Hi folks,
My names Nige, I'm 54 this week and I've been an Indian curry addict since I was 18 maybe? I've lived in the Midlands all my life until moving to Spain 6 years ago, I'm still an addict and in a few minutes will be making another curry. On average I eat 5 or 6 a week, I'm not asked any more what I want for my tea, I'm just asked which one? ;D
I've only just found this site and didn't realise that there were so many like minded individuals out there. I've tried making 'Authentic' curries, but to be honest, I much prefer restaurant style meals which I have difficulty in replicating. My problem is I started going to Indian resaurants when the curries were dark, rich and full of flavours that to me were hypnotic and addictive, just as if they contained an ingredient that enticed you back a couple of days later......I can still taste the Omar Khayam's Chicken madras from 1970.............
Anyway, I caused a stir in the Express and Star, Wolverhamptons evening newspaper about 15 years ago when I sent in an article about how Indian restaurants curries had changed since the onslaught of fast cooked Balti houses, not saying that Balti's weren't as good, I was just bemoaning the fact that because Balti houses meals were much cheaper, the Indian restaurants were having a hard time competing and had started to cut corners with their cooking in an attempt to rival the Balti's.....Phew....didn't that bring a response....the E & S were swamped with readers letters agreeing with me and there were lots from curry houses offering for me to try their meals...I even had Peter Rhodes, the features editor come knocking my door asking me to do a weekly article on curries! No chance, they wanted to take my picture to put a face to a name, what? So that every take away I visited in the future could 'add' a little extra to my meal, I think not.......OK, thats me over with, I'll try to add a couple of my own recipes to the pile.
Best wishes,
Nige
