A different spin on Gnu's thread (I have a few basic Chinese food recipes which I'll post)- I've recently discovered an Indian market near where I work, that has a tantalizing array of spices and ingredients. I've made curryies using run of the mill curry powder - they're always so so, but now I want to make my own from scratch. What I'd like to do is make up a pot of delicious curry sauce and freeze it in small batches. If I understand right, by adding cream or yogurt you turn curry sauce into Korma, which I love. I'm also partial to the coconut milk based curries.

My first project will be daal. I bought two kinds of lentils, red and yellow, which the Sikh gentleman who runs the shop told me to mix. I have the basic ingredients for curry - cumin, cinnamon, tumeric,etc. plus a ginger/garlic paste that he recommended. He also recommended a bag of dehydrated fried onions and said they would do in place of frying real onions. He said his wife often utilizes them and they give an excellent flavor. Apparently it's hard to get the onions just right - you have to fry a large quantity of them and if you scorch them or don't cook them enough they're ruined, so he thought for a beginner the bagged onions would be a good idea.

There are loads of recipes on the net - I just wonder if anybody has any "Tried and True" that I could experiment with. Indian cooking is something I've never tackled myself.