Happy Diwali!
I have been busy. Between my daughter and work, there’s
really not much time left in the day or week or month. The work week has been
simply draining. Weekends have been passing by at the blink of an eye.
So this time around, Diwali came and it did not make much of
an impact. I knew in my head it was the most important festival of the year,
and yet there wasn’t anything special that I had planned to do, outside of
reciprocating to the numerous wishes from family and friends. Something inside
tugged at me. This did not feel right.
Although we had a family party planned for the weekend, the
fact that the Diwali day would just pass mundanely was unacceptable. I decided
to check out a few food blogs to get inspired. It was going to be hard I knew,
there wasn’t much in my pantry and I wasn’t going shopping, we had cut down our
sugar intake to bare minimum over recent times and of course, I was pressed for
time. How could I possibly find something yummy to whip up that was actually
healthy and delicious and would live up to a festival like Diwali?
Like they say, if you wish for something with all your heart
and you want it bad enough, the universe conspires. I found the perfect recipe! Date and nuts burfi.
As the aroma of ghee and cardamom rose up in the air to fill
the empty spaces of our house and lives, I cherished the moments of the bygone,
the image of my mom, my sister and I sitting around and transforming the plate
full of boondis into laddoos, while stealing bites of raisins roasted in ghee.
That was all it took. For Diwali to become real.
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