If you're making pizza at home, it's really, really worth buying a pizza stone. Put it in the oven whilst you're pre-heating the oven, and it'll crisp up the base like nothing else. Also ace for making things like pita and naan bread.
(and *obviously*, make your own dough. Extra-strong bread flour, and preferably using a pre-ferment started the day before. I am a Pizza Snob, and I don't care)
ETA: Oh, and for curries, go
here - they specifically concentrate on British indian restaurant style curries, which are quite unlike most "authentic" curries, and are generally quite hard to find recipes for. Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Bible is a decent reference on other types of curry, too.