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[Aardvaaks]

Mmmmmmmm here's a comprehensive soup recipe, great for warming the cockles!

[dlslith]

Good recipe Aard. The spices I use are similar except I use more variety. Any good curry has cardamon, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, cumin, coriander, turmeric, garlic, cayenne and a whole shmorgasborg of other spices. The masala strength is based on how much of each you put in. This is a sound recipe though. Good post

[Aardvaaks]

Dont have your culinary skills in the Kitchen Slith so tend to play a little safe with the mixes of what I know, but am getting more adventurous as time goes on.
Recently bought back a whole range of spices from Egypt bartering in the market place was great fun, so will experiment further with these, but a recent report out in the press today stated that spices were indeed very good on the human body, as if we needed to be told that fact eh?
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8328377.stm

[dlslith]

Aard, that 's an interesting article. I've eaten and made Indian food quite a bit. I love it, it don't like me. What spices did you pick up there? I think a lot of the spices from that area of the world are very interchangeable. Any exotic ones?

[Aardvaaks]

Slith there were so many to choose from both inside and outside the shop and me being a tourist and the shop keeper being Egyptian then thats the recipe for being sold the whole shop, and of course they have relatives in the UK to story lol.
Ended up with Red pepper corn, black pepper corn, a yellowish/orange one which is good on BBQ meats nice on the chicken, paprika and also some chopped green tea leaves, oh and a toy singing dancing Camel.

[dlslith]

Nov 3, 2009 18:56:25 GMT 10 Aardvaaks said:

Slith there were so many to choose from both inside and outside the shop and me being a tourist and the shop keeper being Egyptian then thats the recipe for being sold the whole shop, and of course they have relatives in the UK to story lol.
Ended up with Red pepper corn, black pepper corn, a yellowish/orange one which is good on BBQ meats nice on the chicken, paprika and also some chopped green tea leaves, oh and a toy singing dancing Camel.

Nice. The tea leaves sound interesting.....and strangely the Camel does too. Have you used the tea leaves yet?

[Aardvaaks]

Slith the Green Tea is very refreshing, it has a better flavour than the chinese Green Tea which I think tastes very bland in comparison, and hot Tea is very refreshing in a very hot climates also.
The camel is with the nephews and driving their parents mad ha ha cos it sings in arabic.

[dlslith]

Can you get them in others countries. Or just there?. Oh god, the poor parents. Are we there yet, in Arabic? Jeebus!

[Aardvaaks]

I am sure you can get the Teas in one of those fancy healthy food places but is that what you meant or the Camel?, cos if you wanted one of them things the toy I mean it drives you mad after 10 minutes or so of the music and singing, its funny how the kids remain unaffected however! In built safety system to annoy parents with repetitive words, music etc.

Perhaps the best thing is to make soup out of it! Can you make camel soup or do they just make cigarettes?

[dlslith]

I bet you could make camel toe soup and get away with it. (hehe) No one would know. Do you know if camel is actually eaten? Never heard of it, but I imagine it has been?