Brunch in The Emiretes, my indian cooking Jag

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Well here we are again. It's been about a week since I've posted anything and I wanted to talk about my weekend. Work has been a real bear, great things are happening esp. on the e0learning front... stuff is getting done. But myself and a 'friend' decided to change our little routine of going into the capital city of Muscat and getting brunch (very limited options, and you al know how I feel about brunch) and we decided to take the drive to the UAE. So we crossed the border, and checked out this little resort type lace 15 into the UAE. It was really nice, the food was great, the place itself was really cute. I hit the 'non-muslim swine table' like three times, and the service was awesome. On the way out took some tourist-trap pictures with a out-to-pasture retired Bull0male. I'll try to make a picasa album and embed it in this post. It was awesome. Then we drove to the sands... the sands is the part of this region where the arid mountainous desert stops and the place you all think I live in starts... its very tatooine. Like sand-dunes and jawas and shit. Its weird it just like starts out of nowhere. One second there's brown rock and mountains, and it just turns into dunes. Got to 'see' Dubai. Form where we were it was maybe a half hour away. Great skyline... not NYC, but pretty impressive. Speaking of which, I'll be in 'Dubers' in a few weeks for a professional conference. Managed to score 4 days/3 nights in Dubai at a four star like 10 min. from the conference for like 625$ that's including airfare from Muscat... that's awesome can you say professional mini-vacation!
SO I'm psyched about that....

Well if you've been following my 'status updates on facebook, you know that I've been doing alot of Indian cooking. Well I'm totally into it. I learned how to make a from scratch curry (the real thing)and its awesome. Not really hard either, you just need the spices... which are plentiful in this part of the world. I also fell in love with making Dal, which is an Indian lentil soup. Toatally tasty, and I love lentil soup. I never knew there were more than one kind of lentil. Here there are three main kinds. The green, yellow, and orange.. weird, I know. The best part about this is there's a tandori baker around the corner from me. You walk in, tell them how many peices of Nahn you want, and they make it right there in front of you and you take it home, still warm. man, there is something to be said for old world artisan type stuff. Next week after I've done some experimenting with my recipes, I'll drop a few on you guys see if you like them. We'll till next time...