Three in one Post....A great sucess INDEED

I’m more active now and did a lot ....

I’m so...active these days..........I have worked a lot on the foody craft for my daughter, I have bought ,khas-khas, makhane(lotus seeds) pistachio walnuts,raisins , figs.........i have posted a lot in my blogs............OH.GREAT achievement.............However, i was little lazy today, i skipped to clean our bathroom and the kitchen the day before that.but i did rearrange the living room today.not much fun in that, but a sense of satisfaction, i suppose......OOOOOOHOOOoo.

I am at the walking distance of our University Nehru library,which was surprising to say the nearest—I live libraries! I may take a day trip with my niece to got a book tomorrow. I checked the catalog, the other day and noted down the accession no of some interesting books on DIY a nd a book from Gandhi Vang-may series as well as one from Gita Press there is a good collection ov Vangmayas. Ilove books from Geeta press and the books of Gandhi ...written by Gandhi THE FATHER OF OUR NATION...OOOOOHHHHHHOO.

But nevertheless, it is late, and i am tired. I think we will skip the dinner today .as my son is on his business tour to Gurgoan and we (me, mom and my niece) will starve tonight.......NO...No we will have our grapes and Apple with milk at bed time.it will be ok.....I certainly hope so.Or rrrr let see my mom’s and niece’s opinion for their dinner........

I made this sweet the other day ... a wintry treat.......

Majoon

Majoon (A Sindhi mithai speciality of Sakkhar community)

Ingredients:

200gms........almond

200gms........cashew

125gms........pista

100gms .......dry dates(chopped or pulsed in mixie)

100gms.........khus khus

400gms.........sugar

300gms ........unsweetend khoya

300gms ........ghee

2-3tsp Cardamom powder
1 lt.............milk

Method:

Bring boil milk and sugar together,now add the poppy seeds, khoya,cardamom powder and pulsed dry dates,boil until the milk reduced to half, pound mildly the nuts and add it to the boiling milk, put the flame in simmer and cook carefully by stirring in between, add the ghee slowly and cook until the cooking mixture gets thickens and dry.

Cook well until the ghee gets separates, now the cooked mixture will looks like a brown milk cake and the nuts will be soft while having.Let it cool completely.

Store it in a air tightened box and serve it for breakfast.

Serving: Take 3-4tbsp of the majoon and heat in microwave oven for 2minutes with 2tsp of milk, serve hot for breakfast.

NOSTALGIC with seeing some pictures

There was a time we had these installed in our front garden. Me with my daughter used to climb on the rod and with firm clasps on the pole hang on it, also i used to walk on the pole from one end to the next...see how light weight was me at that time...go-gone are the days...

In our grandpa house we had this swing on munja rope in my paternal father’s house and jute rope swing in my maternal father’s house we spent countless hours swing on. It was very basic. Two-swings and a teeter toter made by kalu’s father in my paternal grandpaa’s house.the seats were made out of Shisham wood. I loved pulling up to grandpaa’s house seeing Neem tree swaying in the breeze, the wooden cart and horse we loved to play on, the pond to cool our feet off in the swing set! It was अ-paradise to us all the children!

Also we had a swing on the iron jal on the roof our mansion....

When i found these pictures on , Kiki and Polly, it reminded me of my childhood visits to both the grandparents. My paternal Grandpa passed away in the year2001, and my maternal Grandpa passed away in the year 1986.they are both gone now. I can’t wait to see them again with my open eyes,but ! yes. I sometimes meet them both in my dreams .....alive! with their body they talk with me in dreams ..like the way in real life.... for now. I am nostalgic and try to memorize the days with them.

Good night!