This is the plan: invite nine people (including myself) for dinner next Saturday, and make six to seven dishes for them. I've never hosted this many people, and most certainly never cooked so many items for such a large crowd, but let's think this out aloud in these pages, see how far we can get.
Since my rice cooker can't feed an army, we'd need two or three different types of carbs. I'm thinking rice of buckwheat and quinoa, and thenthuk soup, plus some sort of rye-based soup. I'd quickly run out of the (turns out quite expensive) packet of barley that I recently had delivered, but it would prove the viability of barley as a edible and 'hostable' grain. Maybe dump some rye in there too, just for the heck of it. And then something else I have 'invented'. I alluded to it in a previous post or so, but the idea is to basically make kodo-fapar pancake (fermented) and then put it in the airfryer until it's sharp as a tortilla chip. That would be the chip, and golbheda-dhaniya-timmur ko achar would be the dip. Need to find out non-spicy dips for people that don't do spicy. And then need popcorns obviously, with my patented achaar so it's sharp and zingy.
As I could it, I realize I've already reached five items, but we're just starting.
I'd cook alu-tama because it's easy and little to no effort needs to go there. Thinking of doing karela ko jhol too because I've been trying to make that work for so long, never getting it right. Then maybe rajma ko tarkari as well. And then perhaps a dal? Perhaps moong, because I haven't done it in a while.
The craziest part of the story is, I'm thinking of doing a 'pre-run' on Friday with a different, much smaller group, so I can get the amounts and the general idea right for Saturday. At that point it's just fantasy, an insane person's plan, wild wild theorycrafting, but a man can dream. A man can fantasize, visualize, and maybe even manifest into reality!
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