Friday, August 05, 2005

Tangy goodness


I’m quite looking forward to Saturday. The missus & I are driving down to exotic Portsmouth (closer to Chichester actually) to sample the delights of the Chili Festival being held at Dean College.

Now, I am quite a fan of spicy food (not stupidly spicy food where the sole objective of the chef was to burn his customers tongue to a shrivelled husk of carbon ) but spicy food wherein you can savour the flavours of the chilli and appreciate the magic it brings to food.

Anyway, it’s happened a few times that I’ve sat down to a pot of chilli that we’ve made and said “Mmmm that was damn fine. It’s nice and tangy”, while at the same time other dinner guests were frantically rummaging through the fridge, making small mewling noises and scratching at the milk bottles.

Or put it this way- when we go to Nando’s, as a rule I always have either the hot or extra hot chicken. I consider “hot” to be tangy and “extra hot” to be spicy. I’m not trying to impress anyone or strut around like Mr Macho, I just like the taste of it and don’t consider them to be anything out of the ordinary.

So. What I want to do at the Festival, besides trying new recipes & varieties, is rate my palate against a wide range of spiciness ratings; this is the only way I can get an idea of what other people outside of my immediate circle of friends consider to be ‘hot’.

I’ve not been to a festival like this before so its certainly going to be interesting. Watch this space!
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