BON APETIT-11TH

^{Dear Friends,}

^{I need to tell you a story:}

^{My son always wanted me to write a cookery book.}

^{He bought me a Lap Top some 15/16 yrs ago. I did not know how to manage it. Somehow started with help of the children. But then very often I would get stuck with some thing or the other, and it would get stalled.}

^{I started writing some articles on the Lap top also but I need to admit I was a Flop Show person. Soon, with the vagaries of life,travel , office n house chores I gave up and the Lap top  also got corrupt.}

^{Some 10 odd years ago this time, all my three kids- Son, D in law & daughter got together and gifted me with a new Lap Top,  this time with the promise  from me that I need to start asap on the cook Book. My daughter in law also taught me how to drag photos from google and how to make the insert table to write in.}

^{I wrote quite a few at Dubai when I had gone for a holiday , but left them on her Lap top, and again got stumped. Any ways, managed to retrieve them from her Lap top via Gmail, got some young friend to transfer them on my new Lap Top and I thought my job was over. Again there was a big Lull, and few years passed. Covid times –was an exacting period for One & All.  But I learnt a lot n and also worked on the Lap top and learnt to write a few recipes, try them out, make very short videos and gradually got the idea of what I wanted to do.}

^{And slowly I started to use the DIGITAL media.}

^{This is how, I’m still learning, still make a lot many silly mistakes , but somehow , I guess I’ve crossed some hurdles  I’ve started to write my Cookery blogs—labelled them as “Bon Ape’tit”and now I manage to make my recipes blogs n associated videos as well !!!}

^{Children -all love their Mothers cooking. That’s the universal and cardinal truth. This time on, my Dilaw taught me how to handle the lap top and I started this Tabular form of recipies section .}

^{I have now posted on Instagram a list of all the 40 recipe’s that I have written in my ten blogs of BON APE’TIT.}

^{Hope, you have gone through my written cookery blogs, besides the insta reels. Please do.}

 ^{They will give you an insight into the details, regarding the dishes, the ingredients (that are easily procurable from the market).The quantity (I’ve given measurements for 3 to 4 people only. The simple n easily doable steps and what the ingredient should look like so as to start the actual preparation.}

^{Then comes the second part where in I have given a step by step enunciation of how we really need to go about it. The third part is the Reels/ Short videos:}

^{“Click here to watch video ”.}

^{At this juncture- I now want to express my thanks to all who have read my blogs, who liked them, who share them amongst their friends.  And also those few who try to make them as well.}

^{Do give me your critical appraisal.}

^{I’m no expert,}

^{I’m no connoisseur,}

^{Just a Plain MOTHER, whose kids loved my cooking.}

^{I try to give my dishes a new twist, try to add/ subtract a few ingredients to make it to my choice.}

^{I do not like to over roast the veggies, but prefer to saute and simmer them. This gives body and shape to the veggies, helps retain the original colour as also the nutritive value does not get destroyed completely.}

^{Having done 40 recipes.. 10 each of Soups/ Salads/ snacks/ and sweet dishes, I now want to enter into more solid whole some preparations. So far, basically my dishes were vegetarian. Now, I will delve into some non veg varieties also, but they will be interspersed with veg ones also.}

^{The next ten Bon Api’tit will have more dishes, need not be in the sequence that I have maintained so far. Will incorporate some Eggetarian and Non veggetarian dishes as well. as also some of my chutneys n morabbas that gain and imp. place on my dining table.}

^{To begin with: Nimboo chutney}  

^{We all know it is a power house of Vit C}

^{Vit C is already a known POWER, it needs no introduction. It is a powerful anti-oxidant.}

^{If Nimboo juice is good for health, and makes the disgestion more tasty, helps in the assimilation of our day to day food, then we must understand the  magical powers that its skin possesses.}

^{The peel has a great amount of nutritive power  Along with Vit C it also has Vit A/ B /Calcium/ Zinc and  Manganese}

^{The peel has more concentrations of it all.}

^{It is also a good source of fiber.Without getting into theory let me teach you how I make it}

^Method:

^{1. Every day we use nimboo for some thing or the other.}

^{2. Every day, sprinkle salt liberally over the chilka and put it in the bottle, cover lid and keep in the sunlight for exposure.}

^{3. When the bottle is full, keep the bottle with the lemon chilka like this for 15/20 days or till the skin appears well softened by the rays of the sun.}

^{4. Now put them all in a pressure cooker, add 250 ml of water.}

^{Add kashmiri lal mirch for colour.}

^{Add normal black pepper/ Red chilli powder/ Black salt/ some ajwain and let it all ,cook till tender.}

^{Cool, open lid add sugar / Gur acc. to choice and preference and re heat till the sugar dissolves.}

^{Cool, and liquidise.}

^{Now off load in a huge flat bottomed pan and set to cook the paste so prepared. Simmer x 5/7 minutes.}

^{Add dry fruits/ and allow to cool when thickened.}

^{Cool and bottle .}

^{Its  so delicious.}

^{Ideal with Aloo paratha/ aloo sabzi and poori.}

^{We also enjoy it on brown toasted bread.}

^{we have not seen this in the market.}

^{come home pick it off my kitchen self and then enjoy!!}

^{Dear friends,}

^{You gotaa make it//// Or come over to my place to taste it!!!!!}