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January 24, 2010

Bay Area Mauritian Dinner Party at Turmeric Indian Restaurant in Sunnyvale

As usual Caroline organized a dinner to celebrate the New Year for the Mauritian Community in the bay area. We had all voted for Indian Food in the South Bay and we picked Turmeric in Sunnyvale. It was a buffet and had great food. I loved their Goat Curry with bones, Malabar Fish Curry and all the other delicacies. They had so much food, that I did not even try it all out. We had a good turnout - about 30 Mauritians - this time though lots of kids ! It was great catching up with all the Mauritian folks !

       

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July 14, 2009

Mauritian Dinner at Jay and Aruna's place in Hayward

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
Sousou - the light green stuff, stewed chayotte
Songes - the black stuff, stewed leaves of taro
Cari Bari - Split peas fritters in curry
Dal
Giraumon - yellow stuff, pumpkin dish
achard Piments - Picked green chillies and apples
Takar - Tamarin Relish
Gros Pois - Lima Beans curry
Puri - Puffed deep fried bread


         

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October 7, 2008

Good Bye Dinner and Scavenging party !

The Saturday before I left, I invited a few friends over to my place for dinner and scavenging.. yes scavenging. 

I decided to give away most of my stuff in donation  before I leave. They'd all have gone to goodwill. 

So, I thought I'd give my friends a pick first before boxing them up for goodwill or salvation army. At the same time, decided to cook up all that was in my fridge before I head off. I called a few of the Mauritian friends over.

My old housemates from Oxford, Mississippi who now live in California as well - Ken and Amalee were visiting SF and I invited them to join as well. 

I had started the dinner with dim-sum - vegetables dumplings and mini veggie chinese breads and some brasilian cheesebread (pao de quejos), then I had a dhall (split pea) indian soup and main entree was chicken lo mein (made with fresh pancit noodles) and we finished off by a chocolate cake, Priscille and Dennis brought from Cheesecake Factory. We also had tons of wine. Finished off all the wines and drinks I had on my shelf too ;)

That was the last party at my SF apartment before I clean up and give it back. I'll miss 1949 Chestnut Street :)

           

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August 20, 2008

Mauritian Dinner at Jay's

I was invited to a dinner at Jay and Aruna's place a few weeks back. Jay and Aruna are Mauritians living in the bay area as well, in Hayward. Aruna had decied to cook Dholl-puri which is this mostly Mauritian type bread... i guess closest I can describe it to something in the american diet, is a tortilla stuffed with ground yellow plit peas. Preparation of dholl puri is tedious.. split peas have to be crushed and grinded, flour dough prepared and then mixture stuffed in the middle and then the whole thing roller pressed to keep the split peas in the hollow middle layer and when heat is applied, its suposed to puff up - anyways.. hard to describe accurately.. you need to try it to know :)  We had a nice vegetarian dinner, followed by entertainment provided in house by the children present :)

           

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August 18, 2008

San Francisco Bay Area Mauritians.

Mauritians in the Bay Area at the 2008 MoValley (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/movalley/) annual summer picnic.

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August 11, 2008

BBQ at Priscille's in Dublin

Went to a BBQ at Priscille's place in Dublin (the California version) on Saturday evening.

Featured on the menu was grilled Sweet Corn on the Cob, grilled Chicken wings, Kebabs and grilled Pineapple and Aspargus. Dennis was the chef and grill-master, Priscille the hostess and Delphine the bakery chef.

             

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August 3, 2008

Bravo Priscille for completing the SF Marathon !

My friend Priscille from Mauritius ran the San Francisco Marathon (http://www.runsfm.com/home.html)  this morning. - 26.2 miles.

She just decided at the beginning of this year to run the marathon and she trained on her own (the different teams required too much donations) and ran the entire marathon. Its amazing that she was able to motivate herself and train religiously on her own, to do the entire 26.2 miles.

Way to go Priscille !

     

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