Day 4:
Breakfast: cereal and “milky milk”
Lunch: After visiting the temple, we headed
across the street for some lunch. We ordered another Thali, because that seems
to get you a good mix of things.
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| This cute guy is *occasionally* a little silly ;) |
We also ordered paneer pakoda (pieces of
paneer (cheese) in chickpea dough, deep-fried).
A sweet lassi rounded it off.
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| This wasn't the lassi, but rather the fennel seeds with rock sugar to be had after the meal. One of my favorite parts! |
Dinner: All sorts of yummies, as you can see :)
Day 5:
Breakfast: cereal and “milky milk”
Lunch: Apparently today (at the Iskon
temple) was abstain-from-grains day (2x/month), but we didn't know this before
we ordered. We decided to try a “special sabu pizza” to see what it would be
like. When it came, I was surprised how 'western' it looked, but the dough seemed
to be made out of lentils. However, when we tasted it, the surprise was
compounded.
The top tasted very western—cheese and black olives with tomato
sauce, but the bottom was confusing. There seemed to be potato involved and,
upon talking with our table neighbor, we learned that the other component was
large balls of tapioca, because of the grain fast. Essentially the bottom of
the pizza was a large hash brown, held together by tapioca starch. This
principle of binding together potato with starch is also found in the western
German dish 'Kartoffel (potato) Knödel'.
We also had “sri khand”, which was
sweetened, strained yogurt (therefore somewhat thicker, like Greek yogurt) with
a sprinkling of pistachios and a maraschino cherry on top.
Dinner:
Veggies that seemed to have been breaded and
fried
Rice
Roti (or chapati :) )
Dahl
Raita (again with coconut and floating grain
puffs (but still savory!)--according to the menu at the radhasoami restaurant, this also counts as
raita. Strange!)
Day 6:
Breakfast:
cereal + 'milky milk', toasted fruit bun +
cheese spread, banana (we went shopping!)
Lunch:
some Indian yeast flatbread with cheese
spread and spice mix (chili powder, turmeric, mango powder, coriander powder)
toasted to be sort of Indian grilled cheese :)
“Light” Snacks at F's adoptive grandma's:
little graham flour fried pellets (the size
of peas) soaked in syrup
savory mix of puffed rice, peanuts, spicy
crackers, seasoned with curry leaves, salt, pepper, chili
Dinner: more food. Surprise! :)
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