Perfect Take-Away

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Originally Posted by _____V_____

I can only wonder what would happen to you all if you actually made a field trip to India and had some of those dishes at someone's home (like mine), instead of the stuff they churn out at restaurants, cafes and hotels wherever you are.

I hate restaurant stuff. Homemade Indian food is the best, specially when the females in your family are kickass cooks. The spices, masalas and the thickening, boiling, greasing, technical aspects of cooking, etc. are always done in the right proportion and near to perfection.

North Indians tend to have their food a bit more soft-boiled and coarse. South Indians make it too spicy and hot. The Central Indians - people living in West Bengal, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra & Gujarat...the central belt of India - usually have the near-perfect Indian cuisine. Its yummy, its healthy and its very easily digestible.

Not to mention the very best of homemade pickles, marmalades and sauces.

One of my closest friends got married last year and his family originate from India (although cant remember where). Two things struck me.................

1: Hindu weddings are really long

2: They used a specialist caterer which did all the food based upon original family recipes from the home country with all the right ingredients and, so I was told, prepared in the same way. It was absolutely delicious with a definate difference to the Indian food Im used to