made some pakoras for tea tonight (I've been wrestling with an equation for the past three days, its so large, I had to use A3 paper!) This was my treat.

I made them with bits from the fridge, including onion and potato, of course, chillies (red and green) courgette, broccoli, mushrooms and tomatoes, mostly separate, but some mixed.

Mamta, I just used besan flour and warm water, but I took some pics, do you want them? Turned out very nice, not as dark as yours, though.

Hi, Lapis never tried tomato in pakoras, I feel it is too soft? Albeit i have tried aubergines which is not bad. Have you ever tried courgette or pumpkin flowers as pakoras? just dip the whole flower in the batter and fry.

I know it might be obvious but before using flowers make sure they are food grade (not sprayed with all manner of horrible stuff) and they are empty of insects (saw Jamie Oliver using some on TV and a bee came out ! lol )

Steve

Hi Steve,

I use flowers from my garden and it is 100% organic. Cheers.

the tomatoes had the soft pulp cut out, and I cooked them with sliced onion to give some structural integrity!

Mamta, I have jpeg and raw pic files, but the raw files are 13.5 Mb, are these too big for you. What is the file transfer size limit on emails these days?

Hotmail will send 10meg worth of attachments but some email servers bounce emails with attachments bigger than 5meg (some only 2 meg !!)

Steve

Mum, you can't handle RAW format files your end.

Lapis, any chance you could do a quick and dirty convert and export to jpeg, no larger than 1000 on longest side?

yep, I've programmed my camera to store pic files as raw and jpeg, so it downloads as both.

Thanks for replying for me Kav, I don't understand all that!

Lapis, please send them as Kavey suggested, but please do not delete them from your folder yet, as I do not have access to photoshop at the moment (so can't do anything with them yet), until Kav and Pete can come around and sort out a new computer for us. Remember to take Roghan Josh too, when you make it next.

Good pictures, especially there are none, are alays welcome.

Mamta

Thanks Lapis

Mum, will call you later, re new PC.

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