The week started on Christmas Eve. We had a lot of stuff to do and make the house ready for Santa's visit. It was just the daughter and me for lunch. So, I a quick lunch of Gakar, which is the quicker and less fatty version of baati (of the daal-baati fame). It is one of the daughter's favourite lunch. She crumbles it into milk mixed with sugar. I prefer daal but I did not make it that day so I had it with date palm jaggery and also with sweet milk. Later I had leftover poha from breakfast to get something salty after all that sweetness.
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| gakar with date palm jaggery and sweetened milk |
In the afternoon we made gingerbread cutout cookies, which is our yearly Christmas tradition. I need to remember to cut down on the sugar in the recipe. Our sugar tolerance has reduced now.
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| Gingerbread cookies |
For dinner, I quickly made mushroom palak along the lines of palak paneer. I had already cleaned and cooked the palak in the microwave the previous day.
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| mushroom palak with roti |
After dinner, we watched a Christmas movie on Netflix and made popcorn and hotchocolate for the daughter. Before sleeping, we laid our milk and cookies for Santa and hung the stocking on our door.
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| popcorn and hot chocolate |
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| milk, cookies and list for Santa |
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On Christmas morning, Santa had delivered a present.
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| Santa's gift |
For lunch, we had leftover mushroom palak with rotis and salad. I also made a carrot raita. Although I did not like the mouthfeel of the raita.
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| mushroom palak, roti, carrot raita and salad |
The next day, Wednesday, I made aloo matar with soya chunks. The husband, who is not usually a fan of soya chunks, also liked it.
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| aloo-matar with soya chunks, roti and daal-rice |
On Thursday, I think we ordered out. The husband was working from home that day.
On Friday, I made ghevda bhaji for the first time. It is like a different version of papdi that is very famous in Gujarati undhiyo. I made it with onions, goda masala and finished it with peanut powder. It tasted great.
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| ghevda bhaji, fresh turmeric pickle, daal, curd, salad, roti and rice |
We also made turtle cookies on Friday evening. They were extremely tasty and we pronounced them to be the best cookies ever. I followed
this recipe, but halved it, skipped the egg, and added more milk in place of molasses.
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| turtle cookies - chocolate cookies coated in walnuts and chocolate chips and filled with caramel |
On Saturday, we spent the whole day out of the house. We went to Nehru planetarium and Nehru science center in Worli and later went to High street phoenix mall for dinner. I will write a post about it this week.
On Sunday, we went out on Gujarat highway with my in-laws for a Kathiawadi lunch.
And that was a wrap on the happening Christmas week. :)
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