Look at these monsters...making my mouth water :)
A lazy sunday evening and typical evening hunger prompted me to open a recently brought gits packet of gulab jamun. Skeptical I opened it and dumped the contents in a mixing bowl. in my kitchen everything goes by "andaaz" and not measures (leaving aside 6 guna water for khichdi and some specific measures like idlis which if we do without measures...ho gaya kalyaan)" milk was added and the mix turned runny :( thinking of making bhajia jamun instead of gulab jamun washed my hands.Returning back I saw the change, milk was wonderfully absorbed in the mix making the mixture pliable as clay in hands. I made small "golas" wondering why the packet said that it makes 20 medium sized jamuns. I thought I imagined that they were slowly "phulophying" Aai's lovely homemade ghee sizzled in the kadhai next to the saucepan of sugar syrup or chasni with light yellow transperant color of dear saffron. they puffed more into fistfuls when I started to fry them, i was going to throw fit. turning them into lovely darkish brown color I took them out to immerse them in syrup. the next batch followed with same phulofyed results. to emerse these in syrup made my face into a pleased and shocked frown, the jamuns had fulofied a bit more. that I wondered if third batch would be accomodated.small unassuming "golas" were turning into fistful of sugar drowned monsters. finally done with the frying I added rava in the ghee to make halva (use of good ghee :)) my heart did sommersaults of happiness as I saw my first attempt to cook good was nice. I sneaked two of the mouth melting jamuns and they left me asking for more. it was only after exercising a lot of self control, I told my better (?) half to click them before they were gorged by him, an avid jamun fan.This surely gave me more enthusiasm to try out new things, maybe dhokla next time...what say???
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