Methi Gosht, Sag Aloo

Made this the other week - and it was much nicer then! My cooking is a little off at the moment. And whilst its nice to know that sometimes it really is very good - its disappointing when you burn the pastries or mis-spice the curry (even just a bit).
This dish needed fresh tomatoes (not tinned) and less fenugreek and more clove and coriander. Next time I will remember.
The sag aloo would have been better if I'd cooked the spinach separately and combined at the last minute.

Methi Gosht and bombay potatoes

Carrying on with the curry theme from yesterday (see chicken almond curry)- I wanted to start to try and get the Methi Gosht - which is our favourite curry from Curry Manjil in Belsize Park. It is greatly missed by us now in Bath. Sometimes its tempting to drive all the way up the M4.
So - its time to try and get somewhere with this lamb and fenugreek curry.
This was delicious - tho' I'd like to get some fenugreek leaves - I only could find seeds. Still - it had depth of flavour, and the sauce was good and thick. Will keep trying in variations to see how close to Curry Manjil we can get.

Chicken almond curry

After all the cooking of the Family Feast - I wanted some totally different food. Curry.
I decided on a nice, but hot, chicken, yoghurt, almond curry.
Overall - the sauce wasn't thick enough, and I don't like cream in it (i added to try and thicken the sauce). Just yoghurt next time, and the onions need to be blitzed once cooked, so there is a puree (again, will help thicken the sauce).
its all about the sauce. Flavour good tho' :)
And I really like the brown basmati rice, sprinkled through with wild rice. Great texture and flavour.

Pumpkin and aubergine green curry

Colour issues again with the pumpkin - which seemed to get all grey :S Also I got scared by how much my fingers stung from cutting the chillies, so went wussy with the spice paste - mistake. this was barely a curry! Got to have some guts :) and using coconut block reconstituted with water to make 'milk' was rubbish - weird consistency that kept seperating. Well - this is all the bad stuff - in the end - it was still pretty tasty and rescued me from extreme tired after double restaurant shift.