I'm going out for a curry
Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 1:54 pm
Because I'm bloody hungry
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jonesthecurl wrote:We went out for a curry on Friday - both kids were off at some friends' houses and I said "Sod cooking". THe local curry house is not as good as the average one in the UK, but it's passable - and they've finally started doing popadoms.
HapSmo19 wrote:What do you guys mean by "a" curry? What dish exactly? Or approximately....
jonesthecurl wrote:but I'd be very happy to put forward some of my favourites, with starting-from-scratch instructions, if anyone wants to hear that.
jonesthecurl wrote:If you want to cook your own curry, have nothing to do with curry powders or bottled/tinned curry sauces. Find somewhere that will sell you fresh spices, and grind them yourself. There's plenty of recipes available, but I'd be very happy to put forward some of my favourites, with starting-from-scratch instructions, if anyone wants to hear that.
jonesthecurl wrote:Eating curry became sometimes a macho competition rather than a pleasant experience.
PLAYER57832 wrote:I'm jealous. For me to get curry, I either have to make it myself or drive over 2 hours.. : (
Pedronicus wrote:PLAYER57832 wrote:I'm jealous. For me to get curry, I either have to make it myself or drive over 2 hours.. : (
I’m surprised that you have to travel so far to reach an Indian Restaurant. After looking at the amount of red dots, on a recent thread, that indicated the amount of Chinese restaurants in New York.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=indian+london&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=12.165846,35.375977&ie=UTF8&z=13l
HapSmo19 wrote:19th post!
jonesthecurl wrote:
Traditionally, British "Indian" restaurants (actually very often Bangla-Deshi) had a standard menu in which the spice heat would be arbitrarily measured by a regional nomenclature only vaguely related to reality - so that "Vindaloo" would be really hot, "Madras" would be pretty hot etc. Many macho lager-drinkers would actually challenge each other to eat hotter and hotter curries, leading to the invention of the ludicrously-named "Tindaloo". Eating curry became sometimes a macho competition rather than a pleasant experience.
jonesthecurl wrote:If you want a food history thread, that's ok - but it is a separate question.
The cuisine (and more) of the whole world has been altered by the "discovery" of the Americas.
No Americas, no turkey, no cocaine, no tomato, no chili, no chocolate, no marijuana, no tobacco, no corn, no potato, (feel free to join in, folks)...about half of the world's basic foodstuffs came from the "New World".
jonesthecurl wrote:Traditionally, British "Indian" restaurants (actually very often Bangla-Deshi) had a standard menu in which the spice heat would be arbitrarily measured by a regional nomenclature only vaguely related to reality - so that "Vindaloo" would be really hot, "Madras" would be pretty hot etc. Many macho lager-drinkers would actually challenge each other to eat hotter and hotter curries, leading to the invention of the ludicrously-named "Tindaloo". Eating curry became sometimes a macho competition rather than a pleasant experience.