Beautiful Day

Its indeed a beautiful day..today..guess every day is like that. Naturewise today it is just the right temperature not too cold neither too warm..
I got up quite lazily today but did my usual routine of working out, eating well:) Now am upto reading my novel..and suddenly the fire alarm goes off..or on..whatever..
So I jump from my seat and open all the doors..wondering what is burning in my house when I cant smell anything weird..!

Then it calms down all of a sudden and after some time there it goes again this time louder almost like its my house alarm!So I step out into the balcony and see some workers going around the area...One of them says hi to me and mentions that they are just testing the fire alarm system! That explains it all..

The time I was out, I noticed the water in the pond outside our home flowing by itself happily..hehe I almost sound like a poet..! It looked perfect almost like the day when I landed here in june last year..time flies but it leaves such good memories and today I feel happy remembering those and living it again..

So I take out my camera and click away pictures capturing the moments and freezing it in time..

Holi

On the onset of Holi..I thought of making puran polis..just an excuse to eat good stuff..eh ? :))
It wasnt so difficult as I had thought it to be!
Cooked up a quick recipe and lo behold it was done...You can check out some of the snaps..out there.
For those who are interested in how I did it,
Take equal measures of Chana dal/ Bengal Gram, Gud/Jaggery and Maida/all purpose flour.
Knead the Maida with water and oil and a pinch of salt and set it aside for around an hour so that it becomes softer. Cover it with a wet cloth.
Meanwhile cook the dal in cooker and approx 3-whistles just so that you know its cooked.
Remove the excess water from it, you can use a strainer.
Then mix the jaggery(grated) with it and also can add Elaichi/Cardamom(powdered) to enhance the flavor. Mix them over heat so that you have the right consistency as much as required to fill in the dough.
Now make small round dough pieces like you would make for chapathi, roll it over a little and stuff the chana mix into it and again roll it over.
I didnt have any problems with it breaking but just watch out..in case the filling does come out while rolling the flour, put another small piece of the kneaded dough to cover it up ;)

Then fry the 'polis'just like you would fry chapathis!

And voila your lovely puran polis are ready to be savoured...