Quick Chocolate Icing......

Heat 500ml cream, bring to a boil. Shut off the heat and add 500 gms semi sweet chocolate. Cover and let melt and then cool, stirring off and on. Your icing is ready! Of course if you want it sweeter, dissolve some sugar before adding the chocolate and use hot milk if you want it thinner....

Plums....fallen ones!

My heart sank when I saw what yesterday's hailstorm had done to the 'growing' plums on our favorite tree in Mussourie. Standing under the wide tree,laden with fruit,I as there, rueing the fallen green fruit (an unusual sight for us urbanites!), I was loathe to let them just be swept away into the trash. Then the idea struck.....if we can use dried ripe plums as souring agents, why not these? So I decided to make a new version of ' Sindhi Kadhi'! No besan in the kitchen so used whole wheat flour and green plums instead of kokum! Voila! the 'Kadhi' was ready! Decided not to indulge into the favorite combination of Toook aloo with it though....