Things You Need
4 sticks of unsalted butter. 2 cups of  unsalted butter or desi ghee
3 cups of Suji, Cream of wheat or Farina
6 cups of water
6 cups of sugar
10 cardamon seeds
20 Sliced Almonds

1. ​Take a shallow pan. place on the stove and turn stove on medium heat.
2.  Add butter and let it melt.
3. Add Cardamon seeds
4. When butter is completely melted, add Suji and let it cook on medium heat.
5. Constantly mix with spatula so it wont get burn. constant stirring helps to cook evenly.
6. Keep mixing until you get a very very light golden color, At that time you will also starts to smell the fragrance produced by butter and Suji.
7. Turn the stove low and slowly add sugar cup by cup. Stir until Suji and Sugar are completely mixed.
8. Now slowly add the water. Be careful mixture might splatter. Once it settles turn the stove back on medium heat. Cover the pot with the lid
9. Cook for 5-7 minutes. Mixing occasionally so the mixture don’t stick to the bottom of the  pan.
10. Cook to the desired constancy. I like mines creamy and not too dry because it gets little harder when cools. Recommend to keep it on softer side.
11. Let  it simmer on very low heat for 2 minutes.
12. Transfer Halwa to your serving dish immediately.
13. Sprinkle Almond slices on it.
    

​Serve with Naan or Puris (Fried Pita Bread)

Making donuts on a snow-day is one of the favorite things to do when my own kids were growing. Credit goes to one of the Hybla Valley teacher Miss Hunter, she gave me a donut recipe that requires lots of frying and sugary stuff. years passed, I lost that recipe as well as the taste of deep frying and loads of sugar. But the tradition remains once a while. Suddenly this tradition pop up this year during my stay with Z set of grandkids on this snowy day. the best part was that Sumi is old enough tp plan. I was so excited that forgot to take pics of first few steps of mixing and battering.  i have tried  my best to include all the necessary steps.Enjoy as much as i enjoyed them with my  Z and B set of grandkids. Yes B's too i guess they smelled them 10 miles away.

Things you Need

• ​2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 and 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 1 large egg
• 2 cups whole milk
• 2 TBS natural Vanilla

How to make it

1. Turn oven on at 375
2. Mix all the dry ingredients. Set aside
3. Whisk egg and all the wet ingredients together and slowly add to the dry mixture. Everything needs to be blended together until lumps are not visible. You can use hand beater, electric beater or kitchen aid
4. Grease donut pan either metal or silicon . Pour batter in each mold until mold is 3/4 filled
5. Bake for 17 minutes. Check by inserting a toothpick, If tooth pick comes out clean it means they are read
6. Let it cool for few minutes. Still warm an ready to be handle easily. ready to be taken out of the molds
7. Land them on a tray with confectioner sugar and let them roll to get as much as snow as they need
   

Serve warm with cold milk or hot tea or coffee​

This morning I had a meeting with a few community members and whipped up some buttermilk biscuits. Follow any buttermilk biscuit recipe of your choice, or even the store bought ones. Form them into a circular shape and cut half. Then, arrange them in a pan with the straight edge of one biscuit again the curved edge of another. Sprinkle with shredded cheddar cheese and butter. Follow the baking instructions of your biscuit recipe, and when you take them out of the over drizzle some more melted butter on top.

Shakshuka is one of my all time favorites, if you love eggs, you'll love this dish! It is of Arab origin and is basically poached eggs mixed into a tomato sauce. I call it Snowy Shakshuka because I made it on a snow day :)