First home meeting

After 2 meetings at the office, December 22, 2006 saw the group meet at Ashwini's place for live recipe demos. Unfortunately only 4 other members could make it because of the holiday season and otherwise.

It was a dinner meet and menu for the evening was:

• Chana Kababs
• Chicken Biryani
• Fried Rice
  
• Orange Cream

We skipped Fried Rice because of the low attendance. This recipe would be taught later in another meet. This recipe was finally taught in this session.

The Chana Kebabs had been already prepared by Pooja at her place because there was not sufficient time for demonstrating all recipes. They were delicious and tasted very nice. The recipe is simple (simple things are good) and has already been posted. Its a great starter for all vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

While we were enjoying the Kebabs, Ashwini started with the Biryani demo. The Chicken had already been marinated and rice cooked to save time. The recipe was elaborate with many ingredients following a layered approach to the final dish :) We made 2 pan fulls of Biryani. The Biryani turned out to be so delicious and aromatic that it has been the best non-restaurant Biryani I ever had. I believe it was as good as the best Birayanis one gets at a restaurant. Thanks Ashwini for the effort. The recipe will be posted shortly.

We then had me teaching Orange Cream, which again is a simple recipe (Simple things are good). Unfortunately the cream could not freeze in the time we had but still people appreciated the dessert. I learned a couple of things, with Aditya suggesting to put smaller pieces of Orange in the cream. I have improved the recipe with a couple of more experimentation I did in the following days. Check out the recipe.

We did not discuss much of the food club activities as majority folks were not there. We now have some club rules that we will finalize in our next meet to streamline this process.