Well it's been so long since I was on here figured I should reintroduce myself. I'm Dave, 32, from North Wales, work in IT and love curry.

I've started my own lil' website, to be honest the point of it was more for my own reference purposes but some people started to use it too so it's growing slowly. http://thecurrybible.blogspot.co.uk/

Feel free to hook up on twitter too, my thingamawotsit is @daverobinson80

Speak soon folks.

Quote from: ootini on May 02, 2013, 04:50 PM
I've started my own lil' website, to be honest the point of it was more for my own reference purposes but some people started to use it too so it's growing slowly. http://thecurrybible.blogspot.co.uk/

Hi Dave

Welcome back as you seem to have been here before!

Interesting Curry Blog, some nice recipes there. One thing that stood out for me was the sheer amount of spicing you're putting into your base sauce - 1 tablespoon of salt and 6.5 tablespoons of spices into a base sauce of 6 onions and 2 litres of water? That seems very high to me.

I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm merely curious as to why you feel so much spicing is needed.

Hi Dave,

Won't be long before we see 'Chicken Ultimate' on your website!

Quote from: spiceyokooko on May 02, 2013, 05:33 PM

Quote from: ootini on May 02, 2013, 04:50 PM
I've started my own lil' website, to be honest the point of it was more for my own reference purposes but some people started to use it too so it's growing slowly. http://thecurrybible.blogspot.co.uk/

Hi Dave

Welcome back as you seem to have been here before!

Interesting Curry Blog, some nice recipes there. One thing that stood out for me was the sheer amount of spicing you're putting into your base sauce - 1 tablespoon of salt and 6.5 tablespoons of spices into a base sauce of 6 onions and 2 litres of water? That seems very high to me.

I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm merely curious as to why you feel so much spicing is needed.

To be honest, there's no real "theory" behind it. Just what I found worked. It's not very subtle I guess but I like it. Same with the individual curry recipes, the Phall for example is utterly loaded with chili powder. Purely personal taste I guess. I may try toning it down a little, none of the recipes are hard and fast, purely notes taken based on the last time / best effort at creating the dish.
To be fair I think this base works well with spicier curries anything upwards of a Bhuna, but not so well with the "mild" curries like Korma and Passanda. It may be the amount of spicing the base as you mention. I'll have a play.

ootini - great to see another enthusiast joining the forum and well done for posting your website. You clearly like your spicing!

Sorry to sound stupid but what is Chicken Ultimate? Sounds made up.

Quote from: ootini on May 08, 2013, 09:36 AM
Sorry to sound stupid but what is Chicken Ultimate? Sounds made up.

Don't worry about the chicken ultimate, I found the thread. Forgive me for seeming flippant, but this has GOT to be a wind up surely?

Anyway, back to the comments about how heavily spiced my base is, I've just noticed it seems very similar to the quite popular, Taz base. In fact the nucleus of the recipe may well have come from the Taz base many moons ago but I'm not 100%.