It’s a Festivity time. Everyone is getting prepared for the big day which is Christmas Day. Lots of parties around too. Yesterday, my daughter’s Piano teacher hosted a party for all of her piano pupils and their parents. I promised her do some Indian food courtesy Curry Coddler. Yvonne, the piano teacher is a lovely lady and a very very positive person with a big smile on her face always.
I was struggling to decide what to cook for the crowd of about 25 people. I finally decided to do Samosas and chicken tikka and some paneer puffed patties day before yesterday. Went and did my quick shopping and started the preparation.
Cooking Samosas for 1 or 2 people is a breeze. Mind you cooking the same for 25 is a bit of a challenge. Cooking part of it is alright but rolling out the pastry, filling it and the frying them all takes time and tremendous patience. This process is dull and boring. Anyway, I kept my motivation high and made 26 Samosas. And then marinated chicken. And yesterday, an hour before the party I did the chicken tikka and the paneer puffs. Chicken Tikka turned out perfect and I left paneer puffs in the oven for too long and guess what – obviously burnt patties:(
Anyway, it was time to go and wasn’t possible to do anything else. Only consolation I had was that the other 2 things had turned out pretty good.
Party was lovely! All the children played nice tappy songs on piano. And the food definitely stole the show in the end. And guess what – lots of happy faces at the end. And made me think that all those samosa were worth the effort and I forgot all about the burnt disaster;)
Curry Coddlers, lets try to put a smile on people’s faces this holiday season.
Cheers!
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