Comments on: Last minute surge for Divali

By: trinimom

trinimom — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:11:15 +0000

Hmmmmmm….well well….
My mother was a master sweet maker and people when they had weddings use to come to take her by their homes to make sweets and to supervise the making as well….so she made barfi, laddoo, rice and flour pera , gulab jamoon, jalebi, kurma , different types of halwah, Raham, rasgullah, nankathai, and others as well…. melt in the mouth googias….anyway she was from central as was her mother and her grand mother was from St James…..so follow the sweet recipes…..lol…
Some things she learnt from a Bengali lady who had a store in the Croisse in San Juan…and she told us the recipes as we helped her…

By: Chennette

Chennette — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:47:43 +0000

maybe, but she doing her bit to spread it to central…but no, she learn those things from her mother who is not from San Juan

By: Lilandra

Lilandra — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:19:51 +0000

it occurs to me how viral this could become
you know how some people say hindus and muslims have slightly different recipes for their sweets (it all vegetarian so how? who knows!)
soon everyone will be making it our mommy’s muslim style

oh, we went by dad aunt who he used to stay by
her gulab jamoon was like mom’s (not as good…*snicker* maybe no condensed milk just cream or not much condensed milk) but it was very similar and then i started to wonder if mom’s wasn’t a central recipe but a san juan/barataria kinda recipe

By: Chennette

Chennette — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:07:01 +0000

Thanks Nicole Falafels are such a great veggie food! And if you do a version with bulgur wheat, it’s a different texture.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:44:31 +0000

That kurma looks scrumptious! Also love falafels

By: Chennette

Chennette — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:26:39 +0000

aka of course, if I’d caught it before your correction…one day I’ll have enough money or a less involved job and can do some research into food history. Anecdotal. That might be nice.

Cynthia it just never feels right does it? the lack of people turning up to deliver things, sigh…

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:22:34 +0000

I really miss being in Guyana for all the Muslim and Hindu festivals. You know no one will be ringing door bells here in Bimshire

By: aka_lol

aka_lol — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:08:43 +0000

That should have read “good cookbook”

By: aka_lol

aka_lol — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:12:34 +0000

If you write a book I will want an autographed copy. But I think a god cookbook should be more than recipes; it should be like your blog

By: Chennette

Chennette — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:04:51 +0000

thanks aka – sometimes I think I must be one of the few foodbloggers who didn’t start out with the intention of providing or creating recipes or writing a book so I was surprised when I got to 24!
you take a break from cricket nah?