Topic: Hi from Birmingham

[Kashmiri Bob]

Welcome Rob,

I'm sure you'll have a lot of fun browsing and trying the recipes on here ... I think you're very lucky to have supplies so readily to hand , I live in Slovakia and it's a bit of a challenge sometimes !!   

Cheers, Colin.  Has made things easier.  Spoilt for choice really.  There is a newish East End cash & carry that's opened.  It's absolutely huge.  Wouldn't mind a nosey around there to see if there is any less mainstream stuff.  Think you have to be a business trader to get in though.

[Unclefrank]

Have had great results with these books

This one is excellent

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Balti-Secrets-Birmingham-Co/dp/0572022980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345549330&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Authentic-Balti-Curry-Restaurant-Revealed/dp/141205592X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345549389&sr=1-1

http://learn2cook.vpweb.co.uk/default.html


What i have done is mixed Balti Secrets Chicken Balti recipe pg.58 with the base gravy of the Authentic Balti Curry book and got my balti curries on the same par as our locals, feed back from friends and family etc.

[Kashmiri Bob]

Have had great results with these books

This one is excellent

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Balti-Secrets-Birmingham-Co/dp/0572022980/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1345549330&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Authentic-Balti-Curry-Restaurant-Revealed/dp/141205592X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1345549389&sr=1-1

http://learn2cook.vpweb.co.uk/default.html


What i have done is mixed Balti Secrets Chicken Balti recipe pg.58 with the base gravy of the Authentic Balti Curry book and got my balti curries on the same par as our locals, feed back from friends and family etc.

Nice one!  Just ordered a used copy of Balti Secrets.  ?2.81 delivered. 

[Kashmiri Bob]

Welcome to the forum Rob

Watch your waistline, as I'm taking up alot more room since I started posting on cR0, probably about stone extra in fact.
On your travels around Stratford road, can you keep an eye out for the Green Naga I'm looking for, from back in the day.
Just be nice to know if it still exists.



cheers Chewy

No luck with the Naga as yet, but my spice guru friend in Sparkhill remembers stocking it and is on the lookout for some.

[thewhiterabbit]

Hey Rob...do you, by chance, have a certain liking for unpopular music that meanders a bit through odd time signatures?? Think I might know you from somewhere! 

If so, it's you I have to thank for me finding this forum and subsequently producing some rather tasty curries!