Shoot the Wall (A.K.A. The Rant Thread)

[Carol the Dabbler]

The most common recommendation is to add potato, though I think that's generally used for over-salted soup.

Adding just about anything that tastes better with salt added should work.  Depends on what you have available and what you think would taste good with your chicken.

[Pseudonym]

I can't add anything carby. My plan is to chuck in more veggies - shrooms, spinach etc and hope that pads it out enough to make it less noticeable. Don't know if that'll work though.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Anything that you'd normally add salt to should work fine.  Only question would be how much veggies to add.  Probably best to err on the side of too much -- if needed, you can always add more salt. 

[Pseudonym]

I'm a bit of a fiend with veggies, I love 'em. I'm mostly vegetarian, this is a rare foray into making something with chicken. I'm super squeamish when it comes to meat. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Yup, I know the feeling!

[T.o.b.y]

What exactly is butter chicken? Does it have a sauce? 

[Pseudonym]

Yep, the sauce is made out of butter, cream and a mix of spices. And salt. 

[Sheerluck]

2 hours ago, T.o.b.y said:

What exactly is butter chicken? Does it have a sauce? 

Delicious with rice, naan, and a bowl of dahl.

2 hours ago, Pseudonym said:

Yep, the sauce is made out of butter, cream and a mix of spices. And salt. 

Most Indian is 50% salt I think.

[Caya]

Tomatoes bind excess salt fairly well, in my experience. Not standard in butter chicken, I know, but maybe you can make it work?

[Carol the Dabbler]

On 6/6/2018 at 12:02 AM, Carol the Dabbler said:

I've been thinking for a while about ordering from nuts.com

 

On 6/6/2018 at 12:16 PM, Arcadia said:

I have a friend who orders from them, she's very into organic/etc. too, but she's not strict, so who knows? She gave me some dried apricots of theirs that were absolutely scrumptious....

 

I just placed an order with them.  The only delivery option was "ground," which is fine.  Then when I got the confirmation, they said the carrier was UDS, which I'd never heard of, so I googled and found that they have a roughly one-star average rating on Yelp.  Who actually delivers your friend's orders?  And does she have any delivery problems?

[Pseudonym]

Over here most couriers have sh*tty reviews when you look online, because the only people who bother to review a courier are the ones who've had bad experiences. Everyone else just gets their parcel on goes on their merry way. I would assume it's the same there. 

Talking of, is anyone else a bit neurotic when they're expecting something important to be delivered? I'm up really early so I don't miss the knock, have the TV on really, really quietly, so I don't miss the knock, haven't made breakfast, because the kitchen is at the back of the house and I might miss the knock...

[T.o.b.y]

18 hours ago, Pseudonym said:

Yep, the sauce is made out of butter, cream and a mix of spices. And salt. 

Oh, good. Well, one option is to just make more sauce, without extra salt of course, and mix it in until you like the result. Sour cream or creme fraiche seems to bind salt a bit better than regular cream, imo. Another great ingredient to make something taste less salty is tomato paste but that might change the dish too much. 

[Pseudonym]

I ate it last night, but I added in shrooms, spinach a smidge more cream, and it did have some tomato paste in a recipe so a bit more of that too. Then I added some hot curry power, probably not as nice as it would have been but the salt wasn't too noticeable, so success!

[Arcadia]

22 hours ago, Carol the Dabbler said:

I just placed an order with them.  The only delivery option was "ground," which is fine.  Then when I got the confirmation, they said the carrier was UDS, which I'd never heard of, so I googled and found that they have a roughly one-star average rating on Yelp.  Who actually delivers your friend's orders?  And does she have any delivery problems?

I'll see if I can find out.

[Arcadia]

Carol, I heard back from my friend:

"Never delivery problems with nuts.com. They are real pros." 

[Pseudonym]

There's a lads mag over here called Nuts. It doesn't refer to the eating kind. So nuts.com brings to mind something rather different.

[J.P.]

Okay, you mean the third meaning of the word then.

There is a nut mix of the edible kind here, called Royal Nuts. I always read it as Royal Crazies, but now…

[Carol the Dabbler]

Tsk, tsk, J.P., you're forgetting the fourth meaning.

When discussing TEH, MF mentioned that John "nutted" Sherlock.  I wondered how I could have missed John kicking Sherlock where he lives -- until I realized that he was talking about John attacking Sherlock with his head.  (I've also heard Brits say "you're off your nut" meaning crazy.)

[HerlockSholmes]

3 hours ago, Pseudonym said:

There's a lads mag over here called Nuts. It doesn't refer to the eating kind. So nuts.com brings to mind something rather different.

I hope that this isn’t a hint at your preferred reading material Psuedonym?😃

[Pseudonym]

Since I'm not a lad, no. Honestly it's a misnomer, if anything it should be called tits going by what I've glimpsed of the contents. 

[HerlockSholmes]

1 hour ago, Pseudonym said:

Since I'm not a lad, no. Honestly it's a misnomer, if anything it should be called tits going by what I've glimpsed of the contents. 

That would just about sum it up as it does appear to be very breast-focused. Not that I’ve ever read it of course😳

[Carol the Dabbler]

Nah, you don't read it, you just look at the pretty pictures. 

[J.P.]

Going nuts about tits. Sounds a bit dendro-nutritio-ornithological.

[Arcadia]

I just love the high tone of discourse we maintain on this forum.

[HerlockSholmes]

I’m sure that The Forum creates many happy mammaries.....I mean memories......for you Arcadia👍