Soft Dahi Wadas

Eid calls for outings on chaand raat to get stamps of heena on my palms, buying bangles and intense shopping and amazing food. The glittery bangles are always rough on my skin and clothing, so I prefer the plain matte kinds. There are boxes holding an array of multicolored bangles, illuminated by naked light bulbs suspended on a slim wire. I am not a person who makes multiple visits to the tailor to retrieve clothes that never get stitched on time. I and hashim dislike tailor troubles and this task requires a lot of patience, so we take a shorter route and buy the readymade attire for Eid. And my Eid day becomes a special day when hashim surprises me with fresh and perfumed jasmine bangles.

Creamy Fruit Salad

Fruits And Cream

This is a perfect no-bake dessert for the summer, so easy to whip up and perfect for making ahead if you’re having a date. I make this all the time for my husband as a perfect ending treat to his workout.

Dairy Free Fruit Salad Medley

Wonderful salad for snacking, this is a great raw and naturally tasty alternative. Sweet, crunchy fruits topped with crushed walnuts and almonds are perfect lactose-free treat. I usually love the chill weather, seeing the leaves change colors and fruits showing up with its wonderful aroma in the air and all the wonderful things we can do when the weather cools. The fruit salad is perfect season gift as its light, requires no cooking, absolutely delicious and so addicting. You can use whichever fruit your heart desires! No dependency on any season. I love to make this particular one, again and again, because they are easy to make, and not too sweet.

Mango Treat - Aam Ras | Keri No Ras

Aam Ras substantially means mango loaded treat and whenever I think of this fruit I always gainsay with two things. In Hindi, Aam the word itself means “like ordinary”, and on the contrary Mangoes are also said to be the King of fruits. Secondly, I ween that every fruit is a King as it holds its own goodness and splendid taste. Fruits attract me through its vibrant color, soothing smell and of course its mind blowing taste. I like better to chew fruits instead of blending them so that I can relish its unique taste in every bite. Forbye chewing chunks of fruit means adding fiber, which is ultimately more beneficial than ever. But, there is no harm in getting a kick of it in the form of smoothie, juices or simply as a fruit yogurt.

Breakfast diaries - Yum Yum Old-Fashioned Doughnuts

 

This and chicken bread was our conclusion for our sunday breakfast. The husband and I have had several weeks of relentless work and entertainment. So it was with much joy that we had a slowdown weekend. Golden hour: The bright sun woke us early, we headed to brisk walking following with our yoga regime. Hashim craved for little cookie or a moderate piece of donut so I went straight to my kitchen and prepared these chocolate glazed donuts after all what counts is how you start your day.  It is one of Hashimz favorites, consistently delicious with excellent services *ofcourse. It is very simple to make and delicious way to start your day. The lamination on it is a pure art and we washed it down with latte which made it more alive and of course our last episode of Supernatural. We have held this season for so long, mainly because we didn’t wanted to be a part of the show’s shutter down. Throughout the episode, I was wondering where did the dog go! Also the finale was very much truncated without the existence of Crawly and his epic dialogue – “Hello Boys”, wherein the boys had a terrific ending. Despite all of this, GoT last scene similar iteration made easy for us to get the hang of the loose ends.

Classic Cinnamon Rolls - Mouth Watering Recipe and more !!

Karachi has stretched its new sectors, from china port to outwards towards the charna island. I feel the change palpably on couple of annual visits. There is a new network of roads, a proliferation of malls too. What I love about the city is the call of variety of food not restricted only towards Pakistani and Indian food but at my surprise I cram my trip with list of cuisines. December is a lovely time to visit, but I prefer warm days coaxing flowers to bloom, trumpet flowers hung heavy with their fragrance, in my father in-laws garden, we had many cups of afternoon tea and late lunches in the garden. How can I forget that mama in-law made her signature biryani of chicken along with fruit custard and of course sight seeing, the latter often makes me feel like a tourist.

