Receta Diwali Feasting in The Time of Pandemic. All Tandoor, All The Time!! (Part 1)

Ever since I started cooking Indian food 30 years ago, I've always enjoyed throwing a big Diwali feast for friends and family. No matter what, through all sorts of ups and downs, wildfires, floods, I've always managed to cook a big Diwali dinner. Except this year. I had Covid back in early March and spent two months in isolation, including my birthday, sick with it. I never want to go through that again, nor do I want any family and friends to have to, so I figured this would be a year without dinner parties, BBQs , etc. I was perfectly fine with that. Everything we've eaten in this house since late Feb, was either grown and cooked by me, (or Alan while I was sick) or just plain cooked by me. I bake our bread, and make our ice cream, and…