Day 33 - Homemade Pav Bhaji

Pav Bhaji is a fast food dish that originated in Indian Marathi cuisine. Pav bhaji consists of bhaji (a thick vegetable and potato based curry) garnished with coriander, chopped onion, hot chilli peppers and bread, which is usually buttered on all sides. This was my first time having the dish. My fiancée's family's friend made it and brought it over on the last day of my visit to the USA. The vegetable curry was loaded on to a buttered and heated slice of bread which I rolled up and ate with gusto. The curry had a texture akin to chilli con carne and the flavour was incredibly rich. It could honestly sit amongst the finest vegetable currys I've eaten. Sweet and salty, sour and spicy, it hit all of the key elements for good Asian cuisine. The depth of flavour was also impressive; like it had been cooking for days, with all of the flavours melding together perfectly. The only criticism of the sandwich was the bread. It's supposed to be served on white rolls. If it had been, it would have received a 10 for sure.



Description: Pav Bhaji garnished with coriander, chopped onion and hot chilli peppers
Location: Future in-law's house, Sugar Land, Texas
Accompaniments: Water (lots and lots)
Companion: Many
Rating: 9/10

Day 11 - Egg cress sandwich

Another classic sandwich. But not really one you can get too excited about. Egg, mayonnaise and cress. Simple, but effetive. This one was purchased from the Camden Food Company and was better than the average egg cress sandwich because the cress was actually peppery large English cress, not the tasteless tiny cress you usually get. The eggs were not over boiled which meant the yolk was not too chalky. But at the end of the day it's just an egg cress sandwich.



Description: Egg Cress sandwich
Location: Tower Hill, London
Accompaniments: Salted kettle crisps
Companion: Girlfriend
Rating: 6/10

Day 5 - Roast Vegetable and Mozzarella Panini

Due to a mistake by a ditsy waitress, I ended up getting this sandwich instead of what I actually ordered (which I believe was a goats cheese, spinach and prosciutto sandwich). I would never dream of ordering a vegetarian sandwich, unless someone had a gun pointed at my head. However, surprisingly, it was not an unpleasant. The panini was well cooked (the outside crispy and the inside warm and slightly moist), the mozzarella was perfectly melted and flavoursome and the roast vegetables were nicely sweetened by what I can assume was a slow roasting proccess. Overall a dumb waitress, but a good sandwich.



Description: Roast vegetable and Mozzarella panini
Location: Westfield shopping centre Stratford
Accompaniments: Double Espresso
Companion: None
Rating: 7/10