Post Thanksgiving Dinner (Indo-Mauritian Food)

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 !

 

 

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Thanksgiving Dinner in Mountain View !

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Celebrated Thanksgiving in Mountain View today at Robin's and Joanna's place. They had the entire traditional American Thanksgiving dinner experience - Roast Turkey, Stuffing, Cranberry, Green Beans Casserole, Potatoes and Gravy, Sweet Potato Pie and Pravin made a Mauritian Gratin to go with it. Great wonderful yummy food and great company. So stuffed with food after the dinner, but I guess that's what thanksgiving dinners are like ! 

 

 

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Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner !

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 !!

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