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christie1111 · #1 Post by **christie1111** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:43 pm

Today Happy Hour Buffet - Get Happy!

Vegetable Samosa – A pastry stuffed with spiced potatoes and green peas and deep

Ragata Patties – Spiced potato patties, layered with chick peas and herbs

Lasuni Gobi – Mini cauliflower flowerets tossed with garlic tomato sauce and herbs

Tandoori Chicken

Kakori Kebab LambFresh ground lamb with cumin, coriander, mint, white pepper and saffron

Chicken Tikka Masala
Chunks of chicken breast marinated with yogurt and sharp curry sauce.

Chicken Vindaloo – Careful, this one is a bit spicier!
Lightly curried chicken cooked with home made yogurt, freshly ground coriander

Roganjosh

Dal Tadka

Garlic Naan
bread seasoned with minced garlic and cilantro

Poori
A puffed unleavened whole w filled with spiced potatoes

Chapati

White rice (with cardamom pods)
Lemon rice
Hot lime and Mango Pickle
Hot lime and mango pickle (Very Spicy)
Raita - Yogurt and cucumber relish
Mango Chutney Major Grey’s of course!

I think a nice rice pudding would be in order, with currants.

And Mango Lasse, but make mine a mango margarita instead

sunflower · #2 Post by **sunflower** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:45 pm

1) Thank goodness

2) YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

I will bring the white wine, because bizarre as it is, indian food is the one thing that I actually enjoy white wine with. Probably because it's cold and helps with the hotness.

Garlic naan is my favorite...load me up!!! Who wants to come and sit next to me???

MarleysGh0st · #3 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:47 pm

I'm there!

Is there really halibut in the Chicken Tikka Masala sauce?

kusch · #4 Post by **kusch** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 1:49 pm

If you do not mind I will bring leftovers for dessert.

We do "birthday" treats in our department and it was my turn to bring yesterday.

Cream puffs with your choice of vanilla or chocolate "real" whip cream. Strawberries and/or chocolate sauce optional.

christie1111 · #5 Post by **christie1111** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:01 pm

MarleysGh0st wrote:I'm there!

Is there really halibut in the Chicken Tikka Masala sauce?

No, just got caught in the pasting. I thought about having a fish dish.

Extra raita for the sharp eyed Marley!

MarleysGh0st · #6 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:05 pm

christie1111 wrote:
MarleysGh0st wrote:Is there really halibut in the Chicken Tikka Masala sauce?
No, just got caught in the pasting. I thought about having a fish dish.

Okay, fine. That sounded like a surprising ingredient to me.

But, dang, going home to my leftover Chinese takeout is going to be a let down!

frogman042 · #7 Post by **frogman042** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:06 pm

Tonight's entertainment: Henny Frogman

Take McCain's wife ... please

McCain's doctor has just finished his annual check-up. "You're doing great the doctor says to McCain, you'll live to see 72", "But I am 72" replies McCain, "See... what did I tell you?"

At Barack Obama's checkup the doctor says to talk off all your clothes and stick you tongue out facing the window? Barack asks why he has to face the window. The doctor replies "I'm mad at my neighbor"

A bum comes up to Barack Obama, "Give me $10 till payday." Barack asked, "When's payday?" He said, "I don't know, you're the one who is working!"

What happens to you if you post political threads on a bored that is for game shows? Apparently nothing.

My wife asked me why I got home so late last night. I told her I was engrossed in a really interesting political thread on the bored that took up a lot of time. She said, so how long have you been seeing that floozy?

Politics on the bored is like a going outside at noon not knowing that a total eclipse was about to occur. They both let you think you will be enlightened but leave you more in the dark then before.

Enough politics already - feh. Enjoy some one liners from the master himself (as opposed to the basterdized and made up ones above):

A Jewish woman had 2 chickens. One got sick, so the woman made chicken soup out of the other one to help the sick one get well.

A man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"

I know a man who is a diamond cutter. He mows the lawn at Yankee Stadium.

sunflower · #8 Post by **sunflower** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:08 pm

I honestly think I am going to have to get Indian tonight. Boyfriend and I are planning an evening in, and the menu has not been decided, so Indian take out might be the way to go. And from a real Indian restaurant, I've been faking it lately with the Whole Foods prepared section. It's good but it's not the same.

MarleysGh0st · #9 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:10 pm

Are there still peanuts around or has ES already thrown them all?

AnnieCamaro · #10 Post by **AnnieCamaro** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:22 pm

Miss Christie, may I please have some of that ground lamb without all the extra herbs and spices?

I just got back from my doctor appointment, a follow-up to my infection. Mr. Dr. David said he thought I was well, but he couldn't be sure yet. (They wanted me to make wetness in a paper dish for testing, but I wouldn't. I'm not that kind of uncivilized girl. I'd better not see my mom following me around the yard with a plastic cup, either!)

Anyway, it all made me very hungry.

/:P\

sunflower · #11 Post by **sunflower** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:52 pm

More chicken vindaloo please...

Gee, how about the weather? There's got to be something we can all talk about!

kayrharris · #12 Post by **kayrharris** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:56 pm

82 and sunny here. High 50's tonight.

Back online, finally. Woo hoo!!!

PlacentiaSoccerMom · #13 Post by **PlacentiaSoccerMom** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 2:57 pm

The menu sounds yummy. Once again you have outdone yourself for us!

sunflower · #14 Post by **sunflower** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:03 pm

I am jealous that I don't know how to make even one of the things on the menu!!

Christie, do you offer cooking classes????

christie1111 · #15 Post by **christie1111** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 3:58 pm

sunflower wrote:I am jealous that I don't know how to make even one of the things on the menu!!

Christie, do you offer cooking classes????

Sweetie, you're even in the neighborhood! We should really meet in the middle on a trivia night and play.

When I cook fIndian from scratch I use Julie Sahni's 'Classic Indian Cooking'. It is a great book.

I have to admit, that when I make some of these, I sometimes use a little help from Pataks. And we have a local grocery store that has a WHOLE lot of great ingredients. The Indian friends I eat lunch with everyday shop there all the time. One of them, Priya, gave me a great recipe for a chick pea dish that is awesome. I'll have to find it and post it. But she even uses a short cut seasoning mix we can get at that store when she doesn't have time. And they have freshly made naan there everyday.

And I am typing with a henna hibiscus on my left hand that I got out our India Day celebration.

Moratorium Cat · #16 Post by **Moratorium Cat** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 5:10 pm

Yayyyyyy1111!