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Divali cakes cooked from scratch today
Went to pravin's place in Hayward today and we decided to cook some
divali sweets. We cooked 'Gato Patates' (sweet potato cakes), besan
ladoo, gulab jamoon and barfi. Good solid 3 hours cooking and here's
the result. Happy divali !!
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Divali, Festival of Lights : Sharing of Sweets (part 1)
Divali (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali) is celebrated today in Mauritius and everybody cooks sweets and cakes that they share with all family, friends and neighbors. This year, I am not celebrating as it has not yet been 1 year since my father's passing away and we mourn for 1 year.
But we did get a fair share of sweets from family and friends and neighbors. I have not celebrated divali for a while in Mauritius and biggest change I see are that the cakes are very much more elaborate than they used to be and also people have started to use fancy decorated boxes to put the cakes in rather the little plastic or paper bags, we used to use when I was a kid. I've taken snaps of a couple of the boxes. They have very nice designs.
One thing that has not changed though is the traditional 'gato patate'. Its a cake made of sweet potatoes, flour, sugar and grated coconut filling and has been a traditional cake to cook for Divali. Mostly everybody had a 'gato patate' in their sweet bag.
For my Mauritian friends who are not in Mauritius at this time of the year, I've taken some pictures of what you are missing :)
I over indulged on the sweets today. Tomorrow diet starts :)
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French Baked Goodies
I came back home on Monday evening and Lucy, my new housemate had a gift for me - platter of french baked pastries and other sweet goodies.
The night before, she had some guests and aparently one of them got drunk and was causing a mess and making lots of noise at 3:00a.m, while I was sleeping and that woke me up as well as our neighbor. She felt bad about that and gave me the pastries to make peace :)
The night before, she had some guests and aparently one of them got drunk and was causing a mess and making lots of noise at 3:00a.m, while I was sleeping and that woke me up as well as our neighbor. She felt bad about that and gave me the pastries to make peace :)
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