Hi everyone, brand new visitor and poster on here.

I'm Dave, living on the Isle of Man I've talked about wanting to re-create curries from my old hometown/area (Cheshire/ North Staffs) for years, fed up of finding endless jars, pastes etc that taste nothing like my fave BIR takeaways I decided to bite the bullet and have a google how to make stuff from scratch. ( By the way, there's only 1 indian nearby and its awful, the next closest is a 30 mile round trip)

After trawling through endless recipes on blogs and mostly quite narrow opinions on what should be done and how, I found this forum.

So within 1 day of logging on here, finding out about base sauces, spices and more than I could read in one go, I gave the 'Belting Balti' recipe a go........... Holy Moly!, its the closest I've tasted to my old favourite sit ins and takeaways for nearly 10 years. I hope to be lurking around these forums for many an hour to come.

Thankyou so much to the people posting their recipes and secrets, you've made me one very VERY happy bunny.