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I also looked in the fridge to see what I had and cleaned out the vegetable bin, a kilo of tatties, some eggplants, a kilo of tomatoes and some greens that I got from tescos and a couple of cans of borlotti beans that I got from makro about 2 months ago...onoins and garlic then add the peeled toms with cumin and paprika and a half tsp of flaked red chile (gotta watch that stuff), simmer and mash up then add the diced tots, cover with broth and simmer...drain and rinse the canned beans then chop the eggplant, toss in the beans and simmer then toss in the eggplant and simmer until just softened...wash and chop the greens then add and turn off the heat, just want it to wilt...

the greens were a bad choice but all them thai greens look the same, these were too bitter...so just removed them and kept on rockin'...had made some bread and good with the remaining mixture...

I'd even speculate that most places would use the local red curry paste dissolved in coconut milk as a base (like most other thai 'gaengs' that use the red paste) then toss in the lemon grass and galangal that both give the tom yum it's distinctive flavor and simmer a bit then add the shrimp and other ingredients like mushrooms, etc and simmer...toss in the garnishes at the end like cilantro, limes and a splash of fish sauce then serve...

gonna havta try that meself one ob dese days...tutsi's quick and easy falang tom yum goong...('hey, I never thought of that...' 'well, you know, them falangs have all been to college...'

mmm...chipped potatoes with curry from the company canteen...

'a bit more sauce, mam please...' and the 17 stone dinner lady towers above 'yew wanna what?'

at least there's the NHS if nothing else...mustn't grumble...

yeah, the horrible little balls look like escapees from industrial ball cleaning systems used in tube heat exchangers in power stations...

the kids like them, though and we always pick up thb100 worth from the vendor in front of tescos when we do our shopping...

homepro has got a lot of stuff including entire kitchens and super comfortable imported western beds but not cheap...about 18 years ago I was on my way to the airport and passed a place on the highway outside of Pathum Thani with solid rattan furniture on display out front and bought a deluxe lounge suite with sofa - big enough for a 6' falang to take a nap - 2 arm chairs and coffee table with good cushions, etc, that's still good as new after steady use with little kids and etc...not cheap though as the sales person saw a falang coming and etc...best to stay hidden in the car and let the wife negotiate...

On 6/1/2019 at 6:55 AM, grollies said:

I disagree.

me too...always need an isolating valve and an NRV on the pump discharge for the best system operating flexibility...

thb400 including delivery for a 15kg bottle where I live in Suphanburi...dude humps it up the stairs to the family kitchen on the shop house 1st floor rear terrace...my kitchen is on the ground floor but I use a lot less cooking gas than them with fewer deliveries...

kweiteo moo daeng served from a cart at the market (never seen it sold any other way, usually after 5pm), nice broth and chewy noodles with thinly sliced lean pork loin...with the condiments ye can make it as hot or mild as ye want it...

2 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

Here's the lentils package/brand I was referring to above...seen both at Foodland and Villa.... CookQwik 69b for a 1 lbs bag.

 

yeah, looks like the same brand as the pintos I got at foodland and the green split peas that I mistook to be lentils as I described before...made some passable refried frijoles outta the pintos...OK with homade flour tortillas...mash up the beans with a potato masher...

2 minutes ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

Regular brown, large whole dry lentils are pretty regularly available in 500g bags at Foodland Soi 5 in BKK. They come from the same U.S. supplier and brand that provides their very similar looking 500g bags of dry pinto beans. Both on the shelf directly opposite the freezer section where peanuts and grains and such are located.

 

I just cooked a bag of the lentils last week for a dish of Indian dal, and they came out super...  I boil/cook those lentils, and other similar varieties, in my electric rice cooker, and just leave the lid slightly ajar so they don't overflow when boiling.... By leaving the lid slightly ajar, they don't boil over. And in the rice cooker, they don't take long to cook at all.

