Flan 🍮

Flan

Like many desserts, flan’s existence began during the Roman Empire. It gets its name from the French word flaon, which comes from the Old German flado, a “flat cake.” (Because of the shape.) Spaniards brought flan to Mexico during Spanish conquest. Since then it's become a truly beloved dish among Mexicans in all regions of the country.

Flan has a rich, toasted sugar caramel flavor from the topping and the base tastes very milky, perfectly sweet and lightly eggy. This dessert is made up of a caramel topping and custard base that’s made with milk, eggs and sweetener (which may already be included in the milk). It is usually baked in a water bath for the best texture, and after baking it is chilled then later inverted onto a platter.

Recipe:

Ingredients: 

1 cup white sugar

3 eggs 

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

1 (12 fluid ounce) can evaporated milk

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

Directions:

Instructions Checklist

Step 1: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
Step 2 In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, melt sugar until liquefied and golden in color. Carefully pour hot syrup into a 9 inch round glass baking dish, turning the dish to evenly coat the bottom and sides. Set aside.
Step 3 In a large bowl, beat eggs. Beat in condensed milk, evaporated milk and vanilla until smooth. Pour egg mixture into baking dish. Cover with aluminum foil.
Step 4 Bake in preheated oven 60 minutes. Let cool completely.
Step 5 To serve, carefully invert on serving plate with edges when completely cool.

This dessert has taken a little bit of practice from my side but the excitement I get every time I flip one is same. Check this out 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 

Do more of what makes you happy !!❤️

But first, what is happiness ?

IMHO, happiness is a choice that we make everyday. So it’s a matter of what you experience and the emotions you go through in that fleeting moment -  that defines your happiness. 

The source of happiness could be a person, place, thing or a feel good sensation in any of our senses (what we see, hear, smell, feel and taste). In most cases they are just the medium of how we felt in a moment and which probably would have left a beautiful memory and we called us being happy! You can say that the aftermath is also a pleasant emotional state which is full of contentment, gratification and pure joy. Just how these words bring a wave of positivity in our mind, happiness is simply a mindset.

Still the question remains what makes me happy ! The more I think about it, clearer it gets to sort things in the right way and come to terms of what really really makes me happy. 

True happiness to me - is enjoying your own company and living in peace and harmony with your body, mind and soul. For being truly happy you neither need other people nor materialistic things. And it brings other dimensions to you such as being confident, brave, vulnerable and honest. 

But truly, Happiness is always a result of personal effort. Sometimes you may have to work hard for it and fight for it. Sometimes you have to talk to yourself and insist upon it and even manifest it. So once those hard earned rewards are found we may have to put in effort to sustain that. Just like if loosing weight made you happy, you need to work hard to maintain it, if getting a promotion made you happy, you need to work hard to excel in it, if being in a relationship made you happy, you need to work hard for it to bloom - be it your kids, partner or friends.

 

And when you don't know what makes you happy - just TRAVEL :)

The devotion that comes from the heart in the process of finding your reasons of true happiness and enjoying the consequences is a brilliant experience in itself so that’s why YOU must make that mighty effort and DO MORE OF WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPY.

Once you’ve found them, then all you need is to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever and enjoy every moment with a spiritual enlightenment. 

But something will go wrong all the time🤦‍♀️, at that time the important thing is to standup to your choices and not repent a single thing ❤️

 

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Mooli ki Sabji

Hi Everyone
Mooli ki sabji is one of those dishes that my husband had never tried before meeting me :)but which was so common in my moms kitchen.Hope you all must have heard of it..So here it is.
Ingredients
2 cups Radish, grated and water drained
1/2 cup green peas.
1 tbsp cumin seeds
1 tsp Red Chili, chopped
1 tsp Green Chili, chopped
1/2 red chili powder
Salt, to taste
1 tsp Oil

Process
Take a heavy bottomed pan and heat oil in it. When it gets hot, add crushed cumin seeds and red chili. Saute well.
Add green chili and chopped radish to it and cook it till it is half done.
Add peas and salt in it and mix well.
Serve hot with rotis.

Batla(Spinach Souffle)

Hi Every one
This is also my tang Special and have never heard about this dish only from my family and I am a major fan of Batla.I guess it is a Bhawalpuri dish but I used to enjoy a lot when my mom used to make while I used to come down from my college/hostel every month.I used to have bowls n bowls and hubby also likes it.Hope you enjoy it too..

Ingredients
1 can/2 cups spinach
1 cup curd
2 tbsp besan gram flour
1 tbsp cumin seeds
1 pinch heeng
1/2 inch garlic
1/2 inch ginger
2 cut green chillies
1/2 tbsp chilli powder
1 tbsp amchoor pwder
2 tbsp desi ghee

Process
Mix sppinach curd and besan .Use blender to crush spinach and keep it for 20 mins.
Heat oil in a pan.Put cuminseeds and hing.After sputtering put ginger,chillies and garlic .After they turn brown, pour the spinach cud mixture.Boil for 15 mins and add ghee if required.Serve with Roti.

Paneer Bhurji

Hi Everyone

Paneer kii bhurji is one of those dishes that reminds me of my mom's speciality - Malai Matar (looking frward to make that one of these days..).I tried this today as I had no vegetables left in the house and there was nothing to pack for lunch.So there was some thing that I was waiting to open my tiffin at 12 o'clock only.So hope you enjoy it tooo :)

Ingredients:

Paneer - 1 cup minced

Onions - 1/4 cup chopped

Tomatoes - 1/4 cup choppped

Green Chillies - 2 chopped

Ginger - 2 chopped

Cumin seeds - 1 tbsp

Salt

Red Chilly powder

Oil - 1 tbsp

Coriander

Process:

Heat oil in the pan and add cumin seeds.Add ginger, green chillies and onions.Cook till they turn golden brown.Add tomatoes.Add salt , red chillly powder .Mix well.Add paneer .Add Amchoor powder and coriander leaves.Pack it with Roti.