Deep down, I still feel connected to the little girl that’s inside of me. I still make whoopie dances when I am happy. I bare my teeth in mock consternation – a habit picked up from kiddie friend of mine who always did it when she wanted to display mock anger. I still love to pick at vegetables I don’t like and find innovative ways to say no to them in polite company. When I am down in the dumps, mainly with sore throat or stomach ache, I ache for my Mom’s soothing touch, and make myself a hot cup of herbal tea and pretend she made it for me. Then I call her and whine.
I haven’t been able to whine for the past week, as she went into a sudden surgery 4 days back to get stones removed from her gall bladder. There were about 16 stones, and multiple surgeries prior to this, including one that involved putting in a mesh meant this would be no small, laparoscopic surgery.
So far away, I can only pray for her quick recovery. Day 3 of the surgery and she is doing better. She is still on feeding tubes, but the doctors say she should be fine to start eating on her own by next couple of days.
I do want to become that little girl again, go stand by her bed side, watch her being concerned for me, waiting to come back home so that she could start taking care of her little girl again, just like she did so many times during my childhood. But now it’s my turn to be concerned, to make sure she is back home, doing what she does best – be the Home Minister for all of us 🙂
As a kid, I loved the desserts that my Mom made. But she never made these kulfi pops. So I made them, and pretended that I am a little girl again. Just kidding. I made these for four kids who created a lot of fun-filled moments in my house last week, but somehow totally missed eating these as the time simply flew by, and the chance never came to sit and relish them. My boys made up for it after our guests left though.
- 1 cup condensed milk
- 1 cup Evaporated Milk
- 1 tsp rose water
- a few drops of kewda essence (optional)
- 1 tbsp roughly chopped nuts (optional)
- Whip the Evaporated milk till double.
- Add condensed milk and mix well.
- Combine with rose water and essence if adding.
- Add the nuts and give a gentle stir.
- Pour into pop moulds and freeze for 4-6 hours.
Notes:
You can substitute Evaporated milk with whole milk, you don’t need to whip much. Using whole milk might cause a few ice crystals.
‘Kewda’ essence can be found in Indian stores.
For nuts you can use almonds, pistachios, cashews. Do not use peanuts, that would change the taste.
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