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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2024-03-05 11:49 pm

The train smokes down the xylophone

For the first time in our current ward and precinct, [personal profile] spatch and I did not have to prove our identities before voting tonight. The difference was magical: instead of Kafkaesque obstruction which our papers could only provisionally resolve, we were presented with ballots, which we cast and were out of there in five minutes flat. We had earlier in the evening enjoyed dinner from Guru the Caterer, which only took us seventeen months of walking past on a regular basis to try rather than just inhale like a beggar in a folktale—admittedly for almost half that time I was medically prohibited takeout. I rejoice in a local source of goat curry, especially on nights when the combo includes the option of palak paneer and roti and rice and pickle into the bargain, which is most of a thali without the plate. I had never actually seen bread pakora in a restaurant before and probably would try it. I am still sufficiently new to eating from restaurants again that it feels like a treat each time.
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[personal profile] pameladean 2024-03-09 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Besan chilla are indeed delicious, really not hard at all to make, and much better for my blood sugar.

However, yes, David is a dab hand at frying basically anything. We have had many happy collaborations involving gobi paratha, samosas, and so on, where I make them and he fries them, thus rendering my labor productive of real-looking foods at the right crispiness rather than a possibly-tasty mess.

He is not as fond of potatoes as I am, but a cauliflower filling like that for gobi parathas would also be grand, so there could be two kinds.

P.