Hi Stephen,
I'm feeling you have been more enthusiastic about this curry than in other posts Ray, even though you have produced results you have been satisfied with before.
Yeah, I guess I have. It really does replicate my fave TA's madras. He is also Pakistani and I'm wondering if both his and Taz's methods are the same? The outcome is so remarkably similar that I'm sure that it must be.
The thing with of the Taz/Mick stuff, is how simple it all is, which for me, epitomises what BIR cooking should be. Afterall, they're not in it for love, they want to make a profit. So their methods would need to be so simple, to increase their margins.
I don't really know where this leaves my own base now, because I'm sold on this one. I may try and develop mine a bit further but I'm sure that if I did, it would only end up being a Taz base clone!
My next experiment with this base, has to be in the blending. I really need to sort out a decent blender to smash the coriander seed but apart from that, this is a BRITISH INDIAN RESTAURANT madras, lol
Ray ;D