Hi
Well, don't know about all of you ladies and gents, but I'm running out of ideas about where to travel on the journey to curry heaven next... Still got Chewy's base to try and am looking forward to Abdul's new book arriving... but you know, its never the end of the journey.
Have reached a point where most of my curry's are superior to my local TA, but still fall short of my current personal favourite, and what I consider to be the pinnacle of curry excellence which is the Mahaan in Farnham, Surrey (
http://www.themahaan.co.uk/).
Have had a couple of small ideas...
1) To swap curry 'kits' with a colleague - 1 person portions up some base, spice, g&g, paste etc into 2 identical portions and both persons take an individual portion of ingredients home and cook up a curry. The next day bring in said curry to work and compare results to see if there is much noticeable difference down to technique, plus possibly stove / burner.
2) Planning to experiment with using fresh poppadom frying oil to cook the curry with. Following the Undercover Curry book, have tried bhaji oil - but was not really convinced at the time. However got a TA last week end and opening the TA bag, the smell of the warm poppadom in combination with the curry was fabulous.
So, have any of you got any ideas or plans on what you will cook / investigate next?
Look forward to hearing any ideas, suggestions.
All the best.