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sweets

I made doodh peda ,  coconut laddu ,  mysore pak  and  sunnundalu  yesterday. It was quite an experience. I usually dont make sweets. All these sweets need ghee, but I used butter. I started with doodh peda. Recently I learnt of my sister's affinity for peda. Peda is a sweet we enjoyed a lot as kids. My parents got her a big box full of peda. I didnt think I would get a chance to use this recipe. I had to make 4 kinds of sweets. Another restriction was that they had to be solid with no syrup or run. What a convenience it is that safeway's dry milk has 3 packets in it, each of 1.5 cups, just the size the recipe asks for. While making it I realised that the mixture was leaving the sides of the pan. Why is this important? The next coconut laddoo was a breeze. Mixing condensed milk with cocnut. I used the shredded flakes for its shape even though the recipe called for dessicated coconut. If you ask me for the definition of perfect - 2 words - condensed mi...

Hydrophobic baker's choice

It being Christmas, my husband thought it cannot go without a cake. I liked this  chocolate fruit  cake but I didnt like the so many vaious gm measurements. This Mazurkas  cookie recipe is so inviting to make. But what we want is a cake right now.  Christmas fruitcake  recipe is it. I saw another fruitcake recipe that started with 5 cups of water. i am going to stay away from recipes that call for water in a cake.
southern living 2011  has many sweet tea  recipes. I wonder how sweet tea vinaigrette, sweet tea rice, swee tea brined chicken, sweet tea tiramisu taste. quinoa 365

potluck

Today my husband had to take something for a potluck. He boiled kabuli chana. I had channa chaat  in mind yesterday. But today I made chana chaat and coconut chana dal stir fry . I forgot to use the onions I chopped for the stir fry. He came back with Queen Anne's chocolate, pie, candy cane, cake, egg rolls, wheat snacks wirh chile and lemon, a big bottle of picante sauce. Today I had Hazelnut Mazel coffee . It was not very ceamy, rife with hazelnut flavor.