The train smokes down the xylophone

[sovay]

For the first time in our current ward and precinct, 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.

Comments

[thisbluespirit]

Yay! Not having to prove you are you to do something, amazing! *\o/*

(Adapt to appropriate mix of genuine yayness with the correct amount of sarcasm re. kafkaesque activities you had come to expect.)

[moon_custafer]

I rejoice in a local source of goat curry

Niiice. There used to be a place around the corner from one of my old jobs that did a good goat curry, but they took it off the menu or changed the recipe and it wasn't the same.

[davidgillon]

We're going the other way here, with the Tories insisting everyone provides photo-ID to counter the non-existent voter impersonation problem (literally, there's about one case per general election, and always for postal ballots). Of course the fact people without photo-ID tend not to vote Tory has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Also, yay for goat curry!

[starlady]

That's how it should be.

[minoanmiss]

Goat curry!!!

[ladymondegreen]

That sounds truly excellent. May things continue thus!

[asakiyume]

Well that's a move in the right direction! And hurray for goat curry!

[pameladean]

I'm glad voting was as easy as it should be.

I am incoherent after reading that menu. And especially, BREAD PAKORA. I've never heard of it. I would happily eat the simple form, but the stuffed ones, according to a recipe on a blog I often peruse but have not yet found everything relevant to my interests, are like "fried battered sandwiches with a spicy potato filling." I'll just eat that all the time now, thank you.

Only I'm terrible at deep frying and at keeping complex battered items together while they cook. You can shallow-fry them too, but I've learned that with chickpea flour batter it's better to follow directions. Maybe I'll make some besan chilla. Those are within my skill set.

P.

[sovay]

(Adapt to appropriate mix of genuine yayness with the correct amount of sarcasm re. kafkaesque activities you had come to expect.)

(Finely blended and much appreciated. It's been a little ridiculous.)

[sovay]

There used to be a place around the corner from one of my old jobs that did a good goat curry, but they took it off the menu or changed the recipe and it wasn't the same.

Oh, no. Goat curry is an index of a healthy neighborhood!

[sovay]

Of course the fact people without photo-ID tend not to vote Tory has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

Of course not!

Also, yay for goat curry!

It makes everything better.

[sovay]

That's how it should be.

Thank you.

[sovay]

Goat curry!!!

Right?

[sovay]

That sounds truly excellent. May things continue thus!

Thank you!

*hugs*

[sovay]

Well that's a move in the right direction! And hurray for goat curry!

Always!

[sovay]

I'm glad voting was as easy as it should be.

Thank you. It's important.

Only I'm terrible at deep frying and at keeping complex battered items together while they cook. You can shallow-fry them too, but I've learned that with chickpea flour batter it's better to follow directions. Maybe I'll make some besan chilla. Those are within my skill set.

To be fair, besan chilla are delicious. Is anyone in your house skilled at deep-frying?

[oracne]

YAY voting!

[sovay]

YAY voting!

Thank you! May still paranoically carry a utilities bill in my coat in November, although apotropaically speaking I should probably carry a lot more.

[pameladean]

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.

[sovay]

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.

That sounds like an excellent partnership.