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No! Just never.

Righto, this is my recipe. I make this for the acts that we put on at Laika Come Home, so this makes a heck of a lot of chilli. Just scale back the quantities. Personally though, even I'm just making enough for the two of us for dinner, I still make loads and freeze the remainder, finding chilli in the freezer down the line when you need something to eat quickly is the best. I used to live round the corner from Lupe Pinto's in Glasgow, so always used to use their dried beans. Obviously if you're doing this you need to make sure you soak them overnight and make sure you boil the kidney beans for long enough to kill off the lectins, or you'll be in for a nasty surprise later! I find I'm a bit lazy for this these days so tend just to use canned. As I usually make this for a lot of people, I tend not to make it quite as hot as I usually like, so just adust if you like it hotter. Also, once cooked, I like to leave this to simmer on a low heat for an hour or so and then leave sitting overnight to eat the next day, as it always tastes better when the flavours have had time to run through, so I tend to use a heavy-bottomed saucepan with a lid. Pre-heat your oven to 180C. Dice 3-4 decent sized sweet potatoes and chop up a couple of peppers (any colour) and a couple of cloves of garlic. Pop them in a roasting dish and drizzle with a little olive oil. Add a couple of teaspoons of chipotle-lime cooking paste, you can get this in Sainsbury's and Asda. If I don't have any of this in, I tend to cover the veg in smoked paprika and the juice of half a lime instead, does the job nearly as well. Stir, then pop in the oven and roast until the sweet potatoes soften. Meanwhile- heat some oil in the pan, finely chop a large onion, a handful of birdseye chillis, crush in 4-5 cloves of garlic and fry until golden. Add three 400g cans of chopped tomatoes, crumble in a vegetable stock cube, some black pepper, a very generous shake of cayenne pepper, three tablespoons of hot chilli powder, another few of smoked paprika and a teaspoon of ground cumin and simmer for a minute or two. Add the beans, you can use any mix you fancy, I tend to go for two large cans of red kidney beans, a can of black eye beans, a can of pinto beans, a can of butter beans and a can of chickpeas. Add the zest and juice of half a lime, a couple of tablespoons of creamed coconut, a small bottle of dark beer/ale (I use doppelbock, but any sort of dark stout or porter with a slight bitterness or chocolate undertone will do), half a bar of dark chocolate and half a jar of chopped jalapenos. Turn up the heat to bring the beans just to the boil and evaporate off some of the excess liquid. If I have it in the flat, I like to generous glug of whisky, usually an Islay for a bit of extra smokiness. Remove the veg from the oven and stir in. Simmer on a low-medium heat for an hour or so, then leave to stand overnight. Usually, for ease of eating at venues without cutlery, I tend to make burritos. Lightly brush tortillas with a little olive oil, add the chilli, a little salsa, hot sauce and some guacamole, crumble in a handful of tortilla chips, wrap and stick under the grill for 5-10 minutes until the tortilla is browned and crispy. They're good hot or cold.

I used to use frozen Vegemince by Linda McCartney, but it got recalled earlier this year due to contamination with something in raw soya. I just use extra beans and chickpeas now and don't miss the meat sub.

Usually something dark, a doppelbock works well. I occasionally chuck in a nip of whisky instead.Might post my recipe for vegan chilli later. I'm all about roasting sweet potatoes in chipotle and lime and chucking in loads of them.

Of course, totally acceptable. You sound quite the catch. Carry on.

Didn't make it along in time to catch as much of this as I had wanted to, but did manage to catch a bit of Holy Mountain and they were seriously fantastic. Missed Rungs twice in Aberdeen now :-( ...someday!!

Our last of the year, let's make it a good one! Marking a year of LCH gigs and sharing the temporal territory of the obligatory work-do, be sure to do the right thing: BRING YOUR PARTY TO OUR PARTY. HEY ENEMY Hailing from Stirling, four-piece Hey Enemy bring the noize with fast, frantic, in-yer-face riff-splattered rock combining elements of Shellac, QOTSA and Mclusky. New record "Random Acts of Malpractice" is available now on Winning Sperm Party and if that raw, raging relentlessness is anything to go by, then Kate is definitely right: December WILL be magic again. http://heyenemy.bandcamp.com/ MIN DIESEL Local Mindie rockers bring their lo-fi, fuzzy Dinosaur Jr/Idlewild influenced jamz. Guaranteed good times and probably some taps aff too. All I want for Christmas is curry. Check out their split 7" with Pinact, available on Cool Your Jets. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Min-Diesel/122142337808269?directed_target_id=0 http://mindiesel.bandcamp.com/ [ ] Local noise rock two piece bulldoze their juggernaut of crushing, fuzzy bass and insane drumming onto Cellar's stage once again. FFO Lightning Bolt, Tool, Porcupine Tree. https://www.facebook.com/its.pronounced.Wall?fref=ts http://u-ol.bandcamp.com/ Enemy Airships Four sufferin' men from Dundee bring their emo punk to Aberdeen for the first time. https://www.facebook.com/enemyairshipsband?fref=ts Expect the usual LCH homebaking. We'll also have a couple of surprises in store, so be sure to like the page to be kept up to date as these get announced! https://www.facebook.com/LaikaComeHomeABZ?fref=ts

