- I need to go get a boat load of Indian spices to cook food with for when I get home!
- Eating with your hands is a talent and skill that I do not possess but am working on.
- It is getting progressively hotter.
- We go to Goa this weekend!
Last weekend we went to Falaknuma Palace and it was so beautiful. It was so much fun getting dressed up and fancy for a fancy dinner that had a sorbet in between courses as a palate cleanser! (You fancy huh?) The grounds were so beautiful and the peacocks that sounded like cats were pretty cool as well. But, I think my favorite part was being in the library. It was so beautiful and I couldn't help but store the memory away for later use when I have my own library. 
The palace also had a dining room that accommodated over 100 people. It was immense and I looked around for Lumiere and Cogsworth from Beauty and the Beast but sadly they were nowhere to be found!
The sunset was absolutely breath taking, a night well spent.
Last week passed pretty uneventfully, but it was this weekend where the real fun happened. Not only did I laze around the pool at the hotel, but I also tried out some new Indian restaurants, got some mosquito bites, and more importantly, I learned to cook some Indian food and tea! It was quite an exciting moment.
I took note of all the spices I would need to buy to prepare all of this at home and am very excited to cook for you when I get back! One thing that I did find interesting, and that all of my Indian friends rightly guessed I would mention in this blog, was that I was completely flabbergasted to find that Indian kitchens do not come with ovens! And this coming from a girl that dreams of having two ovens in her house one day. (To cook the turkey and the pies at the same time of course!) 
But as I realized, an oven is not really needed for Indian cooking; we cooked the chicken and spices for the rice over the stove and the rice in a rice cooker. But, if my mango cheesecake is to be made during mango season, I will need the use of an oven. That was meant for all of you in India who are reading this!
I was so excited to eat the food that we made; it was so good!
I even tried to eat 'Indian style' with my hands, and let me tell you, it was hard!! There is definitely a certain technique that you need to use to not have rice falling all over you, which I semi-mastered by the end of the meal. Many times throughout the meal I was asked if I wanted to switch to using a spoon and fork, but I persevered and am now an amateur at it, so I am told. I was very proud of myself.
This coming weekend we are going to Goa and I cannot wait to share my experience of that with you all. Have a great week and until next Thursday, the 18th!
