Important delivery

Good news the beer arrived just in time for our Indian curry evening.

We have had great fun in the kitchen preparing a delicious Indian menu for friends. To help me get ahead I’d already prepared a garlic and ginger paste which can be stored in the fridge or frozen flat in a bag, and broken off as you need it. I was storing ours, for now, in the fridge with some vegetable oil covering the top to keep it fresh.

We will be starting the meal with poppadoms and vegetable samosas, with homemade raita and chutneys. Brian loves vegetable samosas. I wasn’t too happy with the dough last time we made them, so I’m trying a different recipe this time. It’s from the Gordon Ramsey escape book where he travels to India. It’s good, as we can make them and fry them off, then they are served warm. So looking forward to eating these later

For the main course we will be having butter chicken, pumpkin curry, Bombay aloo, aubergine curry, mushroom bhaji, and dhal. Served with rice and naans.