On Monday morning I nibbled on a leftover papadum and thought happy thoughts about the weekend social extravaganza conceived by mastermind friends, wherein we went on a splendid outing in the lounge room. We ate a sensational feast of home-made Indian food: you should have seen the table. I love menus (back in the day I read recipe books like novels), so I will tell you that we ate dry lamb curry, chicken saag, raita, naan, papadums, tomato, onion and coriander relish, and I have to make particular mention of the fried aubergine coated in turmeric, cayenne pepper and salt. It was textural perfection - I have never eaten aubergine so sublimely fluffy. We looked at travel photos, wore surprisingly comfortable beaded finery, played an accompanying soundtrack, and the others almost danced but the boss dancer ended up being too tired to lead the troupe. He did a few desultory hip and shoulder wiggles and then lay on my daybed. After all that, I’m not lonely, but the remaining papadum was, so I ate it. Dipped in raita and delicious.
Here’s to good people and good food. And if you’ll excuse me and my wrinkly table-cloth, I must go back to being pole-axed.
9 comments:
Beautiful table cloth. This has put me in mood for curry. Glad you were able to enjoy the feast!
Oh! That sounds like a party!
Yay for good friends and feasts!
Sounds like pure delight!
My mouth is watering at your description of your feast. How special!
Thanks all! It was a lovely experience, that's for sure.
From your lovely descriptions I can just tell you are a foodie as well as a wordsmith, Greenwords. Aubergine can be so awful when not properly cooked - but textural perfection is sublime.
Hey there,
Sounds Yummy!! Think I'm gonna have me some Indian tonight after that description...
Thanks for dropping by my blog & leaving a nice comment a while back. I enjoy your writing and sense of humor-I think we fell from the same tree.
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I'm salivating and enchanted.
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