Indian Food!

Indian Food!


Sunday, September 15

Mixed Thali

Another great lunch at Bikanervala.  Diane and I took a good long walk in the neighborhood after a morning of Monsoon action....the rain part.  The weather was cool and balmy (yes, that happens here), with a steady breeze and low AQI (air quality index = pollution).  We rewarded ourselves with a terrific lunch and the same walk back, but in the heat of the afternoon.  Good digestion and good priming for a Sunday afternoon snooze.  The egg looking thing is sweetened cheese.  The breads are lightly fried. 

And now for some odds and ends, food related, from the past year....

 Jeez, in China, a Starbucks espresso costs 22!  22 what, I can't say for sure.

Appetizing

For those who had their doubts.... 

 An Anglo-Indian Communion

By the grace of the intercontinental gods, we can get some good European beers in Delhi.

 Diplomats worth their salt prefer Belgian blondes.

 Uttapam, dahl mani, and dosa.  Fried and filling.

 Dosa!  Delicate!  Delta!  Delightful!   

Is "Since 1999" old enough to make good advertising...especially for something that seems illegal?  Can eating these can get one prosecuted and chalianed? 

Chalianed?  

 Great name!

On a Belgian grocery store shelf.  Give me Indian food any day!

Sunday, August 25

Meeting up with the Nelsons....not like keeping up with the Nelsons.

Getting started at the AP Bhavan.

 

The bhavan is a cultural center, this one representing the A.P. or Andhra Pradesh, a region along the southeast coast of India.  There are many bhavans in Delhi representing many regions, religious groups, political groups, and even individuals.  Many offer restaurants like this "canteen."  The food is cheap, plentiful, and really good.

Two kinds of dhal, spicy potato soup, something spicy with green stuff, rice, fried bread and desert at the top right....yogurt and sweet porridge of some sort.  It's all too loud and too fast to ask specific questions about the fare.

 After lunch, we had espresso at Starbucks.  Old World meets New World (which is still taking the resources of the Old World, some might say...).

Saturday, August 17

Two visits to our favorite Indian "fast food" joint, the Bikanervala....if it sounds like the Viking Valhalla, it's not far off....in terms of heavenly pleasure....albeit, a very different kind.  In two visits, it seems we enjoyed just about the same items.  We'll add new items in upcoming meals, as the menu offers much of India's delights in all four arrows of the compass.

 Onion dosa, with chutney and sambar soup.

 Onion and tomato uttapam is something of a pancake, eaten with coconut and tomato chutney and sambar soup.

 Dal makhni is a thickened lentil dish, with ghi butter and cream, to boot.

 Onion dosa is a thin chick pea flour pancake stuffed with potato and spice mash, and eaten with chutneys and sambar.

 Sambar!

 Coconut and tomato chutneys.

 Tandoori is anything cooked on the grill....akin to "barbecue."  This is a vegetarian sampling of paneer (cottage cheese), tomatoes, peppers, onions, lentil cigars, paneer stuff potatoes, mushrooms, and spiced cabbage.  The green sauce is zesty and just a tad hot.  The works is eaten with lemon juice and naan bread.

 Tomato, onion, and peas pan fried in the uttapam pancake.

 Naan and Dal Makhni.

Aftermath