Topic: Chicken Ceylon

[Ganda]

Looks great and an interesting recipe as well.
My only comment is that adding Ground Spices to the base will not release their full spiciness, i would add them into the hot oil at the beginning then add the base.

Stew

I agree with the fresh spices bit too - ground spices work but I feel they don't give the same bite to it. Nice post M8 and I look forward to your future recipies, as I am a great fan of mild to medium burners (yes - I do like a vindaloo, but need to be quite pissed for that one!)but the Sri Lanka type is fine for me. Oh, let's face it - we can eat them all!
Regards from Ganda.

[makum101]

Question regarding the Creamed Coconut...

Do I prepare it first with water and then strain it or just chuck a 100gram lump into the pan and mix with the base?

[JerryM]

makum101,

not tried this recipe although it does intrigue me - will wait for u're report.

i do use creamed coconut a lot. the biggist problem with it is in getting it to melt quick enough. i cut it into very small chunks (5-10 mm cubes) and that works pretty well (i do have to add extra water sometimes). i'm thinking of trying a cheese grater.

[976bar]

makum101,

not tried this recipe although it does intrigue me - will wait for u're report.

i do use creamed coconut a lot. the biggist problem with it is in getting it to melt quick enough. i cut it into very small chunks (5-10 mm cubes) and that works pretty well (i do have to add extra water sometimes). i'm thinking of trying a cheese grater.

Hi Jerry,

I put mine in a pirex dish and stand that in a pot of boiling water, it melts it ready to pour straight into the dish you are cooking

[JerryM]

976bar,

nice little prompt that. i'm not one for too much hassle when cooking (except when it's needed) - i will try the same as what u say using the dreaded microwave. sounds obvious but i'd never thought of it until u said (depends for me on how quick it re solidifies).

[Darth_Muppet]

Do you have a link to Darth's base sauce or a link to a good base sauce to use?  I'm really new to all this.

[George]

Do you have a link to Darth's base sauce or a link to a good base sauce to use?  I'm really new to all this.

Welcome to the forum. Use search with the expression "100% clone". Darth's base sauce come up near the top of the list, together with other discussions, plus his Madras recipe and other interesting stuff. I hope this is more useful than if I simply posted the link.

[Peripatetic Phil]

Well ...

• That string results in hits only if entered into the lower of the two search boxes (no, don't ask me why we have two -- I have no idea)
• From the results returned, it is very easy to follow the wrong link (I did)
• Even though you may wish to teach a man to fish, that does not prevent you from giving him a fish if he is starving

So, http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,674.msg6264.html#msg6264

** Phil.

[George]

That string results in hits only if entered into the lower of the two search boxes (no, don't ask me why we have two -- I have no idea)[/li]
[li]Even though you may wish to teach a man to fish, that does not prevent you from giving him a fish if he is starving[/li][/list]

The expression I'd use is the one about leading a horse to water but not being able to force it to drink.

Are you seeing a different search function? A five year old could use what I see. It produces 46 results over 2 pages. Isn't that better than spoon feeding?

[Peripatetic Phil]

The expression I'd use is the one about leading a horse to water but not being able to force it to drink.

Or "A search function that returns nothing is as much use as a bicycle is to a fish"

Are you seeing a different search function? A five year old could use what I see. It produces 46 results over 2 pages.

I do indeed, George (see image below), so my 66-year-old eyes must be as least as good as your 5-year-old ones

Isn't that better than spoon feeding?

I will let Jethro answer that, as he is in a far better position to judge than I.

** Phil.

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P.S.  Using the upper search box, a search for "100% clone" (your suggested search phrase) yields nothing; a search for 100% clone yields two pages of hits; using the lower search box, a search for "100% clone" yields four fits (this was the route that I used when I found that the upper box yielded zero hits), whilst a search for 100% clone yields the same two pages as the upper box.  To summarise :  quoted search strings cannot usefully be used in the upper box, whilst they are very effective at refining the results in the lower box.
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