Friday, November 08, 2024

Dinosaurs and dosas

At the circus the other week I complimented a woman on her fossil trousers. I looked them up when I got home and discovered Popsy Clothing. I fell in love with lots of their designs so checked them out on Trustpilot. Excellent rating but then so did what turned out to be a dodgy jumper company.

But I liked them so much I took a chance and ordered two dresses. They arrived yesterday and I love them. One has a fairy design and the other I wore out for a meal with Zac's Kitchen Crew last night.

Do you like my dinosaurs? Every woman should have a dinosaur dress in their wardrobe.

The meal was a celebration of four years' work in the kitchen as well as a chance to look ahead to the new plans we have. We went to a Sri Lankan restaurant I'd never been to before. Its menu was very different so, naturally, I had to try some typical Sri Lankan dishes.
For starters I had a mini masala dosa. A dosa is a crepe made from ground rice and lentils, with sambar, a lentil based vegetable stew cooked with a tamarind broth, and served with chutneys. In this case it had a spiced mashed potato filling. The filling was nice but I wasn't too impressed with the papery pancake.

But I loved my main course, which was a chicken Kothu (meaning chopped bread), a Sri Lankan dish made from veechu roti (a type of Sri Lankan roti) made with vegetables, egg and various spices.
One of the others and I both asked for milder versions of the dishes but the sauce was still quite spicy. The kothu was delicious. 


10 comments:

jabblog said...

Jolly dress - very nice. It'#s good to try different food, too.

Kathy G said...

Now you've gone and made me hungry!

Boud said...

Lovely playful dress! And some of those dishes are fairly familiar.

Anvilcloud said...

A new dress and a new dish.

Ann said...

What a fun dress that is.

acorn hollow said...

Great dress! I would not have know what to order there but glad you enjoyed it.
Cathy

Marie Smith said...

Love the dress! It looks great on you.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Very cool dino dress! I have never had Sri Lankan food -- it sounds good!

Liz Hinds said...

Thank you all for your lovely comments. Both dress and food were great

Terra said...

Cute dress, I would like to see the fairy dress. The Sri Lankan food looks delicious.