Last Lunch/Dinner of 2012

The Grad school arranged a lunch to say goodbye to 2012 and welcome the year: 2013.

For dinner - student of various countries made their favorite dishes from home and we had dinner in the dorm kitchen.

Food was very delicious , everyone did a fantastic job and had great time. No wonder that kitchen and cooking warms up the heart and helps bonding.

For the last day of 2012, from Russia we had salads, mashed potatoes, sardines, sausages, butter and some very nice fried chicken stews of two kinds alongside the freshly baked Russian whole wheat breads of several kinds.

From Vietnam, we had Pho Saigon - it was a beef soup (beef was Halal and was bought from Foreign Food Mart), this soup has surprisingly the exact same ingredients that we put in the meat for making pulao broth. It was served with rice noodles topped with parsley, lemon, coriander, spring onion, fresh oregano and some sweet and sour sauces. It was also very, very delicious.

Then we had Mongolian dumplings made with lamb fillings just like pelmini - the dumplings originated from Siberia. I made quesadilla with cheese and vegetables as its main fillings coz quite a few people were vegetarian or Muslims. We had several types of cup cakes, cakes in general, muffins, juices, soft drinks and also had some wines for those who can drink, some Georgian food and dessert,  green teas were also there. Over all, it was a wonderful dinner and a get-together. These students are very talented - I have to say!

Students don't have many gadgets and so their  creativity was worth seeing, I saw a Kazakh girl mashing potatoes with a beer bottle of OB...and the result was: smooth, silky mashed potatoes, they added milk in them and then wrapped it with blankets and put it aside for 2 hours. It was the best mashed potatoes dish I have ever had!!!

Then I saw somebody crushing garlic with a handle of a cooking spoon...that was funny but again the result was great. A Mongol girl opened wine bottles with lipstick....that was quite a skill...:-)

My stupid camera died after a short while so I was really handicapped!

Food and company was great....and was indeed a memorable one!