Saturday, December 19, 2009

Merry Christmas and Recipe of a Chikki

Merry Christmas to all my Friend....Enjoy your day with lots of fun!!!
Santa the Magical Person
Christmas is a very special time for many children -- the day presents are left by a magical person.

Christmas is the time of year that children from all over the world await with wide-eyed anticipation. Brightly wrapped packages are left under the Christmas tree or in a sack at the end of their bed. But how do the gifts get there? Who puts them there? Most children, faced with this line of questioning, will barely contain their excitement when they describe a jovial elderly gentleman in a big red coat and a large white beard.
Make a wish dear children.....Santa is on the way of your home….
However, most of his illustrations added to what is now the modern day concept of Santa. Among his additions to the story were the following:
* Santa lived at the North Pole (thus, making him a “citizen of the world.”)
* He wore fur suits
* Elves assisted in his toy workshop
* Children wrote Santa letters
* He kept a list of all who were “naughty or nice”
* Bad children were not rewarded with gifts
Nast’s engravings were popular throughout the country, appealing to both rich and poor, literate and illiterate alike.
In the United States of the late 18th-century, Christmas in most parts of the newly formed country centered around drinking, eating, and raucous noisemaking. However, this would change during the 1800s when Christmas became a quieter, more child centered and family oriented event.


This post is special those friends which are eagerly waiting for this recipe....Thanks for your polite request for chikki. Your request is always valuable for me. :)
Sesame Seeds Chikki

Ingredients:
1 cup sesame seed
3\4 cup shred jaggery
2 big spoons water

* Special type of jaggery which is available in market in winter for making Chikki.

Method of making chikki:
Step 1: Heat two big spoons of water in a kadai (Thick pan).

Step 2: Add shred jaggery in it.

Step 3: Melt nicely on medium flame.
Step 4: When its color is slightly change in dark side then add sesame seeds and continuously stirring.Step 5: In low flame mix jaggery and sesame seeds very well within a minute then turn off the flame.Step 6: Grease a tray or any clean surface and roller of roti before start to make chikki.

Step 7: When you turn off the flame spread the material into grease surface.

Step 8: Quickly roll the material with roti roller so it becomes thin. (As early as possible)

Step 9: Slightly draw horizontal and vertical lines before it cool.

Step 10: When it is cool cut in to square pieces.
Step 11: Store in container in cool place.

Puffed rice Ladoo/Puffed rice Chikki


Ingredients:


3 cup puffed rice
3\4 cup shred jaggery
2 big spoons water

Method of making chikki:
Step 1: Heat two big spoons of water in a kadai (Thick pan).
Step 2: Add shred jaggery in it.
Step 3: Melt nicely on medium flame.

Step 4: When its color is slightly change in dark side turn off the flame on low.
Step 5: Add puffed rice and stirring continuously.
Step 6: In low flame mix jaggery and puffed rice very well within a minute then turn off the flame.Step 7: Take one cup with cold water and take the 3-4 drops of water in your plam and then make the ladoo.Step 8: Here you want extra hand to help coz you make all ladoo as early as possible before the material to be cool.
Step 9: Quickly make the ladoo from the material. Step 10: When it is cool place in container.

Peanut Chikki

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut
3\4 cup shred jaggery
2 big spoons water


How to Roast Peanut:
Step 1: Take the peanuts.
Step 2: Roasted the peanut in thick pan or kadai in law flame.
Step 3: When it is roasted then turn off the flame.

Step 4: This is your roasted redskin peanuts coz it contain the skins. When it's cool remove the skin and break each peanut in to parts so it is easy spread in chikki.

Method of making chikki:
Step 1: Heat two big spoons of water in a kadai (Thick pan).

Step 2: Add shred jaggery and mix well.

Step 3: Melt nicely on medium flame.

Step 4: When its color is slightly change in dark side then add roasted peanuts in it.Step 5: In low flame mix jaggery and peanuts very well for 1-2 minutes after that turn off the flame.Step 6: Grease a tray or any clean surface and roller of roti with oil before start to make chikki.

Step 7: When you turn off the flame spread the material into grease surface.

Step 8: Quickly roll the material with roti roller so it becomes thin.

Step 9: Slightly draw horizontal and vertical lines before it cool.

Step 10: When it is cool cut in to square pieces.

Step 11: Store in air tight container in cool place.

Cashew chikkiSame way you make peanut chikki...Note: If you try first time then take small portion.

Thought of the day:

" If you CANNOT be a pencil to write Anyone's Happiness , then try Atleast to be a NICE Rubber to ERASE everyone's SORROWS..."

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Jewels at the Santa Monica Farmers Market

Gorgeous fresh picked carrots in a rainbow of colors.


This week at the Santa Monica Farmers' Market the jewels of the season glow. Among my favorites? The rainbow carrots in orange, ruby, purple and gold. Some roots were so young they were the tiniest of crooked fingers, delicate and naturally sweet. These carrots make wonderful crudities for hummus.

