According to a few websites, India's biscuit (cookie) industry is arguably the second largest/ successful in the world, right behind the U.S., so...why not try and bake biscuits? Today, Gowramma, Lakshmi, and I made four kinds of biscuits: butter cookies, sugar cookies, peanut butter cookies, and ghee cookies. I made the peanut butter from scratch, blending peanuts and then adding oil, sugar and salt to taste, and I guess we got lucky because they actually turned out pretty darn yummy. Ghee is pure milkfat. Appetizing, right? It is commonly used in Indian dishes such as chicken biryani or fried rice, and apparently in biscuits as well. The ghee biscuits sorta taste like shortbread... delicious actually, especially with some powdered sugar (that I also had to make by blending granulated sugar) sprinkled on top. After having several people test our biscuits, we decided the butter cookie and ghee cookie were the best, so we are going to perfect those two recipes and maybe try some coconut cookies tomorrow...??? (There are a bunch of coconuts here.... so why not haha?)
Oh--and we also have a little mouse friend in our apartment who strangely resembles Gus-Gus from Cinderella. Tonight, I flipped on the kitchen light and saw a stringy tail slide over the top of our refridgerator, and I MIGHT have screamed a little...okay I definitely screeched, but I was relieved to peek under the fridge and see that it was just a mouse and not a snake or rat or some other scary Indian creature. Steph proceeded to line up three mouse traps and peanut butter on the kitchen floor. I'll be sure to post when we catch Gus-Gus.
While journaling today, I was struck by the words of Psalms: "O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you my soul thirsts for you and my body longs for you in a dry and weary land where there is no water." -Psalm 63: 1
"As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God." -Psalm 42:1
"You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living." -Psalm 119:57
How often do I hunger God? Hunger is "a feeling of pain, emptiness, or weakness induced by lack of food; an appetite, desire, need, or craving." How much weakness or emptiness do I feel for the Lord? How much do I desire Him--to serve and love Him, to know Him? How earnestly am I seeking His wisdom, His guidance, His will for my life? When I pray the Lord's Prayer:"Give me today, my daily bread," am I praying for just physical provisions or spiritual sustenance as well? Do I thirst for Him...is my spirit parched without Him? How can I thirst and hunger for Him more?
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Dear Emmy, checking your blog every day and glad to see that your happiness is back. Several times i wrote you in the morning with out success. Keep your courage, keep your hope; you have a great heart and and awesome mind, let God be your leader and He will show you that is His plan the one that work and not ours and, sometimes we just forget because we want to be ready.
ReplyDeleteYou are doing GREAT!
Keep you in my heart and prayers