Chocolate Graham Cracker Dessert

Ingredients:
- Powdered sugar
- Cocoa powder
- Heavy whipping cream
- Plain graham crackers.

1. Use a hand held blender to mix cocoa powder, powdered sugar and heavy whipping cream to make a paste the consistency of icing.
I normally start out with the whipping cream and add sugar and cocoa powder till it tastes right.

2. Put a thick layer of icing on 4-5 graham crackers using a break knife. (almost half a centimetre thick) This is kind of messy...

3. Stack the coated crackers to get something that looks like a slice of cake. Finish by coating icing on all sides of the "cake".

4. Soak in the fridge for atleast 24 hours before serving. The cracker part needs to be thoroughly soaked and soft feeling like cake.

WARNING: Extremely addictive and super high on calories. So make in small quantities. ;)

Kada - Home remedy for cold & cough

Its pretty tasty, comforts your sore throat, unblocks your nose, decongests your chest, and provides some relief from cough.

In winters you can drink this as many times as your want in a day, but in summers limit the consumption as all the ingredients are "hot"

For 1.5 cups:

3 cups water
1.5 inch of ginger pound or grated or sliced fine
4 cloves
1 inch Cinnamon
5 green cardamom
7 black pepper corns (coarsely ground)
2 tbsp of Fennel seeds
1 tsp Cumin seeds
1 tbsp sugar

Boil everything toagther until water reduces to half the original quantity.
Strain & drink HOT. If you think its too strong, mix a little milk (about 2 tbsp for 1 cup kada).

You can also add tea leaves & milk into it and drink it like spiced chai.

I usually make quite a bit and keep the left over unstrained kada in the fridge. It keeps well for upto a week.

Mughalai Potatoes

Ingredients:

Baby potatoes- 1 packet
Onions-1.5 big onions,sliced thinly
Green chillies- 3-4 slit
Ginger garlic paste- 1 tbsp
Yogurt- Enough to make a light gravy
Turmeric powder,danya powder,cumin powder, chilli powder and garam masala for taste
Cilantro for garnish

Procedure:

1. Boil the potatoes lightly for one whistle in pressure cooker
2. Peel the skin and deep fry them and set aside
3. In a pan with oil,add the sliced onions,green chillies,ginger garlic paste and saute well.
4. Once done add the curry powders and mix the fried potatoes.
5. Switch off the stove and add yogurt and mix well for the consistency of gravy you would like.
6. Garnish with cilantro. You can also fry cashewnuts if you want.

Serve hot with chapathis, parathas or rice.