Hashim and I woke up early on Sunday to drive to the mall of Karachi. We had wanted to take pictures of the ancient buildings and museums. Karachi malls are the namesake of the mall in Dubai, it has existed because of the impressive and stunning architectural talent in the locals of Pashtun laborer, worth exploring to witness a piece of dubai. We ended our morning excursion on a breakfast of cinnamon rolls, chocochip waffles and frappuccino (Clifton city). The place we picked was tranquil and capacious, cinnabon rolls came out in a tray of their own in a steady rhythm. They were surprisingly good in a way soft bread rolled in flavors with delicate frosting all over the top, nothing can smell as good as freshly baked cinnabon rolls. If I am given an option to select the soft rolls or Hermes bag, I would choose these rolls! we were addicted to it, afterwards we had inviting waffles and came along candy ice cream! 

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Carrots Obsessed Dessert/ Gajjar Halwa

Did I tell you all winter is my favorite season? The richness in food all wallow in cream, ghee and butter multiplying the cravings for the fondness of sugar, spice and ice! I love to dipper in ice creams, wee thimbleful of fresh soda's to enjoy this weather fullest. Where soups become the inevitable part to gorge on, sweets expanse the strong tradition in winters. That said, ghee or clarified butter is put in amply in utmost every recipe, in my family, because of its highly active gifted benefits in winter. 

I still dream of mama's special homemade fresh delicacies all dolled up in ghee, In India, big bowls of gajjar halwa (carrot halwa) is prominent particularly in winter, made from crisp and juicy red ruby carrots, they are distinct from the orange ones, they are soft and sweet and an almost fresh ones. Wait! You don't believe that this dessert is made with carrots, carrots and only carrots! And because it is made with such wholesome ingredients like milk, ghee and carrots! it's very filling.

A Recipe Of Belgian Waffle

In India, we treat ourselves with sweets and namkeen to crown the jiff of fest, Malpua is one of the mildly added saccharine pancakes that go along with rabdi or thick creamy sweetened milk. Malpau is sense to be delicate crepe made out of the mixture of refined flour and milk and later deep fried in clarified butter for spectacular taste and wonderful aroma. Malpua ranks high in the dessert section with a soft, crisp and satisfying note, dada used to bring me hot and soft malpua to put an amazing end of the day. Another fashion of pancakes that have regularly enticed me are the one's topped with chocolicious nutella, not so sweet and a flawless start of the morning. Simple batter, easy baking, fulfilling toppings and a great way to pack and carry along! Wonders can only happen on a lovely planet like earth, and what else can be a blessing portion than a beautiful series of pristine pancakes!

Golden Balls In Sugary Syrup/ Mama’s Special Gulab Jamun

Summer is the time to eat soft meals and chilled puddings, fruit custard made ahead from chocolates and deep dark vine fruits or sweet one’s to revive the tune and aura of air. In India, my home, mama used to make array of my favorite dessert configuring like pulms “gulab jamun”, it is a golden pulm shaped sweet concoct by throwing together milk powder and milk, these are eventually deep fried for resplendent finish and next dipped in saffron syrup so that the jamun drinks all the sweetness inside giving juicy and dainty shape of dessert and later refrigerate them in an irregular glass canister. The word gulab jamun has spring from the Indian roots meaning rose berries, the term straddles a series of confections across Asia and south America, there is a strong tradition of making sweets in my family, it was my mama who was famed for her mohanthal, shukhdi, rasmalia, sweet momos and varieties and choices of halwa’s and my personal favorite gulab jamun!

Creamy Chocolate Tart with Cherries Recipe

A small goody in the finesse of chocolates has always fascinated him, especially in the month of Ramzan, the fasting modus operandi month around the world. I find that its high-spirited festive and traditional nature of giving is much like thanksgiving and what can be grateful than the rich desert of chocolate ganache filled up perfectly in chocolate tarts. The thing about these types of recipes is that they can appear more tortuous than they actually are! At first, I felt little bashful in trying this out because of the length and the item list and obviously the steps involved. I’ve overcome that and now I feel confident in sharing my mini tart recipe with you’ll, what I got to know after a bit of an adventure and creation of tweaking is that keep trying with little of what you got and twist the steps as per your own style that can help. So here is a thing, don’t let the cookbook daunt you instead, leaf through the elements and steps and twist them as per your understandings, cheat where you can and enjoy with cream, fruits or simply melted chocolate and a glass of wine! After all, we all love to do it!

