Glad you had a wonderful time in India Pete!
Do tell us more!

I shall tell her you said that Pete.

Welcome back.

we stayed for a while at a small hotel in the countryside and the first night we were the only people there, so i cooked with the chef and learnt the keralan way with spices..

i now make the best vindaloo and prawn curry in west London!

http://www.malabarhouse.com/escapes/ser … aywith.php

that isn't mrs pete by the way... but whoever she is, she needs to shave her armpits 


I also ate here - http://chetana.com/r.htm

they do a mean Gujarati Thali

and here - http://mumbai.burrp.com/establishment/view/186613

where they do the best stuffed parathas in town.. with crushed spicy potatoes and fenugreek greens, or grated mooli and cinnamon, or fresh paneer, all served chopped into wedges with yoghurt and red hot lime pickle!

as it happens Geoff, he did show me a vindaloo, with pork, very nice indeed, and not as hot as people think..

the secret was a masala of raisins, mustard seeds, cardomom seeds, cinnamon, coriander seeds and cloves, soaked in white vinegar, pureed and stirred into the sauce at the end

the sauce was actually more sour and fragrant than it was hot

we stopped in Goa on the way down for a party on the beach

http://www.bigchillindia.in/photos.html

we didn't find a vindaloo in Goa, but we did have a very very good tandoori whole barracuda!!

oh I am so jealous...the nearest that I might get to a holiday this year is a few days in my daughters empty student flat in London and a trip to the Wenlock  .
Curry for breakfast...ooh I could do that! after  the Asian Drumming teacher told me what to do to improve making onion bajees,..I make a mean onion bagee and have been known to eat one or two for breakfast