Hi everyone
Back at mom’s for a bit, so menus and planning are more day-by-day.
Mix of actuals for the past week and ideas for the coming week (we’re entertaining more than usual):
Past few days:
— Sushi / kimbap bowls: spicy salmon, sesame carrots, wasabi cabbage slaw, avocados, furikake
— Mom’s roast chicken & potatoes, beet salad
— Porcini ravioli & farfalle (bec not enough ravioli) in a pesto cream sauce + asparagus salad with lemon and parmesan
— Goat biryani
— Indian Chinese: hakka noodles, fried rice, chilli chicken, paneer Manchurian, wonton soup, truffle edamame dumplings
— Chinese: mixed mushroom cheung fun, har gow, pan-fried noodles with vegetables and black mushrooms
Ideas for the week:
— Chicken quesadillas / veg quesadillas + tbd salad
— Chicken momos / veg-paneer momos (frozen) + veg soup
— Pork tenderloin pinchos morunos (milk st recipe) + beet salad + spanish tortilla
— Chicken / Paneer Satay Bowls (using TJs sauce) + cabbage slaw + rice
— Masala Fish Cakes (Gunpowder recipe) to use up the rest of the salmon from the sushi bowls + salad
— Spicy grilled cheese (Gunpowder recipe) with some potato added to the mixture + tbd salad
People coming over menus:
— School friend: Malvani chicken + green beans + millet rotis + rice (no dessert — she’s always on some insanely restricted diet, it’s a miracle I could put together a menu after the list she sent me 
)
— Family: Thai vegetable / paneer & shrimp curries + veg cutlets + pasta gratin + rice + carrot cake & custard
— NYC friend with her whole family incl parents: Mom”s fish curry + dad’s dry masala prawns + puris (incongruent but the kids & her dad love them) + potato bhaji (with the puris) + rice + kulfi & mangoes
I was going to bake but we are flush with bread and cake products at the moment — I brought croissants and bagels, plus there are 3 kinds of birthday cake we are slowly working our way through 
. So maybe in a week I’ll start working down the list of top faves here — focaccia, no knead bread, banana-chocolate bread.
Wish you all a stay-cool weekend and tasty week!
