Topic: Cooked for a 'curryhead' last night

[martinvic]

Had a great night last night, went round a 'curryhead' mates house to cook a couple of curries for him.
I'd told him, on the phone, of the BIR methods I'd found on these sites and he was very interested, so I arranged to go round and give him a demo/lesson.
We decided to cook, a Chicken Madras (his restaurant favourite) and a Chicken Tikka Jalfrezi. Oh and I took a couple of my frozen home-made Naans round too.

When I got there, before I started cooking, I went through all the recipes/ingredients/methods etc. for him first.
It was then that he admitted that, after my call, he was really dubious and doubted that this would actually be able to produce restaurant style/quality curries.

Well what can I say, complete success, he was amazed and loved them both (and the Naans). 'It is restaurant food' was his main repeated comment. ;D
The Madras (CA's with a couple of minor changes), was my biggest worry as it is his restaurant favourite, and one that I have no benchmark for, as I don't eat them myself.
I asked for feedback and the one and only thing he could come up with was, it wasn't quite as hot as he normally gets.
I did only add the recipe minimum of 1 tsp chilli powder though, and it was hot enough for me.

Oh and I should add, that after I told him to have a little taste, I had to take the onion paste (Panpots, that I now add to all my spicy curries) off him, before he ate too much of it.
And the pan I gave him to wash, before cooking the second curry, was cleaned with his fingers and a bit of chapatti first. : ;D

Well I've left him the printed out recipes, and he said he's definitely going to have a go himself now.

I'm well chuffed, can you tell. ;D

[Malc.]

Well done Martin, does that mean we'll be getting a new recruit fairly soon?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Brilliant, well done Martin.
** Phil.

[martinvic]

Thanks guys.

Can you believe it, I forgot to give him this sites address. :

Did leave him about a dozen pages of printed out recipes as a start though.

I'll see how he gets on, then point him here, for sure.

[Ramirez]

Nice report Martin! Having a curryhead state your curries are as good as a restaurant is a pretty strong endorsement. Nice one.

[martinvic]

I should add a big THANK YOU to the people on here (and a couple of other sites) for all the hard work, recipes, videos and information to make it possible.

Cheers
Martin