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Cake Culture, Festivals, Traditions Dessert Easter Recipes

Honey Cake

Honey Cake Ingredients1 1/2 cup Plain flour 1/2 cup Butter 1/4th cup Oil 3/4 cup Sugar powder 1 1/2 tsp Baking powder 1/4 tsp Salt 1/4 cup Milk 1 1/2 tb sp. Vanilla essence 3 Eggs For Honey syrup 1/4 cup of water 4tb sp.of honey 2 tsp. of rose water Mix together to make …

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Food and Wine

Welcome to My Parsi Party Parsis revel in their reputation as hedonistic gourmands. Every gathering, celebration, religious occasion, and even loss is marked by food. Writer Sabrina Medora shares never-before-printed recipes for the dinner parties of her childhood. By  Sabrina Medora NEWBORN BABIES IN MY PARSI FAMILY get a little mithu monu (sweets for the mouth) by way …

Effigies of Ravana on sale by the roadside at Jaipur India. They're burnt at the annual Dussehra festival in India.
Appetizer Culture, Festivals, Traditions Diwali

 Dusshera, Dasara or Dashain

dussehra. Dussehra (Vijaya Dashami, Dasara, or Dashain) is a Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil. It is a gazetted holiday in India, which is marked on the 10th day of the bright half (Shukla Paksha) of the month of Ashvin (Ashwayuja), according to the Hindu calendar.

Cardamom Cinnamon Culture, Festivals, Traditions Dessert Jams and Preserves News Pumkin Pumpkin Thanksgiving Vegetarian White Pumpkin

White Pumpkin Preserve “Kohra no Murambo”

An old parsi favorite, White Pumpkin Preserve “Kohra no Murambo”. Saw the white pumpkin today at the garden center in Home Depot !!!   Murambo goes with toast (burnt or lightly toasted), Fried eggs (half – fried eggs or fully fried crisp). My mother in law, Jalloo used to make it and add peaches or …

Apricot (Jardaloo) Jardaloo Parsee Parsi Recipes

Jardalu Chicken

1/2 lb Chicken thighs cut into small bite size pieces2 Onions finely sliced3 tsps ginger garlic paste1/4 tsp caraway seeds1/2 tsp Mace / JaventriSalt to taste2 tbsp Canola Oil10 Jardalu (dried apricots) soaked in hot water for 15 minutes7 Jujubee – Chinese Date, Fructus Jujubae, 大枣) Marinate chicken in ginger garlic paste. Keep for 1 …

Coconut Culture, Festivals, Traditions Dessert Diwali Fruit Mithai Parsee Parsi Recipes Vegetarian

Easy Creamy Coconut Delight or Parsi Kopra Pak

This Koprapak (1 lb for $7) is available from Roshan Rivetna in Chicago, USA. For more details go to https://parsicuisine.com/parsimithaishop/ Ingredients: 1 cup coconut, grated. (frozen grated coconut) 1 1/2 cup Sugar 3 tablespoon Cream 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg and cardamom powder Few drops red colouring 1/2 to 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 1/2 teaspoon butter 1/2 cup pistachio …

Agharni or Agarni Ceremony Culture, Festivals, Traditions Dessert Mithai Recipes

Agarni / Agharni Lavda ( Homemade in USA )

By Rita Kapadia Recipe for Agarni Ladva Boondi: 2 1/2 cups gram flour (not superfine variety) 500 ml. milk (optional to remove sugar impurity) 1/2 tsp. cardamom powder 3 cups ghee for deep frying 2 fine hole shallow strainer metal spoons, or use a colander with holes (be innovative) 1/2 tsp vanilla or rose essence …

Ceremony Culture, Festivals, Traditions Dessert Jashan & Gahanbar Navjote News Wedding

Rituals and Food

Food plays a important and necessary role in our daily lives. Each ceremony we perform has an associated food involved. Guests who come to share good times and bad times, auspicious and joyous occasions have to be cordially entertained and food is the most important. Guests should be made to feel welcome and a well …

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Time and Talents club 90 years and still giving

By Author-publisher Meher Marfatia Among the most iconic institutions gifted to Bombay, the Time & Talents Club stays robust and relevant. Its firm humanitarian resolve engages with philanthropy and entertainment in wonderfully equal measure Eat from here so others eat too,” she said. That was my grandmother, who would buy copies of everybody’s favourite cookbook to distribute. …

Ceremony Culture, Festivals, Traditions Parsee Parsi Recipes Wedding

Madavsaro Kharaptu Recipe

Madavsaro The Madavsaro ceremony is done four days before the wedding. The families of the bride and the groom each plant a young tree in a pot, amidst recitation of prayers by the family priest and place this at the entrance of their individual homes. This is generally a mango plant and is treated as …