Hi everyone,
Just a quick post before we head off on our summer hols. Thank you for all the birthday wishes, I had a lovely couple of days.
At the weekend we had a quiet day on Saturday before going out to a play on Saturday evening with Jagannath. It was quite an odd play it has to be said, it was called 'Hamlet - the clown prince' and was about a group of clowns who put on Hamlet. I was quite pleased to find at the end that the part gibberish, part English with a bit of French and Italian accents thrown in for good measure was confusing for everyone and the gibberish bit wasn't just Hindi or similar that I didn't understand!
On Sunday we had a very nice day out at the zoo with Shravan. There was a safari park type bit as well as a regular zoo and a butterfly park.
We got there just early enough not to have to wait long for the bus and were lucky to be first in the queue for one - this guaranteed the best seats at the front and the driver turned out to be an excellent photographer!
On Monday I did a North Indian vegetarian cooking course for the afternoon which was really good. I made paneer mattar masala (paneer and pea curry), kadhi veg (a dryish veg curry, a kadhi is the pan you cook it in) and some potato and cauliflower koftas in a creamy sauce. I also made roti and nann from scratch. I think the nann were the best, and the way of making them without a tandoor oven was very cool!
Then I went saree shopping with Lata on Tuesday (you'll have to wait to see the result!) after meeting Ben for lunch. In the evening we went for UB city for cocktails. It is a very posh shopping mall, with lots of designer shops which you would never actually buy anything from!
Thank you everyone for the birthday wishes, cards and presents, my collection is slowly growing as the mailbox gets full and I can extract them again! We are getting really cross with them about not getting the key made for us, but it isn't doing much good. Hopefully it will appear by the time we are back from holiday! It prolongs the excitement of receiving post anyway.
We best be getting to bed now as we are being picked up at 4.30am. Looking forward to telling you all about Manali.
Love to everyone,
Kathryn and Ben
Just a quick post before we head off on our summer hols. Thank you for all the birthday wishes, I had a lovely couple of days.
At the weekend we had a quiet day on Saturday before going out to a play on Saturday evening with Jagannath. It was quite an odd play it has to be said, it was called 'Hamlet - the clown prince' and was about a group of clowns who put on Hamlet. I was quite pleased to find at the end that the part gibberish, part English with a bit of French and Italian accents thrown in for good measure was confusing for everyone and the gibberish bit wasn't just Hindi or similar that I didn't understand!
On Sunday we had a very nice day out at the zoo with Shravan. There was a safari park type bit as well as a regular zoo and a butterfly park.
We got there just early enough not to have to wait long for the bus and were lucky to be first in the queue for one - this guaranteed the best seats at the front and the driver turned out to be an excellent photographer!
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Not sure they were particularly wild animals though!
On Monday I did a North Indian vegetarian cooking course for the afternoon which was really good. I made paneer mattar masala (paneer and pea curry), kadhi veg (a dryish veg curry, a kadhi is the pan you cook it in) and some potato and cauliflower koftas in a creamy sauce. I also made roti and nann from scratch. I think the nann were the best, and the way of making them without a tandoor oven was very cool!
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| Left - paneer matar masala, right - koftas, bottom - kadhi veg, top - breads |
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| Very cool bar, outside on the 16th floor of UB city |
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| The lovely cake Lata bought for me - yum! |
Love to everyone,
Kathryn and Ben
What I want to know was did you enjoy the curries? They look really delicious. Happy holiday.
ReplyDeleteWe did enjoy the curries very much. I put half the spice the recipes had and they were perfect. I will try and get a blog done about our holiday today. :-)
ReplyDeletestill learning !
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Love Granny