Food for Thought

Many people who know me would be surprised to see that a food post is coming from me :P

However this is to warn tell you that I make a decent cook! (Superior look)

This is my first food post, so pardon me if I am not making myself clear (You can always write to me for a clarification :P) In fact, when I browse through any cookbook or food website, I realize that I don’t even recognize half the ingredients, let alone have it. So I have finally decided, that these websites are meant just for visual pleasure ;)

Anyways, recently I made gujiyas or karanji as it is called in Maharashtra under the expert guidance of MIL which is a kind of sweet. People have sweet tooth, I claim that my whole dentition is sweet. The mould which we got was very big so we ended up making very big gujiyas, 1 would suffice for a meal :P

It sure takes a lot of time and effort but the end result is worth it!

Those of you who would like to try it, below is the recepie:

INGREDIENTS :

For filling:

·        Suji or Rava or Semolina

·        Khuskhus or Poppy Seeds

·        Grated Coconut

·        Cut dry fruits which may include almonds, cashews, pistachios, kishmish/raisin, black kishmish, etc.

·        Ghee

·        Powdered Sugar

For Cover:

·        Maida

·        Oil for frying

METHOD

·        First roast suji in ghee for around 15-20 minutes on low flame until it   turns pinkish brown, then add khuskhus and grated coconut and continue roasting

·        Now add cocnut and dry fruits

·        Finally add sugar and mix thoroughly, the filling is ready
Tip : You can add more ghee or milk for binding. If you add milk, make sure that you finish it quickly! If added ghee, you can keep it for a month and fry as and when to crave for it.

·        Add some ghee in maida and prepare a dough

·        Spread it with the rolling pin and add the filling with the help of the     mould

·        Fry it until golden brown

And here is the final product...

Do try it and let me know how it was. Happy Cooking!!! J

Feeling Good..

I went to Freedom Park yesterday. Its where the protests are going on and people are supporting Mr. Anna Hazare in Bangalore. Its such a nice feeling to be a part of a revolution!!!

I really hope this fast and protests bring some fruits!

Jai Hind!!!

For old times' sake...

I saw this video somewhere and my mind was drifted to old times.

Recently, I was reading a report, in which the researchers have wasted spent their time and resources in proving a thing which we already know, that women speak more than men. In contrast to the average 20,000 words spoken by women per day, men speak a mere 13,000 words!

Now for me, I may not speak those many words, but I cover it up by chatting. I have a friend, I will call her AJ, with whom I chat daily for around 3-4 hours. She was my roommate for 6 years and so we have spent the maximum hours of graduation days with each other. We may not chat continuously, but just the fact that she is at the other end is enough. Many people ask me that what is that you chat about every day. Well, we chat about anything and everything under the sun. I can bug her anytime of the day and I know that she would be listening. We may not always agree with each other, nor do we always approve everything other has done, but that hardly makes a difference in our bond.

So coming back to the video, I have seen Hum-Tum ‘n’ number of times along with AJ.

 During our graduation days, we had rented a house and stayed there. There was no TV at that place (come on, we were students!) We had a desktop though which was our source of entertainment. We rented DVDs of all the latest movies and copied them to the system ;) We had also stored all our favourite movies in a similar way. So there are a couple of movies which we had seen together hundreds of times and no, I am not exaggerating!

And when I saw this clip I relived those days, hence this definitely deserves to be video of the month. 

Since this is friendship week, I dedicate it to AJ and our friendship J 

Cheers!