International Food Party at Amerikan College

In October, we had a wonderful party at the Amerikan College. This was an international food party where people had to prepare some food item from their own country. There are five of us here namely Vaas, Arpit, Khandu (Mayank Khanduja), Pushan Da and myself. On the day of the party, Doku had come to Leuven and so we had a 6 person IIMC-gang.


The night before the party, Pushan Da and myself developed some enthu for cooking some delicacy. As we are techno-savvy cooks, we started searching for interesting recipies. Our decision model was simple, the thing should not involve a lot of effort, raw materails should be easily available, and it should look good.

After a lot of deliberations, we decided upon Kheer. Our first choice was Sanjeev Kapur, the famous chef (of Khana Khazana fame) but recipies (those freely available) did not somehow satisfy our requirements. Next we turned to Tarla Dalal, and there we saw something worth trying: Apple Kheer


The recipie was noted down and both of us rushed to the kitchen. We grated the apples and boiled the milk and all went well until we added the apples to the milk. As soon as we added the apples, we had themilk transformed into butter and water (Doodh Phat Gaya). We were in panic and decided to file a lawsuit against Tarla Dalal. For the short term, we were looking how to make best of what we had got (Phatey hue doodh me seb).


Khandu had come downstairs and saw us struggling with the Kheer. We tried a lot of things, finally deciding to drain out the water and freeze the remaining stuff. But life was not this simple. The water along with it, drained away most of the sugar from the mixture.

On the day of the party, we took out Kheer out, added sugar to it and then put a layer of grated almonds on top. We added few other dry-fruits, and transformed our Kheer into Halwa.


We also prepared some Vegetable Biryani and Alu Matar. The African Duo of Tom and Everest had prepared bananas the African way, which tasted like Potatoes and some other combos and named it Hakuna Matata. The Hungarian group had prepared chicken which tasted like Butter Chicken. Javier made some great Sangria, Brecht prepared an intersting kind of Chocolates, Mathilde made some Belgian Custard, We also had some Bulgarian Salad, Molluscs, Polish Potatoes, Dutch Ham and Potatoes and what not. Not to mention, the crowd favourite, the Indian Apple Halwa.


The great session of food and wine was follwed by a dance session and we all got into the groove without much invitation. Later on, Arpit sang Dooba Dooba which was one of the last attraction of the evening.