Friday, January 30, 2009

Theobroma - Brownies Mmmmm

A friend of mine is a brownie fiend. His dessert of choice is the brownie. Regardless of whatever place we eat in he would order a brownie. Even in those places where the brownie would have decomposed to the point of being like a Monginis cake. (More on Monginis later. Hopefully much much later) Anyway whilst this delhiite friend of mine was in Mumbai i introduced him to Brownie cottage. In retrospect perhaps I should have taken him to Theobroma. This place is in Colaba and is run by the proprietors themselves. Frankly I have always preferred these places to the corporate restaurant types as they offer much more entertainment and character. Anyway Theobroma is small but as the man says "Incredibly great". Everytime I go there I keep meaning to try something new but end up buying the brownies. Its one of the few places that offer a choice of brownies and all of them without exception are excellent. The brownies are soft and chewy and gooey and oh so so great. They go very well by themselves and I've never had the patience to heat them and then ice cream them and so forth. My personal favourite is the walnut brownie but then I like walnuts per se...

Incidentally the Diet police can please note that I did not have the brownies but I bought them for office and just had a crumb for tasting.

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Happy New Year

My first meal of the year with Mr. Desai and Shri Shri Ucchil.

2x Prawns Fry : Yumliciously fresh prawns
2x Bombil Fry : Not flatterned but done whole
2x Solkadi : Freshly made the second time around
2x Surmai Fry : Nice is a understatement
Prawns Kadhai Half : I can still taste the gravy and prawns. Sigh
Mutton Sukha : Average
Crab Kadai Half : The most disappointing dish but the crabmeat by itself was delicious
Wade : Nice but a poor substitute for the Rice Bhakri that we had ordered but had runout
Steam Rice x 3
Dal Malwani x 2 : Supremely fine. A sort of midway between Varan and Dal which was just great. As SSU put the second helping was pure greed
Butter Milk : Nice according to Desaibhai
Puran Poli x 2 : Warmed up with copious amounts of desi ghee on top melted. I don't mind arteries getting blocked in this worthy cause.

The best part was the fish and prawns were batter fried but still the fish taste reigned supreme. Incidentally this was at Kshanbhar Vishranti.