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Posted on 08 May 2008 by Dee
K , walked in with a package tucked under his arm and I assumed it to be from India or from a cousin which is on its way!!
Ta da daaa…. The look on his face told me it was something else.. His eyes sparkling and extremely careful about the package he set it down gingerly and opened it with utmost care and lo so many goodies!!!!
Of course like any blogger who wants to take pictures first and then only let the others eat, I did not allow home to touch anything until I took the pictures of each and every goodie , boxes included. They were expertly packed!
Thank you Indira for making it so special for us. I truly cherish your presence in my life and thank you for being there always!!!
Now here comes the good part , a few pictures of the goodies I sampled and the description in Indira’s own words… She wrote to me an email after I confirmed to her that I received this treasure of goodies!
Mamouls (middle eastern date cookies): Covering is made with all purpose flour, fine semolina, ghee, cane sugar and rose water. Filling with dates, rose water and just a tiny bit of cane sugar. I actually have a special wooden mold to shape the cookies in flower shape. But the dough came out little bit on the soft side and was sticking to the wooden mold. So I used a fork to decorate the rounds.
Pappula podi: with dalia (or putnala pappulu), dry coconut, dried red chillies, cumin and salt. Powdered together. It tastes good with rice and also to spread on dosas, and with upma, idly, pongal, and to sprinkle on dry, saute style curries like potato fry, capsicum saute etc. It is also called gun powder in some parts of Andhra. Usually garlic is also added, but I didn’t. Spicewise, I made it very mild. My personal favorites are pappula podi with oatmeal upma or with dosa. Both taste excellent with pappula podi.
Muruku: Traditional recipe. Dough is made with rice flour, besan, sesame seeds, salt, chilli powder and a pinch of baking powder. Mixed with water. Deep fried using peanut oil. Moong Dal is from Haldirams
Chakli, Karachi Halwa, Soan Papidi from Haldirams.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Wow! What a lovely surprise that must’ve been!
May 8th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
ohh thats alovely packet you got…
very very nice… lets see what u come up with….:D
May 8th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
lovely gifts..
May 8th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Looks awesome. Enjoy all your superb goodies!
May 8th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
lovely packet…everything looks so yummy..
May 8th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
awesome goodies.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:01 am
dee, let me mail u my postal address so that u can ship me some of these goodies
May 9th, 2008 at 5:35 am
Just saw in Mandira’s too , that’s a loot! Enjoy lucky girl!:))
May 9th, 2008 at 5:50 am
Wow Dee, the goodies look amazing!.. Can’t wait to see what u would whip up with them..:D
Siri
May 9th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Dee, lucky girl…enjoy the goodies
May 9th, 2008 at 7:01 am
those are worth dying for….lucky you.
P.S. are you not in Punr
May 9th, 2008 at 8:27 am
we polished off everything except for the pappula podi , I started of by making some oatmeal upma and adding the podi to it on wednesday , then we decided to binge yesterday and made some white rice , at it with avakaya and the podi. It was heavenly!!! Thank you for your wonderful comments!!
sia , do send me , I will send u a bag of something I make , its dhivya and siri’s fate too , to suffer , I will add u to the list
Bhags … I didnt get u .. could elaborate .. did u mean pune ? or something else ?
May 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
lovely goodies…indira is too sweet!
May 9th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
From the looks of it…I am starting to like my fate which we are supposedly going to “suffer” in your hands!!!!!! How “torturous” fate can be! I wish its always this way
May 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Beautiful photographs, Dee. So glad to read that you liked the goodies.:)
May 14th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
hey visiting ur blog for the first time,nice goodies that u have got ,enjoy!!