They're in the bar below the Belmont cinema now.

The Beautiful Mountain 17 on Belmont St Musical Vision Captain Toms Old Aberdeen and Garthdee campus

Yes! Cucumber's great. I love it in sushi, it's great on its own, but combined with the taste of nori, wasabi and soy/sweet chilli, it's becomes this amazing sweet/salty/hot/cool taste sensation. It's great in gin too. A nice tall glass of Hendricks and tonic with wads of cucumber. Magnificent. When I was last in the states, they had cucumber soda. It was unbelievable. I drank gallons of it. It's technically a fruit though, so misses out on my top 5. Would make my list of top 5 foods ever though.

Bump! Less than two weeks until this, should be a blast. Godzilla Blues was great at Downstairs a couple of weeks back, Kitchen Cynics always puts on a good show, looking forward to seeing tom again and first Aberdeen outing for Adam Stafford in over a year. Oh, and cake.

Make me an offer, Phil?

Yay :-)

Agree with most of the above. Although it doubtlessly looks an aesthetically pleasing space, I think you definitely have to consider being a little more realistic with price. Quick question though, your tech spec states: Live Room Equipment: Pa system 8 Channel Soundcraft Mixer 4 Channel Compressor 31 band Graphics EQ (minimal feedback) Drum Kit x2 Marshall Guitar 100 watt Amps 1 Peavey Bass Amp with regards to the bass amp, there looks to be an Ashdown cab and head in your cover photograph, is that the bass amp? The Peavey in that pic looks like a guitar amp and there's only 1 Marshall combo visible.

Mastrick Tandoori's korma?

Well, that's a relief, thanks for keeping us up to date. I spent almost an hour glued to my computer screen, my fist in my mouth and cursing. You'd have thought I was watching Breaking Bad or something.

I thought it was fine. We were the only band that had bass and you could hear it on stage, can't speak for front of house. The PA seemed reasonable, but then nobody had vocals on this occasion. The drums were mic'ed though and that all came through really well. Didn't know the sound guy, but he seemed pleasant and attentive.

Also, good sound and nice atmosphere. My only bugbear was the TV at the back of the stage with the flashing Downstairs and Facebook logos. Very annoying.

This was excellent fun, exactly what was needed after a late Friday and work all day Saturday. Really enjoyed Flights' dreamy ambience. I dig that minimalistic swelled chord stuff. Very SOTL. Phil has a kind face. When Godzilla Blues' set got going, it was majestic and the last track in particular was highlight of the evening for me. Loved the theme running through with the zombie sounds and some of the more electronic bits reminded me of Errors. Really well thought through and constructed. Agree with Kirsten though, I didn't really know where to look, went with the laptop stickers and blinky touchpad lights in the end. Visuals, please! Enjoyed Inuit, they were incredibly toight and there were some serious flashes of brilliance. Huge sound. Live improv is terrifying, took a while to get going, I chickened out a few too many times before eventually getting loud, but I definitely enjoyed hitting drums. Thanks to everyone for being patient and sticking with it. Hopefully we'll do more and get better at it! Cheers to Plain Tiger for making it happen. :-)

Just listened to "Nepenthe" by Julianna Barwick for the first time. Very, very nice. On the Mark Kozelek front, really enjoyed his record with Jimmy LaValle from earlier this year.

For me, some of the standouts have been: Pixies Vashti Bunyan Sonic Youth Aphex Twin Teenage Fanclub Bright Eyes Rilo Kiley Low Shellac Dirty Three Grizzly Bear St Vincent Sharon Van Etten On a slightly smaller scale, I'm delighted to have seen Stapleton and Aereogramme as many times as I did before they split up.