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Cooking Equipment / Where to buy a good wok in London?
« on: August 04, 2008, 08:25 PM »
Hi all,

I am going to spend a few hours in London in my way back home after the holidays, so I am thinking it is a good opportunity to buy a good wok (and maybe some other cooking equipment) as I cant find a good one where I live, so can anyone recommend a good place in southwest or central London?

Thanks

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Curry Sauce, Curry Base , Curry Gravy Recipes, Secret Curry Base / Re: Bruce Edwards Curry Sauce & Basic Curry - From The Man Himself
« on: July 10, 2008, 11:51 PM »
Thank you so much for posting this here Bruce, I really appreciate you have shared such a valuable information, many thanks. I will give it a go soon, I have got the freezer full of bases but I will manage to make some more room  ;D

Best regards

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BIR Main Dishes Chat / Re: Lamb rogan josh - take on the takeaway
« on: June 28, 2008, 03:37 PM »
Quote from: JerryM on June 22, 2008, 10:12 AM

my wife?s fav CTM is brown with no coconut - as u say. we have never been able to replicate this. i think it must contain almond. there is also a chopped fresh spice/herb in it - this i like the taste very much of but have no idea of what it is.

maybe we need a new post if this is along the same lines as your thinking.


Hi JerryM,

Thats exactly the kind of CTM I crave for and I have never been able to replicate at home, I will keep trying recipes until I get a decent one, no matter the years that task can take  ;D I think the taste you refering to can come from pastes, thats way it is so difficult to emulate it at home.

Best regards

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Talk About Anything Other Than Curry / Re: Euro 2008 Germany Vs Spain
« on: June 27, 2008, 10:14 PM »
Quote from: Unclebuck on June 27, 2008, 08:36 PM
                                                                                So who do you think who's going to win? Germany or Spain???
 

Spain of course  ;D  we have never won anything at all since the football was invented, it has become a national trauma, but I am confident that this time we will win at last ;D

My flat will be packed with spanish supporters, pizzas and beers as usual, no curry  :'(

PODEMOS!!!!  ;D

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BIR Main Dishes Chat / Re: Lamb rogan josh - take on the takeaway
« on: June 21, 2008, 05:50 PM »
Hi sydt2005 and dawn.s!,

Thanks for the help. I live in the Canaries and there must been English supermarkets somewhere around here, however there are not so many Brits in my area where theres no english or asian shop, it is not easy to find some english products or indian spices (although its very easy to find german or southamerican products). I have been shopping online to get all this stuff but I don?t want to buy things like heavy jars that I can only use for one week or so. If I see them over here I will buy some in order to try to emulate CTM, the only curry I am not happy with yet (Curry Kings CTM is delicious but is not anywhere near the one I ate (a lot  ;D) in the UK, that one had no coconut in it, anyway I will keep trying regardless of having already tried at least more than 10-15 recipes.

Best regards

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Curry Sauce, Curry Base , Curry Gravy Recipes, Secret Curry Base / Re: SnS's Base Gravy June 2008
« on: June 20, 2008, 11:26 PM »
Fantastic post, thanks for the recipes SnS and BB, I have just ran out of base and I was already thinking of making a new batch of Saffron but after reading this post I think I am going to try this new version.
One doubt, a standard tin of tomatoes is a 400 gr tin?

Thanks to everybody

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BIR Main Dishes Chat / Re: Lamb rogan josh - take on the takeaway
« on: June 17, 2008, 05:33 PM »
Thanks again Unclebuck, I have bought at Natco as the shipping charges were far cheaper but possibly next time I will try spices of india and buy some pastes to find out if they make a major breakthrough in my curry making  ;D

Best regards

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Trainee Chefs / Beginners Questions / Re: What is tomato puree?
« on: June 17, 2008, 05:17 PM »
I have just taken a look of my jar of tomato paste (Intercasa brand, double concentrated, 28-30 % tomato paste, made in the Canaries, Spain) and looks, smells and TASTES good  ;D I don?t like throwing away food and I cant find anything written on another and unopened tin  about that it must be eaten in a few days after opening, ok, I suppose I must throw it already as it is almost gone and what you say looks serious and I will but it doesnt seem to me such a perishable food, like, for instance, chopped tomato tins, that get mouldy after a week after opening.

Best regards

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BIR Main Dishes Chat / Re: Lamb rogan josh - take on the takeaway
« on: June 17, 2008, 05:02 PM »
Many thanks for the links Unclebuck but I am from Spain.
I have never seen any Patak?s pastes or something similar in my local supermarket, I saw once a Sharwoods? mild curry paste ("ideal for korma"  as stated on the jar, although I don?t know if they are interchangeables) in another one, I supposse that I will have to go back to check but I will never been able to have at my disposal such variety of pastes to choose from.

Best regards

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BIR Main Dishes Chat / Re: Lamb rogan josh - take on the takeaway
« on: June 17, 2008, 12:04 AM »
No Pataks pastes over here, so I wont be able to give this recipe a go (as many others calling for Pataks pastes). It is very frustrating when the recipes call for any pataks paste, because there?s nothing I can do about it, you cannot try to substitute anything you have no idea what is like, also it?s frightening to know that takeaways use them as it would mean that I wouldnt ever get closer to the BIR taste, no matter how hard I tried (I am sure that thats true in CTM, as I cannot emulate the CTM I got used to in the UK, I got very good recipes but are not quite the same).

Regards

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