Hi All.

I used to be scribes on here, but somehow the username won't work anymore and I'm using this name.

If the admin can move the posts of scribes over to magpie that would be nice, but if not, then its OK

I for one think that 20 years ago curries ie vindaloo's and madras', were better than they are now.

I would love to find this missing taste, sort of hot and sour, that I used to get in vindaloo, and I've been trying to do it for all these years.

Nowadays, I just think that restaurants make hot curries which are nothing other than curries with chilli powder.

Consequently, I don't go to restaurants so much. And like the previous poster, if I did find how to cook the curry I like, it still wouldn't stop me going to a restaurant and take away, I would simply get something else for a change such as a Dhansak or a Jalfrezi if the vindaloo wasn't as good as my own.