Persian Passion

IT'S BEEN A BUSY WEEK, AGAIN. THERE IS NO LET UP IN MY WORK RATE, IT SEEMS. 

I DID NOT EVEN TAKE A DAY OFF FOR CNY, preferring to keep up with the momentum and pace. Make every day the best one I can and enjoy it while I can. Such motto cannot be wrong I reckon. 

Next week's weather forecast does not give me any joy. Hot week ahead, still. Normally by the latter half of February the weather should cool down a few degrees to low 20's as we head into Autumn in March. Instead this year, it is forecast to be low 30's for the next 7 days. Heat makes me less productive as I tire easily..... 

And hot weather makes us feel like eating out rather than cook our dinners. Tonight we go for "Persian" food at Persian Flavors on Springvale Road. It's a restaurant we have patronized a few times in the past and I have always enjoyed their Beef Vindaloo and Naan. Eat with your hands! Love it!

Tonight, with SM, I stay away from beef. Always the perfect dining partner that I am. We order butter chicken, Ghormesh Sabzi (lamb cooked with lime juice, spinach, parsley and black eye beans, garlic naan, saffron rice (basmati) and mango dough (yoghurt). 

I want to eat their Akbar Mashdi dessert (milk, sugar, saffron, pistachio and rose water custard) but I am so full.

Ghormesh Sabzi is worth a special mention. It is BITTER as it is cooked with whole lime. An acquired taste I am sure and it goes well with the butter chicken, though, which is a little sweet for my liking.