Coconut Ladoo- recipe

I could never understand why we have to  keep fast when its God' birthday. Isn't it we should eat a lot and enjoy  But nevertheless This time also I have kept fast on Janamasthami and thought of celebrating it with some yummy sweets. So I made coconut ladoos. Here is the recipe

Ingredients:

1. Grated Dry coconut
2. Sugar
3. Milk

Method: 

 Take one large size dry coconut and grind it. Now mix well the finely grated coconut powder and refined sugar . For finely grated coconut first cut it in small pieces and then grind it .------1

 Take half litre milk and thicken it on sim flame. in between mix it so that it wont stick to the pan----2

Now mix 1 & 2 and shape them in the way you want.. i want them as Ladoos so here are my Ladoos.. Isn't hey look yummy.??

gift packing of baskets

As soon as August started markets were flooded with colorful Rakhis and colorful gifts. I explored many options for my niece and nephew but couldn't find anything good for them . Reasons being either 

1. those gifts are very expensive, 
2. quality of products was not up to the mark, 
3. all the products in gift packing  were not really useful or liked by my kids.....                                                                                                                                                                                     Therefore I decided to pack items accordingly in a basket which are useful and  as I was very much aware about the things that interests them. I also kept a budget for my shopping and was happy that was able to manage in that amount only.

Things require for packing

• Basket ( cost varies from 50-200)
• Sallow tape
• Packing paper
• decorative flowers/ anything available at home

Things I packed in baskets

Cold drink bottles + can pack

Real fruit juices

Pencil box

funky erasers

Chips

Kurkure

Rakhis

saun  . you can learn making Saun at home here

Act 11 popcorn packets

                                        I also labelled the baskets so as to make kids feel special.

Veg cutlets

Vegetable Cutlets

Since holidays are here, kids need something to chew everytime they come home after their tiring games. So here is a simple recipe made up of potatoes and being liked by the kids alot. Though I have added a alot of chillies but you can make it without chillies a s well.

Ingredients:

Potatoes- 2 large

Salt- to taste

Green chilies- not necessary, depends on the taste

Amchoor- 1 tsp

Dhaniya powder- 1tsp

Suji/Vermicelli- to coat

Bread- 2-3 pieces

Method:

Boil Two large size potatoes and mashed them finely. Now add three pieces of bread (white/brown) and also mix them properly.......1

Finely chop one Onion, 5-6 french beans, one capsicum.....2

Now Mix vegetables into mashed potatoes ( 1&2). Also add salt (to taste), Aamchur (1/4 tsp), Dhaniya powder and one green chili.

Shape them the way you like. and roll them over Suji/ vermicelli/ cornflakes/ bread crumbs.

Refrigerate them for at least half an hour and than deep fry them. Your yummy cutlets are ready.