Hey everyone..!
How do you celebrate birthdays in your home? As we start to grow up people arbitrarily decide that they don't need a cake.. they'd rather not call friends and make a big "fuss".. it's a week day and everyone is tired.. it's no big deal.. and so on. But I realized some time back that a birthday doesn't feel "properly celebrated" in my mind until there is some sharing of a cakey-dessert and food with friends and lots of laughter.
Our uneducated, but very very wise maid back home once told me.. when you celebrate festivals and birthdays, clean and decorate your house, cook for special occasions, grow some fragrant greens, play some music/news in the morning.. the ghar (house) finally becomes a saunsaar (home). At the time I thought she was just being cute. But now I rather agree with her!
This weekend I forced a very reluctant adult to celebrate their birthday just to make me happy! ;) Just posting a few clicks of some food we made.
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| Pizza!!! |
We kept it simple.. I made
MM's pizza sauce and used "Moma Mary's" pizza base and Amul cheese. Had posted the recipe
here some time back. We tried a few other pizza bases, but they didn't taste like good-old Monginis pizza base from back home. This one was decent in taste, so am sticking with this brand in future. Everybody over-ate a bit. So much so that some of our guests barely had room for dessert..!
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| Fruit Tart/Pie |
I tried making a light strawberry-blueberry tart with store bought pie crust. I eyeballed the recipe for filling along the lines of the one at
The Kitchen Sink Recipes. Probably shouldn't have poured all the berries (with syrup) into the pie-crust, turned out a bit watery. Khair, it was very light and guilt-free. I should definitely try the whole recipe another time. Couldn't take a picture of the whole tart.. (please.. birthday candles, singing wishes and posing for pictures would be really pushing it!) so posting only a small portion in a bowl. Vanilla ice-cream alongside would be nice too!
Thanks for stopping by! Cheerio!
2 comments:
I once wondered why all of us make a big deal of birthdays and an uncle of mine thought about it and said, well, it means you've survived another years. And that's reason enough for celebration.
A lot of people want it to be low profile as they grow older and I'm one of them but as much as I try not to make it a big deal, I do feel a twinge if someone close forgets my birthday. But part of this growing older is accepting this, as well as the fact that you are also forgetting others' birthdays!
Re forgetting, you're right, everybody does.. some (like myself) more than others. And your Uncle makes a great point! We have survived another year and that's an excellent a reason to celebrate!
Cheers!
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