Our love affair with Indian currries

Food/Drink/Culinaria
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I have the Dishroom cookery book after my wife went there in London and hasnt stopped raving about it.

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Yuk, at your peril.

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Many years ago we invited a large group of French neighbours to an evening meal. Many of them were elderly and had never travelled far from home.

We cooked a mild Korma and Chicken Tikka. BUT, just in case they didn’t like it, we also cooked a large Beef Bourguignonne. All the Indian food disappeared and the Beef Bourguignonne remained hardly touched




 of course this could be more a reflection on our French cooking than a liking for Indian food.

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I have always made a lot of curries since I was inspired by Madhur Jaffrey back in the 80s. We have found in the last few months that Carrefour and Leclerc are now stocking a limited range of Spice Taylor base sauces which are excellent. The packs have spices, base sauce and main sauce to which you had your meat, fish or veg.

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I know, but high fat food makes me ill.

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Same for my Sis in law, gall bladder removed. I just worry about all the emulsifiers they use to create a texture.

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Does lecithin help?

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I have no health problems other than fatty food gives me indigestion. As a vegetarian it’s probably easier for me to avoid high fat and I avoid any food that’s been highly processed . It works for me.

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Here, they’ve also been doing various types of poppadom regularly.

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Given the fact that we all (semi)joke about the French and their aversion to heat/ spice in food I often wonder who gets through the kilos and kilos of scotch bonnets, bird’s eyes, habaneros etc that are in all the supermarkets round here. Of course in cities with all kinds of people with all kinds of backgrounds you’d expect it, but in the most rural of 86/87 the scotch bonnets go like hotcakes. Perhaps I’m not the only person round here who fills their fridge door compartments with them so they’ve always got a good supply 
 no, I probably am. :see_no_evil::joy:

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You have just reminded to get some kafir lime leaves before we travel, add a nice zestyness to salads and other dishes.

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Seems like your apĂ©ros have evolved into what’s now known as an apĂ©ro dinatoire, which is very different, less formal and much more fun.

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Don’t ever ask for kafir anything in S Africa - it’s a homonym for something very insulting, and you might get punched on the nose, or much worse!

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Handy hint. I bought a small kaffir lime shrub on Amazon a couple of years ago. It is thriving in my greenhouse and keeps up with my demand.

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Yes good idea, I will save that for retirement and greenhouse when I learn at last to grow some of my own food.

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There used to be tee shirts with Kappa on them and I thought that was getting close.

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I suspect that you and I are buying most of them!

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Do you mean Dishoom? Or is there another one?

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I’ve always said - if France had curry, cricket and ale it would be perfect.

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Hahaha, was it me or the new phone, its really annoying with its internal idea of what I want to write.