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Carrot Pudding (Gajar Halwa)

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A warm bowl of delicious Indian carrot pudding lifts my inner wintry spirit. I prepared it using only condensed milk without adding extra sugar. This yummy reddish bowl is all we need to warm up in cozy nights. Nutrition Value This recipe serves an approx 6 bowls of pudding with a maximum of 140 calories each. The pudding has carrot, condensed milk, and whole milk it. It is a rich dessert and considering the fat amount it should be in our occasional cheat list. Carrot- 615 kcal Amul Mithai Mate - 670 kcal Milk-  296 kcal Clarified Butter-  200 kcal Total Calories- 1781 kcal Calories per bowl- 300 k cal each piece Ingredients 1 and a half kg- Red Carrot 200 gms - Condensed milk 2 cups- Whole Milk 1/4 cup mixed crushed dry fruits 2 tablespoons- Clarified butter Method Clean and shred the carrots in a food processor. Take a big pressure cooker and add clarified butter and carrot into it. In a low medium flame keep sauteing the carrots for nearly ...

Open Face Sandwich

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Open Face Sandwich The best way to include semolina in your diet is this open face sandwich. Perfect for breakfast, kids lunch or snack, it's tasty and healthy with no guilt even if you are on a diet. Nutrition Value This recipe serves an approx 12 bread slices with a maximum of 140 calories each. The sandwich is a combination of semolina, oat flour, and curd. Semolina- 560 kcal Oat flour - 80 kcal Curd-  143 kcal Bread- 80 kcal Total Calories- 783 kcal Calories per piece- 140 k cal each piece Ingredients 1 cup - Semolina 1/2 cup -Oat flour (maida) 1 cup- Curd 2 teaspoon salt 1cup- mixed shredded vegetables (capsicum, carrot, onion, tomato) 1/2 teaspoon Garam masala Method Mix the semolina, oat flour and curd in a bowl with salt. Let it sit for ten minutes. Add all vegetables and garam masala to it. Check the consistency if its should in spreadable form and if it does not add one tablespoon of milk or water at a time to make get the consis...

Neighbors

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We always try to retrieve familiar faces in our lives, it could be a smile, voice, manner anything. While being on a walk, moving across the country or world, we always get attracted to certain frames of mind as friends, colleagues, or neighbors. We can't be friends with everyone, but the hunt of finding a face instate the basic communication. Change of college, jobs, marriage moving is what we all do. However, my very first neighbors in the state was an elderly couple. The lady was friendly with a sweet smile on her face, her white cloudy hair used to remind me of my Grandma. I often use to mention her to my parents and Grandma over Skype. It was my first foreign stay and I felt very welcomed with her warm smiles. I use to had small chats with her, usually about the weather, or how I am today! American movies had made me familiar to their fire brigades, ambulances, but seeing them often raised my concern for the elderly couple. Later, I came to know, the couple has a midd...

Cade cove

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To refresh our-self with some cold breeze far away from the sunshine state, we (family of three) decided to take a small tour of the Great Smoky Mountains. We shopped for some winter clothes, as this was my sons first time in the snow and being in Florida means you have to prepare mentally for some cold because here we don't have winter months we have only winter weeks. We started our journey from Tampa by Friday afternoon and drove a little over 3 hours to take a break. Tip- If you are traveling with small children I will advise to search and be prepared in advance for your stops and if you have time search for some outlet near highways or shops like IKEA, Walmart because here kids can easily stretch their legs and you can grab some snack and can freshen up too, so its a kind of win-win. After driving for 6 hours, we checked in at Marietta, GA. Next morning we had our go-to breakfast and drove straight for 4 hours to reach our first destination, Cade Cove loop at Tennessee...