... 2%....

Does anyone have suggestions where I could buy blade mace, not pre ground? I'll be in the UK in May and I'd like to pick up the whole spice.

Just put nearly 1.5kg of lamb leg into a marinade to turn it into biryani tomorrow. It's going to make a massive pot, with loads of leftovers I can freeze.

It's based off this recipe, which I have made before - it makes a cracking biryani.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uygb9O-MDPw

this post was motivated by my lack of spoons when I was really craving a curry.

I really wanted something but couldn't work up the energy. The thought of making a new-to-me-making-it dish gave me enough extra spoons to work out what to do.

I like the idea of bhuna but the whole cooking down the gravy felt difficult (in my spoonless state), but I remembered I had made The Curry Guy's base gravy, which is concentrated so you need to dilute it before use.

Ding ding ding! Grab the bhuna recipe from the PDF linked from here, use the CG base gravy as-is.... got a bhuna on the table about 30 minutes later, with a spare spoon to hand!

So.... if you make the Curry Guy concentrated base gravy, you've already done a lot of the work to a bhuna 

Incidentally, the word "giblets" is something that I so rarely type that I have not once, while typing this comment, been able to type it correctly at a first attempt — each attempt comes out something like "gliblets" ...

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** Phil.

Gliblets, those witty little bon mots that you can never remember the next day.....!