Topic: Happy days

[goncalo]

Thanks ;-)

[DalPuri]

  For example, are these, or are these not, Kashmiri chillies ?

Sorry Phil, I never saw your photo until now.(stumbled across it on a search for Garlic Pickle) They dont look like kashmiri chillies to me.
Wrong shape, size and colour.

[Peripatetic Phil]

  For example, are these, or are these not, Kashmiri chillies ?

Sorry Phil, I never saw your photo until now. They dont look like kashmiri chillies to me.
Wrong shape, size and colour.

That's good news, then, since they were purchased from a stall on the slopes leading to the Great Wall of China about 90km from Beijing

** Phil.

[goncalo]

Went shopping yesterday and eventhough I've been off curries, I stopped at a green grocers looking for laziza karahi fry and biryani massala and couldn't stop looking at a Hawkins 12 litre pressure cooker that I had already found before.



Which base should I try next?

[DalPuri]

So you bought it in the end eh Goncalo, nice...

You could test out some of the larger recipes without having to scale down with that beast.   

[meggeth]

That's not fair, u got a 12er, and I only got a 7er!

I want a bigger one!

 

[goncalo]

Yes DP!

And I was lucky. The shop owner lives near me and he happened to see me last weekend while I was shopping at LIDL, so as I was paying for the PC and other stuff I pulled up an app on my phone to call a taxi (hailo) and the store owner (pakistani origin) offered to give me a lift, which saved me an extra 16euro! I tried to give some money back but he didn't accept. On our way home, we were talking about biryanis and he says he makes his in layered/trad fashion. He then started saying "When you make your curry, spoon off some oil and drop it on top of your biryani, it will make it much better." I thought the moment was great to ask whether he had any tips on how to make spiced oil. Sadly, he said that I should either top up the base stock pan with extra oil or just add some g&g and oil to a pan, once it starts to brown, spoon off the oil. Nothing really exciting on the spiced oil front, but then again he is only the owner of an asian grocers.

The booklet that comes with the PC has about 8-10 indian recipes (some chinese too) including a rogan josh, yakhni pilau, matar gosht, etc.

That's not fair, u got a 12er, and I only got a 7er!

I'm sure there is not a huge amount of difference in the results other than the amount you can cook. The main reason why I picked this one is that my 6 litre PC cooker is only 7 psi, whereas this one is 13 psi. I also didn't seem to be able to fit everything in my 6lt when making my current favorite base: Zaffron.