In kitchen 19

Flour & Potato dough

Take 2 boiled potatoes,
Take a large bowl of wheat flour,
Salt,
Turmeric powder,
Coriander leaves,
Ajwain (Carom seeds),
Mash and mix well with water to make a hard dough.
IMPORTANT: keep the dough for 15 mins. and knead again.

This dough can be used to make puri or parantha.

Chilli Pepper Spray in India

Take 2 spoons of chilli powder (lal mirch), 2 spoons of pepper powder (kali mirch).
Take half a glass of refined oil.
Take one bottle of nail polish remover (it functions as a preservative).
Mix these ingredients well.
Filter the coarse grains by pouring the mix through a sieve (chai ki chalni).
Take an empty bottle of Dabur Gulabari or Suthol spray.

Make chilli pepper spray yourself in India

Fill it up. Your chilli-pepper spray is ready.
Carry the bottle in your purse.

NOTE: keep away from children

This is for a girl/woman's self defence. The spray does not harm the eyes permanently. Chilli creates irritation and pepper creates fogginess only for a few minutes. Run away and call for help/complain.

In kitchen 18

Sandesh

The Bengali sweet made easy and nutritious -

Take 500gms of cottage cheese, paneer from the market (Amul malai paneer would be fine, or Verka in the north of India)

Mash it all for 10 mins.

Grind ordinary sugar - 10 tbsp

Mash the mix of sugar and cheese for 10 mins. It will be a pulp.

Heat it for 2 mins in a non-stick fry-pan on low flame on the small burner of the gas-stove. Do not let it dry up. It should not become yellow.

Mash again for 5 mins and then make small balls.

Keep it in the refrigerator to harden.

NOTE: Cheese is all of milk protein. Sandesh is absolutely nutritious, more now if you make it at home. Just remember it spoils in a couple of days - becomes sour so finish it off in 2 days.