DURGA PUJA IS OVER; IT DOES NOT MAKE ME SAD AS IT USED TO IN MY STUDENT LIFE!
I actually hated studies during my entire school life!It may be because I did not enjoy most of the subjects, the school did not give us the proper guidance we required as it itself was going through a turmoil, we were made Guinea Pigs in the hands of the newbie teachers coming and going! Whilst other nearby schools had teachers well equipped with the board syllabi!Till date,I regret the poor start of my academic life!I enjoyed going to the school but the academic part remained uninteresting!Once in the college,I took up subjects that interested me but friends & chatting occupied me so much so that I proved to be an insincere student!The parents never insisted I should work, earn, have a career!Whenever a festival or long holiday would end,I dreaded the academic part, of opening the books every evening!I never enjoyed reading the text books!Today, when I see the youngsters quite focussed about what they want in life, choosing the field of study way in advance,I feel proud of them! I wish I had been sincere a bit!My regrets multiply when I see myself in a vegetative state when it comes to finding a decent job for myself, I see I am not eligible for any!
HOWEVER USELESS I THINK I AM, I DO NOT STOP ENJOYING LIFE!
I thank my men for this, they do not criticise or shame my useless self!Once the forceful association with text books were done with, life got easier! I however enjoyed doing the masters & the bachelor of education degree courses because by that time you are specialising only in one area!But somehow my lack of confidence did not allow me to use my full potential!Not everyone is born with talent, any mediocre can do good in life if they are a bit organised with an aim!Today, when I am free of responsibilities more or less & want to earn some decent dollars,I see my lack of communication skill stands in the way of my wishes!My friends flatly say my unfriendly nature would not get me business! What they say & suggest is true & good but it is impossible for me to make hundreds of friends at this time to get business! I am not built for it! How beautiful it feels to walk the island alone, sit & have quiet meals! Today, I was to my doctor & Vincent is so down to the earth with absolutely no airs!Even the sisters working in his team, in both his chambers are nice! My today's lunch was this & I had it in a known food stall run by few young boys! I do not like food served on those broken plates but they give you food at the cheapest rate! Moreover, they are like my kids!
Today, it feels I am only capable of writing; pages after pages of what's there on my mind! Then, there too you have to be organised & systematic! As per a friend who is a published author; I have to write everything in the pdf format, run after publishers & also spend from my pocket to publish whoever agrees! Else, I need to catch an editor to organise into a format picking from my blog!But I want only my name on a book's cover! Also, I feel I do not write correct & good English, also Bengali! But yes, if I could pick up portions from my blog and organise into a format, get published; the second, third would have come easier; the flow comes with confidence & not all authors need to be bestsellers! I expected the men to help me with it, lazy beings like me hardly can achieve anything! A happy loner like me cannot do useless talks with people to get food orders, the very thought irritates, more irritating is when strangers ping with no intent to get me business!
WHAT IS THIS TRADITIONAL MALPUA?
Eversince I got to my senses,I ate malpoa & patishapta, perhaps chushi too made from rice flour & never with semolina & refined flour!It is in my immediate family, refined flour & semolina started to be used for making "pithe-puli"! It is same for the most in the Bengali Community, that in the early 80's the female heads in the family started using refined flour & semolina in place of "atap chal" for a couple of sweet meat recipes! I had a long standing wish to do malpoa / malpua the traditional way! Okay, I have used the idly / dosa rice grain variety for the purpose of frying this TRADITIONAL MALPUA, that is a gluten-free, vegan fried snack, an authentic Bengali recipe!
It is an immense pleasure for me to author a detailed blogpost about it! Trust me, it is easy to cook using few ingredients!But we cannot use readymade rice-flour in the recipe!
INGREDIENTS :
RICE KERNEL : 1 1/2 COFFEE MUG
BANANA : 1 OR 2 STANDARD SIZED
SHREDDED COCONUT : 1 MEDIUM TEA CUP
JAGGERY POWDER : 1 SMALL TEA CUP [USE AS PER YOUR REQUIREMENT]
SUGAR : 2 TBSP
FENNEL SEED : 1 TSP
OIL : 100-150 ML TO DEEP FRY
PROCEDURE :
When one side browns, we would turn over & brown the other side! The oil should never be too hot!
Hold the perforated ladle above the wok for a while to drain as much oil as possible and then place each on to a tissue paper for sometime before transferring to a serving bowl!
I never liked being a student. Lasty, I was a student of University in 2015 and it took 2 years (Thanks God). Bye the way, those traditional malpu snacks look great.
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