Special "K"

yummy

Veeni's fav

notice the secret ingredient - cheese

indian food with american bread

learning how to make aam ka aachar from the inet

step one cut the mangoes

step two mix the mangoes with some spices

final step forget about them and just go and buy a bottle of achaar (pickles)  from the super market

dahi k kabab @ orkos

very very sweet

not good

punjabi chicken with some hyderabadi dum biryani

yummmmmmmy

Dinner-ala-carte

Mixed Veg, Daal, Rice, & Masala Chicken. 

Lemon Rice

Santosh taught me how to make Lemon (Yellow) Rice. 

Egg Curry

One of my favorite dishes (after all chicken dishes). Richa and Deep also liked it a lot.

Green (Lauki) Curry

Very tasty and healthy.

Gajar Ka Halwa

This is the first time I cooked Gajar ka Halwa.

Rasam

Santosh and Sridhar liked this a lot. Typical South Indian appetiser.

Mashed Potatoes & Chicken Curry

Potatoes for the vegeterians and Chicken for all.

Kheer

The first time Santosh cooked Kheer.

Chicken BBQ
Very well marinated Chicken BBQ at the Beach.

Sambhar

Mashed Potatoes

Chicken... again

BBQ

Chicken and some capsicum for the vegeterians.

Ready to eat

Salads and Fruits

Pizza

I didnt make this, we simply ordered it from Pizza Hut.

Cooking in the room

Chopping Chopping Chopping

Kitchen cum room

Same same but different

Barbequing

BBQ fire

Mr Roy.. 

...preparing for BBQ

Most of the above dishes were cooked by me. In some of them my cooking partners were:

• Santosh Phutane from Bangalore;
  
• Gofran Shahzada from Dhaka, Bangladesh; and
• Sher Ahmed Mubejo from Pakistan.

All these dishes were prepared in VIP Condomonium, Cha-am, Thailand. I was attending college at Webster University from Aug 2002 to Dec 2005.

Garlic Chicken.

Very very tasty and authentic food.

Afraa ad.

I guess it was a week ago, when me and yogi went to see a movie, thats when we had this wonderful looking and very tasty aaloo tikki. Yummy!! (My mouth is watered as Im writing this post.) I love food.

Aalo Tikki

Tea Junction at City Center Mall at Salt Lake

On 18 October 2008, I happened to go to a Gujarati Food Festival which was organised by the Space Circle Club at the Oddyesey restaurant at the club. I went along with my friend Vineet, who resides at Space Town. 

There was an array of Gujarati food offered at the buffet table. They had served everything: appetisers, main course and sweet dishes. Few of the Gujarati cuisine names which I remember are Dhokla, Thepla, Khakra, Sri Khand, Pooran Poli, Fulka, Oondhiyan, Bateta Sukhi Bhaji, Khandvi, Chat, Cholafali, and Fafda (there were many more items but I forgot there names.)

A Traditional Gujarati Thali

After trying all the different cusines, I came to the conclusion that Gujarati food is generally sweet. Even the daal was sweet. Actually very sweet. So to check, whether the food festival people served me the right food or not, i did some research on the internet and this is what I found out: 

"It is common to add a little sugar or jaggery to some of the sabzi/shaak and daal. The sweet flavour of these dishes is believed to neutralize the slightly salty taste of the water. Sweets made from such ingredients as local sugar cane, jaggery, milk, almonds, and pistachios were originally served at weddings and family occasions as an instant energy booster for relations travelling long distances to attend. They are now being enjoyed every day by those with sedentary occupations." - Wikipedia.

"The famous Gujarati thali served at weddings consists of farsans, sweetmeats and a variety of sweet and sour chutneys and pickles. This harmony is derived from the mixing of the sweet with the salty is what makes the cooking of this state different from the rest." - GujaratPlus.

So hence prooved that Gujarati cuisines are sweet. Some photos which I clicked from my MOTOROKR:

Vineet in the black tshirt

Missing people.

Find out more about Gujarati cuisine / food from here:

• Gujarati cuisine
• Excellent Gujarati Cuisine Page by Tourism Department of Gujarat