Quote from: TasteTester on November 17, 2010, 08:50 PM
... and the ball went out of the compound.

"Went out of the compound", Madam ?  Do you mean "cleared the boundary" ?  If you're going to play the noble sport of cricket, you really will have to learn the proper terminology.  I suppose you'll be telling us next that they served hamburgers and Budweiser instead of cucumber sandwiches and tea during the interval.

Tut tut, what ever is the world coming to ?!

Quote from: Phil (Chaa006) on November 17, 2010, 07:16 PM
I hate to be less than helpful, but do you not think it might be worth borrowing a set of scales, just so that you can do your own weight-to-volume conversions once and for all ?  You could then set aside large marked bowls, each calibrated for a different ingredient, and then just fill the relevant one up to the appropriate level whenever you needed that quantity of whatever in the future ...

** Phil (who thought that the world had come to an end when his wife admitted to dropping the electronic kitchen scales and not telling him, after which he had to press his precious postal scales into service until such time as SWDTS had replaced them ...).

Haha! Make my owns marks especially for curry! So obssessed sounding, I love it. Maybe I will buy a cheap pitcher from my dollar store and mark it up with lines that read "Onions," "Cilantro," etc. That way I can standardise (-ize? I never know these things) my cooking like a fastfood joint such as Starbucks. That would be sweet! It will really super impress my whiter than whitebread in-laws who already joke that curry is my secret to everything. (I'm pretty sure they don't know what curry means. It's pinto beans, not dal and it's Spanish rice, not pilao here in SW. I think Mexican food is to the US as Pakistani food is to the UK.)

Oh, and damnit that I'm not a pothead. They use grams and ounces and other things by weigh. I'd have a proper idea weights and be able to guess correctly then. Well, I'm going to my mom's, and she has a postal scale. That'll do. She's excited because I'm making a big batch and leaving some behind.

Yay! It turned out well. I used less than half of the recommended water because I wanted it to be more concentrated for storing. It looks like gravy... Hmm.... Maybe we will have some funky gravy withour mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving.

(Also, since I made it when I was at my mom's, I used her postal scale. It turns out it also measures in grams, so that was convenient! I translated the measurements into something I can use at home. The only thing I had to look up were how many grams were in a kilogram. I couldn't remember if it was 100 or 1000. I know it should be obvious, but I honestly can't remember the last time my brain needed to compute the word "kilo".)

Hi Razor

Its now time to try your base sauce. Been here many times tkinking of what to try next, so spent this avo cookin up your base for tonights feast.

Interesting to note there's no veg as such which is new to what others use, and me to be honest. So thats what drew me to try yours. ;D

Would BIR's/TA's use the veg for flavour or to bulk up?  Tonight will tell.

Will post my result. Cheers for the recipe. ;D