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I work for MessageLabs [messagelabs.com] in Toronto, ON, Canada. I write spam filters, MTA software, high performance network software, string matching algorithms, and other cool stuff mostly in Perl and C.
Curry from scratch
This weekend I made a curry from scratch (i.e. no pre-made sauces). It was a hit. It was a little runny - need to adjust the recipe for that.
Also it's hard to get ingredients here sometimes - the people who run supermarkets are very xenophobic about food - when something isn't in season here it's very difficult to get hold of. The particular ingredient this time was green chillies (kind of critical to a good curry), which won't be available here until the Ontario green chillies are ripe. I tried at 5 different stores (including two asian specialist stores). Ultimately I used Green Hungarian hot peppers which don't have nearly the same explosive flavour.
None of those stores had curry leaves either. Nobody even knew there was such a thing as a curry plant. I substituted lime leaves instead, which worked well and gave that fantastic aroma that only lime leaves can give.
I was very close to giving up on the ingredients hunt, but I was very pleased to find fenugreek seeds at Vincenzos (a local international food store, mostly selling european foods). The fenugreek seeds are traditionally what you associate the "curry" smell with.
I'm looking forward to making it a second time - it's almost always better when you make things the second time.
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You need to move out of the sticks ;) (Score:2)
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In Season = Good Food (Score:2)
The fact that British supermakrets stock foods that are out of season is part of the reason why the quality is so poor. If something fresh like fruit has to come from the other side of the world, it's probably been picked far before it's ripe, and it's a robust easy to move variety, and that's part of the reason why food is so tastless.
If you buy from a real market or direct from the grower, the food is MUCH fresher, and hence has real taste.
A good home made curry is great fun, as is freshly made Naan b
-- "It's not magic, it's work..."
Re:In Season = Good Food (Score:2)
Re:In Season = Good Food (Score:2)
Supermarket in your part of Canada must be utterly awful then. British supermarkets are pretty terrible, the fruit and veg is dull and devoid of flavour, and it's hardly cheap. Any half decent independent green-grocer has a better range of goods, at better prices, and significantly better quality. The snag is that there aren't many left...
I always find the French supermarkets MUCH better than their British equivalents. They offer much more than their British counterparts, and the French are not as easily
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What, no recipe? (Score:2)
Re:What, no recipe? (Score:2)
Here's what I can remember (I won't give a separate ingredients list - I'll leave that as an exercise):
Take a large pot, heat up some vegetable oil. Add 1 teaspoon of mustard seeds. When they've popped, add 1 teaspoon of fenugreek seeds. Then add 3 chopped onions and 2 large thumbs of ginger, coarsly grated. Stir until browned. Then add
ingredients (Score:2)
Between our local farmers market [farmernet.com] and Whole Foods [wholefoods.com] we can get good vegetables and fruits all year. And apart from some Danish things (cherry sauce!) we have yet to be fail to find any exotic ingredient we needed...
I forget where now, but a few times I've bought spices in bulk online. Reasonably priced and their great selection would reach you too.
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recommendation (Score:1)
As far as fresh curry leaves go, I asked my partner (the ingredient procurer of the house) and he said that sounds like a tough one, possibly available in Toronto.
-DA [coder.com]
Re:recommendation (Score:2)