CURRY AND SPICE: CINNAMON NUTMEG COCONUT SUGAR CAKE

I HAD ALWAYS BEEN A FORGETFUL SELF, GETTING YET MORE FORGETFUL WITH AGE!

That is by inheritance! What is alarming and should be mended is that I cannot afford to be callous in a busy road, not even in this supremely organised island! But I have some good habits, I usually use footpaths and follow the traffic lights whilst crossing the roads! I am more concerned about the son in a distant land, is he careful enough in the roads? My panicky self would never let me live well! I try my best, that's why I have headphones set whilst walking outdoor, but that is a hazard too, there are moving vehicles on the road! To shove off the panic and the disturbing thoughts, I do what I enjoy doing the most, something or the other related to cooking! This morning, soon after the man left, I made some extra efforts to make the son talk, but in vein! He may be busy with shifting from one shared apartment to another in two three days but all through he had been like this, all that Mumma-Babai thinks is that little did we get to be with our only child, we wish for long chats with him! Then, I had a small talk with the mother, I never call her in the morning, she remains busy but my call log says she called me at 2:50am, island time today, that is scary! I learnt here is nothing to worry about! Thereafter, I mixed & matched two-three varieties of pickles, added bhaja moshola to it and perfected to my taste buds!

I also cooked a bharta to have for my lunch! I wish to blog about it later, not going into any details hence!

IT WAS A WEEKEND WITH NO DIFFERENCE; WHATEVER, WE NEVER GET BORED OF IT!

That may be because we enjoy living each day of our life, that we enjoy watching movies & series after series! We have already watched Delhi Crime and HIT:The First Case! Besides, there were Hollywood action thrillers may be going on all day, I was either busy with cooking or taking a late afternoon nap! I may have missed movies but not munching in between my meals! My yesterday's & today's lunch had excess amount of rice, I am scared now but quite unable to mend my ways & eat clean!

Yesterday, for lunch, I wished to cook the small grained, fragrant rice the man refuses to have! He wants white Basmati! Starting from Monday to Friday, I would eat Quinoa instead of rice, for at least one meal, preferably for dinner! Does it help? I read quinoa has more calories than white rice! Whatever, I cannot have the sides without having anything for my mains, we love our roti-prata, fried rices; they love plain rice with their choice of meat & fish! After over a month, I got home chicken on bone and thoroughly enjoyed the curry I cooked, just the way I do, the Kolkata variety of chicken! My refrigerator is full of cooked food, but Sunday night we had an egg, potato boil rice. Like the veteran females in my family, I like my mashes with mustard oil & burnt chillies often, also with butter or ghee we like! I can talk endlessly about food but how about wrapping up my blogpost sooner and watch a movie on Hotstar or Hoichoi? You see, it was raining all day and now we see some light; courtesy, the clear sky!

WHAT IS CINNAMON NUTMEG COCONUT SUGAR CAKE?

This cake was baked back in April, 2020 and a photo feature done! I forgot what I wished to highlight in this cake, that it is oil-free or that it uses coconut sugar! Actually, if we use over ripened bananas in a cake batter, we can omit the oil! But not always I like the flavour of a banana. I personally enjoy having flawless, just ripe banana but not everyday! Whatever, the cake tasted good, if you fancy no frill, plain cakes; you would enjoy it!

This vegetarian cake uses wholewheat flour but I do not remember why I used it instead of refined flour! These days, I use gluten-free flours too! How good at that time my bake mode was working fine! So, CINNAMON NUTMEG COCONUT SUGAR CAKE is a simple vegetarian bake, flavoured with cinnamon & nutmeg powders; it uses coconut sugar instead of white or brown sugar or jaggery! It is oil-free, the banana and fresh cream moistened the cake! While I write this blogpost, I am listening to the jugalbandi of Rahul Sharma & Richard Clayderman, who play santoor and piano respectively. I enjoy listening to both of them! A few genre of music is the fodder to my soul! Why do some want to die, destroy others? Life is precious! Text Books are not for everyone; selling tacos, chicken rice, tomato rice on a food truck is not a tough thing! I so wished to run a small, homely eatery!