Comments on: An English Casserole Kissed By Indian Spices

By: Amy Greenwood

Amy Greenwood — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:43:05 +0000

Hi Barbara,
I was trying to find recipes for english foods with Indian influencs for a feature hook I’m doing on my placement when I stumbled across your site. It sounds amazing and even being a poor student I’m going to be heading down to the shops tonight to give it a go, hopefuly the feature will be a success aswell! Thanks, Love it!

By: Amg Greenwood

Amg Greenwood — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:39:50 +0000

Hi Barbara, I was trying to find recipes for english foods with Indian influencs when I stmbled across your site. It sounds amazing and even as a poor student I’m going to be heading down to the shops tonight to give it a go! Love it!

By: donna sharma

donna sharma — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:24:45 +0000

hi im also married to north indian man it is great he will eat english and indian food i want to know how to make indian spices can you heip me

By: Trig

Trig — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:43:44 +0000

Bravo! A very good looking recipe for Indian Shepherd’s Pie that I’m sure will have tasted great. I learnt cookery like this from my mum, who in an earlier life was married to an Anglo-Indian. This dish may be called fusion, but that term should not be used in a derogatory sense because the dish has a genuine ancestry in post-Raj British cooking and is far from a modern invention. I think cooking like this is just great. We’ve planned a family meal this weekend at Cafe Spice, where Cyrus Todiwala cooks lots of English-Indian modern fusion dishes that work really well.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:25:14 +0000

Oh, and Aileen–those French stoves are gorgeous–you should email me a pic when it is installed.

I like the lentils idea–that is a good one. You could call that “Gardener’s Pie,” Natasha!

Steph–I think a more elegant way of naming the pork and bacon (oh, yum!) version would be “Swineherd’s Pie.” Swineherd is an old word seldom in use, but in this context, it works. (And it sounds very, very tasty, too, I might add.)