Snack and Munch with Snacking

South Kolkata has got a great addition to it's chain of Cafes. Planning a reunion of friends over some great food and games? Then Snacking should be your next destination. There is live music in the evening with board games. The decor is going to enthral you. I visited this cafe after seeing a lot of Facebook post recommendations and the gang I was supposed to meet were quite determined to visit this place.

At a first glance from outside it might seem to be a pretty ordinary food joint but as it is said, 'Never judge the book by its cover'. The interior is very pretty and cosy. As we were a group of five young ladies, we got a huge table to us and the manager himself attended to us for petty little things.

Here are the items we tried on the menu:

1. Oreo Shake: Very common in every cafe but kid me not, this place probably serves it in the tallest glass with a beautiful topping. And it tastes heavenly.

2. Fried Chicken Strips- Served with fries and salad, this is the juiciest chicken strips I ever had. Only one disappointment is that there were very few pieces for the price charged but then you get the fries with it.

3. Barbecue Delight Pizza- Many cafes fail to serve good pizzas but Snacking did not disappoint me. The pizza was really good with lot of toppings.

4. Grilled Barbecue Chicken with Herbed rice, sautéed vegetables and mashed potatoes- This is a treat for spicy food lovers. Refrain from ordering this if you can't tolerate spice.

5. Chicken steak with sautéed vegetables, mashed potato and rice- Another main course you will surely enjoy. Perfectly juicy tender chicken leg and cheesy mashed potatoes treat your taste buds right.

I would love to visit the place again to try some desserts and snacks. Overall it was worth our time and money. Some people have complained about the quantity of food which I think is a personal opinion because what we were served were just perfect in quantity. It is absolutely reasonable and student friendly. To avoid long queues it is better if you go on weekdays or before 5 pm on weekends and holidays.

Bengali Handloom Sarees

Bengal’s formerly globe famed magical fabrics, spun and basket weave by hand, may well almost immediately be assist on supermarket shelves. Ruined by the East India party in the late at night 19th century, handloom in Bengal is mind agreed a inventive charter of life, merit to a fate discovery in the Indian Museum.
    In fact, it was the East India Company that began the destruction of handloom to compellingly launch up a sale for machine-woven fabric from Britain. The import of cheaper machine-made clothes from Europe and the later coming on of power-looms and material mills rang the death knell for handloom. numerous designs and fabric minimally perished. Bengali Handloom Sarees amusing weaving continues to strive as of periodic hard work by highly praised designers like Sabyasachi from this region. Today, we cart you on a saree trail through the finest Bengal Handloom Sarees of India to service you cotton on the tough circumstances of handloom weavers and weaving societies down with the industrial expertise of weavers and the exquisiteness of the weaves.

Bengal Tant: A cotton handloom saree with a strike and vivacious texture, tant sarees are characterised by a thick border, an attractive pallu and deft patterns on the body. These saris develop numerous traditional patterns and motifs with the floral, “buti” and “gamcha” designs dominating the scene. However, these being as the ace designers state brought in a percentage of innovation, several geometric and off beat patterns have been quite famous. Light, vivid and transparent, these saris are the nearly all much loved in scorching and clammy climate.



Jamdani: First made in Dhaka before partition, a jamdani saree over and over again called ‘dhakai jamdani’ or only ‘dhakai’, is a feather-light, excellently woven saree. In the beginning it was weaved in real cotton fibre and muslin, but now there is a variant in silk and cotton for a fruitful finish. These sarees are characterised by intricately designed motifs that develop to propose on the emerge of an nearly transparent, ultra-fine fabric, that gives it an otherworldly look.

Murshidabad silk: Silk sarees that hail from Murshidabad is a district in West Bengal whose history of silk saris backdates to the 18th century as soon as the East India Company established two factories to produce silk and is common for weaving silk of incredibly competent quality. Fine, light-weight and authentic silk, these sarees come in colourful shades and innumerable designs that scope from flower to stripes to geometrical and other eccentric patterns.

Baluchari: Baluchari sarees from Bengal are one of the nearly all gorgeous silk sarees of the country. Characterised by exotic borders and elaborate pallus that display fine weavings depicting scenes from  epics and mythological texts, they are sarees that are unique in contrast colours, gold and silver threads against the toned silk base of the saree. The magnificent silk sarees are apt for exclusive occasions like weddings and pious ceremonies.

