got to two months later and she hasn’t changed her address? I guess it’s not a legal question really, just baffling and infuriating. And now I need to sellotape the envelope back up and send it back to the insurance company. Did you break the law by opening someone else's post? Yes. Best to chuck it in the bin and ignore it. We’ve sent hundreds of letters back to sender. We did look it up and found out that it is ok if you think there’s a reasonable cause. So we’ve opened some as there’s a possibility they’ve missed payments and we don’t want bailiffs coming to us. Open it up, and seal back up, send it back saying opened in error. |
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Post by lazybones on Feb 23, 2021 13:24:49 GMT
Why open someone else's post?
That's something I don't understand. That's something I'll never understand.
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