We had a brilliant time last night! The guests were fantastic! Thanks everyone! Write up to follow shortly…watch this space….
We have some spaces avaliable for our next suppers on Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd January so please do have a look at the menu and book your places!
Saira x
I hope you are enjoying this festive week and gearing up for 2011! We have had an action packed week, plenty of food and wine with great friends and family and plenty of time on the Singstar as well as trying out dishes for our next lot of supperclubs.
We have some places available for our dates in January so please do book, we would love to see you! The menu for next Saturday will be posted shortly and we promise to bring you even more mouth-watering dishes plus the dishes that our supperclubbers’ have stamped as their favourites! Thank you for the little foodie gifts that some of you have sent us to use in our dishes as well!
See you soon
Saira x
p.s We did have to say goodbye to our dear little cat George who passed away on boxing day. She was with us for 16 years and loved her food and was well liked by quite a few of our guests.
WISHING ALL OUR FELLOW SUPPERCLUB HOSTS AND DINERS EVERYWHERE, A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS AND AN EQUALLY MERRY NEW YEAR!
SEE YOU IN 2011
SAIRA & RANI XX
26 years later and the Islington Gazette is still interested in writing about us!
Jessica and Peter booked the table for a small private supper, it was a very lively and entertaining evening and I was really pleased the menu went down well! Served at the table…..
Lamb Masala Chops with a Tamarind dip
Stuffed Bataoon with a spicy Cranberry relish and Puri
Masala Chicken
Spicy Basa Curry
Gobi Mutter
Paneer Keema
Tarka Daal
Served with Spicy Rice, homemade Roti, Kachumber and homemade relishes and chutney.
Followed by Phalon Ka Chaat served with Mango & Kiwi Sorbet
Masala Chai and Indian Sweets
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Hi Folks!
We have added new dates for 2011, still trying to get dates in for November and December, working around travel, work and a couple of group bookings. Please e-mail us at jogindersupperclub@hotmail.com to join our mailing list for future dates and news. Join us for new dishes, guest chefs and more charity nights in 2011! We have also had a lovely article about our little supperclub and our food in this week’s Islington Gazette – a sort of update from a feature done about Ma Rani 26 years ago!
See you around the table very soon….
Saira & Rani xx
Joginder’s Supperclub will be blogging from Hong Kong, Australia and Bangkok and London over the next few weeks. Ma Rani is taking a well deserved trip to the other side of the world to visit my sibling in Brisbane, Australia. As well as getting to watch the 1st Ashes test, she will be hosting supper clubs whilst staying with various friends and family along the way and visiting some too! So, look forward to some international blogging, plenty of photos, new recipes, weird and wonderful places to visit and of course the write ups from our supper club in the cosy surroundings in Tufnell Park!
More dates to follow for December and into 2011…
Saira x
Enjoying a southern summer of cricket and culinary delights......(copyright S.Baker 2010)
We are featured, along with other supper clubs in London on this brilliant new website run by Miss Mary. It combines dating and dining and offers ideas on where to eat and drink around the captial and what do on a first date, second date, third date…. We have a link to it but for quick reference click this link below!
http://www.thegreatdateguide.com/features/secret-supper-clubs_-part-two
Well, we have quite possibly had the best time over the last month meeting even more people, feeding them, getting interest from the local press and raising a little bit of money for charity. All in a month’s work for Joginder’s Supperclub. We are nearing our one year anniversary and so pleased that people keep coming back and supporting us and that more people who live locally are literally strolling to us for supper and not having to worry about last trains or taxis! Thanks guys!
So this is going to be a bit of a war and peace novel as I haven’t done a write up for a long while. Plenty of pictures too! The weekend of the 17th September was our Charity Supper weekend in aid of Cancer Research – we hosted one in France in August, read the write up on our archive page. Among the guests around the table on the Friday was the lovely Regina aka ‘Gastrogeek’ (check out the link to her web page) and Sarah who as well as being a great friend of mine works for the charity and was a real ambassador for the evening! Rebekah had never been to a supperclub before and we were really pleased to have hopefully given her a reason to try more around London (and of course return to ours!) Saturday evening was equally as enjoyable with the conversation turning to the leader of the labour party race and why Diane Abbott knew what she was talking about! We were the fourth supperclub for two of our guests, who liked the diversity of what is on offer here in London. They also liked sitting with the other guests at the one table as well as having separate tables, depending on where you go. Chris and Dave were back as at the table after a summer of umpiring and travelling which meant Dave couldn’t get his fix of our Murg Masala for two months! We fed him well. (I think)
We served our Paneer kebabs with home-grown tomatoes and peppers. The paneer was made on the Wednesday and painstakingly moulded into cubes and left under bricks for a day (this technique, my grandmother used frequently) the kebabs were served with our homemade Rhubarb chutney which has gone down a treat with pretty much everyone who has tried it. Ma Rani put it on the menu after making up a batch for our supper club in France. Could we find Rhubarb back in England during the week? No. I suppose if we had gone to every supermarket within the M25 we would have found some, but how much time do any of us have to get everything done in a day let alone sit in traffic jams. During a lunch party with friends the host presented Ma Rani with a box load of Rhubarb because they couldn’t do anything with it and knew of our plight. I have to put my hand up here and say that I have never been a fan, along with sprouts and beetroot, but that’s another story. Now converted to eating Rhubarb, the chutney goes brilliantly with some of our dishes and on a piece of granary toast with thick slabs of cheddar cheese and a cup of tea! Right enough about Rhubarb…..