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Roasted Red Pepper Hummus Recipe

Red pepper hummus - a fab gluten-free vegan snack.


Get your hummus on. It's party time! The holiday season is upon us and that means it's time to whip up your favorite hummus and dip recipes. After all, the days are still getting shorter (my personal excuse for partying). And Winter Solstice- also known as the shortest, darkest day of the year- is only days away.

Then it's here comes the sun, Baby. So. Huzzah! Let's celebrate. To help in such a worthy cause, here's one of our favorite hummus recipes.

Let the sun shine in.


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Monday, December 14, 2009

Thumbprint Cookies with Buckwheat Flour + Brown Sugar

Gluten-free thumbprint cookies made with buckwheat flour + brown sugar.

'Tis the season for baking cookies. So I feel no guilt at all tempting you with my latest gluten-free baking success. What kind of gluten-free goddess would I be if I didn't keep conjuring up cookie recipes? I ask you. Not a goddess worth her salt- er- sugar. So I am not going to apologize for the calories, or the fat or the organic golden brown sugar in this recipe. Goddesses do not apologize for their cookies. Not during cookie season, anyway. And besides, Sweetcakes, a treat should be a treat. Life is short. Daylight is dwindling.

Live a little.

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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Mashala Sukhadi / Katalu and Difference between "Somebody You Love" & "Somebody You Like"

This sweet is made in winter for good health. This is original the same process of Sukhadi or Gud papadi but we add another ingredients so it’s become healthy and benefit in winter. In Gujarat the ready made masala is available and we call it as Katalu. This katalu is all type herbals things in it. I was used famous masala of Katalu known as “Sutariya Masala”.

Ingredients:
250gm wheat flour (Atta)
200gm jaggery (Gud)
150gm ghee
25 gm Katalu (sukhadi masala)
25 gm dry grated coconut
25gm edible gum (Gaund)



Method:
Step 1: Finely chopped the jaggery and keep aside.

Step 1: Heat the half of the ghee in pan and fry edible gum on medium flame. Step 2: Finely crashed fried edible gum and keep aside.

Step 3: Add remaining ghee and add wheat flour in heat ghee on medium flame.

Step 4: Mix flour and ghee very nicely and roasted in low flame.

Step 5: Roasted the flour with continuously stirring until it comes out to brown color.

Step 6: When the flour is roasted well turn off the flame and add fry chopped edible gum.

Step 7: Mix well and after that add 25 gm ready made sukhadi masala (Katalu) and grated coconut in it. Step 8: Turn off the flame and add chopped jaggery in it.

Step 10: Mix this mixture quickly and thoroughly.
Step 11: Spread very well in flat big plate.

Step 12: Cut it in square shape or diamond shape within 2-3 minutes.

Step 13: Let it cool for sometimes and after that store in container.

Note:
1. If you like then add finely chopped almond and cashew before add the jaggery in it.

Difference between "Somebody You Love" & "Somebody You Like"
1 - In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster, But in front of the person you like, you get happy.

2 - in front of the person you love, winter seems like spring. Butin front of the person you like, winter is just beautiful winter.

3 - If you look into the eyes of the one you love, you blush. Butif you look into the eyes of the one you like, you smile.

4 - In front of the person you love, you can't say everything on your mind. Butin front of the person you like, you can.

5 - In front of the person you love, you tend to get shy. Butin front of the person you like, you can show your own self.

6 - You can't look straight into the eyes of the one you love. Butyou can always smile into the eyes of the one you like.

7 - When the one you love is crying, you cry with them. Butwhen the one you like is crying, you end up comforting.

8 - The feeling of love starts from the eye Butthe feeling of like starts from the ear.


So if you stop liking a person you used to like, all you need to do is cover your ears. But if you try to close your eyes, love turns into a drop of tear and remains in your heart forever...

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Winter Holidays: Celebrating Gluten-Free

Looking for inspiration and recipes for your gluten-free Christmas breakfast? Winter solstice brunch with friends? Vegan Hanukkah guests? A romantic New Year's Eve? Here is my collection of holiday favorites. Browse recipes and create your own winter holiday menu. Celebrate gluten-freestyle. With love.


A Mid-Winter's Menu



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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Gluten-Free Chicken Soup for Body and Soul

Gluten free Chicken Soup: The Cure
A gluten-free chicken soup to cure all ills...

We've been living on soup since Sunday. No, not turkey leftovers soup. Jewish penicillin soup. You see, Steve- that ordinarily upbeat and tenacious husband of mine- has been feeling a tad under the weather these past few days. In truth, more than a tad. He's caught a nasty cold. The kind of cold where you ache all over and do nothing but lay in bed watching a marathon of Lost on your laptop because to even zombie-walk to the sofa loveseat too-small-to-lay-on requires functional navigation skills and balance beyond your sinus-throbbing capacity.

Poor guy.

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