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Hey anand umang bhayo, jai ho Nandlal ki, Nand ke anand bhayo, jai Kanhiya lal ki         Hindus all over the world will celebrate Janmashtami, Gokulashtami, Krishna Jayanti, Ashtami Rohini as its known on Thursday 25th August this year. What is Janmashtami? Janmashtami is the birthday of Lord Krishna. Lord Krishna is the eighth avatar(incarnation) of Lord Vishnu. He took the human form and came to this earth over 5000years ago, 5243 to be exact to vanquish evil and bring back faith in religion. Its believed that Lord Krishna was born at midnight. He was the eighth son of Devaki and Vasudev(of the Yadava dynasty) from Mathura. His maternal uncle Kansa (Devaki's brother) ascended the throne by imprisoning his father King Ugrasena.King Kansa was a tyrant. After hearing a prophesy by the heavenly voice that the eighth son of Devaki would kill him, Kansa imprisoned his sister Devaki and her husband Vasudev. Kansa killed the previous children born to Devaki. It is be...

Easy to make     This is my second scone recipe. I don't know why I don't make them often enough. Maybe just the mental block that they are difficult to make. Trust me they are not. There are two reasons I came up with recipe. Firstly, my partner for Shhh Cooking Secretly, Jolly who has a wonderful blog Homemade Recipes  gave me the ingredients condensed milk and plain flour(maida, all purpose flour) for our July theme#MonsoonTreats. Monsoon means hot treats like bhajias, soups, curries. I really couldn't think what Monsoon treat to make using those ingredients.I narrowed it down to baking something but what was the question. Coming to my second reason.. my brother, bhabhi and niece are here in Mombasa. They've come to attend a wedding. They were going to stop by for breakfast before going to the beach resort where the wedding is. I was suppose to bake a bread to serve for breakfast but didn't manage that. Before going to bed was thinking what I should make when the...

a dessert to die for    Biscuit pudding has been a family favourite ever since I got married and entered the V.V.Patel household. Nunu taught me how to make the pudding. She learnt it from a demonstration given at the Friends Club. Its a very simple but rich pudding. Not for people who don't like nuts and milk. Whenever we made this dessert for a dinner party, we had to make sure that tonnes of it was made so the family could have it again the following day. Bowls have disappeared from the fridge. So if anyone saved it to eat later, they would have to sulk and do with a piece of fruit or no dessert. My family in UK too, love this pudding, though haven't made it for a while because now my nephews are very health conscious. Perhaps during my next visit. Its so much easier to make it there as now the caramelised condensed milk is readily available. If you are the unlucky one like me who doesn't get ready made sweet caramel then you have to make it at home. I usually hav...