Thursday Chilli Treats

My parents are here this weekend for a visit, so on Thursday we had the usual mad panic trying to tidy the flat and remove all evidence of our usual slovenly lives.  I'm sure many people find the same: given only two of us live here, we seem to make some mess!! I don't know what we'll do if/when we have kids...will need to get a live in cleaner or something! 

Anyway, running around cleaning the house means just one thing - left overs!  Lucky for us our left overs are usually pretty good.  This time it was chilli, with salad and pitta bread.  I actually think something like a chilli or a curry benefits from a bit of time letting the flavours come together.  All in, it was a pretty tasty treat.

Chilli

Chilli with salad and jalapenos

Thursday Night left over chilli

Quickie blog post...the flat is a total tip and Joe and I need to tidy!!

Dinner tonight made the most of my leftover chilli, with pittas and salad - what else could you want?!  Topped off with a club orange - awesome!

Pitta!

Salad

And the chilli - which looks weirdly orange...but was very nice!

Tuesday - This is what we had!!!

CHILLI AND RICE!!!!!!..WOOOP WOOOP!!!!!

Friday Night Takeaway from Rice

Earlier this week, Joe received the following text from his mum (who has obviously been reading the blog!)

"Hi darlin, have just put £20 in ur acc. Plz get nice 

btl vino an flowers. Happy anniversary! Lv 2 u both xx"

That was very lovely of her, but in true FoodandBiscuits style we spent the money on a takeaway from Rice in Roundhay instead!  It is interesting timing given the new study being discussed on the breakfast news this morning, which apparently shows that Indian and Chinese takeaways are super bad for you.  The story seems to be pretty inflammatory, given they surveyed only 200 restaurants out of about 12,000 and only looked at chicken tikka masalla, which isn't very nice anyway!  Sorry, rant over...back to the food...

We have been going to Rice for a couple of years now, and it doesn't let us down.  We decided not to be too glutinous and swapped starters for poppadoms and dips which were pretty good (although I think it is difficult to get a poppadom wrong).

We then had Chicken Achari which is from northern Bangladesh and made with a pickle masalla, green chillis and coriander and was pretty yummy. Joe's choice was Bengali Lamb which is made with cloves, green chillis, cumin, black pepper and coriander.  Although the menu describes it as fairly hot, we asked them to make it spicy.  It was nice, but it definitely could have been hotter!

All in it was a pretty good Friday night treat!

Poppadoms and dips

A close up of the dips

Achari Chicken

Bengali Lamb

Bank Holiday Sunday - Dave Pilla @ Limetree & drinks with Rich & Josh

It was an early start yesterday, with Jo and I driving Dave Pilla to his gig on the main stage at the Limetree Festival which took place near Ripon. Apparently the Friday and Saturday of the festival had been pretty poor due to constant rain, but when he took the stage at 12pm the sun was out, and everyone enjoyed his set. See four videos from his set here (definitely worth a look)


You can find his blog here, twitter here and his youtube page here.

Dave and Jo

Back to the food, we had a great tasting snack from a Tibetan stall selling momo's which are a type of dumpling - one with meat and the other with spinach. Click here for info - Jo is under strict instructions to make some at home soon!

Momo's with homemade chilli sauce

A bunch of dummies at Limetree

With the weather changing we decided to head back to Leeds for lunch, followed by a couple of drinks with a good friend of our Rich Zach and his son Josh.

Lunch - left over chilli, salad and pitta

Rich and Josh

Joe's dinner - Special K and fruit!!

And finally, this is a quick video of me trying to give Jo and piggy back across Roundhay Park yesterday evening whilst a little tipsy....

Thursday - Chilli, rice and salsa

After a hectic week, it is back to normality today - no weddings, no transport issues and no blog to catch up on!!! With the half marathon in just over a month, I need to get back into my running otherwise I will never get around 13 miles!! So, I ran into work (4 miles) and ran home the long way round (7 miles) - it was a little less that I wanted but it was good back to get back into the swing of things.....anyway, this was the great dinner that Jo put together.