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Yesterday night, japanese food was on the menu and decided to make some vegetarian sushi rolls - Cucumber, Pickled Red Ginger, Mint, Watercress and Wasabi - but wanted to add a lil bit of kick/novelty to it and added some pasta sauce to the ingredients before rolling and the sauce blended in EXCELLENT with everything else ! Pasta sauce goes super good in a sushi roll making for good Italian Japanese Fusion ! Try it out !!
Like the french saying says "Jamais deux sans trois" (Never Three without two), with a pre and current thanksgiving dinner, it could not have concluded the thanksgiving period without a Post Thanksgiving dinner. Jay and Aruna hosted a post thanksgiving dinner at their place among a few Mauritians and rather than traditional american thanksgiving food, we had traditional Mauritian food. Went in early and helped Aruna cooked the Dal Puri.
Dal Puri is the yellow looking bread on the food plate and it's rather time consuming to cook. You first have to boil some kind of peas, crush it in into fine granules, fill each dough ball with a bit of the crushed pea, close it, flatten it and then cooked in a flat iron pan. While Caroline and Aruna did the dough, filling and flattening, me and Alex were assigned to flat iron cooking duties, spreading the flattened dough with oil and turning then after they puff up.
Thanks Jay and Aruna for hosting such a great dinner with such great Mauritian food !
Serene and Topher hosted yet another marvelous dinner party last Saturday evening with some very exotic different kind of thanksgiving food. We started off with Squash soup with ginger, then off to a Miso glazed carrots and then we had the traditional Turkey and Stuffing - but specially crafted for our international crowd. For the stuffing we had Brioche bread with chorizo, and the Turkey was cooked in Red Thai Curry all of that on top a nicely done steamed Sticky rice with peanuts and spices. Had a great time catching up with everybody and having some delicious food.. Thanks Serene and Topher !!
Had not cooked Japanese in a while and this week, I decided to cook some Japanese food. I really like Japanese Curry. It's so different from Indian or Thai Curries. It's very thick, extra starchy and a bit sweet. I cooked a potato, carrot and chicken curry and Squashed Japanese Squash and cucumber and mango salad (not japanese). I also attempted to make some sushi rolls with some fresh Ahi Tuna I bought, but it did not come out as good as I wanted it to.. taste was not bad.. but presentation was a disaster !
Went to the farmer's market at Alemany Boulevard this morning for the first time and bought a whole bunch of vegetables.
Yesterday night, went to Kan Zaman to have some food and drinks with friends before I leave for my travels. It was great and we had the best seats of the house to be able to see the Belly Dancing performance. The food was so-so, but the belly dancing, atmosphere, music played and company of good friends was wonderful !!
Too cold to go out tonight. Decided to stay in and cook something
simple. Had some shangain noodles in the fridge. Stir fried the
noodles with some carrots, peas, eggs, sprinkled with some chinese
chives and pan fried an ahi tuna fillet.. great easy little dinner !
Causas are traditional Peruvian whipped potatoes with toppings.
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This past Saturday, I was invited to Jay and Aruna's place in Hayward for a traditional Mauritian dinner. Aruna's mom, well as Pravin's mom and dad were visiting and they had decided to cook the traditional '7 carris' (7 dishes) as we call it in Mauritius with Puri. We usually serve these dishes for weddings or for religious ceremonies. We even had the fake banana leaves to eat it on. In the past it used to be real banana leaves, but with them getting scarce, now even in Mauritius they use the artificial leaves. But we had more than 7 dishes I think (we usually don't count the starch and the side accompaniments). Here are the dishes they cooked.
Rougaille - the red stuff, typical mauritian tomato dish
