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 Paayesh is a popular Bengali dessert which is a bit lengthy to cook. Ingredients - Amul spray milk powder 500g, 500gGurer batashaa, 200 g Gobindo vog chaal, 50g kaaju nuts and 50g kismiss(soaked in water), a little micchri, 2 liters water. Process -  Take 2 liters of water in a big bowl. Heat the water and mix the milk powder into it.Stir continuously with laddle i.e haataa in Bengali. After the milk gets a bit thicker, pour 200 g washed Gobindo vog chaal into it. Stir the mixture upto boiling point. After the rice is somewhat boiled add water soaked kaaju nuts and kismiss,stir again for few minutes. Then add Gurer batashaa and micchri to it. Continuous stirring is compulsory to cook paayesh.  When the sweet smell starts to be aired,cover the bowl and turn off the gas. After a few minutes move the cover and look that your dessert is ready to serve. It's a bit reddish in colour. The quantity can be changed according to the need.

We enjoyed our friends Sanjay and Mamata's Marriage anniversary for the whole day. There came other friends too. We went there at noon and still evening we chatted, listening hindi music and Bengali,too. They cut the cake to celebrate the day and we had egg chicken biryani,paneer dum ,salad and chicken pakoda with cold drinks and wine. The weather was very good and it was breezing. We spent the day nicely. Here are some photographs I took of their garden and locality.They have Two daughters and they live in a pleasant atmosphere,a small house and a beautiful garden of flowers and fruits,as you see in the picture. It's a memorable day of 2026.

 Red flowers,not bloody , It's blossoming love, The colour is of romance , And is of sindoor,beauty hub. Gift of nature,duty of God,  Beauty of heart , touching light, Touch of life and start of life, It's Paramdhaam, celestial abode. Growing with bounty, Nature 's love for you, Full of redness and pomp, Shine of dazzling beauty. Red is the colour of valour, Colour of heat and health, The reddy flowers ' wealth, Naturally created glamour.

  It became a Funday on 11th March,the day of our marriage,as we cancelled our personal foody program and attended a marriage ceremony of the daughter of my husband 's closer acquittance. We dressed stylish and went with our car and it was a long journey through Rajarhat,Eco park from Behala,Kolkata. We set out on 7.30 pm and reached the marriage hall at 10 pm. We enjoyed the journey but got troubled to find out the banquet. At last we reached there and enjoyed. They were very happy to receive us cordially,we Took photos, gifted a wrist watch and had tasty items. In starter we had fuchka,Aaloo tikiya chaat, chicken kabab,fish fingers, crispy chilli baby corn,paneer kabab,cold drinks like Fanta,Thums up, Sprite. In the main course we ate Dahi vada, peas kochuri, butter naan, steamed rice,salad,daal makhni, paneer gravy ,aaloor dom. Non veg was chicken curry and fish rezala. Desert was sweet gulaab jaamun, rosomalai, chutney,papad, vanilla ice-cream with chocolate sauce and paan, las...

 Ingredients - Daaliyar( broken wheat), chopped vegetables like carrot,beans, capsicum, cauliflower, potato, tomato etc. Fried nuts, kismis, refined oil, Garam masala, ghee, salt, sugar, water. Process - Dry fry the daaliya in a frying bowl, fry for sometime and turn off gas oven when it gets reddish hot. Put it apart to cool down. Now in the frying bowl pour a little refined oil,heat the oil and put garam masala into it.after the smell comes,fry all chopped vegetables for a few minutes. Then add the cooled down daaliya and mix all ingredients by stirring them with spatula or khunti. Add salt. water in double amount of daaliya. Keep the bowl covered for few minutes. Then test the whole matter has been boiled fully. Stir again to soak the water to make it neat,tidy,and tasty. Spread ghee lastly and stir again. Now it's ready to serve. It's a good nutritious veg breakfast or tiffin.