Hey ho everyone, my first post!
I've been cooking the recipes off here for a while now, with some good and some bad results....
I have stuck with SnS's for a while now as it has been giving me good results.  Although, I have started to modify ever so slightly with superb results last time.

I have been frying the onions before making the base and cooking the base till there's about 100ml's of oil on the top - an hour+ of simmering.  I then use some of the reclaimed oil to make the madras by following SnS's recipe and damn is it tasty!  The reclaimed oil is very dark brown and smells great.

Thanks for all the info everyone - love the site!

Jon