About three weekends ago one of my good exchange student friends had a birthday. However unlike most birthday celebrations this year she held a party. This was the first time I had actually spent time at someone else's house instead of meeting at a park, restaurant, ice rink, or movie theater. I felt like I was back in the United States, with pizza, M&Ms, and marshmallows. The most unique aspect of the party was the cooking competition. The "winning" categories included grossest, most creative, and most delicious, with prizes including stickers, and sponge bob undies. The guests were separated into teams before hand and let loose to shop for ingredients. Some of the creations that turned out were yogurt cake and fried rice those who were going for the gross category made sushi with marshmallows and stuck fish eyes in chocolate cake. My team decided to try and create the ever popular dish called curry. Popular doesn't do curry justice though, I have a friend who claims its the best food ever. If I could compare curry to an American dish I would say gravy and potatoes (but better); curry is usually served over hot white rice and has the same gravy and potatoes affect. With curry on the mind my team headed out to the Indian Spice whole sale market and picked up our essential spices including cardamom pods, coriander powder, and cayenne powder. While cooking up our chicken korma our competition kept on coming into the kitchen to check out what was smelling so good. The answer was butter, oil, chicken, yogurt, onions, garlic, and spices. The celebration was good and the food better.
