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Amazing Indian food:
Mar. 13th, 2023 09:14 pmWent out to lunch with my dad.
He's doing well - he's in town for about 9 days to work on recording. (Not a full record this time; planning to release things as singles, which makes it a bit easier on the production end. Some of the stuff can be done remotely, but sometimes everyone needs to be in the same place, and that requires quite a bit of coordinating, taking time off, and traveling. Only needing to do a few songs at a time is a bit easier than trying to get a whole album together at once.)
He took me to lunch for my birthday. :) We went to Little India, and IT WAS SO GOOD.
SO. GOOD.
This was their lunch special: vegetable pakora, butter chicken (the red bowl), saag chole (the green bowl), chicken curry, and naan. Not pictured: basmati rice, and kheer for desert.
I hadn't had butter chicken before, despite having heard of it several times. That was probably my favorite! The saag chole was delicious, too. The chicken curry was fantastic, though I wish it hadn't had coriander in it! (I am tragically one of the people for whom coriander/cilantro tastes soapy, but there wasn't so much that it was overpowering. The other flavors more than made up for it!) The kheer was also amazingly delicious. And freshly-baked naan!
It was also a ton of food - I think I only managed to eat about a third of everything, as amazing as it was.
It's been a long time since I had really good Indian food! Before we were together, Alex had a near-fatal allergic reaction to some - he was told there were no tree nuts, turned out there were cashews - so even though he loves Indian food, he's been afraid to risk something similar happening! We get frozen stuff that we can cook sometimes, but that's not quite the same.
I knew the kheer possibly had nuts in it (almond and pistachio), but I asked the waiter about the rest. He told me that the rest of the stuff we'd had did not have any nuts (there definitely weren't pieces, but sometimes paste or oils aren't as obvious.)
Alex tentatively tried the leftovers I brought home, and did not have a reaction! (Though we'll see if the coriander bothers him later.) So we shared the rest of it for dinner. So good.
He's doing well - he's in town for about 9 days to work on recording. (Not a full record this time; planning to release things as singles, which makes it a bit easier on the production end. Some of the stuff can be done remotely, but sometimes everyone needs to be in the same place, and that requires quite a bit of coordinating, taking time off, and traveling. Only needing to do a few songs at a time is a bit easier than trying to get a whole album together at once.)
He took me to lunch for my birthday. :) We went to Little India, and IT WAS SO GOOD.
SO. GOOD.
This was their lunch special: vegetable pakora, butter chicken (the red bowl), saag chole (the green bowl), chicken curry, and naan. Not pictured: basmati rice, and kheer for desert.
I hadn't had butter chicken before, despite having heard of it several times. That was probably my favorite! The saag chole was delicious, too. The chicken curry was fantastic, though I wish it hadn't had coriander in it! (I am tragically one of the people for whom coriander/cilantro tastes soapy, but there wasn't so much that it was overpowering. The other flavors more than made up for it!) The kheer was also amazingly delicious. And freshly-baked naan!
It was also a ton of food - I think I only managed to eat about a third of everything, as amazing as it was.
It's been a long time since I had really good Indian food! Before we were together, Alex had a near-fatal allergic reaction to some - he was told there were no tree nuts, turned out there were cashews - so even though he loves Indian food, he's been afraid to risk something similar happening! We get frozen stuff that we can cook sometimes, but that's not quite the same.
I knew the kheer possibly had nuts in it (almond and pistachio), but I asked the waiter about the rest. He told me that the rest of the stuff we'd had did not have any nuts (there definitely weren't pieces, but sometimes paste or oils aren't as obvious.)
Alex tentatively tried the leftovers I brought home, and did not have a reaction! (Though we'll see if the coriander bothers him later.) So we shared the rest of it for dinner. So good.
