Breakfast special

Feb 4 2007, we all met earlier than the regular time 12:00 noon. This time it was a breakfast meet where I and Vandana taught the group our acquired breakfast specialities. The dishes cooked for this meet were:

• Onion-Cheese toast
• Baguette with spice butter
• Mushroom Egg Omelette (Also cooked Sunny side-up fried egg)
• Zarda (replaced by Gulab Jamun)

Fakhruddin was supposed to teach Zarda or sweet rice but he could not make it for the meet. Fortunately I had been experimenting with gulab jamun since in the past week and had saved some for today.

The day started with the eggs waiting to be cooked. Then it was time for the onions to be diced. Vandana started by demonstrating the Onion-cheese toast as well as the baguette with spice butter, both of which were baked to a certain degree. All members were also introduced to 2 new drinks: Mango Dream from CoolBest and Super Pineapple from Fernandes. Both these drinks can be purchased from any superstore in Holland.

The wait of the eggs was finally over when I cracked the first one open. Mushroom omelette is a treat for mushroom lovers. After the initial demo almost everbody tried their hands making one. Most of us liked it. While making the omelette, I also demonstrated the sunny side up egg. The trick to make has been described along with the recipe. Only the demo version was made as not many were willing to eat it ( Not every body likes the runny yolk).

We finished our breakfast meet well into lunch time with the dessert being gulab jamun. I narrated my experience on how much time and money I wasted on trying to make them. They were still not perfect after 3 different attempts. I think I need to make friends with a Halwai.

So ... a meet with a twist came to and end with the remaining raw items distributed for members to try it themselves at their homes.