Traditional meals; Indian food; beer
Nov. 12th, 2017 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcMy lunch today feels rather conventionally British: steak pie with chips (in the UK sense) and a can of bitter.
I thought about how deeply Indian cuisine became integrated here as chicken curry with chips and beer also now feels traditional. I further noticed that with chicken curry I would have selected lager instead of bitter. Perhaps that makes sense but I usually combine foods more by intuition than conscious rules so I can rarely justify such choices.
I recall how on the
As a diet trick these days I favor the fatter, straighter oven chips as they tend to cost fewer calories for a similarly hearty portion. Pastry-encased comfort foods are already fairly challenging to plan into my day as, of course, are fried battered Indian snacks like pakora.
I thought about how deeply Indian cuisine became integrated here as chicken curry with chips and beer also now feels traditional. I further noticed that with chicken curry I would have selected lager instead of bitter. Perhaps that makes sense but I usually combine foods more by intuition than conscious rules so I can rarely justify such choices.
I recall how on the
internationalgrocery store shelving in the US the Indian foods would often be shelved in the British section. More specifically, here in Scotland one finds fusion dishes like haggis pakora.
As a diet trick these days I favor the fatter, straighter oven chips as they tend to cost fewer calories for a similarly hearty portion. Pastry-encased comfort foods are already fairly challenging to plan into my day as, of course, are fried battered Indian snacks like pakora.
