It is very
rare that one gets to see the Diamond Anniversary of a couple and I had the opportunity
to capture the same on video last week.
Had a lunch
party for the couple (my in laws) on our terrace and invited some close friends
who were in town. Even though the guest list was not a small one(29), we
decided to cook all the food at home (including baking the birthday cake)
The menu for
the lunch was Kerala Chicken curry, Cabbage thoran, Pineapple pachadi, Sambhar,
Pork roast and fish curry.
All enjoyed
the Appam and there were hardly any takers for rice.
The moluku
idichu varatha pappadam was a novelty for many and they wanted to know how it was
made.
All were
tickled by the “Yesterday’s fish curry” and one even jokingly commented “don’t tell
me you are giving us leftovers”
I had to
finally show them the recipe book in which it was named as “Yesterday’s fish
curry”
As the
recipe says these fish curries taste better the next day and is served a day
after it is cooked. Good that we made two chattis of fish curry as it needed
constant replenishing. (chatti is the earthen pot in which it is cooked and
served)
For desert
we had parippu payasam, another sweet delicacy from Kerala.
The cake (Dulche
De Leche Pound Cake) got over within no time as some went in for a second
helping. We could not get the flaked almonds in any of the nearby stores, so
soaked some almonds overnight and sliced them fine to garnish the cake.
The
highlight was the couple cutting the cake and feeding each other
You can see
how they looked 60 years ago in the attached video.
