Last night’s dinner was a recreation of the previous night’s dinner at a friend’s - I enjoyed it that much!
Indian, mostly Bengali meal - mustard salmon, dal cooked with mixed vegetables, and rice. Non-Bengali part was the vegetable, which was my favorite Gujarati prep - cauliflower and peas, very lightly spiced.
I ate the meal Bengali-style - in courses - because the fish took longer to cook than I anticipated 
So rice with dal and vegetable first, and a bit more rice with fish later.
The salmon was fabulous - I don’t know if it was because i bought into the marketing label of Faroe island salmon or just because I usually buy wild salmon, which is leaner, and this was more unctuous which made the difference.
Might have to have a redo of this exact meal again - this mustard and salmon combination is making my tastebuds sing, and I have dal and veg left over.
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Baked a quick orange olive oil cake the previous day to take over for dessert, as the reason for the dinner was friend’s kid leaving for college, and he loves this cake (he was the guinea pig for my olive oil cake experiments when I decided to try way too many recipes a few years ago).
I covered the bundt with a simple orange glaze after.
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