Probably a third to a half of my dinner diet is curry. Although I am partial to thai curries, my tastes run the gamut. I find that thai ingredients are more difficult to find than Indian ingredients, though I live close to a few very large Indian communities. The one that I really (really) do not have a taste for is Filipino. Once you start making some blends, you can quickly find yourself trying a bit of this and a touch of that to come up with something unique. Just have a good spice mill on hand and some patient loved ones. Fortunately, mine cannot cook so she likes everything.

I haven't tried plantains with it, and no, the bananas normally hold their texture and non-mushiness

Thanks for the recipe ... must try it out

I was also raised on curry. Super spicy south Indian vegetarian curries, mainly. My favourites are eggplant (^^^^^), okra, peas, and plain old yellow dal (well and also some vegetables for which I don't know the english names). Since we're south Indians, I generally eat with rice, but chapatis and naan are also yummy.

I've been eating thai curries since I was 15 or so. Big fan.

PS. I'm pretty sure I've seen golden raisins in some Indian curries... .

I just made a gigantic batch of vegetable curry tonight. It took me about an hour, but it was worth every little second.

Basically 4-5 large ribs of celery, sliced, 2/3 of a big potato, cubed, one zucchini, cubed, 2/3 of a midsized onion, diced, about 12 ounces of mushrooms, cut into quarters, 3 carrots, chopped, a can of diced tomatoes, juice and all, and half a large box of chocolate bar curry paste. Sweat the onions in a hot midsize saucepan (or dutch oven if you have one), sautée all the vegetables except for tomato and mushrooms. Set aside sautéed vegetables. Sautée mushrooms separately, throw the rest of the vegetable back in, cook some more (about 5 minutes). Put in enough water to generously cover (about 4-5 mugs' worth), bring to a boil. Throw in chocolate bar curry paste and then stir vigorously until mostly dissolved. Let it come to a boil again and thicken slightly. And then you're done!

The only failure was cooking 2 pounds of basmati rice in a 3 quart saucepan. Bottom got scorched, but otherwise pretty good.

Now if only I can store rice without having it go bad sitting on the counter or getting really hard in the fridge.

I love curry dishes when traveling, but I'm way too lazy to try making my own curries. A recent Slickdeals special (coupon codes) that knocked about half off the prices listed made me consider ordering either this chicken curry paste, or this fish curry paste, this ready-to-eat Palak Paneer, or this Dal Bukara.

Do any of you have any experience with these? If not, any recommendations for other prepared curry pastes I might try?

Don't know about Kitchens of India (try them and let us know), but the stuff from the "Tastybite" brand is great for a quick fix...

thats the one thing I miss when in South Jersey is the lack of Indian food, I have used one restaurant which is good and pretty similar to "British indian" food, I could eat curry for breakfast, lunch and dinner if I could. I did try to get my friends to go out for a curry but they dismissed it as "expensive" and "foreign" so its nice to know that some in NJ are more open minded

one of my colleagues swears by the laxative powers of curry. he says his hit rate is 100%

Oh yes! ^

Also, the turmeric found in many curries (most, really) is an excellent liver cleanser. I highly recommend tossing a bit of turmeric into just about everything. The only downside is that it turns everything yellow.

interesting that this thread was bumped today.

I was watching Man v. Food yesterday (while on the treadmill) and he did the phaal challenge at brick lane curry house.

http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/01/th...-v-food-video/

I did a search on "curry" and this one popped up as one that I had posted in before...

I guess if you're on the treadmill, that could called "woman vs. food".

This thread is making me very hungry!!!

I had chicken curry for lunch today. ^

I love a good Indian curry -- very lucky to have some very good Indian restaurants here in Vancouver.