a brief recap :
Last week Aaron introduced us to total do-it-yourself shabu shabu - complete with individual temperature controls and the components to formulate sauce from scratch...
Egg was burned/fish balls were consumed/tastiness ensued...
Obviously, I prefer the far superior taro bubble tea, but I was forced to admit that Aaron's yellow concoction was quite tasty...
And this week...
Jennifer provided us with her gorgeous exposed brick sublet to craft a homemade Indian fat bastards. Mary impressed us all with bubbling and curding up some paneer while the rest of us got drunk. Aaron masterfully crisped bread and simmered a yellow bean daal -- sans salt; Jennifer fried up succulent eggplant with mustard seed and exotic spices; Emily brought a stellar chana masala; I made tandoori prawns and raita.
All around a truly lovely meal (and preferable to our
