{"id":59,"date":"2004-07-10T17:00:19","date_gmt":"2004-07-10T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2004-07-10T17:00:19","modified_gmt":"2004-07-10T17:00:19","slug":"respect-to-mr-naga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"Respect to Mr. Naga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have good friends heading over for a meal tonight, so I decided to prepapre the majority of a select handful of our favourite Indian dishes early.  With this cunning plan, I can concentrate on the talking and drinking this evening rather than slaving away in the kitchen.  Assembling the ingredients for roti, prawn puri, chicken hariyali, masala khumbi and Afghan chilau, I discovered that I had run out of my usual red chili paste.  A quick dash across the road to my local Bengali soon solved this problem and I returned with a large bunch of fresh coriander, a bag of fiercesome green Asian chilis and a small jar of red chili paste.  I must admit that 99.8% of my buying decision was down to the simple Anglo-Bengali label which simply proclaims: Very Hot with no fuss or exclamation marks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bignoseduglyguy.com\/mrnaga.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Having dipped a finger to have a good taste during cooking, I can verify that, in a similar fashion to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ronseal.co.uk\/\">a certain brand<\/a> of woodcare products, Mr Naga&#8217;s paste is exactly what it says on the tin&#8230;and how.  Very rich and very hot.  If you are partial to cooking food from the Indian subcontinent[1] or simply a chilihead, it is well worth seeking out.  If you are unable to track it down, fear not because it can be bought online <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.e-von.ltd.uk\/chilliworld\/SP6.asp?p_id=173\">here<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>[1] <em>If you are and you haven&#8217;t stumbled across the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/groups?q=uk.food%2Bdrink.indian&amp;ie=ISO-8859-1&amp;hl=en\">UFDI newsgroup<\/a> yet, I can thoroughly recommend the group as a great resource and forum for all things related to food from the Indian subcontinent and Indian restaurant cooking. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have good friends heading over for a meal tonight, so I decided to prepapre the majority of a select handful of our favourite Indian dishes early. With this cunning plan, I can concentrate on the talking and drinking this evening rather than slaving away in the kitchen. Assembling the ingredients for roti, prawn puri, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}