Topic: A bit of lateral thinking!

[Secret Santa]

I just went to get a few beers at my local Asian cornershop and I thought it can't harm to ask him if he knows any restaurant owners. Well as it happens (assuming he's not bragging that is) he seems to know them all. So I waffled on about how I love curries and how I make my own and then I slipped him the old "I don't suppose you could get me a recipe for madras could you?" one liner. Well a brief discussion followed about base sauces and the restaurants not liking to reveal their secrets (I was grinning like a Cheshire cat in my head) and bottom line he said he'd ask around. So i'm not holding my breath but I'll go back in about a week or so and see if he can come up with anything. I just thought I'd post about this because it shows you don't necessarily have to be asking the restaurants themselves, there may be other ways and means. Time will tell.