Jo, my first experience at an Indian restaurant was on Bleecker St. in
Greenwich Village (NYC) in 1963. Coming from a family where dinner tended to
be in the line of pork chops, mashed potatoes and peas, it was unforgettable, I
had no idea food could be so exciting. That's when I got serioiusly interested
in cooking.
Estela
On Thursday, December 24, 2020, 10:11:18 PM GMT+1, Jo Melmer
<melmer58@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Estela, a favorite of mine at Indian restaurants is biryani and the paratha
bread. Biryani is a lot like pilaf, only that it usually has shredded meat in
it—usually chicken, lamb, and in some places, beef. But it can be vegan as
well. It’s mild but can be ordered to heat taste. Years ago, every June when
school was out for the summer, I used to visit my sister on Long Island and
we’d visit an aunt who lived in Manhattan. In her area one Indian restaurant
move in the neighborhood named the Raj Mahal. Within a few years more Indian
restaurants moved in. And both of us, loving Indian food, went every year to
have Indian food for dinner. The last time I was there, the whole neighborhood
is Indian, and around the block is Thai, and in another area, Japanese. My aunt
passed away and we haven’t been back to Manhattan, but on my occasional visits
to my sister we still find an Indian restaurant to go to.
Jo
On Dec 24, 2020, at 6:29 AM, Estela Zatania (Redacted sender "zata3" for DMARC)
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Julia, great message, so many memories. I even remember you bringing the
famous corn meal to Murcia that time with MK. Cornbread was a nice addition to
our Thanksgiving dinner for several years, and I always reminded everyone how
complicated it was to get the cornmeal.
This group is amazing, the shared friendship and love of cooking and eating,
getting old together...
With all the message pile-up I missed what Steve said about Indian food...
Estela On Thursday, December 24, 2020, 02:02:47 AM GMT+1, Julia Leatherwood
<dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Kelly, MK is around on FB which I know you are not. Shane also on FB as well
as Terri. Have no idea why they are not posting on ozfood but as the years go
by things change in people’s lives.
I remember talking to you, was by my friend’s pool soaking up the Florida sun.
Not sure about my accent🤔😱😜. Despite growing up in OZ I don’t have a broad
Aussie accent tho many English can detect it. Having lived over 20 years in
the US I never picked up an American accent. Think I might be a bit trans
Atlantic.
Am back under the duvet so wide awake past midnight...aarrgghh. Could murder 8
hours sleep. Might have to get up and start on the salmon.😜
Jx
Sent from my iPad
On 24 Dec 2020, at 00:27, Chilecayenne <chilecayenne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh wow, a name ftom the past.
Whatever happened to MK?
I remember that call Jules, the whole time I kept thinking, “what a lovely
voice”, I just loved the accent!!
I remember going to NH, to hand with Stacey, and we hit Terri’s house for the
food fest, that was fun.
I remember Caroline.
Lol, I remember when Pat came down to visit me here in Nola, and at the time, I
had my old ‘86 911 Turbo Porsche....and I drove us to see a group called The
Butthole surfers.
We did a few cocktails and I’m sure I scared the hell out of Pat and her
friend, haha.
Of course Hal has made a few trips through here, we did a Mardi Gras parade one
year, hit the small Downtown Blues Gest one year..fun stuff.
As the song goes...”What a long strange trip it’s been...”
K
———————————————-I need a shot of salvation baby, once in awhile...
On Dec 23, 2020, at 6:15 PM, Julia Leatherwood <julialeatherwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi Hal, Vicki, Kelly and all
Happy Birthday Hal, belated or not . So glad you are with family.
We seem to have been friends for ages and always nice to know you are there. I
joined the list in 1997 having left Fort Lauderdale in the August to live on
the Isle of Wight. Have not the faintest clue how I found the group but all I
remember was a post from Justin asking for recipes for a coriander/cilantro
salsa and it went from there and Caroline and I became such good friends. I
think of her so often.
Through the group I have fortunately met a few. Firstly Estela. Geoffrey and
I met her in France when we went on holiday to the Dordogne and she came up
from Salou, near Barcelona. Another trip stayed with her and she made the
most amazing paella and showed us Barcelona sights food related.😜🤣
Met MK several times too. I have stayed with her in Nowhere Illinois actually
Morrison, Illinois. We had a bit of a foodfest where I met Shane. MK came to
visit us on the Iske of Wight. Then when I moved to Spain way back in 2006 MK
came and stayed with me for a month where we sampled loads of tapas. It was
during this time we both met Estela north of my Spanish village near Cartagena.
Amazing how we got to meet up.
In Spain I was a member of a group of exPats and a trip to Jerez was planned.
As that is where Estela lives she so kindly arranged for our group to have the
most fantastic evening with an authentic Flamenco group. They even provided a
Spanish bean stew for dinner. A memory a lot will treasure as usually you get
the tourist flamenco but this was the real deal.
So many happy memories to last a lifetime. Hal, I do remember the cornmeal to
Estela episode. Our village supermarket now stocks it back in Spain. Village
is called Turre if any wants to Google and I call if Inglaturre as many
English live there.😜.
It really is a small world. I have talked to Kelly when I was back in Fort
Lauderdale, think that was not long before Katrina. Now Vicki has moved from
Perth to Canberra, my hometown, so we have lots to share.
