The day after the twins had departed, I took Anne to the Dosa Hut restaurant at Mt Gravatt. We had not been there before. I ordered Masala dosas and a couple of idli. Our previous dosa restaurant, the Riverwalk in Gladstone Rd., had gone out of business, much to our disappointment.
But the new restaurant was just as good and was even better in that our previous place did not do idlis, not that idlis are great. They are just a traditional thing that go with dosas.
The menu was enormous and the prices were reasonable so we were perfectly happy with our new source of dosas
On Nanna's birthday I took Anne to the Hyderabad, which is just a couple of doors from the Dapur Dahlia. It was leaping. There were brown people everywhere and lots of brown people coming and going. We were the only white faces there. And the food was good and the servings were enormous. One dinner would have done both of us. A specialty of the house seemed to be battered green chillies so we ordered some as an entree. They were really good and only a little bit "hot". I think the Hyderabad will be our regular Indian from now on.
And just yesterday, Jenny and Pam cooked Anne and me a Dhansak with all the trimmings. A genine Parsee Dhansak is a rare privilege. It took the two of them many hours to make it all. As usual it had a rich taste and was very filling. I particularly got into the kachumber (Parsee salad). It leaves all other salads for dead. I am not a big salad eater but I ate lots of the kachumber. And Jenny served up two chutneys -- the traditional green chutney plus an eggplant chutney. Both were first rate.
And today, I got a new dinner table in my dining room. It is a very fine traditional brown dinner table. I got it from Vinnies a few days ago and Joe and Aristides brought it up and put it in my dining room this morning. The old pine dining table went on the verandah and the Laminex table off the verandah is now in the garage.
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