Bring it on sir! Been chasing that 1980's holy grail for decades.
Bit expensive to fly to uk just for vindaloo but tempting nonetheless

Robbo

The base gravy experiment was a great success. Made Instant Pot chicken biryani, diluting the base gravy with water to cook the rice rather than the usual water only. Turned out great, well worth trying.  Having it again tonight, reheated with fried egg on top.

Robbo

Skewers look beautiful. Can't cook on my grill outside right now. Today was -11 and that's deg F not deg C.  Really cold.
Trying something new tonight. Have Steven Heap's base and going to dilute it and make a biryani using that instead of water to cook the rice. Worth a bash.

Robbo

Happy New Year folks.  I made Steven Heap's base, pre-cooked chicken, tomato paste and onions and knocked out a few curries in recent weeks. Very nice dishes but still not quite the real BIR thing I remember from my UK days.
Going to be 0 degrees this weekend.  And that's Fahrenheit not Celsius. Look it up. 😂

On a business trip last weekend, found myself in St.Louis Missouri and on my own one night so found a local Indian place and for once decided NOT to have vindaloo.
Found this place a short drive from the hotel and ordered takeout.

https://www.hhstlouis.com/

I found a Karaikudi Curry on the menu, had never heard of it so in for a penny (or $16.99)
I ordered it 'spicy' as here in the US it seems hot curries are milder than I'm used to.

Absolutely fantastic dish, great heat level and full of flavor. A definite repeat to order when on the road again and also to try making it at home. Seriously good curry.
A bit like a Chettinad, fiery and right up my alley.

If you like heat, seek it out.  Not often I'm blown away by traditional Indian food in the US but this was outstanding.

Robbo

As an experiment I tried us8ng the last remaining portion of a base and just dumped it with chicken thighs, onions etc into a slow cooker for 8 hours.  Rubbish. Never to be repeated.

Robbo

Merry Christmas everyone. I just made a batch of Steven Heap's base and pre-cooked chicken and tomato masala and am ready to go! Strange here in the US they don't have turkey at Christmas but any excuse to try a little winter BIR is good for me.

Drink responsibly. And enjoyably. And other 'ly's....

Cheers Robbo

Unfortunately there's a lot of thread rot here on this site and lost info. A pity, especially on the recipe side. I'd like to revisit some vindaloo recipes from years past..
Keep digging for that beans recipe.  One advantage of being in the US, no shortage of great Mexican restaurants

Robbo

When I get home from this business trip, I'll upload my own collection of typed up recipes too. Can never have enough references.

Robbo

Any chance of the vindaloo recipe?
Looks great, as do all your cooks.
I have a portion of Kris Dhillon base defrosting right now and planning a random hot dish tonight.

Robbo

Hey all
Randomly looking through ebooks and found this.
I assume I got it from here but just in case, wanted to share.  A lot of the content is from this website and refers to names going waaaaaay back to the Cory Ander / Chewy Tikka etc days...
And more recent members, Mick Crawford and Curryhell get mentions too!
It seems a lot of the very old stuff may be lost, so this doc might be of use.
I'm certainly going to give some things a try and get it onto good old fashioned paper.

Cheers
Robbo