Topic: How much do you enjoy COOKING your curry?

[meggeth]

We discuss lots about how much we enjoy eating a good curry, but how much do you enjoy cooking it?

Here's my scenario -

Put on some great music. 
Open a nice bottle of wine.   
Start prepping veg. Have a bit of wine.
Prepare spices and quantities. Prepare rice. More wine.  ;D
Have a bit of a jig, with maybe some air guitar thrown in for good measure.
Start cooking, with a bit of wine, as I start to imitate an Indian chef!
Complete cooking meal, so reward myself with a bit of wine! 

I really enjoy doin it all, to me it's all part of the curry process.

What's your curry cooking MO?

[RubyDoo]

I am fine as long as I am left alone to do it. Sometimes involves vino tinto or a glass of hop based liquid depending on whether I am cooking in advance. Apron on is a must. Turmeric is a bugger.m yes. I enjoy it.  ;D

[Peripatetic Phil]

What's your curry cooking MO?

0) No music (this is normal, not just for cooking curries)
1) Decide between rice and paratha; if rice, start washing
2) Get down jars of spices : Curry Powder, Kashmiri and/or Deggi Mirch, Cumin, Fenugreek, Coriander, Chat Masala, ...
3) Top oven on to 80^oC, plate in.
4) Dilute tomato puree
5) Rice washed, drained, dried, spiced, into microwave for final 12 minutes plus resting time.
6) Fan on, over-hob lights on
7) Base sauce to warm
8] Wok on, plenty of oil
9) Garlic and ginger in, cook, add diluted tomato puree
10) Spices in
11) If chicken raw, in now, otherwise after first ladle of base
12) One ladle of base
13) See above
14) More base
15) Rest of base
16) "Cook until the oil comes out"
17) If paratha, add ghee to clean pan and cook
18) Serve
19) Eat
20) Enjoy.

** Phil.

P.S.  No apron (ever); occasional swigs of cloudy lemondade (Waitrose, fully leaded) or Rubicon (Mango, Lichee, Guava).

[RubyDoo]

Is that all Phil?
Just what I have come to expect from you. Detail.
Final 12 mins on the rice though?  You mean final 20 mins on warm?   ;D

....... And in my case  (supposedly )

No 21.  Put on Troll suit and post provocative and taunting comments to be totally misconstrued by menopausal individual(s). Ah! Pass me an after dinner kulfi with sugar coated fennel. 

[Peripatetic Phil]

Ah! Pass me an after dinner kulfi with sugar coated fennel. 

WHERE DO YOU GET THE SUGAR COATED FENNEL SEEDS : I WOULD KILL FOR THEM IF NECESSARY !

(Used to get them in 500gm packs from Ashford Gurkhas, but no signs for over a year -- I am getting desperate).

Rice timing : yes, probably !

[RubyDoo]

Ah! Pass me an after dinner kulfi with sugar coated fennel. 

WHERE DO YOU GET THE SUGAR COATED FENNEL SEEDS : I WOULD KILL FOR THEM IF NECESSARY !

(Used to get them in 500gm packs from Ashford Gurkhas, but no signs for over a year -- I am getting desperate).
Got some in the cupboard.  i think originally I got them from Dadus in Tooting. Happy to try and get you some albeit I am not working now ( near there ) but can try.
Rice timing : yes, probably !

Dadus Tooting was the last time I got them. Some in jar in cupboard now. Want me to try and get some albeit I am not working near there now so a trip would be necessary. Also have another possible place in mind. Will find out and let you know.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Got some in the cupboard.  i think originally I got them from Dadus in Tooting. Happy to try and get you some albeit I am not working now ( near there ) but can try.

You are a gent., Sir : may the blue-bird of happiness attend your every thought, word and deed.
** P.

[RubyDoo]

Wr... Strange. Put a reply on that has now disappeared but you have quoted it as a response . Hence me replying again. Never mind you got the message. I will look for you or post you some I have left as last resort. Give me a few days.

[bamble1976]

http://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk/sugar-coated-sweet-fennel-seeds-100g-vat-inc-1576-p.asp

[Peripatetic Phil]

http://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk/sugar-coated-sweet-fennel-seeds-100g-vat-inc-1576-p.asp

Yes, that's where I bought them from last time, Bamble :

http://www.theasiancookshop.co.uk/sugar-coated-sweet-fennel-seeds-1kg-by-trs-vat-inc-8070-p.asp

but they and I fell out over a tawa that they supplied with the rivets through the base (!) so I wasn't keen to deal with them again.  But needs must, when the Devil drives, I suppose.

** Phil.