Great night last night! The food, wine and conversation was flowing amongst our guests from as far a field as Las Vegas, Boston and…Crouch End! Lovely to meet you all! Write up to follow shortly…see you next week x

See you at the table! x                 

It seems only yesterday that we had our last supper club but it was nearly three weeks ago! We usually only host them once  a month but felt so awful at letting people down. So we are doing an extra date this month.

I am really looking forward to cooking for our guests as I  rather over-dosed on sitting around and doing nothing last week!

Why?

Because I watched 5 Days of the first Test between England and India at Lords!!

I have been a cricket fan for umpteen years and have seen many matches and sometimes wished I was there for a different day, but this was a first.

And what a fantastic result! I won’t divulge my loyalties just in case some of my guests cancel for Saturday!

So shopping tomorrow and prepping on Friday – really looking forward to it.

Sorry a thousand times to Ma Rani and all of you readers for taking so long to write-up this blog post. No excuse,  just the world of cricket is very busy and I am consumed by it at the moment – in a good way though 😉

We had a great time last Saturday and we hope our guests did as well. The table was full and once again with a really lovely mix of people. The lovely Jarina who we met at Clandestinos Supperclub came with her brother. Anna, Patricia and Anj made up the Tufnell Park contingent, our friend Anne came all the way from Nofolk with her hubby Del and their lovely friends. We also welcomed friends Britta and Uli from Berlin to the table. Their daughter Nelly is my god-daughter and her obsession at the moment is Star Wars. She watched Return of the Jedi twice back to back when she stayed with us. Dedication. George Lucas would be proud.

We served Pork as a starter for the first time. A new creation from the kitchen.

For the Pork Masala we seasoned the sausage meat with spices and created small patties. Browned off over a heat and then oven cooked in Joginder’s Masala Sauce.

Ma Rani and I are spending more time digging around in antique shops (and John Lewis) for bits of crockery, cutlery and decoration for the supperclub. We have quite a collection now and I love to mix and match and at least half of my day is spent creating a table. I say creating because it really is when you are holding a supper party. I am obsessed with candles and even in my own home my poor other half always has the main light in the living turned off around him and his light replaced with candles. So when I am let loose on my parents table for the supperclub I don’t hold back. Obviously this is my own opinion..but comments warmly appreciated as to the extent of the table decoration.

Back to the food!

We served our very popular Fish Masala with Stuffed Paratha which does always go down well. I absolutely love this dish!

Just add a piece of Stuffed Paratha et Voila!

Vegetable Sabji

Joginder’s Murgh Masala, Chole Daal and Vegetable Sabji were served along with other dishes for the main part of the supper.

Complete control in the kitchen....

After nearly two years of running our little supperclub in good old Tufnell Park, Ma Rani and I really do work well together. We always have done, but once a month we spend two days together prepping, cooking, hosting and enjoying each other’s company.

For dessert we served a seasonal fruit platter with a Minted Gur.

Minted Gur

Gur is a hardened brown sugar which is crushed down to crumb consistency. It comes from the liquid from sugar which is initially pressed at first picking. You can buy it in all good world food stores or from Southall (not the only place to buy your produce I know!) Very useful tip – don’t attempt to use your blender! Put in the elbow grease and use a pestal and mortar to save your blender blades!

You then add what ever you like to it. It is lovely with cinnamon and a very nice topping for ginger cake.

Thank you so much to all our guests for yet another lovely evening! Our next supperclubs are Saturday 30th July and Saturday 6th August and we are really looking forward to cooking for you all! Your support is much appreciated and we are very happy that people find us an ideal Saturday night! No kick out time and you never know who you will meet or the friends you might make……

See you at the table!

Saira x

It’s all systems go for this Saturday as we begin prepping! We hope you enjoy the menu and the evening. We are delighted to be welcoming new faces and old friends to the table. I haven’t blogged for a while, so while I grab a quick lunch break at work I thought I would say hello. Working at Lords Cricket Ground, you’d think the cricket would be in full flow but the good old british weather always puts a dampner on things – oh the wit! Do you like what I did there….

So as I shut down my computer and head over to the hub to help Ma Rani I hope the game between Middlesex and Surrey this evening goes ahead (I’m sure it will, us cricket fans stick with a game, even if the hail stones keep coming. There is always a glimmer of sunshine on the horizon)

See you all on Saturday for another supperclub at Joginder’s. Looking forward to it!

Saira x