Making an easy and delicious Chicken curry – it is so easy when you know how.
If you enjoy Indian or Asian food, then you probably like curries – delicious aren’t they!
Chicken curry is a common delicacy in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, as well as in the Caribbean, where it is usually referred to as curry chicken.
A typical curry from the Indian subcontinent consists of chicken stewed in an onion- and tomato-based sauce, flavored with ginger, garlic, mango chutney, tomato puree, chili peppers and a variety of spices, often including turmeric, cumin, coriander, cinnamon, cardamom and so on.
Other variations include the addition of almonds, coconut milk or cream, yoghurt and fragrant spices.
Outside South Asia, chicken curry is often made with a pre-made spice mixture known as curry powder.
Chicken tikka masala is a dish of chunks of roasted marinated chicken (chicken tikka) in a spiced curry sauce.
The sauce is usually creamy and orange-coloured and is one of the most popular dishes in The UK, but totally unknown to Indians and Pakistanis outside the UK, so it is a dish that has been probably invented in The UK for people of the UK, but it is reallt delicious.
There are multiple claims to its place of origin, including the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent or Glasgow in Scotland.
It is among the United Kingdom’s most popular dishes, leading a government minister, Robin Cook, to claim in 2001 that it was “a true British national dish”.
If you want help Making an easy and delicious Chicken curry, then the first thing you need to do is start training – yes, start training.
Start training your ingredients to work for you – don’t spend hours chopping, slicing, dicing and shredding, just train your ingredients to do it themselves, as we have done in the video.
In this ‘how-to- video, we will show you how to prepare the perfect, easy and delicious chicken curry.
My bucket list – Mylène
Listen to Mylène talking about what she has on her bucket list.
She also says that her bucket list changes through time, as she achieves some of the things on her bucket list, other things are added, so it becomes a lifelong journey.
A list of activities someone wants to do before he or she dies is often called a bucket list, because it is a list of things a person wants to do before they “kick the bucket” – which is a slang term for to die’.
From kick the bucket (“to die”) + list, hence a “list of things to do before you die”.
The term was coined by American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in his screenplay for the 2007 film The Bucket List.
Zackham had created his own list called “Justin’s List of Things to Do Before I Kick the Bucket” which he then shortened to “Justin’s Bucket List”.
The first item on his list was to have a screenplay produced at a major Hollywood studio.
After a time, it occurred to him that the notion of a “bucket list” could itself be fodder for a film, so he wrote a screenplay about two dying men racing to complete their own bucket lists with the time they had left. Articles about the movie are the earliest known uses.
A bucket list is a great way to stay focused on the things that you really want to achieve in your life and is a way of setting goals for all those things that we really want to do or aim for – before it is too late.
To find out more, listen to this podcast about what a bucket list really is, and if you are looking for inspiration for your own bucket list, have a listen to this podcast with 20 Unusual Bucket List Ideas. More ideas for your Bucket List.
A British comedian in Toulouse
Andy Pudding (it’s his stage name, not his real name) is a comedian, living in Toulouse, France who does a stand-up comedy show called “Mad in France” and another that he is refining.
His comedy revolves around his first-hand observations of living in France and especially living in Toulouse and is a hilarious mix of song and jokes, which both British (or any expat perhaps) and French audiences can identify with.
Have you ever heard of Boudouism? Not Buddhism …
If you live in France, have you ever had to wrestle with the French administration?
Can you imagine any of the specific problems that you could run into as a non-French (or even a French) citizen?
If you don’t, catch Andy’s shows to find out.
We really enjoyed speaking to Andy and sincerely hope to do more podcasts with him in the very near future.
If you haven’t seen Andy Pudding’s shows, then have a look on YouTube or if you are in Toulouse, go to one (or more) of his shows – you won’t be disappointed!
Catch him also on Facebook
Andy is also compère for an evening of stand-up comedians, guaranteed to make you laugh your worries away – in English!
Come and laugh yourself silly with stand-up you can understand 100%. All this in the cosy comedy club atmosphere of L’Entrée des Artistes, a convivial bar/restaurant attached to the famous theatre – La Comédie de Toulouse.
Discover new stand-up talents in a show hosted by “Mad in France”, Andy Pudding. Andy will present brand new comic talents in a relaxed open mic atmosphere.
Andy is hoping that this will be a regular event (and so are we…)
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It’s Christmas again – yeah, already … how did that happen?
Here is a selection of the lights in Toulouse, France.
Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights) are lights used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which symbolized Christ being the light of the world;[1] these were brought by Christians into their homes in early modern Germany.
Christmas trees displayed publicly and illuminated with electric lights became popular in the early 20th century.
By the mid-20th century, it became customary to display strings of electric lights as along streets and on buildings; Christmas decorations detached from the Christmas tree itself.
In the United States, it became popular to outline private homes with such Christmas lights in tract housing beginning in the 1960s.
By the late 20th century, the custom had also been adopted in other nations, including outside the Western world, notably in Japan and Hong Kong.
Throughout Christendom, Christmas lights continue to retain their symbolism of Jesus as the light of the world.
In many countries, Christmas lights, as well as other Christmas decorations, are traditionally erected on or around the first day of Advent.
In the Western Christian world, the two traditional days when Christmas lights are removed are Twelfth Night and Candlemas, the latter of which ends the Christmas-Epiphany season in some denominations.
Leaving the decorations up beyond Candlemas is historically considered to be inauspicious.
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Murder mystery at the castle
Murder mystery at the castle – there’s been a murder at the horrible castle, one of the horrible servants has killed the horrible Duke and nobody knows who the murderer is.
Luckily the clever Sergeant Podblog from The Grammar Police is at hand to solve the mystery.
The servants and the duchess were in the castle when the duke was murdered, but who did it?
Sergeant Podblog has some questions to ask and after he has questioned everyone, he now knows who the murderer is.
He also knows that each person will tell one lie and two truths.
So, when each person answers the question posed by Sergeant Podblog, they will tell one lie and say two things that are true.
Can you work out who the murderer is?
Was it the duchess?
Was it the cook?
Was it the butler?
Was it the gardener?
Was it the chambermaid?
Was it Sergeant Podblog?
London Adventure – Twickenham to Brick Lane
From London Victoria to Twickenham for a great match between the all Blacks and The Barbarians, then a bus ride from Victoria to Brick Lane in The East End of London… A lovely trip!
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