Tussar: though Tussar is fashioned in several areas in India, extra than 40% of it is bent in the Malda borough of West Bengal. A further textured one than the sophisticated mulberry silk, it aids in the assembly of frequent types of saris in Bengal.It has a natural, pale golden-haired polish to it and comes in shades of beige, cream, honey and ochre that is regularly dyed into other exciting colours. The simple Tussar silks sarees, in established Bengali “buti” and “pata” is renowned between women of all ages.

Kantha: Characterized by the ‘running stitch’, Kantha a stylishness of needlework that originated in the Bolpur-Santiniketan region of West Bengal is popularly used to pattern sarees in every kinds of fabrics. needlework completed by hand, it uses load coloured threads, forming elaborate and complicated patterns. The beauty of kantha masterpiece is finest featured on pure silk and tussar silk sarees.

Help to revive and conserve handloom to save the tradition and artesians of Bengal. Buy six yards of hand woven yarns made with love.

You can purchase handloom sarees from Alna-Bengali Handloom Sarees

Choose to go ethic this #summer with a wide range of sarees from #Alna. WhatsApp on 9740116571 today!

A Mouth Full of Cheese-Chicken.

How many varieties of Dosa can you name? Not even 10, right? But here at Dosa@twist they have more than 99 varieties of dosa with awesome twist. NonVeg to Veg & Chocolate Dosa they offer you a huge range to choose from. My personal favourite is the CheeseChicken dosa. Trust me, the mozarella cheese makes it a better version of pizza. With the very first bite it makes you crave for more!
And for dessert? Try out the ChocolateDosa.

Ambience is very good, plus friendly staff. Decor and lights make it a perfect place for after college hangouts, sudden dates, family lunch/dinner etc.

Address : 187, Sarah Bose Road, near Deshopriya Park, Kolkata-700029

Free home delivery* T&C Apply. 
Contact: 9051440514/8902392725.

Chocoball Fudge: Quick Dessert in Minutes

Chocoball fudge is a dessert you can quickly prepare without much fuss in no time. Here's a list of all you need to prepare the mouth watering balls. 

Ingredients

• Muri (puffed rice) 2 cups 
• Sugar 1/2 cup
• Marie biscuits 5 pcs.
• Cocoa powder 1/2 cup
• Milk powder 3-4 tablespoons 
• Butter one blob 

Procedure

1-Put the muri, sugar and marie biscuits in the mixer grinder and grind them all fine.

2- Pour the mixture in a mixing bowl and add cocoa powder. Mix well.

3- In a bowl take half cup warm water and add the milk powder along with little butter.

4- Pour the milk in the powdered ingredients and make a dough. Be careful to not make it too watery. Pour the milk little by little while mixing it with a large spoon.

5- Make small dumplings of the dough and keep it on a tray. Put it in the fridge.

6- Take it out and serve chilled with chocolate sauce or sprinkle powdered milk for decoration.

FAQs

Why not liquid milk?
-Powder milk gives you the milk chocolate aroma which the liquid milk cannot.

Why add marie biscuits?
-Marie biscuits have that perfect balance of sweetness that doesn't spoil the chocolaty taste of your fudge.

Is adding butter necessary?
-No. You can do without the butter but remember, butter gives you a special taste to the fudge.

For any other queries, you can contact me on Facebook.


Thank you!
#livetoeat #foodies 

Recipe: Rainbow Marble Cake

I was in love with the colourful sandwich cake they served in cafes but then I am too lazy and miser to go out and spend. So here's what I do. Get my people shop for the ingredients and then make my cool snacks myself. :P You too can try out.

Ingredients

·         Flour (300g)

·         Sugar (200g)

·         Butter (100g)

·         3-4 eggs
Milk (2-3 tablespoon)

·         Baking powder1/2 teaspoon

·         Cocoa powder (two tablespoon)

·         Cadbury Diary Milk Chocolate (8 cube)

 Vanilla essence (a few drops) 

Strawberry essence ( few drops)

Edible pink food colour (1-2 drops)

Procedure:

1. Take sugar in a bowl and add melted butter to it. Mix it well until the sugar blends with the butter and becomes fine.

Tip: Use grounded/powdered sugar to save time. 

2. Now add the eggs and beat it well.

Caution: Do not add eggs to hot butter unless you want sweet scrambled eggs.

3. Add flour little by little and keep mixing it.

4. Add half teaspoon of baking powder.

5. Keep beating the batter until a thick, smooth consistency is achieved.

6. Now take out the mixture in equal quantity in three separate blows and keep aside.

7. Break the chocolate cubes in small pieces and using the double boiler method melt it smooth. Add little milk to make it quick.

