Oh Lily, you came and you brought me a turkey

Thanksgiving in India! My roommates and I made a Thanksgiving dinner tonight. The three of us were joined by Sylvia, the 72 year old American volunteer at Shlayma's work from NYC, and Blanca, a woman from Madrid who recently moved into our neighborhood and is attending the Nutrition Institute in Secunderabad. We had no oven, no turkey, and three vegetarians (me, Shlayma and Blanca), so we were quite unsure what to make at first...


Our first course was a spread of appetizers. The gherkins and olives were a rare treat, despite not being very good.

For our main course, Lily made an unbelievable "turkey" made of mashed potatoes, carrots and eggplant.



I think Lily should focus her future on being a food artist...


We also had green beans and apple cider, and a rice stuffing that I made. For the stuffing, I mixed red and white rice, and put in onions, green onions (scallions), mushrooms, green pepper, walnuts, cashews, apple, raisins, tumeric, coriander, chili powder, and salt.


Blanca and Sylvia brought the desserts, though by that time we were pretty much too full to eat anything.

As I neglected to make a Halloween dinner post last month, I have to end with further proof of Lily's artistic ability with food.


Mashed potato head with a knife and blood, lentils/dal as "bloody guts", steaming apple cyder, green beans aka "snakes in the grass", and carrots as ladies fingers.


What an artist.