Fresh fried Oreos !
Seen at one the stands on the Atlantic City Boardwalk
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Yesterday, we had a potluck to celebrate the Independance day of Mauritius for the Mauritians living in the bay area. I decided to cook something easy - sweet polenta pudding. It's a very common traditional sweet snack in Mauritius. Usually we don't add color to it, and it's yellow and plain. I decided to make it in the colors of our Mauritian flag. Making the pudding is very easy. Basically, boil some cornmeal, add some milk to it until it reaches a good thick consitency, then just add sugar, coconut and soaked raisins to it and let it set.
The smallest town I have been to is definitely Huacachina in Peru. It's basically only 3 streets around a lake in the middle of the desert. It's a desert oasis. The town is surrounded by enormous sand dunes. There is not much to do in the town apart from Sand Buggy Riding and Sand Surfing on the Sand Dunes. Will be posting the Sand Dunes pictures in another entry.
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 !!
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 :)
