If you are short of ideas for what to do this Christmas, here's your complete guide to food, drinks, recipes and more to cheer up your festive season.
If you are short of ideas for what to do this Christmas, here's your complete guide to food, drinks, recipes and more to cheer up your festive season in Mumbai.
Savour authentic festive goodies in Dadar
With Christmas around the corner, how can the delicious cookies and baked goodies be far behind? Iamin caught up with Ann Dias, a Dadar resident who is famous for the Christmas treats she churns out in her kitchen. The 63-year-old has been making traditional Christmas delights since 1982. What started off as a passion, soon took an entrepreneurial turn, as Dias began selling her home-made sweets during the festive season. A big hit among residents, the word of her undertaking spread far and wide, making her a known name in the local circuit.
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Head to Bandra's Hearsch bakery
People with sweet-tooths in Mumbai can head to a famous bakery in Bandra’s Hill Road area.J. Hearsch Bakery has been one of the favourites among other sweer shops, during festive season, especially around Christmas.This year, the bakery is serving special items like Marzipan, milk cream, pink ice, walnut fudge, Christmas cupcakes, Christmas fruit and nut chocolate cake, and Snowman Lollipop. The range starts from Rs 130, which will hardly burn any hole in your pockets. Melvin D'sa who runs the bakery, said, “Like every year this time too we have started selling Christmas items from this week. I hope the sales increase this year.”
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American Express Bakery in Bandra's Hill Road
American Express Bakery in Bandra's Hill Road, a favourite among pastry lovers was started a hundred years ago by a goan in Byculla. The bakery has entered the Christmas mode and has chalked out a schedule of special breads and items to be sold on particular days till December 25. These items include steak and kidney pie start, bread basket, Portuguese bread, Dundee Start and the most popular one - Stollen.
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Christmas Recipe: Snack on Vettu Cake, an easy South-Indian delicacy
With Christmas around the corner, Christian households are buzzing with activity. While most of the rooms are decked up with baubles, lights and red stocking for Santa, the kitchen becomes the hub of festive preparations as well. One such snack that is often dished out by Kerala Christians is Vettu Cake. Quite a misnomer, Vettu Cake recipe is not at all tedious and involves no baking it all. Quick, easy to make and long lasting, the fried snack is usually stored in air-tight containers, to serve guests who drop by home to offer Christmas wishes and to satiate the mid-afternoon hunger pangs of little kids swarming around the house.
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Try your hand making sweet diamond cuts
Among the several traditional dishes laid out on the tray of goodies during Christmas, it is hard to miss the sweet and crispy diamond cut or Vettipori. For those accustomed to these delightful fried snacks during the festive season, the one memory that will flash through your mind will be of the ladies in Malayali households, getting together on a cold afternoon, kneading and rolling dough to cut them out into diamond shapes. Coated with sugary syrup, these sweet golden treats are stored in air-tight containers and can last up to a month.
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Savour popular Goan Baath Cake this festive season
The Baath Cake is typically a Goan dessert speciality that is made during Christmas and Easter. It is usually prepared as a part of the ‘Kuswar’ or set of goodies prepared specifically for the festive season by the Goan Catholic community. Its primary ingredients are semolina and coconut— both desiccated and fresh coconut can be used, but the dish must be consumed within three days if the latter is used. Since it is generally a soft, crumbly and moist cake, one needs to be careful about not over-baking it as it then, tends to become too dry.
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Try out Rose Cookies or Achappam
One of Kerala’s authentic Christmas snacks is the Rose Cookies or Achappam, which are mildly sweet and extremely crunchy. Also hailed as the Indian version of the famous Scandinavian Rosette Cookies, this made using an Achu or iron-mould from which it derives its name. This is usually tricky for first-timers and getting perfectly-shaped cookies turns out to be quite a task, until you learn the knack of using the mould. However, preparing the batter is far from laborious and is a crunchy delight once off the stove and ready to be devoured.
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Try out Bohri-style lunch in Mumbai
Food and festivities have always gone together so why should this Christmas be any different? If you are in Mumbai, then how about a Bohri home cooked meal to ring in the celebrations? The Bohri Kitchen, an experimental lunch concept has something special for their guests for this Saturday’s event – Bohri food with a twist.
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And here's some help with wines
Wine is the flavour of this festive season. It is the safest bet, whether it is a party or a cozy couple dinner. For some, choosing wines that go hand-in-hand with relaxation and celebration can sometimes become intimidating, especially when hosting a group. Ajay Shetty, MD, Myra Vineyards lists three kinds of wines you should go for this season, and their right pairings. So go ahead and get the party started!
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