Welcoming 2013 with a Duck Curry!
A very happy new year to all of you out there! I am sure 2013 will turn out to be amazing for us food and travel lovers. May we get to eat more and travel more - cheers to that! We brought in our new year with a dish that is close to all of us in the family – duck curry with ash gourd or white melon (or white gourd). Now, however much I curse Bangalore for its traffic jams, auto drivers and their faulty fare meters, the snail paced service sectors, crazy bikers riding on footpaths, et al, yet I am thankful to the city for having some of the things that I always missed in the other cities we lived in. We never came across vegetables like squash (known as chow chow here), ash gourd and pumpkin flowers in Delhi or Mumbai. These were food that I had while growing up and coming across them here pleased me to no end. Heck, even the fresh water fish like Rohu and Katla tastes better here than they do in Assam! Ash Gourd or White Melon, Courtesy: Google images Chopped ...