Crunchy Cookies

Ingredients:

1/3 cup All Purpose flour (Maida)

1/3 cup Semolina (Rawa)

1/2 cup Gram Flour (Besan)

1 stick Butter (1/2 cup) (room temp)

2/3 cup Sugar

A Pinch Baking Soda

1/2 tsp cardamom powder

Almonds to garnish

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 375 F (200 C). In a separate bowl mix all the dry ingredients (Maida, Rawa, Besan, Baking soda & cardamom powder) In another bowl mix the butter and sugar and beat for a bout 2mins either with a whisker or fork or on low speed for 2 mins by a hand blender.

Once the butter and sugar mix comes to a smooth consistency add the dry ingredients to form a smooth dough. Roll out pedas (small flat balls) and place them on a cookie sheet greased with some cooking spray. Bake the cookies for about 12-15mins or until turned light brown. Once cooled can be served with tea/coffee.

My First Blog

Blog...I used to wonder what that means until i read a couple and finally wanted to have one of my own. Blogging or blog became so common where one can express whatever they want to say unlike yester-years where people used to maintain diaries to put their thoughts, captured into pages and could be cherished for years.

I never had a habit of writing a diary, as a matter of fact writing anything. I loved reading but never thought i would end up writing a diary or creating my own blog one day. It all started, thanks to my husband Ani who was; rather is fond of writing. May it be poems or his general views of what is going around him and the world. I am a regular reader of his blogs and then i decided to create my blog. Its good to have this virtual diary. Well there are times when you want to share your thoughts or exchange with others so this is a good space to do so... so as of now this is my stepping stone in the blog world and i hope to catch that by contributing more.