 

last time I was at foodland a couple of years ago I found the pinto beans easy enough in the location you describe but no lentils so I sorta gave up (some falang probably got there before me and grabbed them all)...you're able to cook the brown/green lentils in the rice cooker with no soaking? in the past in the US they always needed a bit of a soak, a couple of hrs would do, overnight not necessary...in those days I'd just do a big stove top pot with onions, garlic, celery and carrots with a ham hock, eat with a nice crusty sourdough, only been interested in dal, curries and etc in the past few years...

now that we no longer can get income affidavits from the embassy who knows when I'll get there next...maybe mail order from a galaxy far far away...

1 hour ago, seajae said:

we have them all around our house as we have a lake over flow area behind the house. We throw out our scraps etc and they come to our back fence to eat it, virtually eat everything we throw out to them and a couple are pretty big but most are just over a metre/4' long

yeah, we got the same arrangement but it's an overflowing klong behind our house...a huge nesting area for birds and etc and the lizards don't need any assistance keeping themselves fed having no predators themselves...there useta be a massive one over 2m from nose to tail, musta weighed over 200kgs...I useta call him/her 'big fella', he/she useta lay in repose nearby the house to see if he could grab one of the local feral cats...successful on occasion and if it was a tomcat would help keep the feral cat population down...a civically minded big lizard...

3 hours ago, CLW said:

5 hours ago, grollies said:

My missus reckons you can get yellow lentils anywhere. The Thais use them for making Thai sweets (puddings)?

Aren't those split and hulled mung beans?

yeah, I'd say so...they're easily mistaken for yellow lentils, but they taste different...I use them insteada lentils in a dal and not bad...cooks up the same way, no soaking required but ye gotta rinse them well...available most everywhere...

a few years ago I mistook green split peas for green lentils at foodland, clear plastic packaging didn't say what they were on the bag...didn't find out until I got home and looked closer...OK when cooked up with some carrots and pork belly, needed some celery...

6 hours ago, grollies said:

Apparently all that is now good for you, even salt if you sweat loads.

 

The Sheppard's Pie looked great although if beef not lamb it'd be cottage pie.

 

I've been trying my hand at Indian food for a couple of weeks now after your Rogan Josh picture which looked lovely.

 

Done three diffent dishes so far, not too bad, Rogan Josh is next.

 

Inspired by Tutsi I've binned rice, potatoes, pasta in favour of lentils. I'm enjoying lentils, cooked in chicken or vegetable stock.

 

Recipes are from Hari Ghotra and are excellent.

 

I also include home made yoghurt from a recent thread.

lentils are great when ye can find them...I've only been able to find them recently at the indian grocery shop at the Rembrandt Hotel...found some once many years ago at foodland soi 5 but then later nothing...always preferred the green/brown ones as the red ones are only good in a dal...usually use split mung beans for that available everywhere...cooks up the same way...

with the diabetes I can manage some tatties on occasion in a stew with beans and veg but I've given up with the rice and pasta as that's like eatin' poison...maybe less than a cup of cooked local jasmine rice with leafy veg cooked with garlic and oyster sauce, the family always has some on the go upstairs in the rice cooker...

3 hours ago, SteveK said:

You really should be BBQing your burgers! 

ye need to flip them burgers when yer cookin' 'em and that becomes tricky on a BBQ grill...ye need a stove top griddle or a nice cast iron skillet then flip 'em and then slap that muthah, slap that muthuh to get the fat and juices goin'...

there are nice middle eastern kofta recipes that can be used in place of a traditional western burger recipe, use a bit of ground lamb with cumin...real nice in a sourdough roll with lettuce, tomato and condiments...my favorite was the 'Bongo Burger' in Berkeley back in the early 70s...buncha iranians with bongos to serenade with the kofta burgers when they weren't conspiring with the mujahedeen to bring down the Shah...

