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Poush Sakranti, Pithe and Food Stories
Winters are full of warm blankets,picnics and delicious food.But with the COVID situation socially distanced picnics are the new thing.
But one thing hasn’t changed.That’s the celebration of harvest festivals.
With Makar Sankranti, Poush Sankranti in West Bengal and Lohri in Punjab.,Bihu in Assam and Pongal in the south anywhere in India you will get the feeling of celebrations .
What’s really great about these festival are the fresh from harvest delicacies .
Various pithe,puli, patishapta, payesh are the need of the season in West Bengal.
My principles around such delicacy was always as the taster and helper in the kitchen.Every year I wait patiently for the deliciousness to be gifted and I am happy to say ,it has started .
What arrived this year for Poush Sakranti
Gokul pithe :These are delicious fried dumplings made of kheer ,coconut ,then batter fried and dipped in sugar syup.This is something my sister-in-law makes really well.
Pati saptha-Thin rice flour crepes with stuffings of kheer, sweetened with date palm jaggery,coconut .It’s super pretty,lacy ,delicate and delicious .You justcan’t stop at one.My sister makes these to a perfection.
Seddho pithe -Rice dumplings stuffed with coconut,jaggery,kheer and boiled in milk then dunked in jaggery sweetened kheer.It’s decadent,melt in the mouth and needs serious expertise.Something another sister in law is great at.
Lohri special til ka laddoo came too!The nip in the air and the til ka chikki are my favorite food.They crunchy ,sticky and taste great.
Sharing about these makes my mouth water.Hope you enjoyed listening to this as much as I enjoyed talking about these.
On Makar sakranti or Poush sakranti people also visit the Sagar mela at Ganga sagar in West Bengal for the holy dip in the Ganges.
With 2021 standing on the verge of new beginnings e-holy dips are being encouraged.
Hope you have a lovely Makar Sankranti with your family .
P.S :This blog post will be updated with more pithe that gets delivered.
Resolution 2021 :I don’t usually share this!
Balance ,Faith,Practice .These three are going to be my guiding light in 2021.
I don’t usually share my New year Resolutions.But 2021 is already showing signs of being a tad unusual. .Also I don’t think many peopld really cares about my resolution.Thats how I prevent feeling overwhelmed.But maybe some one reading this cares.One person findings this helpful, makes this worth while.Plus its good to break pattern.So here goes.
My New year Resolution for 2021 is to have BALANCE.There I said it.
If you think about 2020 you will realize in many ways it was a lesson. A lesson for us all .To find out what was important to survive.What kept us sane ?
So my resolution for 2021 is to work towards finding BALANCE.(Plus avoiding the fallout from crazy chaos).
Balance between nature and technology.Too little or too much of either can be a problem.
Family and friends .Some people we choose and some we don’t.Either way being blessed takes adjusting in real life.
Reading and writing.We forget to do enough of these ,after we get those degrees.But 2021 is going to be different. Elearning makes education easier in my ways.
Learning and Unlearning.The attention is finite.So us time.We will need to make space to learn.
Giving and taking .Both needed .Your soul and your bank balance both need refilling.
Laughing and crying.Plus sometimes both together.
Air and water .Because they exist within each other too.
Fire and Earth.Can destroy or make stronger .What’s needed is balance.
Opposites and similar. Momentary attraction and life time of attachment.
Flowers and Thorns .Again the balance .
Home and garden .You need both to survive well.
Food and exercise.Body and mind. Work and play.These play together and not fun alone.
Change and constants.The former is the only constant though.
Material and spiritual.From dust to dust and if everything has energy ,then the tangible has spirit and pure spirit is tangible. Yes ,it confuses me too .
Inner and outer world .The struggle creates stress and disease .
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How to find Balance in a busy world?
When I feel peaceful inside with how things happen.If I feel agitated ,disturbed, I know some ingredients are missing.Then I look for them.
That’s how I find balance in my life and work.People who seek balance in their life find i.Its also easier then , to focus meditate and have more faith in a higher power.
Plus practicing my strengths to become stronger and tweaking my weaknesses to become strengths.
Thats why in 2020 I worked on both my Right and left brain.I even made some Tangi inspired Art work ,greeting the New year.Hope you like them.
Its in balance that our survival depends .Its also the reason opposites and counter balance exists.
So whats your 2021 Resolution looking like ?
Let me know in the comments below.
