Topic: currybase from my local restaurant in munich revealed!! enjoy

[Cory Ander]

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Hi CK,

I still think it would be helpful to include some brief instructions in the "Pictures of your Curries" section....either in the "Test your Upload Pictures Here" section or in an independent thread entitled.....oh I dont know......how about "Instructions for Posting Photos"! 

PS:  I'm happy to write these if you (or another administrator) can post them in an appropriate place?

Regards,

[Curry King]

Go for it, just post a thread in the picture group and it can be made a sticky.

cK

[Cory Ander]

.......Do you guys know how I can upload pictures here??......

Hi Jasper,

I've written some guidelines for uploading photos here:  http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=1475.0

It would be great if you could try the guidelines and let me know if they make any sense and if they are at all helpful! 

[jasper]

Thanks for the help!

Thats a good one Cory.. The size of the soup ladle! because 60 ml sounds like a bit too small and 150 ml sounds pretty big to me...

I am going to the curryhouse tomorrow and I will check the size of the soup ladle!

cheers

[jasper]

......? Soup ladle turmeric (I think that?s about 3 dessertspoons).......
......1 SL =1  Soup ladle, let?s day about 10 tablespoons...

Sorry guys...

That was a bit confusing but the first one should be


1/2 Soup ladle (about 3 Tablespoons)

I thought a tablespoon and a dessertspoon had the same size (both 15ml)

and the second one should be


1/2 Soup ladle (about 10 teaspoons)

But to be absolutely sure I go to my curryfriends and measure the soup ladle 



Hopefully nobody spoiled a curry because of this sloppy information  :

[John]

I'm just doing the first stage (boiling the onions and spices) but is it right that there is cummin powder and cummin seeds?

most other recipes i've seen have coriander powder and cummin seeds

[jasper]

Hi John,

Thats right! They use both of them! cummin seeds and cummin powder. And they don't use coriander in the base.

[Yellow Fingers]

The onion base is currently cooling down but I can tell you this is gonna be fantastic. It has THE smell already.
Cheers.

I think this points out one of the problems we have discussing food on a forum where you can't share you idea of taste and smell. I've made the base and it definitely doesn't have THE smell as I know it.

I've made 2 of these now (used Patak madras paste though). Best curry I've ever made at home and definately had the taste in each.

I made the recipe with madras paste as well and again it definitely didn't have THE taste.
Clearly what we all think of as the taste and smell mean different things to different people.

YF

[jasper]

The Soup laddle used in my recipe has a size of about 100 ml...

[John]

I quite liked this base, in my opinion the boiling of onions with cummin seeds and loads of oil gave this base the smell. days after i made this base i scooped the oil into a jar and dropped some onto some paper......wow the smell was just like a bir smell, you know when you get your order and oil spills onto the paper holding the poppodoms....exact same smell and colour.

I feel i need to play with this base as it didn't have the correct flavour im looking for, but it was promising, i think i'd like to try kris dillions base using bits from this recipe like the cummin seeds and added oil... i think the reason that the oil is sooo important is because any spices you add are oil base and so the flavour can only dillute into other oil...miss out the oil and miss out the flavour/aroma.