3 hours ago, marcusarelus said:

I make meatloaf too but this thread is about burgers which have no breadcrumbs or egg. 

most folks that I know use egg and crumbs as a binder to hold the meat together otherwise it falls apart on the grill or in the skillet...

but yeah, I know 'getouttaheah and take yer goddam meatloaf widye...' I'll get my poncho...sorry to intrude...

I make do with the frozen ground beef from makro (aus or NZ) with some bread crumbs, an egg or two, a few spices and liberal dosings of Lea and perrins and tabasco...good fer meatloaf and anything else ye got in burgerlandia...some finely chopped onion and garlic added to the mixture ain't half bad neither...

the true test is the cold leftover meatloaf sarnies...with mustard and mayo...

late last year K bank announced that they were gonna discontinue non chip ATM cards and that customers needed to come in and get a replacement card with a chip...I went in and got one good until 11/23 with no problems along with the usual stuff needed by immigration for my yearly extension...

my K bank branch hasn't been particularly friendly but they've always been businesslike and I've had an account there for over 15 years...which is OK for the little town where I live, can't expect much more...once I went to inquire about opening a foreign currency account, sitting in the customer service section and a young woman whom I had never seen before approached me as if I was a venomous reptile to ask what I wanted, and as I was trying to explain she started waving her arms around and mouthing No! No! No!...I left in disgust, never saw her there again but by then I had made other arrangements for my euros...

in the photo it doesn't have the usual distinctive markings, we got loads in the flooded undeveloped land behind our shop house...harmless and very timid but they can move very quickly when they want to, they usually eat birds and their eggs and cute furry little kitty cats gamboling and unaware...torn limb from limb by powerful prehistoric jaws, etc...

28 minutes ago, 80sboy said:

Cheers, I have surfed there plenty have fam in Makasar but just keen to learn about Thailand breaks. Ta 

from what I've heard there is rideable surf on the andaman coast north of Phuket but the conditions havta be right, swell and direction, etc...otherwise most places it's just glorified wind chop and not worth the effort of paddling out...

2 hours ago, bannork said:

 

Moving stuff, to put it mildly.

Janis recorded some of her best stuff after the split with Big Brother, better arrangements and etc...but most of her 'iconic' numbers were recorded with them...

heard them in concert in 1968 and Big Brother was just some background noise with badly tuned guitars...Janis' voice soared above...

5 hours ago, bkk6060 said:

Bully's Soi 4.

yeah, Bully's have got most of the old western standards on their bar menu...sometimes they do it right, other times a disaster...always got a good caesar salad there but then one time ordered garlic bread with it and it was this horrible sweet shit, totally inedible...

also gotta watch their burgers, towering masses of ground beef sometimes not very good (gristly and ick)...gotta chop it down to smaller bits to be manageable, better to go across the road to burger king for a whopper with cheese...but nice cool and quiet in there in the afternoon with strong AC, with tons of western stuff on the menu...and a nice pint of draft lager...

18 hours ago, Tippaporn said:

Gotta post one more from Jorge.  Have listened to quite a bit of his music and what strikes me is his wonderful guitar style.  Simply beautiful.  I like this song for not only the wonderful guitar but his emotional delivery of the lyrics.

 

 

yeah, the dude was a splendid guitarist...what struck me when I first listened to zamba de mi esperanza was the intro...could never duplicate that if I tried in a thousand years...don't know of any folklorista musician at the time that came close...

there was another dude called Atahualpa Yupanqui that Jorge counted as an influence but he didn't have Jorge's technical finesse...he received wider international recognition...

the usufruct has no legal standing unless it is entered on the back of the chanote with yer name by the land office people and there have been numerous reports of the local land office being reluctant to comply...

the big question is when folks begin to encroach (like the wife's family) and the falang husband has to bring the force of the law into play...a thai enforcing the legal right of a falang against another thai seems like an unlikely scenario especially when land rights are the issue...

so the question remains, has any foreigner with a deceased thai wife needed to defend his rights as a usufructee against encroachment from the thai wife's family or other claimants? and if so what was the result?