Spicy food

RobYourBuilder · 20-02-2015 10:48AM #1

Do you enjoy it?

Shenshen · 20-02-2015 10:51AM

Yes

Foxhound38 · 20-02-2015 10:51AM

Love it! Not spicy to the extent that I can't taste anything else or anything, but I do like a good kick to my food. Good chicken madras with plenty of spice goes down a treat!

Egginacup · 20-02-2015 10:54AM

Foxhound38 wrote: »

Love it! Not spicy to the extent that I can't taste anything else or anything, but I do like a good kick to my food. Good chicken madras with plenty of spice goes down a treat!

Agreed. Hot and Sour soup is great too and good hot buffalo wings.

kylith · 20-02-2015 10:54AM

Nope. I'd love to like spicy food, but I can't really handle anything spicier than Monster Munch.

Just a little Samba · 20-02-2015 10:56AM

I'd be buggered if I didn't where I currently am.

I'd absolutely murder a plate of mashed spuds with some gravy though.

Duggy747 · 20-02-2015 10:59AM

My toilet cries when it finds out I'm eating the spicy stuff again.

Menas · 20-02-2015 11:04AM

I love it. Spent a few weeks in india where I was eating curry at least twice a day. After 4 days my sweat was smelling of curry.
Took about a week for the smell of curry to leave me when I got home. But twas worth it.

Custardpi · 20-02-2015 11:04AM

Love it, used to not be able to handle it but have built up a tolerance the past few years for it. Once you can manage to get beyond the heat of a really spicy Thai/Indian dish there's a wonderful array of complex flavours that you open your taste buds to.

RobYourBuilder · 20-02-2015 11:07AM

What would your spiciest dish be, lads?

Aongus Von Bismarck · 20-02-2015 11:08AM

Yes. I tend to prefer the spicy dishes from SEA more so than the ones from India. While I'm a fan of a judicious use of spicing, I don't like where raw heat is used to cover up poor quality ingredients. So pouring hot sauce on the wings of chickens who never left the cage they were born in in an attempt to mask the lack of flavour within the meat doesn't appeal to me. Or the sight of fat 'largered up' men in ill-fitting rugby jerseys ordering the hottest curry on the menu of the local sauce and rice Indian. Why bother? They're impressing nobody.

The Peanut · 20-02-2015 11:08AM

Very much so. Big fan - literally - of food in general, but partial to spicy flavours. The increased availability of spices in Ireland over the last 20 years has greatly increased cooking options. I grew up on a diet of spuds, meat and veg, which I still love, but it's so easy to make very quick and tasty stir-fries by adding small amounts of spices to give it a kick.

Hoop66 · 20-02-2015 11:08AM

I love spicy food. I regularly cook Indian & Pakistani dishes. My favourites are Iranian stews - Koresht-e-Fessenjan, a chicken or duck stew with walnut & pomegranate sauce is one of the best things I've ever eaten.

I'm just waiting to see how OP is going to link this to the destruction of our way of life.

Tilly · 20-02-2015 11:09AM

Love it! Wings, curries, anything spicy......

RobYourBuilder · 20-02-2015 11:10AM

Hoop66 wrote: »

I love spicy food. I regularly cook Indian & Pakistani dishes. My favourites are Iranian stews - Koresht-e-Fessenjan, a chicken or duck stew with walnut & pomegranate sauce is one of the best things I've ever eaten.

I'm just waiting to see how OP is going to link this to the destruction of our way of life.

You can cook up Iranian stews? Impressive.

RobYourBuilder · 20-02-2015 11:11AM

Tilly wrote: »

Love it! Wings, curries, anything spicy......

A darling after me own heart!

Custardpi · 20-02-2015 11:12AM

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

What would your spiciest dish be, lads?

I've had some chilli made with ghost chillis which was pretty fiery, really nice though. Working my way up to the hotter stuff in Indian cuisine so haven't had a Vindaloo yet, but probably will soon. Have had Madras plenty of times with no problems.

anncoates · 20-02-2015 11:13AM

Spicie and hotter the better but have had to limit it somewhat of late as stomach has been playing up.

anncoates · 20-02-2015 11:14AM

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

What would your spiciest dish be, lads?

Ask for a phal in your Indian. Too hot for me in fairness.

Hoop66 · 20-02-2015 11:15AM

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

You can cook up Iranian stews? Impressive.

I can give the recipe for the Fessenjan if you like, it's a bit of a pain to make but so worth it.

Actually not that "hot", just uses cumin/coriander & a wee bit chilli.

The Peanut · 20-02-2015 11:15AM

RobYourBuilder wrote: »

What would your spiciest dish be, lads?

I made piri-piri chicken using a recipe I got from an Angolan recipe in Portugal and nearly died. I think the recipe involved 3 birds-eye chillies for the paste and I used 8; it was a handwritten recipe. Pain was unreal. Make it now properly; it's really delicious.

blue note · 20-02-2015 11:15AM

I absolutely love spicy food. Either the stuff that has a nice kick, or that's really hot, but still is full of flavour or that's crazy hot and you feel like a big man after eating.

The only thing is my stomach can't handle it anymore. I'm in agony the next day after most spicy food.

Aongus Von Bismarck · 20-02-2015 11:16AM

Hoop66 wrote: »

My favourites are Iranian stews - Koresht-e-Fessenjan, a chicken or duck stew with walnut & pomegranate sauce is one of the best things I've ever eaten

That sounds incredible. Is it sweet or sour? I'd love to rustle it up at some stage, so if you have a good recipie then could you post the link?

Just a little Samba · 20-02-2015 11:16AM

anncoates wrote: »

Ask for a phal in your Indian. Too hot for me in fairness.

Tis an English Dish, not Indian though.

Hoop66 · 20-02-2015 11:17AM

anncoates wrote: »

Ask for a phal in your Indian. Too hot for me in fairness.

Insanely hot. Some of the Sri Lankan curries I've had, even when asked to be not too spicy, were just too much.

anncoates · 20-02-2015 11:18AM

Just a little Samba wrote: »

Tis an English Dish, not Indian though.

He asked for the hottest, not the most geographically authentic unless I read the post wrong.

RobYourBuilder · 20-02-2015 11:19AM

My go to dish is a spicy korma. Or a nacha jalapeños overload. I've been in the left in the halfpenny place.

Custardpi · 20-02-2015 11:19AM

blue note wrote: »

I absolutely love spicy food. Either the stuff that has a nice kick, or that's really hot, but still is full of flavour or that's crazy hot and you feel like a big man after eating.

The only thing is my stomach can't handle it anymore. I'm in agony the next day after most spicy food.

Yeah, you do have to pay for it sometimes. I reckon a product like this could probably find a real life market.

Hoop66 · 20-02-2015 11:21AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

That sounds incredible. Is it sweet or sour? I'd love to rustle it up at some stage, so if you have a good recipie then could you post the link?

Kind of sweet and sour. I will pm (or just post in here) the recipe once I get home. The measurements are a bit all over the place as my mother had it dictated it from friends of ours and I borrowed it from her, but it's nothing too tricky.

The hard stuff to track down is the pomegranate syrup and the sumac for the rice.

RobYourBuilder · 20-02-2015 11:23AM

Where would you lads go for a good curry? My shop is by the canal. Get beered up, then saunter in with with a group.

20-02-2015 11:26AM

Custardpi wrote: »

Love it, used to not be able to handle it but have built up a tolerance the past few years for it. Once you can manage to get beyond the heat of a really spicy Thai/Indian dish there's a wonderful array of complex flavours that you open your taste buds to.

Yes, same.

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