Another milestone: 1st Indian take-away..

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Dhansak is a delicious Indian dish of lentils, vegetables, ginger, cumin etc - which, coming our favourite restaurant down the road, differs in spicy-hotness depending on which bag of chillies they happen to be using.

We had an incredibly hot prawn dhansak on the night that Max entered the world. Could the restaurant have been responsible for his induction? If so, Jaflong might have been a choice of middle name instead of Nathanael. I digress...

So it was with more than a little caution that i ordered again last night, knowing full well that my nostalgia could be rewarded with a dash upstairs. Claudia's first week of work at the practise had been overcome, as had my first day looking after the boys - although Max had been spirited away for much of the day by compassionate friends. We, bedraggled parents, deserved a treat!!

Hot though it was, the evening's delicious meal of chicken dhansak, sag aloo, pilau and a peshawari nan ended without a major incident (i had to lie down for a while afterwards, but i blamed the nan bread for that). That's kind-of another recovery milestone - WE DO TAKE-AWAYS.. 40% cheaper too! due to my reduced appetite.