Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: More Secrets and Lies, in reply to Paul Williams,
Russell, that's a bloody great show you've got going there!
Thank you!
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
Russell doing a curry from whole spices – now, important question Russell – exactly where do you get the best whole spices from? There’s a local Indian “supermarket” with much things Indian in my neighbourhood, but I didn’t see a whole spice (all ground) anywhere there.
Really? The best place is probably Mahadeo's, next to the Mahatma Ghandi Centre in Eden Terrace -- they have their dals and spices in open plastic rubbish bins -- or one of the shops in the little India cluster on Sandringham Road (I go to Khyber Spice), and the Fruit World chain has whole cumin and coriander etc bagged up for sale and usually pretty fresh. The aroma from whole spices ground with a mortar and pestle is lovely, both when you're pounding it and in the food.
I do wonder why it's taken me so long to cook aloo gobi. I made it for the first time yesterday and it wound up being the best dish of the lot. Simple and seriously delicious. The only way to eat cauliflower, imho.
So anyway, it all wound up with me and my crazy-assed friends dancing to some funky tunes on the deck at 2.30am, which probably did not impress the neighbours. Sorry neighbours. We just had to boogie.
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
It's the coverage every night on the news for the last two weeks and in the papers. Truly awful journalism, if it can even be called that.
Wouldn't know. Didn't watch it. Alex Jones was funny though.
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Did the chana gosht from whole spices, the butter chicken from a paste (+ ground cashews). The aloo gobi smells fantastic. Got to fry a bunch of paneer soon.
Khyber Spice has great samosa for $1.50 each and big naans, 4 for $3/50. Also, a gloriously intimidating-looking garlic pickle and a premix for the muttar paneer sauce.
Had to go to K Road for barfi, dammit. But wedding proceeding well overall.
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Emma Hart,
The more I see of "ew, god, how could you" the more I want to get out all my grandmother's coronation badges and drink some fucking Pimms.
It's okay! I'll throw myself in front of you so it's me that gets totally judged and not you. Just keep running.
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Please, please reassure me that there will be other people here NOT watching. Just when I thought PAS might be a royal wedding-free zone.
But Geoff: as an Associate Professor of Media Studies, surely it's your duty to watch the coverage? ;-)
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to 3410,
Served from this, presumably.
That's fucking horrifying.
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Yay for Jezebel: how to make your own royal wedding fascinator.
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
More practical reason for giving it a miss – birthday brunch
Happy birthday, Craig. Enjoy!
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Hard News: Any excuse for a party, in reply to Danielle,
I shall be watching, because I enjoy my own poorly informed snarky commentary on frocks and hats.
Tell me you'll tweet those.