Hi I've been tasked with cooking a mild/medium chicken curry tonight and I'm wondering if it is possible to find a recipe for cooking a one off small quantity - say for three people? I've been looking through the site and am really impressed with the depth of info but I'm a bit stuck on how to scale down the recipes which mainly seem to be for cooking large quantities.

I realise I'm not going to be able do great things over night but was trying to find something to ease me in gradually. PS I've got to go for something fairly mild as my daughter is not keen on anything too hot.

Hi I am a complete beginner so sorry if it's a naive question. Something confusing me at the moment is this. I understand there are various combinations of the main spices which you can use to create a mix powder but sometimes included in those mixes are also garam masala and curry powder. I thought that garam masala and curry powder were themselves spice mixes which already contain some of the main spices. So it seems like you add some of the ingredients two or three times?

So I suppose what I'm trying to understand is what is the main difference between a mixture of the main spices and garam masala and curry powder (which I think are both a mixture of spices). Perhaps I'm over thinking this.