Nani's Pudding ( Grandma's Pudding)

There is extra chaos in kitchen when there's a guest coming over to our place and also an amazing smell of spices wafts from the kitchen wrapping the whole house.

One of the desserts that accompany the main courses is my grandmothers pudding. Which I have been enjoying since childhood and am sure the taste will remain on my toungue till I grow old.

We all wait till dinner is done and desserts are served or atleast I wait so just to feel it melt on my toungue the smoothness  and taste is really delicious or rather out of this world. 

The recipe I think was given to my grand mum  by one of her Bohri freind, maybe 35 years ago. 

This is step by step on how to make the pudding. 

Ingredients:

6 eggs

6 cups water

3 tblsp custard powder

4 big ladlespoon nido powder

1 tsp cardmom powder

Sugar 1 cup

Ground pistachios

Method:

Mix water and milk powder. Add custard powder. Add eggs one by one and blend. Add sugar and rest of the powders of cardmom and pistachios with hand blender.

Add all the ingredients in huge cooking dish or a wok.

Make sure u keep on tawa (flat pan usually used to make roti) and cook on dum(steam) if you don't cook on dum chances of pudding are to get burned. Cook on medium flame for approx 45 minutes to 1 hour. 

Check like cake skewer testing if it comes out clean then it's ready. Refrigerate overnight and serve next day.

Enjoy :)

Clementine's Wednesday

It's February, as everybody knows a month of love. I never understood the fact, that how everybody just came to realise the importance of love on 14th of February. With huge discounts and endless offers on jewellery and selected stores people thronging in and out of shops and Malls.

I am not saying I'm not in Love or I don't believe in love. I am that person who believes love should be everyday and you don't need one day to celebrate. Though I know it doesn't make me any different, as there are many who shares the same thoughts as me. 

Anyways season of love or rather month of love is here and me being an Indian bargaining is my Strong forte and all desi's love places where they can bargain that's what made my tangy Wednesday even more tangier. After reading Kulsum Kunwa's Indian style tangerine lemonade's recipe, I was itching badly to try it out. I got good a bargain price for Clementine's at local grocery store. So here I make my Valentine' Wednesday  oops sorry Clementine's Wednesday.

I have always been mad about citruss fruits be it lemon or grapefruits or oranges, I have always enjoyed their tantalising taste on my toungue and hence I tried out Kulsum's recipe.

It was delicious here is the recipe if you do want to try it out.

Adapted from Journey Kitchen

Ingredients:

7 clementines

1/2 lemon

Honey to taste

Rock salt or kala namak a pinch

Method:

Squeeze the juice out of clementine and lemon and pour into serving glass and mix the rest of the ingredients. Serve with ice cubes and enjoy.

A get together with my freinds

As usual sitting in the class a friend of mine said let's meet up at ladies park. You can call your relatives and I will call some more of my freinds she said.

The idea sounded great, but as always I wasn't really sure how would I get along with a huge group of philipino ladies. Not to forget the language barrier ( it's not as if they don't understand or can't communicate in English). 

Anyhow I made up my mind to go along with them. The weather was pleasant with cool winds blowing and kids running around in the park. Some riding cycle and some just jumping and screaming and yes some also tagging around their mums, yelling to get some new toys. 

My mates decided to sit on top of a small man made hill in the park, which personally me to likes as it's very comfy and private space that you get to enjoy. But due to rest of the people had small kids so hence we had to shift our space to lower ground, where kids wouldn't fall and get hurt.

The ladies were very warm and welcoming, though language barrier was still there as they all spoke in Tagalog and I just knew the word "Sigi Sigi" ( meaning Yes in Tagalog). It doesn't mean that my freinds didn't translate what they spoke, yet at times you get a feeling of being alienated.

How can I forget the food, yes food consisted Mixed vegetable gravy, Chicken Roast, Salted fried Fish, boiled rice and Crab Soup. Sweets included Crumbly biscuit of Dates and Boiled rice dumpling with sugar coating. 

Over all I really had fun and I look forward to meeting them again.

How can I forget the food, yes food consisted Mixed vegetable gravy, Chicken Roast, Salted fried Fish, boiled rice and Crab Soup. Sweets included Crumbly biscuit of Dates and Boiled rice dumpling with sugar coating. 

Over all I really had fun and I look forward to meeting them again.