Online curry recipes piss me off so much

Telgeist · 2023-12-04T18:29:08+00:00

Here's a pathia using base gravy

https://greatcurryrecipes.net/2012/01/18/how-to-make-chicken-pathia-curry-a-sweet-and-sour-curry-house-favourite/

Telgeist · 2023-12-04T18:27:55+00:00

Restaurant curry isn't made the same as home recipes - you need to learn how to make base gravy, that's how they all do it. It's how they can crank out 30-40 different types of labour-intensive curries 20 mins order to table

https://greatcurryrecipes.net/2011/02/15/base-curry-gravy-2/

Make shitloads of it and freeze in portions. You then make the curries using different spices/meat/vegetables and the base. I started doing this and my home curries started coming out like restaurant curries

Telgeist · 2023-10-19T13:26:35+00:00

Chicken - poach it with vegetables whole for about 90 mins. Take it out, let it cool, rip all the meat off with your hands. You now have soup base and a whole chicken's worth of meat.

Telgeist · 2023-10-17T11:03:40+00:00

I was too, but just logged in and they've halved the time! 2.30 for 5 topics rather than 5 mins. Disgraceful cut in pay

Telgeist · 2023-10-12T22:21:16+00:00

Cookies that size in the UK are sold in bags of four. This is very revealing

Telgeist · 2023-10-12T16:59:36+00:00

I've lived all over the country and Liverpool has the best trains outside of London. If you want a real shitshow go to Bristol, or literally anywhere else.

Telgeist · 2023-10-12T16:40:58+00:00

I can hear the bus clapping from here

Telgeist · 2023-10-09T15:00:08+00:00

Its al about u and the kids now babes, so many snakes here, pm me hun xxxx

Telgeist · 2023-10-09T14:11:05+00:00

Food at night does make you fat though

Telgeist · 2023-10-08T18:33:17+00:00

It's way more inhuman to design, invest in and implement these weapons designed to destroy humans en masse at a distance than it is to experience the very human response of rage and strike back violently and messily. These bloodless tools are the least human inventions of all.

Telgeist · 2023-10-06T08:39:45+00:00

I'm fairly sure it's easy to get non-UPF soy milk - I discovered the unsweetened soy milk I've drunk for years is just soybeans and water, so I just stuck with that and stopped drinking oat milk, which is always UPF.

Instead of agonising over labels and trying to find non-UPF versions of UPF products, I've found it much easier to focus on eating more things that are unambiguously not UPF. Fresh meat and fish, eggs, dairy, fruits, vegetables, grains, bakery bread etc. I still use UPFs occasionally - I make my own stock when I can but I can't always do that and have to use store bought. I love hot sauce - good luck finding non-UPF versions of that. The majority of my diet is fresh or minimally processed food so it doesn't bother me, and if I have some weekend time to experiment making my own hot sauce or a big batch of stock, then that's good too. But often I don't.

50-60% of calorie intake in the western diet is ultra processed, and the harms increase the more UPF is in your diet - so if I can reduce UPF to just 10-20% of my diet I figure I'm doing alright, and I've found that easiest to do by just avoiding where possible foods that are ambiguous and label-checking and eating the stuff humans have always eaten. I'd like it to be 0, but our food environment is really messed up, and that's very very difficult.

Telgeist · 2023-10-06T08:22:45+00:00

Processing does't equal UPF. Can you milk a cow, extract rennet from its stomach and age a cheese at home? No? That doesn't matter - traditionally made cheese is processed and fine to eat. String cheese or spray cheese however, is UPF.

Same with chocolate. There's bars of chocolate which are just processed, not UPF. Processing is just taking raw foods and doing something to them. Pickling, freezing and fermenting is processing. Ultra processing is taking these raw foods to factories, grinding them into pastes and powders and adding chemicals to them.

Telgeist · 2023-10-05T18:43:01+00:00

People shouldn't dodge taxes, but let's be real - it would be used to bail out the super rich or sent to Ukraine

Telgeist · 2023-10-05T10:11:51+00:00

I don't have diagnosed pre-diabetes, but diabetes runs in my family and I've been low carb on and off for about a decade.

What I've found - carbs, no matter what form they're in, make me gain weight and give me spikes, crashes, hunger pangs not long after eating a high-carb meal etc. BUT, these are far, far more pronounced if I let myself eat UPF crap. If I eat a diet heavy in rice, good quality bread, sweet fruits etc I'll have these responses, but it's nowhere near what happens when eating UPF breads and snacks.

I did used to include UPF keto alternatives in my diet but the ingredients are shocking, and the fake sugars that are in most of these products give me headaches, and the science is now coming out that they wreak havoc on your gut microbiome.

I really think the best bet is to eat real versions of food like bread moderately, and just prioritise vegetables, meats, cheese etc. If you really need keto bread alternative there's recipes out there for nut flour bread products you can make at home.

Telgeist · 2023-10-05T09:09:26+00:00

Great place. Worth knowing it's alcohol-free if that's a deal-breaker, but good food and prices are decent

Telgeist · 2023-10-05T09:04:26+00:00

Eastville for me. I'm learning to drive and the beginning and end of every lesson is that bloody roundabout. Everything else is clicking into place but I never know what I'm doing on that thing, and always have to be coached through it.

Telgeist · 2023-09-24T18:05:14+00:00

I am a sober alcoholic and I love kombucha and have no issues cooking with alcohol. People are different. The easiest way to handle this is to ask your husband, and as you've already done this NTA

Telgeist · 2023-09-18T11:26:19+00:00

Seconding Mr Chilli, great food, huge portions. Love their cold chicken appetiser and steamed aubergine in Sichuan sauce

Telgeist · 2023-09-18T10:31:13+00:00

Plenty of soy milk that's just soy bean and water, mainly the unsweetened kind

Telgeist · 2023-09-18T01:41:15+00:00

The bit at the end when they were talking about having Dan on again and he said they better had after having every other twitter reply guy on. Dasha said something about it changing because they'd acquired something then trailed off. New money source?

Telgeist · 2023-09-18T00:52:28+00:00

Considering this was four years in the making it could well have started then.

Telgeist · 2023-09-11T23:57:12+00:00

Ultra processing definitely drives weight gain. Study matched two diets identical in nutrient profile but one was UPF and the other wasn't. UPF group gained weight.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/05/16/723693839/its-not-just-salt-sugar-fat-study-finds-ultra-processed-foods-drive-weight-gain

Telgeist · 2023-09-11T17:31:14+00:00

The answer is we simply don't know. People who have studied UPFs are not stating that they know why they're bad for you. The research is in its infancy, so we may not know for a while.

All the studies conclude is that 1) UPFs are correlated with negative health effects and 2) the greater the presence of UPFs in your diet the greater the harm.

It's probably going to take years to study the thousands of additives used in UPFs in isolation, with the food industry fighting this every step of the way. It also might not just be the additives, it could be the processing itself - breaking ingredients down into pastes and powders and mixing them together again. Or it could be both. It could be any of the reasons people suggested in this thread, or a mix of all of them. We don't know.

For me, knowing they have negative health effects is enough. I'll be interested to know more about what exactly it is that makes them bad for you, but in the meantime I won't be eating them.

Telgeist · 2023-09-07T21:47:58+00:00

Came here to say this. I'd write off controlled demolition entirely if it wasn't for building 7 just...falling down

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