Diwali!!!

Yes.. the festival that everybody looks forward to the most all through the year is over!! Some parts of India celebrate Diwali today. Wishing all my friends here a very Happy, prosperous Diwali

I do not know how many do this, but as soon as the annual holiday calendar is released, first thing I check for is Diwali. This is one festival that I look forward to each year from the beginning of the year. Even thinking about Diwali brings so much joy and happiness. And just like each year, Diwali is over in the blink of an eye.. sigh!!

I tried a new sweet this year - Maalpua. It's a north Indian sweet dish. These are basically crisp pancakes made out of refined flour and milk, soaked in sugar syrup. I wanted to make this a diabetic friendly sweet as majority of my family members are diabetic - the husband, dad and mil. I got the basic recipe for Maalpuas from here. For the sugar syrup I used Sugar Free Natura and used the recipe from here. It was a big hit with everybody - except me :( I did not like the taste of sugarfree, but the hubby, mil and my dad just loved it!! I thought it left some kind of a bitter after-taste

On the stitchy front, I have a picture to share my progress.

With only a month a half more to the year, I am sure I cannot finish this project in 2015. But I am pretty sure that the day is not very far when I share a 'completed' post!!

So, till next time.. Take care.. Be Happy.. Keep Stitching.. Au Revoir

The apron

The weekend was a great one. My aunt (father's sister) visited us last week and was with us till Sunday. My mom was on a roll making absolutely yummy traditional dishes on account of my aunt. One such time was Saturday dinner

 It was typical Chettinad (South Indian) cuisine, where we had aappam, kuzhi paniyaram and green chutney. Topped it off with some ice cream for dessert

 Sunday evening I dropped off my aunt at her daughter's place. While we were chatting the topic went to Masterchef Australia and guess what, she had an original Masterchef apron that had arrived from Australia as a souvenir just 2 days ago!!! Would I miss an opportunity to atleast click a picture of it

 V would just not co-operate with me to take the picture. After a lot of coaxing, she finally agreed

I tried my hand at a new sweet, called the 7 cup cake

It came out very well, except I think it would be better with half cup lesser sugar. It would then not be called 7-cup cake right, haha.

Not much happened on the stitchy front. That's about my update for today dear friends.

Till next time.. Take care.. Be happy.. Keep stitching.. Au Revoir