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Title: Bristol Says Hello
Post by: Tolns on November 09, 2011, 02:49 PM

Hi All,

New joiner here but I've been watching the site as a guest for a while now.

My interest in curry goes back a lot of years to when my Mum bought me a Pat Chapman book. I tried a lot of recipes with varying degrees of success....Those were also the days when the adventurous cook could purchase a Sharwoods Nan Bread mix which came in a box ;D

One of my (still) favourite and consistently good recipes from that Pat Chapman book is for a dish called Ekoori (by Mr Chapman) also known as Egg Forash in restaurants although it's getting hard to find these days. It's Indian spiced scrambled egg and is nice with chutney/pickles as a starter.

I was wondering what the general concensus was for the best all round and adaptable curry sauce available on the lists here ?

I like hot to very hot curries whilst my Wife will only eat the creamy/mild northern dishes.

Title: Re: Bristol Says Hello
Post by: curryhell on November 09, 2011, 05:21 PM

Welcome to CR0 Tolns.  I too really started my curry journey with Pat Chapman's books.  I remember reading the recipe for Ekoori.  So so long ago now.  There are quite a few versatile bases posted on here that can be  used for the mildest to the hotest dish,  CA's, Chewytikkas, Abdulmohed, Razor's to name but a few.  And there are many more.  Read the reviews and see which one ticks all the boxes for you.  Enjoy.

Title: Re: Bristol Says Hello
Post by: artistpaul on November 09, 2011, 05:27 PM

Welcome to CR0 Tolns

Paul

Title: Re: Bristol Says Hello
Post by: loveitspicy on November 09, 2011, 09:40 PM

Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

best, Rich

Title: Re: Bristol Says Hello
Post by: Tolns on November 10, 2011, 06:41 AM

Thanks for the welcome all.

I will start trying some bases out.

Aside from Ekoori my greatest other success is Bombay Aloo from an Indian cookbook that I'd never heard of but the results are very good and comparable (or dare I say better) than a lot of restaurant versions.
If anyone is interested in the recipe let me know and I'll post it.

Cheers

Title: Re: Bristol Says Hello
Post by: Razor on November 10, 2011, 09:46 AM

Hi Tolns, and a very warm welcome to cr0.

Hi have friends form down Bristol, love the accent mate.

Feel free to post any of your success stories mate (and failures, because there will be a few along the way ;))  Plenty to learn from this site and members who all have varied ideas on how certain dishes should be cooked.  No right or wrong answers, just opinions.

Enjoy.

Ray :)