Juji served the curries with lemon rice. The recipe is from Jamie Oliver’s Happy Days with the Naked Chef book, and is also featured in Season 3 of the Naked Chef TV series, in the episode called “Curry Fest”. The rice is basmati, flavoured with lemon zest, lemon juice and curry leaves.

Curry #1 was chicken tikka masala. Mmmmmmm…

Curry #2 was beef. It was mainly for Dad, who doesn’t really like chicken, but we all had some.

Curry #3 was chickpea with tomato. I really love cooked tomato, all sweet and soft. I especially love tomatoes in curries. I love chickpeas. This one was a definite winner!

Of course, we always have a token vegetable dish. In this case, it was steamed green beans, broccoli and snowpeas. They were just lightly seasoned, no butter necessary. They went perfectly with the curries.

My plate. We also had pappadums and corn on the cob (not pictured). It was a delicious meal. Not surprisingly, I had a couple of rounds.

Dessert was tiramisu, also made by Juji. She used the recipe that was on the back of the packet of sponge fingers. The top is cream cheese. The Kahlua had thoroughly soaked the bottom layer of sponge, and it was mighty good.