One Saturday night @ Cindy's

Certainly no slouch in the kitchen, Cindy laid out ten dishes excluding dessert for our sit down dinner for seven!

Cindy taking us through the dishes

The cook's lone curry leaf plant heralded the theme of last night's dinner

Beans cooked South Indian Style with a final sprinkling of shredded coconut for the final stir. Crispy and delicious.

Miranda's contribution, dry potatoes with Sri Lankan dried fish. And she is only 13, and takes after mummy Cindy. We can't wait to try some of her pastas ...

A robust style Urad Dhal.

Cauliflower with mustard seeds and crispy green chillies. Simple and fabulous.

Everyone's favourite. Cindy's ladies fingers served cold.

Tomato Raita to cut the heat.

Arul's contribution, a super more-ish mango curry made with Australian mangoes. As a little aside, it took him three days, and many driving trips to find suitable mangoes. Well worth it. We all loved it scooped over hot yoghurt rice.

Cindy's dry chicken.

Sri Lankan pork curry.

Huge prawns in a spicy red sauce.

Madhur Jaffrey's goat curry with potatoes seeped with flavour. The Travelling Spud's favourite dish. We think it was well worth her trek to Tekka.

Pistachio Cherry Tart for dessert. Yummy, indulgent and rich. It was the first time aside from pistachio halva that we have had such a dense and rich dessert made entirely of shelled pistachios (Cindy shelled each and every nut and ruined her nails in the process. Thank you!). We added to the richness with scoops of Ben and Jerry's vanilla ice cream while Miranda had hers with chocolate ice cream??!! 

Ready, Set, Dine!

We were so happy ... undoubtedly because the wine had started to flow! Good company, good conversation, and the start of two new friendships. Cheers all.