Topic: hi everyone from corby uk

[waldini]

nice to meet you all and look forward to sharing my recipes with you and i hope to learn some great recipes too.

[Yousef]

Welcome Waldini,

Enjoy the site and if you have some recipes you are in the right place to share them and there's no doubt you'll get feedback on them here.

Enjoy
Stew

[laynebritton]

Hi Waldini

Welcome to Curry Land hope you like spicy food.
Layne

[curryqueen]

Hi Waldini,

Welcome to this great site!  Do you cook restaurant style curries already?  Which are your favourite ones?  CQ

[extrahotchillie]

Hello and welcome ;D

[CurryCanuck]

Welcome aboard - enjoy your time with us on this wonderful site .

CC

[waldini]

My curries at the moment dont quite taste like restaurant curries but many friends say that they prefer mine to any restaurant. My favourite curry is methi ghost.

[Yellow Fingers]

but many friends say that they prefer mine to any restaurant.

I don't think that there is one person on this forum that hasn't at some time had that comment made to them. But I think it just reflects the poor quality of the current indian restaurants' fare. Personally I still can't, and I'm beginning to think I never will, replicate the depth of flavour, the 'taste' and the smell of my favourite curries from the old days.

[George]

I'm beginning to think I never will, replicate the depth of flavour, the 'taste' and the smell of my favourite curries from the old days.

I know what you mean. I sometimes feel the same way! But, in my case, is my memory playing tricks? I know a few BIRs which I'm convinced are just as good as they were in the 70s and 80s. At least one place has the same chef! So I think today's output (sample dishes) from those places is essential as a benchmark for anything I try to replicate, rather than some vague romantic notion in my mind that things were better in the good old days.

But my benchmark is just those minority of BIRs. I fear the standard at too many BIRs has now sunk to a very disappointing level.

Regards
George

[Curry King]

Hi George,

This maybe why I am more satisfied with what I can produce than others as I didn't start eating BIR curry until the 90's, as far as i'm concerned they are the same now as when I started  :