Party time

Lunch party tomorrow. One of my friends (we spar so much that it is a joke in our project that given a chance, we would end up killing each other) is going back so i decided to throw a party for him. i have been making preparations for it. The menu would be: Kelichana, duck vindaloo, matar paneer, dal and mishti doi. The mishti doi is baking in the oven right now. This is the first time i am making mishti doi. i don't know how it is going to turn out. The recipe said 'don't open the oven during the whole process". With my impatience, i am finding it so hard not to take a peek and check if everything is OK. i will find out tomorrow morning.

i am feeling sleepy. And i have to wake up early tomorrow and do all the cooking before they turn up.

We went out today for lunch with our clients to a thai restaurant aptly named "Thai cuisine". The food was good. We were talking about different cuisines. There is actually a Filipino dish with coagulated pig blood. They say it is really nice. They sell coagulated pig blood in the Asian store i frequent. They have pig feet, cow's tongue and an assortment of such oddities that i love gazing at in wonder. They sell live frogs too!! In dallas, we went to this chinese store and he had to drag me away because i insisted on pointing out every item to him. It is exciting to know there are so many varied, exotic recipes out there. i want to try out a dish from every country.

Ok, off to bed i go and try to wake up early and see what i can whip up for my guests. What if i oversleep and they come to find nothing ready? That would be quite something and i will never hear the end of it. But knowing them, they would start cooking themselves!!