Well, I fell off the posting wagon there, but not the eating wagon 
Several days to report.
Sushi at home tonight. I bought some sushi-making toys and had fun using them. First time with pressed sushi, and also first time with temari sushi (balls) and onigirazu (which I also made into balls because I was having fun with the ball maker).
I used my homemade beet-cured salmon (that I specially made for my sis and froze) for the pressed and the balls, and Ortiz sardines for the onigirazu. Nice change from the fresh prawns and Ortiz tuna I usually use for this here.
I make a wasabi cabbage slaw and sesame-sriracha carrots to have some veggie component for these meals, and they add a nice bit of spice too.
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Previously, a redo of fish curry (you know it’s a hit when it’s made again 2 days later) and sautéed okra just to have a veg, even though we usually don’t with fish curry-rice meals. Plus we fried some of the fish too, because that’s how my dad always used to make this type of fish. So good.
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Veggie spread of jackfruit coconut curry (“just like chicken!” Insisted my grandma who never tasted chicken her whole life 
), long beans, baby fenugreek salad (this is a special thing, baby fenugreek is hard to find and doesn’t have a long shelf life), and mixed dal.
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Out for a bite and a few hours of soul sharing with my best friend from high school’s wife (whom I have seen 10x more than I have seen him in the last 5 years, because she brings the kids to nyc every year, and also every one of our trips to india in the last 2 years have somehow coincided… hoping to see him and her a couple of times this summer across various HK and India trips).
We ended up at the place at the end of the Mumbai episode of the new season of Somebody Feed Phil, which was pretty funny because her hubby had been pestering me to watch the show, but I didn’t get to it until the day after we met.
Sea bass ceviche “sev puri”, butter garlic crab kulcha (with a gratuitous soft boiled egg on top for no reason), and the most delicious dish of the night which was a compilation of Kashmiri greens and buttery Kashmiri morels / gucchi (plus some other mushrooms) with a type of Kashmiri bread to sop up the sauciness. Morels are native to Kashmir, and this was a nice showcase of both them and the native greens. And several rounds of a floral gin cocktail that went down a bit too easy.
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Plus jalebis. And my mom decided she wanted fancy sandwich dhoklas (steamed rice cakes) instead of the easy ones so I made them for her as she sat down to lunch. Layer of plain dhokla steamed first, layer of chutney spread carefully over it, then even more carefully a second layer of batter spread without smearing the chutney, and steam everything together till done. Turned out quite nicely for my first time (of the layers, not the dhokla — my nephews made me an expert on those years ago, along with idlis and all the other annoying stuff I would never make if they didn’t love it).
