Topic: Cooking Lessons with Az

[curryhell]

Another good one Chris.  These clips certainly make the day come alive again.  I'm still buzzing from yesterday.  Hope Jb remembers  to include the 2 chef spoons of sugar that we forgot to include   Good job Az tasted it and spotted the omission ;D

[natterjak]

I also noticed that he directed you to add a heaped chef spoon of methi leaves but JB read back a desertspoonful.  Still, it's all an inexact science and I bet when they make larger quantities the proportions are different.  It was a struggle for Az to transfer his normal approach of "grab as much as looks right" into spoon measures for us so it's to be expected that there will be discrepencies.

[curryhell]

I also noticed that he directed you to add a heaped chef spoon of methi leaves but JB read back a desertspoonful.  Still, it's all an inexact science and I bet when they make larger quantities the proportions are different.  It was a struggle for Az to transfer his normal approach of "grab as much as looks right" into spoon measures for us so it's to be expected that there will be discrepencies.

I did pick up on that one Chris. I think you summed it up "it's all an inexact science " .  All about eye, feel and practice which i'm sure we're gonna be doing for many years to come ;D

[natterjak]

Also, to be fair we also know enough about how other indian restaurant chefs work to realise that each has their own variations in spice mix, base sauce recipe, etc.. so it's nonsensical to get hung up on whether 3/4 or 1 full spoonful is "right". 

[Unclefrank]

This is excellent, very much appreciate your time and effort posting the videos and soon to be recipes.
Really looking forward the whole of this experience for you guys to share with us.
Thanks.
I salute you.

[Unclebuck]

well done lads your absolute legends 

[Stephen Lindsay]

This event has set the forum alight - brilliant!

[solarsplace]

Hi

I have a lot of video footage from the day such as forum members cooking various dishes under direction of Az including Bhuna, Roshney, Phal and Az cooking Saag Bhaji for example.

Planning to make a start on trying to get this tidied up and may be to start uploading tonight. Would these be best posted in this thread or would a separate 'Cooking Lessons with Az - Video Clips & Notes' thread be better?

Perhaps JB would care to post his notes in there too - maybe more helpful to the forum members if they are together?

What do we think?

Thanks

[curryhell]

Well done Russ.  An unenviable task for both yourself and Jb.  Personally I think the whole shooting match will sit perfectly well in this thread, keeping everything nicely together.  Besides there are so many people viewing this thread ;D

[Unclebuck]

keep the posts on this thread and new threads can be started later
ie "base gravey from az" etc etc