Topic: Razor's Curry Base

[TasteTester]

Hooold on there with the softball thing! If you'd said football, that could get confusing. I'll have to google what you mean by softball. I'm picturing the thing that's a bit larger than a cricket or baseball. Or is cricket played with a softball? All I know is that once I played cricket, everyone laughed at me for swinging my funny American way, but I kicked butt, and the ball went out of the compound. I just had to do some shameless bragging there.

[Peripatetic Phil]

... and the ball went out of the compound.

"Went out of the compound", Madam ?  Do you mean "cleared the boundary" ?  If you're going to play the noble sport of cricket, you really will have to learn the proper terminology.  I suppose you'll be telling us next that they served hamburgers and Budweiser instead of cucumber sandwiches and tea during the interval.

Tut tut, what ever is the world coming to ?!

[TasteTester]

Or should I have said it was a Grandslam? It was in Pakistan, so we had biryani.  Especially greasy biryani.

[TasteTester]

I hate to be less than helpful, but do you not think it might be worth borrowing a set of scales, just so that you can do your own weight-to-volume conversions once and for all ?  You could then set aside large marked bowls, each calibrated for a different ingredient, and then just fill the relevant one up to the appropriate level whenever you needed that quantity of whatever in the future ...

** Phil (who thought that the world had come to an end when his wife admitted to dropping the electronic kitchen scales and not telling him, after which he had to press his precious postal scales into service until such time as SWDTS had replaced them ...).

Haha! Make my owns marks especially for curry! So obssessed sounding, I love it. Maybe I will buy a cheap pitcher from my dollar store and mark it up with lines that read "Onions," "Cilantro," etc. That way I can standardise (-ize? I never know these things) my cooking like a fastfood joint such as Starbucks. That would be sweet! It will really super impress my whiter than whitebread in-laws who already joke that curry is my secret to everything. (I'm pretty sure they don't know what curry means. It's pinto beans, not dal and it's Spanish rice, not pilao here in SW. I think Mexican food is to the US as Pakistani food is to the UK.)

[Peripatetic Phil]

I think Mexican food is to the US as Pakistani food is to the UK.)

Well, I do have fond memories of a "Burrito Supreme" in that country just to the north of yours; I even had a few goes at making them when I got home, but never really managed to re-create the authentic CMR taste 

** Phil.

[TasteTester]

Oh, and damnit that I'm not a pothead. They use grams and ounces and other things by weigh. I'd have a proper idea weights and be able to guess correctly then. Well, I'm going to my mom's, and she has a postal scale. That'll do. She's excited because I'm making a big batch and leaving some behind.

[TasteTester]

Well, I do have fond memories of a "Burrito Supreme" in that country just to the north of yours; I even had a few goes at making them when I got home, but never really managed to re-create the authentic CMR taste 

** Phil.

Phil, I don't know you, but I'm gonna love you and give you some advice. If you don't want to be shot in LA or any city with lots of Mexicans, don't ever call Taco Bell Mexican food. Saying McDonald's is American food is insulting, but it doesn't even come close to calling Taco Bell Mexican. I say it's "Mexican Inspired."

It's unfortunate to me that so many Mexicans here won't try Indian food. I think they'd rather like it. The two foods have a lot in common, only Indian food has a thousand more years of perfecting the spices. Mexican food is more fresh tasting and uses a lot of cheese.

[TasteTester]

Yay! It turned out well. I used less than half of the recommended water because I wanted it to be more concentrated for storing. It looks like gravy... Hmm.... Maybe we will have some funky gravy withour mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving.

(Also, since I made it when I was at my mom's, I used her postal scale. It turns out it also measures in grams, so that was convenient! I translated the measurements into something I can use at home. The only thing I had to look up were how many grams were in a kilogram. I couldn't remember if it was 100 or 1000. I know it should be obvious, but I honestly can't remember the last time my brain needed to compute the word "kilo".)

[Razor]

Hi TT, glad it worked out well for you.

So, are you going to make my spice mix, and have you decide on a recipe yet?

My spice mix http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=4706.0

It looks like gravy

lol, it is gravy but for curries.  It should be orange in colour, is American gravy orange? ;D

Maybe we will have some funky gravy withour mashed potatoes this Thanksgiving.

Yeah, go for it, let's see how polite your guests are, and how long they can keep quiet about it

Ray

[Chilli]

Hi Razor

Its now time to try your base sauce. Been here many times tkinking of what to try next, so spent this avo cookin up your base for tonights feast.

Interesting to note there's no veg as such which is new to what others use, and me to be honest. So thats what drew me to try yours. ;D

Would BIR's/TA's use the veg for flavour or to bulk up?  Tonight will tell.

Will post my result. Cheers for the recipe. ;D