What gift is this?

@TheHorse President of India, this sounds rather interesting...Maybe @Vandana7 will appear .

I LOVE Indian food. As President of India (ask @Vandana7 about that) I should demand (or should I say "request," to be politically correct and get re-elected) a delicious Indian meal be delivered to my house every evening.

@TheHorse President of India is diabetic and suffers with hypertension...all Indian Presidents are elderly and have such issues. So they get served bland food. So you are entitled to boiled hospital stuff...no spices...no frying...enjoy.

@TheHorse No. It would not. I am proud of Horse Jr. If you are invited and the food offered is remaining and hosts have not given it all to you two and the dish given is something that everybody has liked, usually sweets, then you have decent neighbors. Here is an example of when it would be an insult. My little friend's mom stopped celebrating his birthdays and started donating monies instead (something happened at the time of his 1st birthday party). His maternal grandma now prepares a cake and brings it down for essentially family celebration. His paternal grandma gave me two pieces of that cake two days after the kiddos birthday. Even my house help felt hurt that they looked down upon me. I am accustomed to being looked down as I am unmarried and childless. And that when I am educationally and financially at least three times better off than her. I tend to keep low profile lest such people start asking monies and then ridicule me more. Latest on list is my milkman. He openly asks what will you do with monies you have no kids no husband. When I said I want to enjoy, he laughed what enjoy, at this age. He is pestering from last month and a half. Before that it was washerwoman, but I was able to snub her. This guy is really behaving obnoxiously. There are no laws against such harassment out here. I can only fight verbally, and yet have to control my tongue lest these people feel so hurt that they gang up and harm me and my father.

@vandana7 Do you want to hire me as a "heavy"? I will stand around and look tough and stare intimidatingly at those who harass.

Oh, I was invited to the party. And it felt like an honor to receive the food. Here's a nuance: Horse Jr's mom, who is from Croatia, was also inivted to the party. But she was tired from work and let me take Horse Jr. to the party. When they offered her food, she (well, Martin on her behalf) refused it. I told Martin accept a "sweet" or two, even if he decided later not to eat it. Would refusing offered food be seen as an insult?

@TheHorse I had to see my eye doctor today, we had lunch in Lugano, I think I am skipping dinner tonight.

I have one more meal left. (smiley face emoticon)

@LadyDuck I think I only grazed last night. I think I will have my sourdough toast with cream cheese and lox this morning.

@TheHorse That's pretty impressive!

I think I set a record and had Indian food for five straight meals.

It was really good. I had it again tonight (I added a hard boiled egg to make it "different") and still have some left.

@noni1959 Do you have other favorite foods? I'm glad this is in my fridge. When I go to the local Indian restaurant (excellent), I tend to overdo it. Tummy ache.

@TheHorse That's a lot of food. Nice. I like Indian food.

@JudyEv What happened?

My 5-year-old's dad said similar things. What made him most lonely here, he said, was how closed off Americans are toward each other. In his village, doors are always open, children play together in the streets (the Indian kids here do do that here with their parents watching) and the grownups hang out and tell stories when not working.

@TheHorse Our society used to be more like that but families here are now much more 'insular' is the word I guess.

On its way. I don't know what part of India they're from--actually I do, but I'll have to look at a map. Anyway, the food is yummy.

@TheHorse That´s what matters!

@marguicha I still have one more snack left!

It was fun. Horse Jr. here right now, teaching me about Minecraft.

I will get two more days of pleasure from what they gave me.

@Deepizzaguy I have and I will. Thanks.

@TheHorse That is nice to know. Enjoy the meals.

I've had it for lunch (yesterday), dinner (yesterday), breakfast (today), and lunch (today). Maybe I'll have something different for dinner.

@TheHorse Oh why? Just when you are on a roll of eating just that food!

@andriaperry I'm turning Indian. I really think so. What should I have tonight? I think I'll have frozen macaroni and cheese. Nothing more American than that.

It was a chutney that tasted like yogurt with a hint of dill and/or cucumber.

Heh. I'll tell him he has a Birthday Wish from someone far away!

@TheHorse Thanks so much.

It can give me a tummy ache.

@TheHorse only the right times ha

It was a good time. I haven't even written yet about how we fed the red eared sliders (turtles) by hand. Now I have to take the food tray back to the child's parents.

@CarolDM The child was SOOOOO tired by the time he blew out the candles. He was cranky. I hope he remembers the event fondly.

@TheHorse Such exciting times. Birthdays. Memories.

I'll write about it as soon as my last few posts have at least 20 comments each. Heh.

Lots of INDIAN food--among my favorite cuisine.

He was full of vigor this morning (he helped his dad wash the car) but was getting cranky again this afternoon. I think he will sleep well again tonight. It was good to sit and chat with his dad.

LIKE Indian food? It IS Indian food!