My Heart Goes Hmmm!

Bollywood Night at Claire’s was THE perfect antidote to midterms studying! We started cooking our delicious feast around 7:45pm and by the time we finished watching our film, it was 2am. However, not atypical when you’re at one of Claire’s famous fetes!

She made the chicken tandoori herself and we all helped to make the vegetarian curry. Handling fresh vegetables and cooking for a change was a wonderful reminder of how much better creation feels than consumption.  That is why homemade, no matter how simple, tastes better than mass cafeteria efforts.

Behold, the vegetable curry! (I put the jalapeño in for a pretty garnish and took it out promptly. I can’t handle that much heat!)

So good! I fully appreciate why Claire keeps a bag of Indian spices in her dorm room – for these occasional but delectable moments!

The chocolate cake reads “Kal Ho Naa Ho” (Tomorrow May Never Come), the name of the film we were supposed to be watching. We ended up watching another film since Kal Ho Naa Ho ended up only having Arabic subtitles…and none of us are taking it at the moment.

Anyways, the cake. You would think that a room full of girls would demolish a double chocolate cake like this but since most of us have given up sweets for Lent or part of our Lenten fast, there was still maybe a quarter left by the end of the film.

We watched Salaam Namaste instead (which happened to have the same two principle actors anyway). I really enjoyed it: the preposterous plot (like a Korean soap, only happier. Nobody dies of lukemia, for instance), the sporadic dancing (which makes EVERY film better!), and catchy music. Only a Bollywood film could pull of that many plot twists!

Watch the trailer:

They’re so cute.