Of Vinayaka Chaturthi, modakams and kozhukattais..

Vinayaka Chaturthi.
Daughter #1 Made an eco friendly Ganesha replete with a mouse that ended up looking like a rat.
Tried to be adventurous. Wanted to make a variety of modakams and kozhukattai but ran out of time.
Fed Him (and us) with

1. Modakams and
2. kozhukattais with sweet pooranam (Channa dhall, jaggery, coconut, cardamom paste).
3. Tried to make modakams with black sesame, jaggery, coconut filling but the filling got too hard as I’d left it too long, so made ellu urundai instead.
4. A simpler version of Kara ulunthu kozhukattai. Steamed urad dhall, rice flour, ginger, green chilli paste, lightly tempered with spices, steamed. The slightly tedious version would have been to make a spiced urad dhall, ginger, green chilli filling for modakams and kozhukattais then steam.
5. Ammini kozhukattais. Panic began to set in as it was getting to be Puja time. Got the girls who were in various stages of assignments to roll the cooked rice flour paste into tiny balls. Different sizes were rolled out with the younger one chiding the older one at her lack of cooking skills. Finally done, amidst a lot of laughter, which He would have liked.
   Steamed then tempered with mustard seeds, coconut, urad and channa dhalls, ginger, red and green chillies, cummin, hing, basically The Works, went overboard as I invariably do.
   No time for sareeing,
   Puja, then some music as husband and daughter 1 sang while daughter 2 and I accompanied on the veena.
   Prasad,
   Then watched of all movies..
   13 hours : The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.
   Disclaimer : was going to watch Miranda but this came up on TV so..

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