Food

Nah, I'll go with the prawn one.

I meant to refer to the yellow curry and didn't pick up that you meant that to be prawn-based, too.

Again, thank you all for the tips/hints and bespoke approaches, I will have to write down these two pages for future reference!

For sake of simplicity I will start with the ground spices, frying them, with time I will get a mortar and a cast iron skillet to roast and crack them. Not for being theatrical, just cause that's how it's always been made, more down to the roots.
I will be careful with onion and tomatoes at the beginning, to avoid too much sweetness.. but then again, girlfriend is not too fond of spicy food, so I will have to find a compromise in between.

I will followup with thoughts about the outcome.

In the meantime this is the menu I have in mind:

Hot starter: peas and prawn mini quiche with vodka cream and feta
Cold starter: guacamole prawn cocktail
First course: tagliolini with prawns and white wine ragu
First main: thai yellow curry with prawns
Second main: prawns burger (sides?)
Dessert: lime panna cotta

Thoughts?

needs prawn ice cream for dessert

Is 7pm arrival ok? ;)

The lazy shortcut to umami is msg. Vegan friendly too!

Thanks @Oliver Schick, that's good stuff.

Drummond St just off Hampstead Road Euston Station end has the Indian Spice Shop and supermarket which has everything

http://www.indianspiceshop.co.uk/

The lazy shortcut to umami is msg.

Pffft, your standards of laziness are too lazy for me. :)

quite right, not nearly enough prawn-ness going on there

Drummond St ... the Indian Spice Shop and supermarket which has everything

It's an Aladdin's Cave of spices @dubtap

Maybe a pineapple and caramelized prawn skewer could do, but the lime was meant to wash away some of the prawn-ness of the dinner @rive_gauche

@mands bring white wine!

On the subject of onions in Indian curry dishes... I've been blending my onions instead of using chopped, the difference in flavor is amazing... Try it...

I also buy whole spices and roast then grind in a mortar and pestle... Also use fresh turmeric now, I blend that down with the chilli, ginger and garlic into a paste and add it to the onions once they've cooked down...

My curries are top draw now... 👌

so authentic

I've seen plenty of authentic Indian recipes using minced onion... So there! 😜

Doesn't "minced" mean finely chopped, in foreign English?

I actually mean liquefied/blended, look it up for yourself... It's transformed my Indian meals, srsly... The onion thickens and flavours...

...like tynan paste then?

cold lasagne for breakfast, champion!

Cold.. That's harsh. Hungover much?

name ONE food that doesn't taste deliciouserer cold, the next morning.

you've not tasted my lasagne, it was stodgy and delicious, and washed down with a glass of chilled rioja

...yes i am still wandering around the house, naked under a manky dressing gown, with cheese in my beard....AND??!?!?

32secs in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtY7UqeAP2c

heh..

..teenage daughter just stumbled down and scarfed another huge wodge of cold lasagne, before producing a belly burp that only her father could be proud of - go girl!!!!

ratatouille.

anything with tomatoes, garlic, hoibs etc in it improves overnight. science FACT.

Sadly she is not too partial.