Friday Food 09-20-19

Two kinds of food tonight.  This first one was dessert at the Book Group meeting on Wednesday at Teresa's.

A lovely perfect homemade cheese cake with fruit - strawberries and red grapes. 

So refreshing as summer continues, 

Nice presentation.

The book, by the way, was Alice Hoffman's "The Marriage of Opposites", another of Hoffman's fantastic historical fiction novels.  We all loved it, but didn't especially like the "heroine".   

Neighbors in the cul de sac across the street are originally from India and Mariam shared some exotic food with me.  I LOVE trying different foods and homemade is the best. She brought me an elegant vegetarian dinner.  I cannot tell you what all the dishes are, but I liked most of them. 

In the center is a tall metal "glass" of yogurt that was VERY salty.  Starting at 12 o'clock there was (maybe) tasty, spiced mashed squash, then yogurt with something which was one of the dishes I couldn't eat, next (obviously) is ground beets that was so sour it made my eyelids wrinkle - that is the other one I couldn't eat.  But then we have sautéed veggies including carrots, okra, celery, beans, etc. which was very tasty.  And next to that (in the 10 o'clock position) was a lovely finely chopped veggie combo which I could only tell had cabbage - gobbled that one up.  I had yogurt in the frig so I put some in a dish and used it to calm the spiciness.  There were so many different flavors, but I think cumin was dominate. 

On the side was this bowl of what tasted like a good beef stew, but there was no beef.  Potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, and.....?  I gobbled this up also.  Delicious.  

She also brought a large container of a different kind of rice and I asked her later about it.  She says they buy it parboiled and it is a brown rice.  Not any kind I have eaten previously, but very good and there was enough for three meals!  

It was a special treat and I hope she will think of me again in the future.  I don't cook much, but I may take them a container of the great apple salad that Mabel shared while I was in Washington state.  I have made it three times since I came home and bought some more apples today!  It isn't a diet food, for sure, but it is delicious.  

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