As requested, here is a photo. The buffet warmer is my new toy. A facebook friend offered it for sale for a tenner and I snapped it up.
I spent today with family, putting up a treehouse that my dad made for his grand-weans. He went a bit overboard , though, so picture something a bit like the Amish barn building scene from "Witness".
It was my job to supply the curry buffet, so I put out:
a load of Mick Crawford Pathia;
a mix of many, many frozen Korma experiments (including the Glasgow recipe) that actually blended together nicely;
a Glasgow Madras straight from the "Updated Glasgow Base" recipe. The camera flash has done strange things to the madras. It looks like I've swirled something into it, but that's not what it looked like in real life.
I have to say the Glasgow Madras was spot on. There's a certain smell and taste to the curry sauce from an Indian. I'm talking about the kind of generic curry sauce they always gave me when I bought a Tandoori Mixed Grill. The madras filled the kitchen with that smell - for the first time since I started making my own curries.
It has inspired me to experiment and come up with my own base. One that uses all the onions of the Glasgow base, but not nearly so much oil.