menu 2

we’re having 3 couples over for dinner tommorow. the menu is:

chicken biryani
chicken karahi
shami kebab
aloo ki bhujia

we havent figured out dessert yet- maybe apple crisp?

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mini dust storm #2

cough cough
AH it wasn’t as bad as the previous one. tomorrow will be dusting and cleaning day- better to give it one day before bothering to clean up

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freeee

i think i’ve finally gotten rid of the albatross around my neck- i’m done with that not-so-exciting project that I was working on (made more frustrating by problems with logging on to remote servers). I’ve submitted the stuff and hopefully this will be the end. they want me to do yet another project with them [...]

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gadgets!!

we got our first gadgets- YAYYYYYY
we are now proud owners of:

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ack…

turns out only 2 people are coming as the rest are out of town. The revised menu is:

baked chicken tikka- marinade: yogurt, lemon juice, tikka masala, cumin, ginger, garlic)
italian marinated hammour (grouper) – marinade: vinegar, oil, red onions, garlic, green bell pepper, orange juice, hot sauce
roasted garlic and dill mashed potatoes- fresh roasted garlic, [...]

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menu

we’ve invited a few of hubby’s colleagues over for dinner. it’s panic time cause my kitchen is quite understocked in terms of basic utensils (no baking pans etc). AND, we have no plates…
the menu will be:

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nemesis

Did i mention that I consider dusting to be my nemesis? It was one of the chores that was assigned to me from a really early age (early enough to qualify as child labor if you ask me). I absolutely LOATHE dusting. Even back in the day when my mother would force me to do [...]

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dust storm #1

cough cough cough
We’d gone out for dinner at a restaurant around the corner (we live right smack in the middle of the downtown area so everything is around the corner) and by the time we came out the whole air had changed. It had been hazy all day but this was crazy- it was windy, [...]

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cheddar cheese

We went grocery shopping the other day. It’s very similar to any store in the US. The major difference that I noted was the limited variety of cheeses. There is a lot of “cheddar cheese” however it is actually the processed cheese food that is often used in mass bbqs or in grade school lunches- [...]

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