Icy Milky Falooda

It is not adequate for a falooda to just be sweet, a good falooda is one with a fine scoop of flavored ice cream, crunchy almond flakes, and flavored milk pep up together with jelly textured basil seeds and vermicelli, need I say more? In a true expression of the word, this healthy drink is really a quintessence of exuberance worthy taste in summers and the way it carries all the flavors in one big glass. While flashing down the memory lane Haji Ali fruit center strikes back all the happy hours spent with my gorgeous family, when dada used to take us along for a healthy heavy snacking, I have frequented in the days when I lived in Mumbai. The Haji Ali fruit center has stood up for really good eateries and mainly the custard apple (sitaphal) milkshake. What distracted me was the tempting list of fruit juices, I recall the flavorful Schezwan club grill sandwich was best and my brother’s special butterscotch falooda, his simplest pleasure of life.

In the mood of falooda, I settled on making this yummy milky dessert at home, with delightful memories to fulfill the strong perfection with rose syrup and jelly textured cooling effects. This dessert has always worked out great for me by allowing me to quickly refrigerate rose milk and vermicili in the morning for the instant evening preparations. I always serve this glass of drink with a light dinner to hit the spot by serving the right amount of kick.

Rose Falooda With Ice Cream

Preparation Time: 30 minutes

Cooking Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 45 minutes

Serves: 2 glasses

Ingredients:

1 pack of pistachio ice cream, you can also try vanilla, strawberry or mango flavored ice cream as per your preference.

1 cup full fat milk

3-4 tablespoons basil seeds, if unavailable, you can use Chia seeds

½ cup rose syrup, I have used Roohafza syrup

1 cup falooda noodles or vermicelli

½ cup jelly (click now for jelly recipe), I have used strawberry jelly.
1 cup chopped pineapple, I have used the tin one's.

Method:

• Firstly, soak basil seeds in water prior 1 hour of making falooda, as soon as they bloom simply drain the water and leave it aside.
• Secondly, bring milk to boil and simmer until it reduces in quantity and becomes creamy in consistency, bring it to the room temperature and add 2 tablespoons of rose syrup and mix, refrigerate.
• Prepare falooda noodles as per the packet instructions, rinse the cooked noodles and leave aside to cool, along with cool down the empty serving glasses half an hour before.
• Prepare strawberry jelly (click here for its recipe) and slice it into cube shape.
• In a glass, add 2 tablespoons of rose syrup, gently make the addition more or less as rose syrup adds sweetness in your drink, add 1 tablespoon of basil seeds, 1 tablespoon of cooked noodles and 1 tablespoon of jelly cubes, pour in chilled rose milk till 3/4^th of the glass.
• Gently scoop pistachio flavored ice cream on the top continuing with the addition of sliced almonds, cubed jellies and pineapple cubes, you can add mango pieces or cherries too. Serve immediately for fresh scoop of ice cream and yummy drink! Enjoy!

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Yummy Chocolate Custard Recipe

Chocolate is everyone's favorite in our house. We love to eat chocolate pudding, chocolate cookies, chocolate ice creams and much more. For me, chocolate a day that keeps the doctor away! Chocolate is loved by everyone from all ages if used in a right way and proportion. I personally love to drink a chocolate smoothie or chocolate milk in my breakfast, but by the time I could grab chocolate bars, my dearest husband would wolf down my whole chocolate bar. It's like a cat and dog fight to win a chocolate bar, I think we haven't grown up yet even after our marriage ;)

Well! Now you can surely understand our love and craze behind chocolates and if you too have the same bonding with chocolate bars then this sweet and delicious recipe is just made for satisfying your sweet buds too! Sweet is just an incomplete dish if served without chocolate. Melted chocolate, powder chocolate or chocolate bar I think this is all I needed since the day I first tasted this heavenly eatable. I think this is the best invention of human's on this planet earth. 


Dark chocolate, white chocolate or any mismatch version of chocolates can simply be a treat for me. Girls majorly love shopping or partying and I simply love eating, drinking and ending my day with chocolates!! I have always suffered from bad tooth aches for loving chocolates. But,  tooth aches couldn't stop my love from chocolates! I know this sounds quite like a love story, but this is how it is supposed to be when you are too much in love, so what if it's chocolate and not a guy!

