Topic: Cooking Lessons with Az

[bamble1976]

Great stuff.  Be good if he was up for a second group later in the year.  With enough notice I am sure some of us northeners would make a trip down!

Regards

Barry

[Unclebuck]

By the way, on the subject of cooking lessons with Az, I would be up for an "advanced course" (if you want to call it that) but essentially a return trip to focus just on the final dishes and some veg dishes and maybe naans to cement what we learned this time, ask further questions arising from our own efforts at home and hopefully learn some of the finer points.

For me the most useful part of the lesson yesterday was the cooking of the final curries but it was also the point where I was most frazzled after 3 hrs or so and of course it all takes place so quick it's hard to take it in. With multiple dishes being cooked simultaneously it was hard to stay across the various dishes and understand their differences.  What would be an excellent would be to arrive after the prep is done so we have base sauce, pre cooked meat, masala sauce, etc all available and have more of a demo format, where Az cooks a dish then we attempt it ourselves. We can then eat as we go, or pack them into takeaway cartons to take home. I appreciate this would cost more as we would get through more ingredients in a session.

Well I'm just talking out loud anyway, would be interesting to see what anyone else thinks. And maybe after yesterday Az wouldn't want us back 

I agree by the end of the day it was hard to stay focused on everything that was going on.I'm hoping Az would be up for another lesson.I know he was a bit nervous but he did a great job and I think he enjoyed having us.Natterjack's idea seems a good one to me,I too would like a bit more practice cooking the final dishes.Maybee also making naan breads and onion bhajis as well.

now my ears have pricked up

[Razor]

Great stuff.  Be good if he was up for a second group later in the year.  With enough notice I am sure some of us northeners would make a trip down!

Regards

Barry

I think we'd need a translator Barry.  That white stuff that they kept on putting in? they were calling it 'sowt' Maybe this is the secret ingredient ??

Only joking guy's  I think you've all done yourselves very proud, even if you do have funny accents :

Ray (from up t north)

[natterjak]

Well to be fair Az was calling most of the ingredients "thingy" but we knew what he meant  ;D

[Razor]

Well to be fair Az was calling most of the ingredients "thingy" but we knew what he meant  ;D

Haha, yeah I noticed that when he said "transfer the pan to the oven, err, I mean the thingy" ;D

The Ginger garlic ratio has cropped up quite a few times now, and it seems to be more prevalent within the professional kitchen and I'm pretty sure that on the Rhodes across India series, they was putting in more ginger paste to garlic paste?

Tell you what though, what a brilliant day you guys had. 

Great work though.  I wish I could have seen CH's knife skills

Ray

[solarsplace]

Hi

Well, had a bit of a learning experience here... first time using Premier Elements video editing software bought 6 months ago (been sitting on shelf since), first time uploading to You Tube (third attempt now), first time in a proper restaurant kitchen....

Anyway, without further delay here is CurryHell cooking his 'Chicken Phall' - I hope you enjoy the footage. There is much more to come over the next few days.

You can see all the ingredients used in the video apart from the jar of stuff. The stuff is Mr. Naga (I think that's what its called) as popularised on the forum by ChewyTikka.

Indian / Asian - Restaurant Chicken Phall

[Geezah]

I'm loving this episode of Cr0 .... I envy all of you that made the effort and went. 

Looking forward to some Az tutorial threads for the recipes you guys trialed.

[jb]

Hi

Well, had a bit of a learning experience here... first time using Premier Elements video editing software bought 6 months ago (been sitting on shelf since), first time uploading to You Tube (third attempt now), first time in a proper restaurant kitchen....

Anyway, without further delay here is CurryHell cooking his 'Chicken Phall' - I hope you enjoy the footage. There is much more to come over the next few days.

You can see all the ingredients used in the video apart from the jar of stuff. The stuff is Mr. Naga (I think that's what its called) as popularised on the forum by ChewyTikka.

Indian / Asian - Restaurant Chicken Phall

Nice one Solarspice.I've got some good footage on my video camera as well,I may have to call on your help to get it on here as video is something I've not really done before.

Guys I've just put some posts up,I thought it would be better to put them in their relevent sections within the forum otherwise they may get lost.Base gravy,masala paste,pre cooked meat,garam massala,spice mix and chicken tikka.My eyes are going a bit wonky now!!

[fishy]

This is great stuff guys, im almost jealous, i like the vid of curryhell cooking phall and would like to know how he compared taste of this to his own.

well done all!

[curryhell]

Hi

Well, had a bit of a learning experience here... first time using Premier Elements video editing software bought 6 months ago (been sitting on shelf since), first time uploading to You Tube (third attempt now), first time in a proper restaurant kitchen....

Anyway, without further delay here is CurryHell cooking his 'Chicken Phall' - I hope you enjoy the footage. There is much more to come over the next few days.

You can see all the ingredients used in the video apart from the jar of stuff. The stuff is Mr. Naga (I think that's what its called) as popularised on the forum by ChewyTikka.

Russ, you're good with that camera.  Too bloody good in fact ;D.  It certainly is Mr Naga pickle.  And i owe you one for this mate!!!  I've just made a mental note  for later . Watching this I realise how really lucky we guys were to be given the opportunity we experienced yesterday .  You can't get any better than having a BIR chef at hand teaching you how to do it properly.  You're a class act Az and a fab teacher .  Words really do fail me at this point after 25+ years of searching.  What i cooked with Az's guidance was as  as good as any phall i've eaten.  My efforts at home pale almost into insignificance after learning yesterday how it should be done. Simple but it takes a master to show you!!!  All down to Az giving us the opportunity.   Hope that answers a few questions :