Cooking like my mother

A scoop of coconut ice cream is just what doctor ordered for me to relax! Equal amount of condensed milk, evaporated milk and coconut milk with a pinch of ground nutmeg is mixed together to make this delectable coconut ice cream. This is an old reliable recipe which needs 5 minutes to make + time to freeze.

Bajare ka pua is one of those things that Mummy made and I always enjoyed but never got around to cooking it on my own. Bajare Ka Pua also turned out to be one of the last things Mummy made that we were fortunate enough to try. It is always going to hold a special place in my heart for that reason. Best way to describe a pua is to call it a sweet fried bread. It has the sweetness from gur (jaggery) and slightly bitter (but sweet) after taste from the millet flour. In winter months, when millet flour is available, Mummy made the puas to be enjoyed by us kids and my father. She had a special snack cupboard in the house where all the special treats were kept. One of my favortie thing to do when I visited her was to check the snack cupboard. It was a delight to find some of the items I had not tasted for a long time. So how did I got around to making the pua? 1st March was the festival of Holi and I wondered about what to prepare. I decided to make puas. I felt nervous because even though ...

Mummy's cake is one of those dishes that most of us will remember for a long time. She owned a oven for as long as I can remember. The older oven, once it stopped working, was painted and mounted on the wall and was used as an airtight little cupboard to store special snack/food items. She baked cake for the birthdays for anybody that mattered to her. If it was my birthday, no matter where I was, I knew she must have baked a cake for me. She had improvised her cake recipe over time. In the beginning, she used condensed milk but then when she visited us in 2000, she once showed me how to make the cake with ingredients almost always available in my kitchen. Lately she had been using yogurt in her cake recipe which I never learnt. I will ask didi (my sister) or my aunts for the recipe with yogurt. Then we had to also experiment with the temperature at which to bake. Her oven in India only had one setting and we dont know what it was. Last week was my son's birthday, first birthday...