Ah, a picture speaks a thousand words. Looks delicious!  ;D

I am not too familiar with the KD base, but I think you'll find the majority of bases on here boil the garlic and ginger, along with the likes of onion, green pepper, carrots etc.

Sounds bloomin' lovely, Phil.

Got any pics?

Reading between the lines of Chris' last post, I think the plan of action is to use a base, curry mix and tikka of your choosing. Obviously, you need to use the same ones throughout.

I stand to be corrected.

Great stuff jb! 

It all looks delicious and I bet you were knackered after that.

Quote from: Razor on June 05, 2011, 10:01 PM
Anyway, we pitched our tent in 2.5 hours flat (youtube vid only took 20 mins max) we had about three good arguments, the wife stormed off twice, it started raining, and the dog ran off!

A camping trip just isn't complete without a complete fiasco when putting up the tent.  ;D

Great pics Ray. I think there is something magical about cooking when camping, especially when there is a quite a few people.

Thanks for PMing the recipe.

Presumably we are using the one base and spice mix again?

Quote from: Phil (Chaa006) on June 02, 2011, 05:16 PM
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I think your suggestions are good and have clear benefits, but I think we really need to establish what is the objective of these group tests - is it to find the best recipe of a particular dish or is it to merely have a collaborative review of a given dish? If it's the former, then I think reviewing a different dish (different curry, not a different recipe of the same curry) each week/fortnight doesn't really help us, as it would take so long to get through the top 5/6 recipes of a particular dish. However, if it is the latter then I think your suggestions are spot on. 

I think Chris needs to be the one that ultimately decides this. If Chris is open to changes then it is probably worth us opening another thread, as this one has been derailed a bit.  ;D

Quote from: chriswg on June 02, 2011, 11:52 AM
If any of the testers need my recipe let me know and I'll PM it to you.

Are you going to post or just PM it?

Not fussed if we go with Lorrydoos or not, but perhaps we should include it given Unclefrank's recommendation.

Quote from: Phil (Chaa006) on June 02, 2011, 12:33 PM
Incidentally, I would make a plea for re-visiting the whole Group Test approach.  I personally find making half a dozen variants of the same dish both onerous and wasteful, and would far prefer it if we could agree to simply all cook just one variant for each test.  I genuinely believe this would attract far wider participation.

Do you mean in a similar vein to the to the "Curryheads "Madras 2011" test? If so, I am more than happy to go down this route if others are willing. The trouble is, as a format,  it is far less encompassing than other group tests as only one recipe is being reviewed at a time. However, you could argue that a) it would receive more participation, and b) it would be more of more value (based on the assumption we would be following the recipe exactly - using the specified base, spice mix, pre-cooked meat, etc.).

How would this work do you think? For example, say we wanted to test CTM. Would we only test one or would we define a set of recipes and, one by one, work through them as a group (e.g. review a different CTM recipe every 2/3 weeks)?

Quote from: chriswg on May 18, 2011, 08:15 AM
So far for testers I have:

Chriswg
Stephen Lindsay
Ramirez
Solar
Bamble

Any other takers?

Looks like this is the final list of participants. We ready to get this started?