Quote from: Unclefrank on May 10, 2013, 12:47 PM
Hi Mick any more news on the recipe with the new additions.
Cheers.
I am doing a few bases as i type this so thought i would give your recipe a go.

Sorry mate, I've only just seen this.

Rich is correct, it works much better with a bit more coriander powder than cumin. And he is also correct that too much cinnamon is not good.

I now fry a couple of bay leaves and a small stick of cinnamon for about 30 seconds, and then remove before adding the garlic/ginger. I'm sure it gives it a little something extra..............but I could be wrong..lol

As Chonk suggested, cloves can be added (Raj suggested this) haven't tried that one yet, but will give it a go. We add cardamom powder to ours.

Cheers Jerry

I'll be checking it out on my next trip back "home".

Quote from: JerryM on April 30, 2013, 04:19 PM
The Alchemist,

i'm not far away. i quite like a walk through when i'm near.

do you know the restaurants - i ask as i've stopped going a good few years ago having been mainly disappointed. i know there are top notch places there but find them has been near on impossible without word of mouth knowledge.

getting some kind of demo/liaison with a restaurant would certainly push me in favour.

Same here Jerry.

I was always disappointed with the standard of curries along the curry mile, BUT I ate some of the best tandoori food I have ever had. Bearing in mind I left UK in 1996, my favourite eateries were:

Shere Khan (best seekh kebab and lamb chops I have EVER tasted,

Tandoori Kitchen, (Seekh kebab sandwiches made right before your eyes) no longer trading

ShahenShah

Shazam.

Apparently, according to family and friends there is a "new" curry mile that is better, cheaper and getting more and more popular and is in Longsight, along the A6 (Stockport Rd) near the big Asda.

Class DP. Can't say I have ever seen this before. Funny as (moderated). ;D

One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
Life of Brian
A Clockwork Orange
Midnight Express
Kes
To Sir With Love
A Taste of Honey
Green Mile
Papillon


To name a few. Can't choose just one............

Quote from: curryhell on April 06, 2013, 10:05 PM
Could not agree more with all the comments posted.   Sick to the back teeth of the e book before I even see it.  It's about time members focused on what the forum is about and achieving it instead of the constant bickering.  I thought things would improve with the departure of one individual.  But it seems as though others are trying to fill the void

Which individual CH?

WOW!!!!

We hear a lot of John Butler commercial stuff on radio over here. I didn't realise he can actually play. That was fantastic. I must make an effort to go watch them live next time they play.

Quote from: commis on March 19, 2013, 06:51 PM
Hi
I know this does not answer the high temperature question. Which would basically be get yourself a comercial burner. I note that an old friend of mine comented that early curry houses were just that and the food was cooked on domestic gas stoves.
Regards

I'd say the best curries i ever tasted were cooked on domestic gas stoves. Late 80's/early 90's Armadale Rd takeaway, Dukinfield, Manchester, and Scotland Hall Rd, Newton heath,Mmanchester.

Domestic cookers, aluminium frying pans, fresh oil. Food of the gods.

 

Quote from: Axe on March 19, 2013, 10:21 AM

Quote from: StoneCut on March 19, 2013, 09:23 AM
Hi SC, Jalfrezi is not a mild dish, did you mean to include here?

I'm fairly sure that a BIR will simply mix a portion of rice and precooked meat/veg in a pan together and serve as a Biryani. You won't need to make a 'proper' Biryani.

Mmmmm. I'll have to look into that Axe. IDETEST biryani orders............... ;D

Quote from: StoneCut on March 19, 2013, 09:23 AM
I've decided against:
Biryani -> Too much work with the extra pot and layers, no idea if it'd sell on time either.

LOL

Biryani is my pet hate.

On a busy night when we get an order for biryani, I flip my lid and curse (Gordon Ramsay style) I feckin HATE biryani orders. Everything has to stop just to cook a bastad biryani.

I hate it so much that the next lot of menus we get printed, there won't be biryani on the menu. ;D