Food

Oliver, you can't beat veggie curry.

Loads of easy recipes out there (even the Hairy Bikers are at it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/saag_aloo_with_roasted_95304) and Das Sreedharan (co-owner of Rasa) is a genius: Fresh Flavours of India: Amazon.co.uk: Sivadas Sreedharan, David Loftus: Books

Mr Schick will concur.

Often, if the list of ingredients is daunting, you can just make a load of spice paste/mix and store it somewhere cool for the next time.

Indeed.

As missmouse indicates, the RASA recipes are very simple once you've mastered some basic techniques.

It's a shame the second book isn't available any more, as that was even better.