Today, I have a very yummy and chocolicious recipe made completely from chocolate. This is my husband's childhood favorite recipe that is why I have decided to make this dessert for him every week! He loves to eat custard and especially this one. After a long, tiring time from work whenever he faced an awful day, I always try to surprise him with this one. And after having this I wait to see his million-dollar happy face! We all love surprises and specially the surprise wrapped in our favorite sweet item! Now, I have tried this recipe and it tasted exactly like the one he likes! We just enjoy the moments where we generously dig our spoons in one bowl like the mad lad. If you too want to feast on delicious, soft  and completely chilled chocolate custard than here is the recipe!

Chocolate Custard

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Serves: 3-4 persons

Ingredients:

3 cups of full cream milk

4-5 tablespoons of Sugar

5-6 tablespoons of Chocolate custard powder

1/2 cup chocolate bars

Method:

• In a bowl, pour 1 cup of full cream milk.
• Add 5-6 tablespoons of chocolate custard powder which is readily available in any store or market, I have used Rafhan chocolate custard powder. Slowly add 2 tablespoons of custard powder one-by-one and keep mixing the powder in full cream milk to avoid lumps.
• Keep adding chocolate custard powder until the milk mixture turns thick without any formation of lumps. Mix until the custard powder gets dissolved properly.
• In a saucepan, bring 2 cups of full cream milk to boil. Once milk starts boiling add 4 tablespoons of sugar, Adjust the sweetness as desired.
• Now add the mixture of custard powder which we had prepared earlier. Keep stirring under medium flame for a few minutes.
• As soon as the mixture thickens you can mix a half cup of chocolate bars and stir well.
• Now, immediately remove the mixture into the serving bowl and garnish with chocolate. Refrigerate it and serve chilled.

Everyone of us love to use less ingredients as less is easy, but can, less effort and less ingredients give as tasty and amazing results like tasted somewhere in your favorite restaurants?

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Healthy & Easy-To-Make Mix Fruit Custard

My first sweet recipe on this blog. I am so excited to share this recipe with you'll, well, maybe because, I love fruits!!! After experimenting it many times with few permutations and combination I have FINALLY made it right and delicious..!

It's simple, easy to make, quick & healthy recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth. It's my husband's favorite sweet dish since his childhood, so obviously I have to excel in making this fruit custard with  a few basic ingredients. It's the perfect light fruit dessert for any occasion or party. 

Let me tell you, this fruit dessert is so filling and tasty, whether you want to serve them for breakfast or dessert. Store it for a couple of days, which makes it freezer friendly as well as kids friendly sweet dish. Best dessert recipe for newbies to start with, If your kids run away from eating those fruits simply chop & add them while making this custard. Everyone in my house loves it, I hope you and your kids do too. 

Mix Fruit Custard 

Preparation Time: Less than 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Serves: 2 persons

Ingredients:

1/2 Liter Milk

1 cup Milk for diluting custard powder

4-5 tablespoons Sugar as needed

1 bowl diced mix fruits.

5 tablespoons Custard powder

Method:

• In a bowl, add 1 cup milk and 5 tablespoons of custard powder, Dilute custard powder into the milk to avoid lumps. Mix well and keep it aside.
• In a pan over a medium heat, bring half liter milk to a boil. 
• Lower heat and add 4-5 tablespoon of sugar. You can adjust the sweetness per your likings. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves.
• Slowly add custard powder & milk mixture & keep stirring the milk for 2-3 minutes. When the milk consistency changes from thin to thick simply turn off the flame & pour the mixture into a bowl. Leave it for 20 minutes until it comes to room temperature. Refrigerate it so that the consistency of custard becomes thick.
• Add seasonal mix fruits as per your liking's, I have added diced banana, cherries, apple, pineapple & papaya. You can mix fruits after the mixture come to room temperature & refrigerate until ready to serve. Garnish with pretty fruits & serve chilled.

Try it before summer comes to an end. You can use frozen fruits instead of fresh fruits as a substitute and tell us what you think.