Chocolate Sorbet

Ingredients:

3/4 cup cocoapowder

1/4 cup semisweet chocolate buttons or chips

3/4 cup fine grained or castor sugar

2 tbsp. Honey or cornsyrup 2 cups water

Method:

Put sugar and water to boil.

When boiling starts, reduce heat, simmer for 2-3 minutes.

Take off fire, allow to cool to room temperature.

Add honey, cocoa powder, reheat,

till well mixed, without bringing to a boil.

Take off fire, add chocolate chips, stir, to dissolve.

Keep aside to cool completely.

Set mixture in lidded container in freezer, till softly set.

Remove from freezer, beat till smooth.

Return to container, refreeze.

Beat again, and return to freezer, till well set.

Serve in small scoops, with grated chocolate curls,

 chocolate sauce, etc.

Strawberry Jelly Slush

Ingredients:

250 gms strawberries (chopped 2 cups)

3/4 cup sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp strawberry essence

few drops red colour

1 cup strawberry jelly

2 glasses water

10-12 crushed ice cubes

Method:

To make a pulp mix strawberries, sugar, salt and bring to boil. Take off from fire and chill.

Set jelly as per instructions on the packet.

Just before serving - in a blender add pulp (made as above), jelly chunks, colour, essence and water.

 Blend very lightly.

Pour into glasses and mix in finely crushed ice.

Use wide straw for serving.

For variations use different fruits with matching jellies,

colours and essences.

Eg. pineapple, orange, grape, etc.

Coke Vanilla Fizz

Ingredients:

2 scoops vanilla icecream

1/2 bottle (300 ml. ) cola

2 pinches salt

1 slice lemon.

Method:

Chill the coke well.

Slit the lemon along radius.

In a tall glass , beat one scoop of icecream till soft.

Pour 1/3 glass coke and mix a little.

Sprinkle salt, pour coke almost to brim.

Carefully add the other scoop of ice cream.

Push the lemon slice over the rim of the glass.

Serve immediately.

Fillin' Fruit Bowl

Ingredients:

2 bananas ripe

1 mango ripe

1 orange ripe

1 chicoo ripe

1/2 cup each seedless sweet black & green grapes

2 slices sweet pineapple

1 apple

1/2 pomegranate seedless

1 thick slice plain sponge cake

solution of 1 tbsp. sugar in 1/4 cup water 1 tbsp.

powdered sugar

salt and pepper to taste

1/2 tsp. chat masala

1 tsp. lemon juice

1 cup light cream of paneer.

Method:

Sprinkle sugar solution on cake slice.

Keep aside for 20 minutes.

Cut into chunks.

Clean all fruit, peel, deseed as required.

Chop into chunks where required, sprinkle lemon juice and salt. Toss and chill well.

Before serving, add chat masala, pepper,

sugar, cake pieces, toss.

 Put in individual serving bowls.

Top with light cream.

Serve immediately.

Note: Any combinations and permutations can be made to the choice and ratio of fruit used.

If using colour bleeding fruit like strawberries, prepare separately,

and add just before serving.

Jelly Vegi Tossed Salad

Ingredients:

1 packet desired jelly (set as per instruction on cover of pack)

1 large cucumber diced

2-3 slices chopped pineapple

1 medium apple peeled and diced

1 spring

dill leaves finely chopped

2-3 sticks of shallots chopped

2 tbsp. cream,

2 tbsp curds fresh,

1 tsp sugar (whipped together)  

fresh ground pepper

salt to taste

Method:

Toss all ingredients together except the jelly and whipped mixture and dill leaves.

Chill in a large glass bowl.

Just before serving chop the jelly into inch-sized cubes.

Mix the cubes in the salad and toss lightly.

Pour the whipping on the salad

and sprinkle the chopped dill on top for garnishing.

Crunchy Fruit Slaw

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh cabbage, shredded

1 carrot, peeled, chopped like matchsticks (juliennes)

1 stick celery,

cleaned sliced into juliennes.

8-10 cherry tomatoes

2 canned pineapple slices,

chopped 1/2 cup peanuts, salted, roasted

1 tbsp. Soft raisins  

1/2 cup cream 1 tbsp.

Mayonnaise or cheese spread

1/4 cup thick (tied) curds 2 tbsp.

Pineapple syrup (from can)

1/4 tsp. Pepper powdered

salt to taste

Method:

Take a large glass salad bowl.

Cream together cream, cheese, curds, syrup, salt and pepper. Add all other ingredients.

Mix well, chill before serving

Chocolate Carpet

Ingredients

3 scoops vanilla icecream

1/2 cup chocolate cake crumbs (crumbled in a mixie)

2 tbsp. chocolate sauce

1 small bar plain chocolate

1 icecream wafer

2 cherries, strawberries or candies for decoration

8 strawberries sliced

Method

Use an oval (single serving) shallow dish for this icecream

for best effect.

Spread the cake crumbs at the bottom of the plate.

Cut the wafer into 2 triangles.

Scrape chocolate with a vegetable peeler to get curls.

Place the three scoops in a line at the centre of plate.

Pour chocolate sauce over the three scoops.

Place cherries on top of outer scoops.

Poke wafer triangles in centre scoop.

Arrange strawberries all around the dish.

Sprinkle the curls all over the icecream.

Once upon a time a man had heard,

that in a foreign place, far away,

there was a holy flame burning.

So he got up and left his home

to find the holy flame and

bring some of its light back home to his house.

He thought: 'When I have this light,

then I will have happiness and life

and all the people I love will have it too.

'He travelled far, far away

and finally found the holy flame,

with which he lit his light.

On his way back he had only one worry:

'That his light could go out.

'On his way home he met someone

who was freezing and didn't have any fire

and who begged him to give him some of his fire.

The man with the light hesitated for a moment.

Wasn't his light too precious,

too holy to be given away

for something ordinary like that?

Despite these doubts,

he decided to give some of his light

to the one who was freezing in the darkness.

The man continued his journey home

and when he had almost reached his house

a terrible thunderstorm started.

He tried to protect his light from the rain and the storm, but at the end his light went out.

To return the long way back

to the place where the holy flame was burning

was impossible,

he wouldn't have had enough strength

to go back this far -

but he was strong enough to return

to the human being whom he had helped on his way home..........

and with his light he could light his own again!!!