So Kismet and Nitin were planning to come home last weekened and Kismet calls me and says lets have a BBQ since Mithu is leaving for England and it is her 21st Birthday next week and i wont be here lets BBQ..
so i said get to chandigarh and we shall plan it. Nitin and Kismet get here friday night and we all sit around chill eat dinner and all that and decide to get up early and get up early to get some work done for Kismet and get this party planned..
Saturday morning bright and early at 9:00 (hey its a saturday what is brighter and earlier than that) we get up and decide lets do this kismet says lets do somthing different this time .. "lets use a new marinate and have Mojitos" sure says I.
So with our lists in hand of things to do and stuff to buy for the party Mom, Kismet and I took off to get everything done. Around lunch time Jai calls and well he wants to take us for lunch hmmm sure we tell him to come home and chill while we will take a bit as we got some bank work for Kismet to finish.
so we catch up with Jai get in his new Honda ZX take off to pick up nitin and then the age old question of where are we going comes up ... Ahhh Oriental Lounge no one has been there yet cool lets go.. ok this seems to be becoming about lunch when it is about the BBQ. so to cut lunch short we had a couple of beers and good food Oriental Lounge is definatly a cool place (yet another one in chandigarh I tell you it gets better here every week)..
So at 4 all of us get home to a shit load of work that needs to be done to start with the chicken needs to be marinated for atleast 4 hours and well we had to still get the stuff ready... Amrita will agree total Nakai chaos leaving everything to the last moment.
well we had jai stirring and sipping the marinate lol, one maid chopping the onions the other making coffee and Kismet and I making a mess in the rest of the kitchen with the rest of the ingredients :) ohh i for got to tell you what we were making.. well Buffallo Chilli Chicken and Cagun Barbecue Corn to which i promised people i would put the recipie up so here it is
Buffallo Chilli ChickenIts a recipie out of a Book now not mine :)
1kg chicken,skinned
3 spring onions, chopped
2 cloves garlic, crushed
1 cup(250 ml) tomato sauce
4 tablespoons beer (now you know why jai was sipping it)
1 tablespoon cider vinegar
1 tablespoon honey
1 table spoon tabasco sauce
Now apparently this serves 4-6 people as per the book so for a party of punjabis i did what i usually do i multiplied it by 4 since we had about 12 people coming :) hahah.
now all you need to do is Score the chicken at 2 cm intervals.
Put the onions, garlic, tomato sauce, beer, vinegar, honey and tabasco in a dish and mix to combine and add the chicken cover it and refrigerate for 3-4 hours and then throw it on the BBQ when you ready..
Cagun Barbecue Cornyou need as much corn as you want but still on the cob break it into half
Cajun spice mix
1 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
2 teaspoons sweet paprika
now all you got to do is take some butter and brush it on the corn and sprinkle the cajun spice mix over the corn and BBQ i did the same to Potato's which were cut to 1 cm thick slices hmmm how well they came out ...
ok now for the important part
MojitosBacardi Lime Mint leaves lots of embrown sugarSoda and loads of crushed ice
basically the mint and sugar go in the bottom of the glass you got to crush em there and then add the lime and the ice and the bacardi and then little soda and wow a bomb ass drink ...
so anyway we get everything together while nitin brings the coal and the beer and then kismet goes upstairs to the roof to get the seating and shit ready.i get the BBQ ready and the coal is up now all we got to do is wait for the party to begin.
So Baaz calls and says should i get music and all we got are two small speakers so i tell him yea get it we can play it thru the laptop.. Now Baaz being Baaz did bring the music with just a little twist he got 2 woodstock speakers, his amp, his laptop and his mixer ok then :) seems this party was taking off already so once we were all set up BBQ music and the Mojitos going the party just got better and better..
Check out the pics for your self :) we packed up at 5 am sunday morning all night we were blasting the music and the creating a rukus.. it has been a while ...
But well then it was a party for a friend who is going away and well she was turning 21 the next week right ...
GO WEST MITHU
oh about her turning 21 she had a party a her home with some college friend and well let me tell you that was quite crazy as well ..shhh i came home at 5 then too :)
who says chandigarh is a quiet sleepy place huh ....