Back to food. I heaved myself out of the duvet where I was hiding from the
gloom and doom to go to Morrison’s to get some veggies to go with the turkey
breast roast for Christmas dinner. As you go in, first is the fish counter.
Chatted to the fishmonger and got a nice piece of salmon to try the gravadlax.
He was quite knowledgeable as they had wild salmon and the farmed but explained
the farmed best for gravadlax to absorb the flavours so we will see. Farmed
cheaper so he wasn’t conning me😜
Estela, re Indian food and sorry this is all in one post straying from the
original threads you can’t go wrong with Tandoori. Tikka Masarla which is sort
of a curry made for us Anglophiles is nice along with Balti. Home of Balti is
Birmingham UK, again a dish sort of invented for English tastes. It has long
been a custom of some Brits after a night on the Friday night booze up, to go
get a curry. Jalfrezi is good, spicy but not as much as Madras. Am sure you
will enjoy whatever you order, if you get a naan like Steve suggested, get the
Peshwari if you like coconut and sultanas. Our fave. We have super authentic
Indian restaurant in our Spanish village. It many Spanish go as too spicy😜
Oh Susan, just came to me. Way back in 1977 when I was in Singapore I had an
amazing Indian meal meeting up with the ex of my best friend for a catch up.
Think it was called Omar Kayan. Wonder if still there.
Have a good Christmas everyone, will be thinking of you even if I cannot figure
out how to zoom.
Julia/Jules
Sent from my iPad
On 23 Dec 2020, at 23:01, Chilecayenne <chilecayenne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Happy Birthday Hal!!!
Goodness, I don’t remember when I started it n the list???!I moved to Nola in
1998, but I was on the list before that...
K
———————————————-I need a shot of salvation baby, once in awhile...
On Dec 23, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Vicki Taylor <vicki@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Oh Happy Birthday Hal! I hope you have/had a brilliant day! Nice that you have
been able to be near family for it.
I think I remember reading that the group was set up in 1994. I only came in
about 2005 I think. This is a real community and I value it greatly, and
consider many of us to be true friends.
Vicki. :-)
On 24 Dec 2020, at 9:24 am, Harold Loeblein <janhaltn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This post got me thinking a lot. I got started when Estela wanted a bag of
corn meal. I wonder if she remembers when that was. Over 20 years ago. I
thought this was simple. Go to the store, buy a bag of corn meal and sent it
to her. I got her two bags. Then the fun started. How to send it to her. I
was not that easy and it cost a lot more than the corn meal but I did finally
got it to her. She sent me a Fruit Cake in return. I will made that trade any
day. There were few of us at the start but this, group grew fast. Some of us
have been here for at least 20 years. There have been great and sad posts.
There was one meet and cook in northern US. Kelly made it but I have forget
who else were there. I have met up with went dining with Kelly a few times.
Always fun. I am 80 today and I think I am still the oldest member. Who would
have thought this core group would still be here. I sure didn’t but happy we
are still together. I am 99% sure that Kelly is the only one I have met. A
few of us have posted pictures of ourselves but if I saw you on a sidewalk
today I would have no idea who were. So I suggest if we don’t do Zoom we post
a current picture at least. I will give it a try when I am back home. =
Merry Christmas, Hal From: oz-food-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oz-food-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Vicki Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 2:57 PM
To: oz-food@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [oz-food] Re: Christmas meetup on Zoom Hi Hal, You said earlier
in the thread you will be with family this Christmas? Has that changed? If so,
I am sorry. ☹️ But maybe you can join in with our group call then? Julia,
yes, really looking forward to a break. Sending Dohn to the shop for supplies
while I’m ‘working’ this morning, so I get it relatively easy. Will make a
chicken salad or something to eat on the road as I expect not much will be open
except servos, which can be awesome but are usually ugh. And your computer
fellow is useless if he doesn’t listen to you and respect your wishes. 😐 He’s
also useless if he can’t show you how to do something as simple as installing
and setting up an app, and instead allows you to (presumably) pay him to do it.
Or not, as the case may be. 😐😐😐 Vicki. :-)
On 24 Dec 2020, at 7:48 am, Harold Loeblein <janhaltn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sniff sniff - got left out. I have been alone for the last 10 years after
Jan died == :=) Hal From: oz-food-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:oz-food-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Julia Leatherwood ;(Redacted
sender "julialeatherwood" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 1:52 AM
To: oz-food@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [oz-food] Re: Christmas meetup on Zoom Vicki, Am so happy for you
and Dohn deciding to go to the Blue Mountains. The break away will do you the
world of good. I honestly haven’t a clue about Zoom so am no help there. Had
our “computer p/tv guy” around the other day to set us up with Zoom so Geoffrey
and I could chat while I am/ was? In Spain and he just said use Skype, it is
the same thing. That is far as we got. Talk about confused.com🤔😩. It really
would be nice to see each other, As may not be possible are any of you on
WhatsApp? Could at least try to get in touch, especially to those alone, I.e.
Kelly and Estela. Loving your cactus lights too Steve. Here is where I went
for a coffee in our village, dark, and only 4 pm. Jules🌲🌲
