WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR ! ! !
Here I am, after one of my disappearing acts, AGAIN. I am really good at this, disappearing I mean. A girl has to do this for her sanity sometimes & other times when she has no option. This time around I had no option. My fingers itched to write about all that was happening around me, all that I was doing & experiencing but with the whirlwind of activity that was afoot I had no time to write. I cook & baked but never got to photograph anything. The plum cake that turned out far to rummy to be called a plum cake was named rum cake & disappeared in our tummies without any pictures. The Gajar Halwa disappeared twice without trace , this time I will post about it.
The year ended with a visit from my aunt, uncle & sister on the 31st of December. It also brought along with it the blossoming of the lone rose in our garden.
The year began with the 1st Birthday Celebration of a friend’s daughter & an afternoon spent catching up with friends & delicious food.The evening was spent watching “Key Tumi” a play based on the writing of Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore. Beautiful Bengali recitation by the evergreen Sharmila Tagore & Shoumitra Chatterjee & Rabindra Sangeet by Lopamudra Mitra & Paramita Chatterjee filled our evening with complete bliss & satisfaction.
Santa came a little late this season wearing a postman’s uniform with an amazing & much anticipated gift pack from Mortimer Snodgrass that I won in a giveaway from Evelyne Budkewitsch beautiful blog Cheap Ethinic Eatz. What an amazing array of gift came my way. A table saw that can cut cakes & lettuce with equal ease, Joyce Green is an all natural citrus reamer made from a combination of wood & plastic, a sprout making kit, a pepper grinder with three different pepper settings, and some sexy hot chili pepper to cool my drinks without making them watery. I hope I have more surprises coming my way this year.
Then my friend Tashi came to meet me with her son Zino. We meet after 5 years. The last meeting had been my wedding reception. I have no recollection of what we talked about but had been mighty pleased she could come. Now she has a 2.5 year old son who is a handful & a bundle of joy. I sometimes wonder how time flies …
December & January have also been a busy time for my Dreams …
Chocolates & Dreams was started with a desire to share all that I make in my kitchen, experiments, tried & tested recipes, failures, improvements everything. It was my way into the world of food & happiness. I am happiest when I am whipping up a cake or rolling out dough on the kitchen counter with music in the back ground & a house to myself. The Dream was to always start of a little bistro of my own, a small place where pancakes, waffles, muffins, French toast would be served with a dose of music, discussion & all things fun. What it would also sell would be home made soft filled chocolates for the chocoholics craving soul. The dream has partially taken flight. With order of chocolates going out steadily I have been a little tied down & away from the blog. But, I promise to be regular between all that will go on because this blog is my lifeline.
Chocolates are now available on order in the Delhi & NCR region. So just send me a mail to chocolatesanddreams@gmail.com if you would like to order.
