Taste buds are now on full alert

Any chance of the recipes for the curry, bonfire toffee and parkin?

Perhaps a thread could be started where we can share our favourite recipes.

Having read the post can I assume that bonfire night is not celebrated in Canada.

Lynne

This is the Chicken Curry recipe I use, It is better to cook it the day before because when you leave it over night it tastes sooooo muh better!

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chicken...-I/Detail.aspx

This web site is the best, you can find most recipes on here, I use it all the time!

Dont know if this may help, there seems like there is some pea growers in ontario, maybe worth a rig

They mabe able to offer some advise

http://www.ontarioberries.com/name.htm

AND im a lancashire lass and never ever ever had black peas, spoke with OH and he told me what they where
BLACK PUDDINGS is our special

Gill

Cubans do a black pea dish too - tastes great. I'm sure I have seen them here in the supermarkets. You could always try looking in a health food store - they stock all sorts of weird and wonderful things.

Turns out they may be Maple Peas....I will find some and do a trial run and let you all know...
Good site with a few recipes on: http://www.fireworks.co.uk/party/recipes.html or just google search bonfire night - get lots of choices.
All I need now are the fireworks and sparklers!!

I used to work on a friend's delicatessen stall on the market in Clitheroe (Lancs) and we used to sell loads of hot black peas at this time of year - we bought them dried from the dried food/health food stall and soaked them overnight then cooked them all morning to sell at lunchtime. I am a born and bred Lancashire lass, but I had never heard of them till I worked there and even then, at first I swore blind I would not eat them because they looked so disgusting. But then I was persuaded to try them and they do taste really nice, especially when you put vinegar on them. We used to sell them by the cup full and they were very popular, so it must have been a local delicacy!

Lisa

I don't know about Cochrane but I've a firm feeling that fireworks are not permitted in private residences in Calgary city limits ..... you'll probably find other threads about this from past years!

My friend up the road (Deerfoot) had some, but she lives on an acreage in the sticks. She helpfully told me there were fireworks to be bought "if you know where to look!", but she did tell me where that was!

I must see if she's planning a bonfire/fireworks party this year! I haven't seen her in ages!

For us Bonfire night has a special meaning. We landed at Fredericton on November the 5th 2005.

In the UK we would always have a Bonfire Night Party, pretty big affair 20-40 people. I sure they only came to see if I would succeed in setting fire to myself this year. Well last year we had our first in Canada, invited all the neighbours (so they wouldnt call the fire brigade when we lit out 6foot campfire). They were a little surprised when we sat an effigy (Guy) on the fire and set it all alight. But they loved the fireworks, curry, mulled wine, parkin, bonfire toffee etc...

So this year we will be having another, although we may scale the campfire down a couple of foot, last year we were lucky there was no wind.

I am really looking forward to attempting to set fire to myself again this year by hand lighting all the fireworks in a 1 hour display....

If we decided to have a bonfire (campfire) night party over here in Whitby we would get arrested :-0 - no open fires of any sort allowed in the back yard. Extra guests would be the Fire Service! Lucky you - enjoy- even if you don't find your black peas!

As to the first, very funny. As to the second, I think Guy Fawkes was around before the Act of Union.