8. Now add this melted chocolate to one bowl of the batter you have kept aside. Mix it well and add cocoa powder. Beat well. Now in another batter add strawberry essence and edible pink colour. Mix it well. Add vanilla essence to the white batter. Now you have three batters- one brown, one pink and the other white. 

9. Grease the baking mould with oil and sprinkle some flour. 

10. Now comes the main part of bringing the texture of the rainbow cake. Take a tablespoon for each batter (Brown, pink and white). Drop one tablespoon of white batter in the center of the mould. Then exactly on top of it drop the pink batter followed by the brown. Again drop the white batter then the pink and brown. Repeat this until you have put the batters one after another in the baking mould. The mixture will keep spreading on its own as you keeping dropping the batters in the center.

Tip: Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees while you are pouring the batter.

11. Put the filled mould in the oven and bake for 40 minutes.

12. After 40 minutes check if the cake is ready or not by pricking in a fork. If the fork comes out clean, the cake is ready.

13. Turn off the oven and keep the cake inside for some time to allow it to cool.

14. When it cools down, take it out from the mould and serve with your favourite strawberry jam or chocolate topping.

You can make rainbow muffins by changing your mould. Use cupcake moulds instead. Tada! There are your fluffy rainbow muffins!

Do share your views if you have tried the recipe. :)

Regards,
Jaismita Alexander.

Marble Cake: Easy 14 Steps

Though my blog clearly shouts out the name 'WRITTEN MINDLESSNESS' but this post is quite mindful. After posting a few pictures on Facebook of a Marble Cake I baked today, many have asked for the recipe of it. So here it is, for everyone's convenience I am posting the most easiest recipe of the delicious dessert.

Ingredients

·         Flour (300g)

·         Sugar (200g)

·         Butter (100g)

·         3-4 eggs
Milk (2-3 tablespoon)

·         Baking powder1/2 teaspoon

·         Cocoa powder (two tablespoon)

·         Cadbury Diary Milk Chocolate (8 cube)

 Vanilla essence (a few drops)

Procedure:

1. Take sugar in a bowl and add melted butter to it. Mix it well until the sugar blends with the butter and becomes fine.

Tip: Use grounded/powdered sugar to save time.

2. Now add the eggs and beat it well.

Caution: Do not add eggs to hot butter unless you want sweet scrambled eggs.

3. Add flour little by little and keep mixing it.

4. Add half teaspoon of baking powder and vanilla essence. 

5. Keep beating the batter until a thick, smooth consistency is achieved. 

6. Now in a separate bowl take out half of the mixture and keep aside.

7. Break the chocolate cubes in small pieces and using the double boiler method melt it smooth. Add little milk to make it quick.

8. Now add this melted chocolate to the half of the batter you have kept aside. Mix it well and add cocoa powder. Beat well. Now you have two batter- one brown and the other white. 

9. Grease the baking mould with oil and sprinkle some flour. 

10. Now comes the main part of bringing the texture of the marble cake. Take a tablespoon for each batter (Brown and white). Drop one tablespoon of white batter in the center of the mould. Then exactly on top of it drop the brown batter. Again drop the white batter. Repeat this until you have put the batters one after another in the baking mould.

Your mould should look like this now.

Tip: Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees while you are pouring the batter.

11. Put the filled mould in the oven and bake for 40 minutes.

12. After 40 minutes check if the cake is ready or not by pricking in a fork. If the fork comes out clean, the cake is ready.

13. Turn off the oven and keep the cake inside for some time to allow it to cool.

14. When it cools down, take it out from the mould and serve with your favourite chocolate topping.

Do share your views if you have tried the recipe. :)

Regards,
Jaismita Alexander.

ET TU BRUTE

The hefty like heart of yours pours down like a cloud...

In the showers of love I am drenched.

The breeze like the nautical soul of yours teases my locks.

I resist touching that petal like lips with the wretched mine.

 I hesitate to let you engulf my torso in your arms.

Myself so skeptic of everything...anticipates in the absence of your love so cruel.

So satanic.

So devilish.

I feel the feeling not so mine.

You not for me but I definitely only yours.

 We travel the road of no destination...

And with every mile I walk with you,

Your footsteps you withdraw.

Amidst the half traveled journey you wish to return. What if so?

What if the showers you drenched me in, fall with thunders that burn me to death?

The rosy lips might just leave bruises on mine.

The arms might just disown me forever.

And all I'll be a rejected soul...

What if?

What if I remain yours and you never could be mine?

I’ll be stranded once again.

My nights will be colder…

And darker.

by Jaismita Alexander