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Jordan: You're allergic to feta???? REally???? OH! I'm so SORRY!!!!! I LOVE feta! Poor thing.... *hugs*
BTW: I've said it before, but I'll say it again... I'm SCARED of curry. And I'm scared of beets. And recently I've decided that they're part of the hite car conspiracy.... *hides under her bed* It's just not safe out there anymore....
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It uses characteristic spices that aren't always quite the same from one recipe to another.
The same basic recipe varies so much from chef to chef that an ingredient list may not contain any ingredient in common with another recipe, with the exception of spices, and not all of those are identical.
The appearance of each recipe can vary so greatly that occasionally, the chef must indicate that he's serving chile or you might think it was something else.
The intensity of the spices can vary from "Mild as Mothers' Milk" to "File Environmental Impact Statement & Prepare Last Will and Testament prior to tasting".
Curry is available in quite a variety of different forms. Some of them taste and appear so dissimilar that you might not recognize them as curry. The local Thai restaurant normally has two different kinds of curry on their lunch buffet. One is a Philipino variety (coconut milk in a main dish? Not for me, thanks!) And the other is a different variety (What region it's from I dunno, but it's good).
My fave? I like to start making chili, but substitute curry powder for chili powder. It's Curry con Carne! Not too bad, but it can be if I use the wrong type or amount of curry seasonings. (Daryus: I recommend you try it sometime. It's different, but good!)
--Baloo
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Well, curry is a badly used generic term. Kind of like European, or vehicle. What can I say. When I refer to curry I mean North Indian/Pakistani food. Anyhoo, I shall try the concarne.
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Orion Syndicate
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Stationmaster: I was having this discussion with a customer at the Indian takeaway that I work at. Indeed, authentic Indian and Pakistani curries (especially the way my mum makes them) are bad enough to render most palates useless for about 20 years.
Seriously, the curries here are specially created to appeal to the general populace. No-one in Pakistan or India says "Give me a Lamb Dhansak" or "I'd murder a Chicken Vindaloo right now". A curry is a curry. The sauce is usually a lot lighter, not as thick as you get in these curries here. They also only use the basic spices, Chilli, Paprika, Haldi, may grind some cardamon pods for flavour and put them in, garlic and coriander. In addition, no-one there eats garlic naans, onion bhajees or many other things on the menu.
These curries are very basic and in my opinion far superior to the stuff that's made in these restaurants or takeaways. If you want an authentic Pakistani/Indian meal, then one of these curries and a couple of chapatis is the way to go, or if you prefer rice, that's good too.
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Baloo: I lost that recipe for your wife's Chile that you sent me, in an Inbox failure. . . d'you still have it to re-send?
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Email me and I'll see what I can do. It was really simple, unless you live somewhere that the store doesn't regularly have the ingredients in stock.
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Excalibur: They're garlic naans, not nads. They are simply plain naan breads that are flavoured with garlic(if you like that sort of thing, I hate garlic).
They're made by firstly making some dough from some flour, water and some other ingredients which escape me at the moment.(just like normal bread). This dough is then spread onto this, well, small cushion and then stuck to the interior side of a special clay oven. The bread is then made in a couple of minutes. It is usually served with a curry.
The flavouring is usually done in the dough stage.
I hope that helps. Ask if you need more info.
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My favourite naan is what I think is called the Peshawari naan - a swwet one, with coconut and raisins. Yum. . .
The naan is the ideal bread for the wetter-sauced dishes. . . mops up the sauce very well. For chunkier meat dishes (as well as vegetable ones, and the lentil dish dal, however, I prefer the chapati, a thin wholemeal flour pancake. They're about the only thing to do with flour, beaking etc. that I can make. . . It's just sieved brown flour and water kneaded together (a food processor works very well) and left for an hour, then rolled out with lots of flour to prevent it sticking (it is VERY sticky otherwise) and then plopped straight onto a metal plate over the heat (gas flame is best, wouldn't want to try electric). They reheat very well and are excellent with scrambled eggs.
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The curry I mentioned is mostly Chinese curry. I've also had Thai curry, Vietnamese curry (or I think it was Vietnamese), and Indian curry (a long time ago that I don't remember how it tasted). Thai curry is light and soup-like and heavy in coconut milk-flavor. The Vietnamese one was thicker and smells less of coconut milk.
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Orion, you're right. Naans, bhaji etc aren't part of the standard diet. More like Sunday food. But hell, the Chinese food we get in shops is hardly 'Chinese' either. It's a generalisation.
Tora, two words you used in conjunction there would make all my ancestors turn over in their graves for a few centuries....*L*.
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