Chinese special

Jan 21, We were all set to try Chinese recipes instead of the regular indian ones. This meeting also saw 2 of the members come for a home meeting for the first time - Fakhruddin & Prince. It was almost a full house with the only member missing being Sarang, who by the way is off to India for his marriage. OK, menu for this meeting was:

• Oriental Noodle soup (Pooja)
• Stir fried vegetable rice (Prakash)
• Bami (Indonesian Noodles) (Ritu)
• Pineapple soufle (Pooja)

The cooking started an hour later than planned because some members could not make it on time. We have hence decided that now on we wait only for 15 minutes beyond the scheduled time and 30 minutes on a day having bad weather [Like rain/strong winds/Too much sun ;) ].

During this first hour I had all the members taste a South Indian snack - Murukku - that I had prepared a couple of days back. All appreciated it and some asked when it would be taught. The recipe of murukku will be posted soon.

Pooja started with showing us how to make soup. There was one interesting ingredient that caught the attention of many - Lime rind. On checking this, the bowl containing this was dropped and Aditya had to get some more Lime rind. Meanwhile I also managed to topple over a plate full of veges! Oh! my ... what a start. We anyhow managed to get started and the soup was ready in no time.

We all enjoyed it and the stage was then set for me to showcase my recipe - Stir Fried vegetable rice. Since all veges were already cut, I quickly got started after donning my Chef avtar. It started with Ginger Garlic sputtering in the hot oil and ended soon as the finished dish. The dish was appreciated. Since there was enough raw ingredients for the recipe, Ashwini & Prince gave it a try with 2 more rounds of Stir Fried vegetable rice.

After some club discussion we started off with Ritu getting ready for the Bami. Fakhruddin left after having an early round of the dessert. He had an engagement elsewhere. Bami is a noodle dish that comes from Indonesia. Ritu started with frying the veg mix in butter, followed by the bami spices and noodles. It was a quick dish. We all had it and remembered the good old Maggi Masala noodles. The dish tasted somewhat like it.

Till now we were all quite full and it was almost 4 hrs since the meeting started. We decided to enjoy the dessert that was prepared for it takes quite some time to make. The soufle was finished in no time. Everybody liked it very much. Pooja explained the recipe and some folks vouched to try it themselves.

With that it was time to leave. Another successful meeting with a perfect end.