Bye Bye Yeenyee

Another friend of ours is heading home. This time it is Yeenyee - one of the group that went out west to Xinjiang a few months ago. Will, Olivia, and Yeenyee came over for dinner Wednesday night so we could enjoy a meal together. Being from Malaysia, Yeenyee made beef rendang, a spicy beef dish with coconut milk, that is now one of Michael's top 2 favorite foods up there with vindeloo (which, if you know Michael, is saying quite a bit). We haven't cooked many dishes from that part of the globe, so we used the opportunity to try a dish called madura chicken that the cookbook implied would be a nice compliment. We also made a red dahl dish and dry-fried some cauliflower and potatoes. Olivia added some pappadums, which are a thin, flat, pepper flavored crispy crackers, for an appetizer which we ate with some left over mango chutney. And Olivia brought purple rice pudding as well as hawthorn candy disks for dessert.

It was a feast worthy of Yeenyee!