All the musicians who participated in last weekend’s benefit got an email today: they raised a total of $6,000. Yay! So glad we could be a part of it, as it is an issue very close to my heart 
As for dinner, most of my original cooking plans for this week went by the wayside due to spontaneously making alternate plans — which is why I usually don’t plan too far ahead. That said, ever since I dipped my toes in this thread I’ve found it helpful for checking back to see what I thought I might make, or if I forgot what I had planned 
Tonight was supposed to be shrimp tacos, but instead I decided to gather a group of 14 chile heads & other assorted friends to visit the newish Indian restaurant in town. The owner also runs the Detroit-style pizza place, and when I grabbed our pies for my movie night last week they asked if I could show them some love. I think I mentioned elsewhere here that running a restaurant successfully is tricky in this town: 2/3 of the population leaves for the summer, well-trained staff is almost impossible to find — especially since most students here don’t seem to need the money, like, at all — and the rents downtown are insane.
In any event, I’m really glad the dude reminded me of the place’s existence, bc we’d only gone once right after they opened, and I’d kinda blanked on it since.
Instead of ordering for the table, everyone ordered their ‘own’ dish but was happy to share, and I also got two dosas for the table to share that were meant to be our app, but that arrived pretty late in the game. They were delicious, although the one with a carrot/potato soup side was a little awkward to eat.
My dude and I shared their fab baingan bharta & a pleasantly hot goat curry.
Other orders were saag paneer, lamb korma,
onion kulcha (aMAZing, will have to get an order of that next time), LOTS of garlic naan,
okra, chicken tikka,
a shrimp dish, etc. etc. Rice was delightful as well.
Everyone was happy, which made me happy. The a/c was also not cranked to the max, so I didn’t even need the jacket I brought.
