Food and the BBC

[mtbc]

I am interested in food and rather enjoy eating^*; this is probably why I now have to diet. I remembered that the BBC used to have a television program Food and Drink (1982) and I wondered if I might like to watch such a thing. I doubt that anything quite like it is among the current lineup; it is not as if I find Saturday Kitchen (2006) compelling. Now there tends to be more in the way of cookery competitions and instructional series by chefs and the like; Food and Drink used to tell us about things like which decent ingredients we could pick up cheaply in grocery stores at the moment and what they are good for. Here in Scotland we do seem to have a Gaelic show Fuine (2016) (which might mean baking), perhaps I ought to give that a try.

^*For example, I recall that last time I visited an Indian buffet in Dundee I ate garlic naan, steamed rice, pilau rice, chicken madras, tarka dhal, okra dopiaza, shrimp kebab, thai red shrimp curry, chicken biryani then some halwa. I enjoyed it all and could have eaten more. I elected not to count calories on that day.

Comments

[wpadmirer]

Indian food is fabulous. I am a huge fan of chicken biryani.

[mtbc]

Mmm, this one was especially good: it was lightly coated in some tasty fluid, especially if one brought the serving spoon all the way up from the bottom of the dish.

There used to be a good cheap lamb biryani available here as a frozen ready meal but it got redesigned to be far more like the other dishes, more a patch of brown lumpy sludge on rice.