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[poliphilo]

Since we've no running water in the kitchen I've been fetching it in a big plastic bottle from the bathroom- and only doing as much washing-up as is absolutely necessary.

I made an excellent lamb curry for lunch yesterday.

The BBC has been airing a set of programmes looking at the historical trends of the Noughties. I don't mean what was happening in the pop charts or the coming or going of politicians- but the underlying societal changes- the deep sea currents. Yesterday we were considering globalisation. Did you know that the rise of the Chinese economy has led to a fall in burgary in the UK? It works like this: burglary is a business like any other- and if electrical goods- which is what your old time burglar was mainly after- are really, really cheap in the shops (thanks to the Chinese making them in sweatshops) there ceases to be a market for them "off the back of a lorry".  The burglar isn't making any money, so he stops burgling- and takes to mugging instead. 

Every so often we get a flurry of snow. 

Comments

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

You might be the perfect person to ask this - I have a slow cooker, and was thinking of trying to make a curry in it. What are the basic ingredients for a decent curry (I'm thinking of using chicken, as it's cheaper).

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... I've never made a curry in a slow cooker.

But I guess if you make your basic curry sauce and then stick it in the cooker with the meat that should do very nicely.....

I don't have any recipes up my sleeve, so I've checked on line (which is what I often do). Here's one that looks fairly straightforward. In fact I may well have a go at it myself.

http://www.cookuk.co.uk/slow-cooker/fragrant_chicken_curry.htm