Paneer & Vegetable Kebabs with our Rhubarb Chutney
Making the chutney
Ready to serve....
Our new dish, Joginder’s Fish and Chips was a hit and intriguing right up until the plates were served.
We are pleased to send a cheque to Cancer Research for £700 donated by all our guests over the three supper clubs. Many more to come for a very good cause!
Busy in the kitchen for the charity suppers!
Around the table!
The following weekend we had 12 people around the table for both nights. Laura and Chris booked with four other friends on the Saturday evening. Very impressively they had taken our menu to a wine merchant who recommended their wines for the evening. The other guests were intrigued by the bottles being opened for each course and a couple commented that their bottle of Pinot Grigio was quite boring in comparison! I will post the menu again along with the selection of wines, including the wine merchant’s details. I think this is such a good idea and really very flattering that the time was taken to compliment our menu in such a way.
We served up a new dish of spicy masala prawns and spicy apple dumplings which went down well. Again, we were given a batch of cooking apples by Ma Rani’s neighbour so more chutneys, apple pakoras and the spicy dumplings were made.
Stir frying the masala prawns
Ma Rani ventures out to top up the bowls!
Carolyn & Stuart had flown bacl from San Francisco that morning and did very well at pushing through that barrier of jet lag!
Bottoms Up!
The thing that we do at Joginder’s Supperclub is to try and accommodate people’s requirements as much as possible. Our guests have always been really good at letting us know in advance of the evening if they are vegetarian, non fish eaters and so on. We always create separate dishes so everyone has the same dining experience. A few of our guests for our last supper club of the month were vegetarian and so we decided to try a mainly non meat menu. We had spicy mushrooms stuffed with homemade crumbled paneer and home-grown tomatoes, spicy fish masala served in ramekins’ with a homemade chilli cornbread; the main courses varied from aubergine to cauliflower to potato and peas. Our signature chicken masala was on the menu and along with the three vegetable dishes were topped up for seconds! We had a table of 12 again, some returning and some new guests. The ages varied, as did the professions and nationalities’. Guests didn’t seat themselves according to their groups but rather mixed themselves up. It was really nice to see! The volume around the table didn’t drop all evening and even The Eagles at volume 5 could barely be heard! I know the sign of a good table (you learn the more you do) when I feel like I am interrupting people as I serve and clear. In the end I tried to do a Houdini act and morph myself into gaps too small to retrieve empty plates! Because the kitchen is a stones through from the table you can feel the atmosphere of the evening and get snippets of the conversation. A random attempt to say Edward Woodward backwards kept people amused later on into the evening! Lots of laughing and clinking of glasses is always a very good sign – when the guests sat down at the beginning of the evening, someone raised their glass in a toast to the evening which was lovely!
Set for 12....
Home grown tomatoes
One of our guests had flown back from Delhi that very morning but pushed through her jet lag to enjoy the meal. Again, some guests were just around the corner so didn’t have far to travel home and stayed until well after the coach had turned back to pumpkin!
Homemade Paneer ready to be crumbled
Stuffed Mushrooms
Chilli Cornbread served with Fish Masala
Gulub Jumun taste test!
We did a taste test with a sweet dish that Ma Rani hasn’t made for years. Gulab Jumun, a small sweet cooked in syrup. Because we were going to serve it with the Masala Chai I wanted to find out how full people were. All the hands went up to try the sweet and it all went, with some helpful feedback. Put it this way, it is staying on the menu from now on!
Lively conversation around the table!
The wonderful Melissa of 'The Love People' & Tygerheart who always supports us!
We have had such a good time and want to thank everyone who has sat around the table so far! See you for the next one, dates will be posted soon!
Over and out xx
From a comments book……
Hi Saira,Just wanted to say thank you so much for a fabulous supper club on Saturday. We all had so much fun, the food was amazing and the company was great too…thank you also to your wonderful mum and her culinary talents!!
We hope to return in the future,
Many thanks again
Laura xxx
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