Patrick Hasler

My mate at the SUNOCO down the road is from Pakistan, his wife is a white American born and bred but had taken the muslim religion because as she says 'It is the one true religoin' ........ I like both of them, they are a nice couple and this week kate and I were invited to dine at their home.

It was the best meal I have had outside our house in 6 years, .... better than the Tajmahal in Marefair, Northampton anyway Lamb Tika, Bombay spuds, spicey vegies, loads of other stuff the names of which I can't remember ?
This guy who wanders around the town in Levis, tee shirt and a baseball cap answered the door in a long traditional outift and bare feet, he showed me his GUN COLECTION (lots of them) in his prayer room in which I had to remove my shoes. There was a huge framed photo of Ayatola Homieni (or what ever the blokes name was).

This was a real culture shock to me, but he will remain my mate and the meal was outstanding. Kate has invited them for a traditional US meal and he has to go and get whatever type of meat she wants because he can eat only specially butchered stuff .............. how do you specially butcher a hamburger ?

Irn-bru

so true - a lot of "relatives goin" to the mosque together
sorry my attempt at jokes are awful

Chorlton

Sounds like a cool friend you have there. We make our own Indian meals abut they're not very authentic. He'd make a nice change around here (rednecksville).

Patrick Hasler

Funny thing is .... Kate refuses to eat Lamb because it's 'a baby' so he told her it was goat.
"And you expect me to eat a goat" she said ............. She did enjoy the meal though.

Chorlton

Wll to tell you the truth, I've never had lamb either. it was always chicken or king prawn for me - mmmmmmmm
Now I want a curry!!! special fried rice and a peshwari naan....

joe.bloggs

"how do you specially butcher a hamburger "

I think what he means is Halall meat .. similar to jewish Kosher meat ie no pork meat !!! ie lamb or beef etc..specially slaughtered with the blood drained out ..

you can buy it from most ethnic shopping area's ..

mmm tasty indain food

Patrick Hasler

This is Hicksville USA ... There ain't no 'Ethnic' shopping areas round here mate ............. nearest city he might get that is Albany, 100 miles south of here.

Irn-bru

can you not go veg then? have a soy burger or loads of salad?

TruBrit

chicken jalfrezi for me all white meat, peshwari nan, bombay potatoes, ladies fingers/okra, pillaw rice.....plleeezzzeee

ohhh i'm hank marvin for a curry

Hiro11

Indian's popular here in Chicago. They serve 10 different Indian dishes daily at my employer's caf.

TruBrit

yeah they've got lots here but not the same as ours in epsom...the bombay pots here are just like little hard potatoes like you get in tins, we've eaten at about 6 or 7 indian restaurants here and not felt so good later on and always are disappointed so we just save ourselves for our local in blighty ...aww here it is

http://www.lerajrestaurant.co.uk/Scripts/homepage.asp....

mandpete

We went to a party a couple of months ago one and there was a huge plate of onion bhajis and a smaller plate of aubergine bhajis. One of the guests was an Indian lady and her mother who was visiting from India had made them. They were absolutely delicious and I ate more than the lion's share of them.

We have had several Indian meals from different restaurants and none of them ever do onion bhajis.

britvic

Your just being cruel now

NC Penguin

He's refering to halal prepared meat. There's probably halal butchers or Indian stores that sell halal meat locally. In my area, I've never seen a halal butcher but there certainly are a lot of Indian grocery stores selling halal meat.

If you're ever in the Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) of NC and want Indian, please PM me. I can give you suggestions for your Indian food fix.

NC Penguin

TruBrit

i know i see the picture on the monitor and just want to jump inside