Tuesday, 11 November 2014

A Healthy child makes a happy home

Now that I am a mother of 6 month old, I realise how important the health is not only of your elderly family members but also the children. Children being most prone to infections, while going to school, playing in the garden and also surrounded by many other children require special care.
We surely do not want to take risk with our kids health, while they are growing physically and their minds are being developed to face the challenges of the world. As parents we make it a point to give the best care, best food and the best of everything to our children, so why not take some precautionary measure to prevent the sickness and preserve great health. Example, if a spoonful of Dabur Chyawanprash  can protect the children from illness, it is our responsibility as parents to inculcate the habit and feed them with it everyday.
Along with healthy eating habits it is also important to give them a sense of freedom and try making them as much independent as possible. A few practices, I follow with my child are listed below-
1. She loves to swim and I have been taking her for a swim since the age of 5 months
2. She loves to play with our cute little dog, neither I nor my husband stops her from playing with her little friend
3. She loves to taste, what we eat. Being complete foodies we make her taste each and everything that we eat, be it spicy or sweet
4. Going through the teething stage, she loves to put everything she gets hold off, in her mouth

I understand how difficult it is to say 'No' to children and how more difficult it gets as the children grow up. We need to also discipline our children and are required to tell them what is right and what is wrong. At the same time also giving them an opportunity to explore. With Dabur Chawanprash we can at least be assured of the kids well being and giving them the freedom of let them eat and play the way they like. Hence, reducing the number of 'No's' to be told to them.

Here is a recipe for all the mothers for their lovely kids-

Honey Rice Crispies

Ingredients-
3/4 cup puffed rice
1 1/2 tbsp powdered sugar, 1/4 cup honey
1/2 cup peanut butter, 2 tbsp raisins (kishmish)
1 packet of gems

Method
1. Grease a plate with oil or put butter paper
2. Combine sugar, honey and peanut butter. Mix well
3. Add puffed rice and raisins
4. Using your hands, shape mixture into 1" flat balls
5. Place a gem on top and refrigerate for 1 hour or till it becomes firm
6. Serve immediately or place in a tightly covered container

Tuesday, 28 January 2014

#FoodPairing for #PhilipsPerfectBrew

The Food pairing session for #Philips started with sourcing material for the chocolates to be given to bloggers as a return gift. I conducted this session along with a well know blogger Kalyan. The objective of this bloggers meet was to introduce the new coffee machines launched by Philips.

The preparations started a week before, when I took help of some of my colleagues to make more than 600 chocolates in Raisin and Hazelnut flavor. I said more than 600 because plenty were consumed in my office before I could actually put them in a beautiful butterfly box.

A day before, I baked 5 items for 30 people, which was quite a lot to be baked at home. However, I enjoyed every bit of it. I started with making choco sesame cookies followed by Danish Apple Cake, Banana Walnut Loaf, Orange Muffins and pizza crackers with cheesy dip and red capsicum dip. Pairing was done as follows-

 Romantic type is: 100% “washed” Arabica, from Central America with Banana Walnut cake

 The Reasonable / Sober type is obtained by mixing 80% “washed” Robusta from India, 10% “washed” Arabica from Central America, 10% “semi-washed” Arabica from Brazil with Danish Apple Cake

 The Sensory type is made by 20% “washed” Robusta from India, 50% “washed” Arabica from Central American, 30% “semi washed” Arabica from Brazil with Pizza Crackers
  
Espresso with Orange Cup Cake
                
                              Mocha with Cookies 

The session started with a briefing on coffee types and an interactive session on what coffee personality each one was. This was followed by the #FoodPairing session and then the coffee art by an expert. 

After the session everybody enjoyed a continental lunch and binged again into the cakes I baked. All the bloggers left with the goodie bag which contained aromatic coffee beans and the chocolate box. All in all it was a great experience and I look forward to share more of such experiences with you :)