Some more food awesomeness

I had two great dinners last night and tonight.
First, last night: one faculty's cook helper made half and one faculty member made the other half. The menu:

• chicken pulau (tasty rice w/ caramelized onions and boiled egg on top)
• SPICY fish curry-these are so spicy I think so you just eat with a lot of rice to balance and you don't need too much of the meat dishes.
• SPICY veg curry-
• raita (yogurt & cucumber salad)
• green salad - had kolme green (they call it water spinach), tomato and avocado w/ citrus dressing
• sardine & potato frittata
• carrot cake with real cream cheese frosting (cream cheese costs about $8 here, so it was a REAL treat!) baked in her toaster oven
  

There was also mint-lime juice. Thanks for cooking all day, Shahirah and thanks for hosting and sharing your awesome Bengali cook's abilities with us, Andrea!

Then tonight I dined with a different faculty who has a full-time cleaner/cook. She is amazing.
The menu;

• daal - yellow lentil stew
• red rice - like brown rice but with a reddish hull
• roti - flour tortillas
• okra - I usually don't like okra, but this Hindi lady has me turning over a new leaf!
• shrimp and pumpkin curry - SO YUMMY with lots of cinnamon, masala spices and slight sweet tang
• fresh mango for dessert - I thought mango season was finishing, but she found one of the best tasting one's so far!

The home-cooked Bengali food is really really good. I totally feel like royalty having a cook prepare it for us! And all the flavors together are amazing! I'm considering getting a cook like one day per week to get a little more in my life.....