Hi Acrabat,

If you are going to stay around Cambridge, I have some good recommendations.

1. Meghna on Victoria Road (Restaurant/TA) (I've never reviewed them, but their chef/food is the benchmark by which I judge all indian food and restaurants)
   recommend trying their tandoori dishes, particularly the salmon and prawn tandoori,  tikka jalfrezi, bombay aloo, goan garlic chilli chicken, salmon tikka, korai, etc
2. Pipasha on Newmarket Road (Restaurant/TA) (It's a bit more upstreet, a fantastic experience.) Look my review around here.
3. Renus on Milton Road (TA) -- very good portions, fantastic people. Look my review around here, well rounded up.
4. Royal Spice on Victoria Ave. (TA) -- Fantastic jalfrezi, tikka shatkora,fantastic bombay aloo. The chef and their delivery man, both from bengal, are fantastic people.
5. Taste of Bengal on Chesterton (TA) -- Tried twice, it has that real good vibe of BIR, but I had only 2 experiences with them so I can't rate it too high. Jalfrezi in both times.

As for curry garden and gandhi on regent st, don't bother. I have been to them twice each and the food was barely acceptable. 

Avoid:
tandoori palace (rubbish food, they used to offer a very good deal when they were out of town, where they sold 3 curries + 3 pilaus + 3 naans + plus 1litre of coke for 20

That looks amazing AussieMick, however 700

Hi Mike,

Did you ever got yourself a jug blender? I'm looking for one myself at the moment and was looking for recommendations.

Both the warring and the cuisinart  seem quite good, the question is whether they will blend/cook well enough

Any alternative jug blenders of good quality (even if pricey) are welcome.

Chewy,

That food looks gorgeous. It made me rush down the stairs to make a vindaloo to feed my hunger after reading your post! What does Zal Jhool mean and what makes it a Zal Jhool?

Good one bob, look forward to your usual mouth-watering pictures and report. I'm trying to decide whether to make vindaloo or goan garlic chilli chicken, with a new concoction tikka recipe for lunch today with pilau rice. Can't wait

Quote from: walleye on August 06, 2013, 04:11 AM
I been searching online but no luck Spices of India have sold out I wanted to restock my other spices and I always use SOI theres one or two other places but silly postage

Oh, (moderated)! I completely forgot to send them to you. I'm very sorry! I will dispatch them tomorrow, I've just setup a reminder for when at home to put it in the bag. 

Had 2 guests (my girlfriend's girlfriend) visiting us tonight, so I repeated yesterday's food, with the addition of bombay aloo.

Pre-cooked chicken (viceroy brasserie)


Bombay Potatoes pre-cooking IFFU method


Bombay Potatoes


Chicken Jalfrezi


3x chicken korma portions

I've never come across anything perceivable as mango chutney in a curry sauce, nor even a subtle taste. However, I've used some mango chutney back in january (evidence found here) and I loved it. However, it's very easy to over-do. Although I wrote a TSP, in hindsight, I think may have used slightly more than a tsp.

I've done this (with chicken) yesterday and I used a little ketchup and a tsp of sugar and the missus loved it!

That looks very nice indeed. What recipe did you follow?