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[Eldin00]

Ok this has me a bit confused

Curry is a dish but while MOST western curry (from Curry Powder) are the same few ingredients... Proper curry dishes can have any multitude of spices from around the world in any combination with 5-20 spices.

But... What are the rules for something to count as a Curry? I find this impossible to research... Only that it needs to be at least a 5 spice blend.

"Curry" in English is a somewhat ambiguous term, which generally speaking can refer to almost any dish cooked in a spiced sauce, and even the sauce requirement is a bit iffy, as in Thai style dry curries. It is predominantly used to refer to styles of food eaten in the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, parts of Africa, and the Caribbean. The styles it refers to are somewhat different between, and even within the regions I mention here, though most can trace their origins back to the Indian sub-continent. 'Curry powder' can refer to a pretty wide variety of spice blends as well. Most blends using the name contain a fair bit of turmeric, but can vary pretty widely in the selection and amounts of other spices. The word curry is usually believed to be an Anglicisation of the Tamil word 'kari' (meaning sauce), which was initially used by British people living in India to refer to the wide variety of Indian foods consisting of meat or vegetables cooked in a heavily spiced sauce, and was eventually adopted to refer to superficially similar dishes throughout the British empire and other lands the Brits visited.

As far as what it takes to be called curry? Basically, if it involves cooking meat or vegetables in a strongly seasoned sauce or frying meat/vegetables with a 'curry paste', and the person who originally created the dish wants to call it curry or it's from one of the regions with traditional foods commonly referred to as curry, then it probably qualifies.

edit: I forgot to mention, almost all dishes referred to as curry are traditionally served with some kind of starch, such as bread, noodles, rice, or other cooked grains.

[Flying Dice]

Mmm, score another win for cheap, easy, tasty. Marinaded some chicken in plain old salt & black pepper with a couple tablespoons of ponzu sauce, cooked it up in a skillet in the same, and dumped it over a plateful of rotini. Good flavor for so little spicing.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Recently I realized one can make fried patties out of basically anything that fits into a meatgrinder. Like this:

Spoiler: Spiced leftover fridge biomass patties (click to show/hide)

-Half a chicken breast
-Bunch of bread
-Half a can of corn
-Some smoked Adyghe cheese
-One whole bell pepper, minus seeds
-One egg
-Habanero sauce
-Salt
-Pepper mix
-Cayenne pepper
-Curry powder
-Coriander
-Mustard seed (I swear, it does jack shit)
-Cumin
-Sesame seeds

Rolled in some flour and fried. Surprisingly delish.

[Amperzand]

Biomass Patties!™ My Favorite! 

[Yoink]

This burrito is both huge and delicious.
Oh, and nice 'n' spicy. I didn't make it, but that doesn't keep it from greatness.

[majikero]

I tried to make grilled eel. Problem is I don't know where to get eel(probably expensive as hell), the sauce is all kinds of wrong(no sake and used fish sauce instead of dashi) and it's set to broil in the oven.

It looked close enough using fish fillet and its tasty, so I call it a success.

[BFEL]

Ok, so anyone know some foods that don't contain iodine?
Mom has to be on a low iodine diet for the next few weeks for medical reasons and everything the doctor gave her on the subject conflicts with everything else.

I mean the list he gave her and the lists online are fucking schizophrenic. "NO BROCCOLLI!" "Now here's a recipe for chicken noodle soup with broccoli..." < that happens constantly in these.

[Neonivek]

Low Iodine diet? What is she getting radiology?

Uhhh... Goodness... They put Iodine in so many things... you can't even put table salt on anything.

[BFEL]

Low Iodine diet? What is she getting radiology?

Uhhh... Goodness... They put Iodine in so many things... you can't even put table salt on anything.

Yes, she is going to be made radioactive with this iodized pill or such that makes it easy to see if the cancer in her veins is staying put.

So far we basically have steamed chicken (specifically the kind they don't inject with chicken broth), salad with no dressing, assorted fruits/veggies, "natural" peanut butter, and unsalted matso crackers.

[Sirus]

Steamed rice with meat and vegetables, maybe?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

I went to this grill last night where they let you cook your own steaks.
I got to cook steak for the first time it was a 9 oz. fillet and was rare (I prefer medium rare) but pretty freaking good

[Sirus]

Why not just cook them yourself and save a ton of money...?

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

On vacation and Dad can expense it to his work since he's still within his region

[Catmeat]

I like cauliflour, i dry roasted some.. then blended it up.
Boiled some potatoes... blended it up.
Sauted some garlic, onions, chilli.... BLEENDERD IT UP!
grated some cheese, its chedder but i salt it every time I use it.. So it must be good for me,
Then I put the oven to gas mark 17 and layered the vegetables and cheese.
It was the best food I have ever eatten while playing dark souls 3...
I ate all of it. A whole head of cauli, 10 small potatoes, 2 onions, half a garlic, an ounce of salt.
I need more, more vegetables! Fuck you cunt

[Akura]

Made an attempt at pan-frying some porkchops. Not sure if it went so well. Might have used too little olive oil on the pan. The chops smelled like they were about to catch fire, so I flipped them earlier than I thought I should have - I flipped them at around 4 minutes but they were a little thick so I wanted to wait a bit more. Parts of one of them almost certainly was undercooked. I also tried to glaze them with a little honey, but that resulted in a pan being even more difficult to clean.

Stuff like this is why I generally dislike cooking meats, and I dislike pan-frying as well.