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Breakfast at Candies with K and ‘our’ bench in the background |
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Lunch with the family |
A Christmas melange meal of roast chicken from Candies, kulcha chhole and kadi chawal from Punjab Sweets and the wickedly boozy and delightfully moist and indulgent Christmas cake sent by Mehernosh Khajotia who runs Celebrations Cakes. The symbolism of a Parsi baker sending a cake enjoyed by my Parsi (including the teetotaller ones) relatives was not lost on me.
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Mhernosh’s cake. You can call to order at +91 9821122290 |
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Roast chicken from Candies |
M, a Bombay girl, had never been to Bandra on Christmas till yesterday and fulfilled a wish of her’s yesterday. Hopefully she will dream bigger for next year.
For whatever it is worth, I don’t think I have ever been to Park Street on Christmas when I lived in Kolkata as I led an equally sheltered life then.
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Taking Bombay girl M for her first Christmas in Bandra |
We bumped into chef owner Irfan Pabaney who seems to be quite the hands on restaurateur.
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Turkey 4 ways |
At night K & I were settling down to a sore throat friendly maccher jhol (Bengali fish curry) that I made where I parboiled the veggies and oven grilled the fish instead of frying and used cumin seeds, fresh ginger and tomato and some cumin, turmeric and coriander powder and no chilli to extract flavours.
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Potent rum balls sent by prolific home chef and YouTube channel host Ananya Banerjee |
I was at my PG near Bandra station then. There were no signs of any festivities anywhere then unlike in Kolkata which used to be lit up for Christmas. I sat alone in the PG and watched Home Alone feeling pretty miserable.
This year I picked up our Christmas tree from Hill Road.
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Our Christmas tree from Hill Road |
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When Mumbai loves you back |
I roasted some chicken and potatoes with rosemary from the plant, balsamic, honey, butter, fresh garlic and sea salt for a lovely Christmas eve dinner at home.
Thank you Radhika
Pl ask radhika how to nurture the plant. Any spl treatment watering sunrays etc.