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post #1 of 31
10/30/10 at 11:47pm
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Hi

I assure you this is not a thread though the title does look like that.

Anyways, there are several threads related to Indian foods and most of them leave me confused as what is being discussed there seems far removed from the food that north Indians have on a regular basis or at least what I have in my family. So I thought I would start a thread with pictures of the actual food I have.

If there is any interest I will keep on updating the thread on a regular basis, else it will die its natural death.

Moving on, first edition.

Diwali is round the corner and the quality of sweets (called mithai in Hindi) available at shop is going down at a rapid pace. So my mother decided to hire cooks to make the mithai at our place with the stuff supplied by us.

Here is what they made. Whole thing cost around 225 USD which included 50 USD as day wages for the 3 cooks which were hired for this purpose.







Assorted mithai etc on a steel tray. This is how it will be distributed, of course it will be covered.
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post #2 of 31
10/30/10 at 11:52pm
cool. I like Gulab Jamun.

I find they're usually quite expensive though. like $1 a sweet. I guess there's a fair bit of work going into them though.
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post #3 of 31
10/31/10 at 1:38pm
Why not just go to the sweet shops in delhi..?
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post #4 of 31
10/31/10 at 1:52pm
Awesome. I'm interested in this thread.
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post #5 of 31
10/31/10 at 2:12pm
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Why not just go to the sweet shops in delhi..?

Because of the quality of material used by the sweet shops. The news papers and TV here is full of cases of very poor quality sweets made of inferior material. The situation is so dire that health authorities have banned the stocking of certain milk products till Diwali.
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post #6 of 31
10/31/10 at 2:13pm
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Awesome. I'm interested in this thread.

Ok, great, I will take some more pics and post. But be warned that the pics will be of normal food that I eat and not some glam version ...
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post #7 of 31
10/31/10 at 2:43pm
i like the sweet blocks coated in silver, whatever those are called
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post #8 of 31
10/31/10 at 2:46pm
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i like the sweet blocks coated in silver, whatever those are called

Barfi... or burfi. Nice name, huh?
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post #9 of 31
10/31/10 at 2:46pm
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burfi, the green one in my pics is pistachio burfi. BTW, the silver foil thing is best avoided. Not the burfi underneath but the decoration.
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post #10 of 31
10/31/10 at 3:00pm
are you not supposed to eat the silver part? i do and my Indian friends/colleagues dont object, but maybe they laugh at me afterwards
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post #11 of 31
10/31/10 at 3:03pm
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You are supposed to eat the silver part. The problem is that the quality of the silver warq has gone down so much that it is best avoided. You dont want any metallic things in your stomach ...
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post #12 of 31
11/2/10 at 12:59pm
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Because of the quality of material used by the sweet shops. The news papers and TV here is full of cases of very poor quality sweets made of inferior material. The situation is so dire that health authorities have banned the stocking of certain milk products till Diwali.

Damn. They were all the rage back in the day.
(back in the day is '99)
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post #13 of 31
11/2/10 at 1:10pm
this threak disappoints, was hoping for pics of Katrina Kaif and Amisha Patel
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post #14 of 31
11/2/10 at 1:11pm
I used to buy a lot of that stuff to give away - honestly never eally like it. love kulfi and hot indian sweets, didnt' really like the stuff that was served at room temp. but it all looks great
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post #15 of 31
11/2/10 at 1:15pm
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this threak disappoints, was hoping for pics of Katrina Kaif and Amisha Patel
Amisha Patel is so '99 that this comment is actually funny. Here she is in a SF approved brand
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