Present: Jim, Karen, Kim, Ron, Megan
Main discussion points: Cooking night by Jim and Karen's son Daniel: computers (as always); Megan's son Julian's French club fondue night: ASIO: idiocy of some federal government bureaucracies, the likelihood that Ron was a dachshund in a previous life.
Wine: forgotten what, but nothing from the 1990's (unusual).
Food:
Entrees: The girls had the vegetarian selection, the boys had the meat. The vegetarian selection was voted by far the best. We had spinach and potato fritters, which were a bit crumbly but nice; onion bhaja, nice but the samosas had too much of a strong flavour of one spice, not sure which. It needed a bit of yoghurt to finish it off.
The boys dish of fish, chicken and meat was nice, plain, the meat was a bit spicy. But they liked them all.
Mains:
Because we had had decent entrees, we had only four mains between the five of us, pumpkin, eggplant, chicken and lamb.
The ginger lemon chicken was interesting, the tandoor flavour came through. The lamb was a bit of a staple, okay but ordinary. The eggplant masala was everyone's favourite, rich sauce with a full eggplant flavour. The pumpkin curry was a surprise, we think it had been roasted first which gave it an almost sweet flavour.
Two of us had dessert, gulab jamon and the one I had was coconut balls in a milky sauce, doesn't sound great but was delicious.
Overall, we enjoyed the meal, the menu was extensive, but not much sign of the promised barbeque. Not sure where it got it's name from, though there are several by that name in India.
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