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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 ...

A hot cup of tea by the sound of rain, the smell of fresh wet sand was refreshing something within me, the quiet mist was soaking my face as I was trying to snuggle myself in the quilt. Somehow a mist-free gray hair fell over my face and preferred to float dry to tell me, yeah it's your birthday and you are, maybe, not sure, but yes, getting older now. Often, a quiet birthday brings feign of emotions. Another year goes by circling the same good and bad perplexities of life. The heap of exemplar which roles in your lives (comparisons and more comparisons), the solution is either hug-out the problems or just sit on it. A series of thoughts is catapulted in every step of our lives. I call them Ela's ELF. Each letter is focussed on something as I ponder upon what I learned. Three E's of my life is Experience, Example, and Execution. A well-read professor of mine once said "you might have more knowledge than me, but right now I have more experience than you,...

Childhood is always memorable for all of us, our family, friends, daily fun routine, school everything we want to live over and over. I grew up in a far away town, filled with people from across country, a government colony to be very precise. My roots are from the cold hills of Garhwal, but my dad's job kept us warm for good long years in the heart of Madhya Pradesh. Dad used to call it a cosmopolitan city as people from all over India were employed here. We had friends from all over the states. Dad was not much friendly but he had a very Friendly friend whom we called Mishra Uncle (in India Aunty and uncles are not subjected for relatives but mainly for neighbors and family friends). He was a very joyous person full of life and energy. In my childhood, he was the best uncle to be around but this story is about his beautiful wife, Mishra Aunty. I don't have words to subject her affection and kindness for other people and especially for me. She was a tall lady ...

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...

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...