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Lets Talk Curry / Trade deal to pave way for more Indian chefs to work in UK
« on: May 08, 2025, 09:34 AM »
https://www.thecaterer.com/news/trade-deal-chef-visas

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Next base to try
« on: May 06, 2025, 11:24 AM »
No, the putative PNG simply does not exist — https://curry-recipes.co.uk/imagehost/pics/5b26f5311fb20a039135b914bd743fac.png

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Next base to try
« on: May 05, 2025, 10:00 PM »
It's not expecting BB code between the [ IMG ] tags, George, just the URL.
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** Phil.

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Curry Base Chat / Re: Next base to try
« on: April 21, 2025, 10:14 AM »
Just checking if I can post a photograph ...

Answer: no, I cannot, at least not using the site's attachment mechanism — "The attachments upload directory is not writeable. Your attachment or avatar cannot be saved".  However, if you know how/where to host photographs off-site, you can simply embed them using the "[ img ]" tag (without the spaces, for obvious reasons).

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: BIR 1983
« on: April 19, 2025, 11:51 AM »
Oh G@d, now I suppose I am going to have to find and photograph my late mother’s cream-maker (I can easily picture the wooden box in which it is stored, but I have absolutely zero idea where said box might be ...).

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Tandoori and Tikka / Re: Chicken Tikka - better than the BIRs
« on: April 17, 2025, 09:06 AM »
Very sadly not :  last seen 15 November 2011, 12:54:10

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Lets Talk Curry / Re: BIR 1983
« on: April 14, 2025, 01:46 PM »
Crusts cut off, of course, and eaten with the little finger elegantly raised ?!

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Traditional Indian Recipes / Re: Spice Grinder (Bombay Bottle Masala)
« on: April 12, 2025, 09:35 PM »
Quote from: Kashmiri Bob on March 13, 2025, 12:19 PM
It will be 3 years in June since anyone new joined. Like I said somewhere, it's proper exclusive on here.

Seriously though CRO is still a major resource for BIR cooking. Only recently I saw one of the big FB curry groups citing a post from here. One of CT's, on a chicken jhul (or similar) curry.  I have also seen one of Santa's posts (and others) referenced. I suspect when we are open for business again there will be many new members chomping at the bit to sign up. The FB groups are fine, but there is no real analysis, or critique, like here. So, in the meantime, it's good we are here to keep the fires burning.

Rob

Hear hear.

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Curry Sauce, Curry Base , Curry Gravy Recipes, Secret Curry Base / Re: ++++MDB’s Birmingham Balti Gravy 100% Clone Al Frash Balti Restaurant ++++
« on: April 08, 2025, 12:32 PM »
Quote from: Robbo141 on April 06, 2025, 10:35 PM
Next one I’m trying is very old school and can’t understand why I’ve not tried before, but Kris Dillon’s base from the Curry Secret book.Robbo

I cannot recommend it more highly.  Kris Dhillon was the first to demonstrate just how easy it can be to re-create authentic BIR cuisine.  No g/g paste, no "don’t stir", no "cook the spices until the smell fills the kitchen", no "add the base dribble by dribble", just pure simplicity and first-class results.  All IMHO, of course.
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** Phil (who has a copy of every edition of her Curry Secret book up to and including her New Curry Secret, at which point he began to lose faith— olive oil in a curry, and "a healthy lifestyle" indeed — whatever next ?!).

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Traditional Indian Recipes / Re: Spice Grinder (Bombay Bottle Masala)
« on: March 07, 2025, 02:08 PM »
Just to note, I attempted to read this thread using a new Windows profile (my old profile would not honour the StartAllBack add-on which makes Windows 11 more user-friendly) and I found that to do so I had to install uBlock Origin — as far as I can tell, this is the only web site that I cannot visit without first blocking advertisements.  Which means, of course, that I cannot recommend this site to anyone else.  Very sad.
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** Phil.

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