No, but nor did I try to suggest that I was. If I have occasion to ask such questions, I will of course report back on how these were received; all I was trying to convey was that my initial impressions were favourable, and since making a start on the book while waiting for the rain to stop (seeing blue skies I had changed into cycling garb, only for the heavens to open) I remain positive : I like his "to hell with exact measurement" approach, and my only concern so far (I am up to onion bhajis) is that his recipe includes curry powder. Now I know that some (many ?) recipes on CR0 also include curry powder, but for me this remains a suspect ingredient : almost by definition it cannot contain anything that could not be added as an individual spice, so what is the purpose of adding some spices by themselves (say, coriander, turmeric, cumin and fenugreek, all of which are widely accepted as the staple ingredients of most curry powders) and then adding the same spices already blended into curry powder ? Do we have really good evidence that BIRs actually use curry powder in their recipes, or is this just an urban myth ?
Topic: another curry recipe book (Read 41827 times)
