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#3081
Quote from: smokenspices on February 02, 2008, 03:28 PM
I'll let you into secret. The new recipe now says "salad potatoes" (no mention of Charlotte).

I'd be prepared to wager that you could use any potato and it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference.
#3082
Quote from: smokenspices on February 02, 2008, 03:28 PM
(I still have no conclusive information regarding Deghi Mirch. I gather it is made from a sweet, mild kasmiri chilli)

Whatever it is I can assure you it's definitely not mild, well at least the MDH version isn't.
#3083
Hi gary

I was looking through this thread and the other posts about the rajver base because this is going to be the next one I try. As I read I was just getting more and more hungry so off I went to make one (freestyle) with the last of my Smokenspices base. I got to the adding spices stage and thought I caught a whiff of the toffee smell you mentioned. I then turned away from the cooker to do something quickly at the sink and there it was, a very definite, unmistakable toffee smell.

I must admit, when you talked about a toffee smell I thought you were just trying to describe something that was close to the smell you were getting, but no, it's 100% toffee. Blimey I thought (or words to that effect).

The strange thing is I wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary compared to the way I usually make curries but I can honestly say I have never got the toffee smell before. Perhaps it's because normally I'm standing over the pan, maybe you have to get a bit of distance so that the subtlety of the odour manages to make itself known.

The curry turned out OK but nothing special.

#3084
Quote from: haldi on February 02, 2008, 11:04 AM
Do you a have a madras/vindaloo recipe instead?

I was going to ask the exact same thing because I don't like korma, but I thought better of it as ronnoc seem to freak if you ask him anything.
#3085
Lets Talk Curry / Re: The Curry Book
January 31, 2008, 10:28 PM
Quote from: Domi on January 31, 2008, 09:34 PM
I wonder how much time people will allow both Andy and his claims to remain unsubstatiated before just a shadow of doubt begins to enter their minds.

There's this song, if you don't know it it'll mean nothing to you, but if you do it pretty much tells the story of RCR and its dumb followers. It goes something like this...

Isn't it grand! Isn't it fine! Look at the cut, the style, the line!
RCR is all together
But all together, it's all together
The most remarkable travesty that I have ever seen.

These eyes of mine at once determined
The bhaji's mingin, the balti's vermin
The garlic's blue and the members are a lovely shade of green.
Somebody send for the Beer.

I'm feeling a litle bit queer!
#3087
Ever had one of those days when you wished you'd just kept your mouth shut!?  :)
#3089
Curry Videos / Re: Video Taken in BIR Kitchen
January 31, 2008, 07:21 PM
Quote from: Admin on January 31, 2008, 12:56 PM
Now the question is where can i purchase one of those aluminium pans?

That really is a good question. I've looked in all the asian shops I've been to and not one has them. Is this the "secret"?
#3090
It's just not in my nature to NOT respond to ronnoc's post in my own inimitable way and in the way I feel he/she deserves, so someone had better get a big roll of gaffer tape and wrap a good few turns round my gob.  :)