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#31
Curry Base Chat / Can We Vote or Something?
November 15, 2010, 06:18 PM
Lord, have mercy! There are so many bases from which to chose. I have no idea where to start. Measurements (especially non-Imperial ones) mean nothing to me on paper, so it's difficult to taste things in my head when I'm reading your recipes.

I worked in an American-Indian restaurant for a few years, and I evenhung out with the creepy chef because I soooo badly wanted his chicken-tikka masala recipe!  :o I've come close to it a few times, but I don't measure things.... It's often difficult to even remember all the ingredients I use.

I'm looking to be more scientific about the cooking process so I can duplicate good results... and so I can have a kick-ass base on hand so I don't have to start from scratch ever time I want to make a curry.

Can a rating system on the bases be implemented? I hesitate to ask "Which base should I try first?"' and get, like, 100 answers, leaving me where I am now.  :-\ 

I'm so glad cilantro is cheap here, frequently 3 bundles for $1... Which is like, what? 3 bunches per half GBP? (my husband recently learned that cilantro and coriander are the same thing! lol. In the US cilantro is the herb and coriander is the seed. I didn't know the English word for cilantro for a long, long time since we use it and refer to it in terms of Mexican food.)
#32
Curry Base Chat / Re: I couldn't believe my eyes
November 11, 2010, 01:52 AM
Yep! I worked in an Indian restaurant (in the States), and I very well remember the large pots of onions. Smelled very, very... mmmmm.