to think my DP is very rude to pour curry sauce over food

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Tonight I cooked a curry for dinner from scratch. I asked DP to get some rice from the Chinese on his way home from work as mine always goes wrong. He came home with rice, curry sauce and vegetable spring rolls. Before he even tasted the curry I had cooked he poured the curry sauce all over his dinner. AIBU to be a bit pissed off about this? When I told him I was annoyed he seemed to think it was funny!

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@usernamealreadytaken "
Would you taste your pasta in an Italian restaurant before they sprinkle the Parmesan, or black pepper?"

No. Because I like both Parmesan and black pepper, and in those circumstances there would be neither in the dish in advance in order to give the diner the choice.

The Italian dish has been designed to accomodate the flavours of extra pepper or parmesan. The Moroccan-style dish has not been designed to accomodate blobs of Chinese curry sauce.

Moroccan chick pea curry is not something I'd look forward to. I can see why he went with the Chinese curry option

Occasionally we do this with chippy chips...sometimes you just can't do it as well yourself.

To buy a full takeaway when you've slaved over a curry from scratch, I'd be livid!

I guess that depends on your pov. OP made a "Moroccan curry" with apricots. Chinese curry sauce is sweet, and if DP thought it was a curry then curry sauce would be perfect with it, especially as OP had asked him to get rice from the Chinese takeaway (not a stretch to think that the meal would be vaguely Chinese-tasting).

No, they are extras which compliment the food, if you like them. That's like saying that salt cod can take extra salt because it's made with salt 🙄

Can people stop calling the Moroccan dish curry🙈 It's either tagine or stew

Even more reason to get a Chinese for tea

I thought you were going to say that he poured curry sauce over a roast chicken meal or something @Confused19831983 It was a curry anyway. YABU to be so bothered about it.

@SweetBirdsong you do realise there are different types of curry!

I quite often have an Indian chickpea curry, I wouldn't then cover it with Thai green curry sauce

They are very different flavour bases. Moroccan food with apricots isn't too dissimilar to Chinese sweet curry sauce. Anyway, OP has already updated that DP hadn't meant to pour it all over, so it wasn't a slight on her cooking.

Since when was Chinese curry sauce sweet? The ones we get in our local takeaway or that we make from the tubs of concentrate sold in the Chinese supermarket aren't.

If you have space get a rice cooker ( some double up as slow cookers too )
That’s what I did when my family seemed to be having dinner at different times due to having an 8 year age gap between the oldest and the youngest plus activities after school and work schedules.
I’d some sort of stew / curry on the go and the rice was ready whenever needed.
oh and yes , it’s a bit annoying for him to cover his nice curry and have it swimming in Chinese curry sauce when you’d made the effort to cook

Very rude of him, however, forgive me for saying so, but if you can’t cook rice I’m just wondering if your car is up to muster ?

Curry 🤣🤣

Chinese curry sauce from our take away, isn't sweet,it's thick brown and spicy

Brown rice can take up to 20 mins. Also you might want to block the steam hole in the lid makes the rice fluffier. Besides that this is "the" method for perfect rice everytime just give it one stir when it boils and you put the lid on. Then turn the gas as low as you can and simmer.