Safeway (at least my local store) now has a full section of British imported Indian food.
Don't have a taste for it myself but I know many of you will be happy to know it's available locally........
A British section would be nice though! wink wink
We can get Pataks stuff at Safeway but it's pretty expensive.
I love Indian food and I used to be able to get Pataks sauce mixes at Albertsons when we lived in FL. However, since moving to the place time forgot in northern TN I've only once seen Pataks and that was in Krogers. I grabbed a few cans of it though, so we're well stocked up for the moment. D
I just buy stuff from the local Indian stores.
/refuses to live where Indian food, imported beer and used books aren't available.
It's really easy to make without the jars and there's no replacement for fresh chillies and coriander and big whacks of cloves and cardamon pods. D
It's really easy to make without the jars and there's no replacement for fresh chillies and coriander and big whacks of cloves and cardamon pods. :D
Care to share your recipes, Maczippy?
I got an Indian cookbook and it's excellent. Also nearby is an excellent shop that sells all the bulk spices I need. Actually we're having Indian tonight D
Over here in Ontario, the best RUBY have had, was not in this province, but in Quebec ( Montreal to be specific ), and it was the only one that came close to what am used to in london's bricklane. My wife who is canadian, even agreed after I took her there to bricklane last year, for her to compare to what she had tried all over Ontario and Canada here in the past.
Another thing that really gets my goat here, is fish and chips. They might as well call it fries and fish roll The best one again that came close, was in Mississauga, a shop owned by a German guy, how ironic D
You see places here with names like "curry in a hurry", you go in there, and there are no Asians in sight, just a couple of caucasians trying to pull a fast one o
Must be nice to have a local Safeway.
I tried the store locator on their site but without knowing the zip codes of all the cities in and around Michigan, I will never find out. See, it couldn't find anything in "Tempe, AZ" despite the fact they have an HQ there, and I put the zip code in from their HQ address and it found one! So I wrote to them asking them where the heck they are.
I use Madhur Jaffreys cook book and make my own stuff up. Marinades, pastes everything. it's easy and you can alter things to get rid of salt and stuff.
I use a lot of Madhur Jaffrey too. I really love one of her old books 'A Taste Of India'. She goes through the food region by region but tells lots of interesting anecdotes and tales, or childhood experiences from that region too. I'd sometimes quite forget about the food and just get lost in her general writing. I've heard that in modern-day hi-tech India that her food ideas have become rather old-fashioned and frozen in time, but there's still some wonderful recipes in there.
I see her on 'Eastenders' now. It looks very odd seeing her in the Queen Vic instead of telling you about the history of tandoor ovens or how to pestle your spices. lol
Madhur jaffrey on Eastenders, what is the world coming too. Good heavens. I'm stunned! -?
Always loved Indian food but then coming from Leicester and all........
There's actually loads of Indian restaurants and Indian grocers in and around Indianapolis. Went to an Indian grocers the other week and they were giving away free chicken byriani.... :)
I've read several places where people complain that they cannot get recipes to make "restaurant style curries".
I stumbled across an interesting site where this one guy, after badgering several Indian chefs into submission, put together a site called "Secrets of the Indian Restaurant Chefs Revealed" with various recipes that he claims are as close to the restaurant ones as you'll get:-
http://www.geocities.com/curryguzzler200.../main.html