Thursday, October 13, 2011

HUJOOR

This is an old simple sweet which can be easily prepared deliciously with the correct measurements.




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Ingredients:

Plain flour- 250 gms
Sugar- 125 gms
Ghee- 125 gms
Semolina- 75gms
Cardamom powder- half sp
Small egg-2
Salt- a pinch
Oil to fry

Procedure:

Beat the eggs well.
Mix all the ingredients with enough water to make a soft dough.
Make like chapathies with a thickness of 1 inch.
Cut them into desired sizes.
Deep fry them in hot oil on medium fire to golden brown!
The delicious hujoors are ready for the tea time!





Kitchen Sisters Workshop

WHAT: Kitchen Sisters Recording, Interviewing & "Sound Doctor" Workshop
WHEN: Thursday, October 27, 2011. 10 AM—1 PM
WHERE: La Selva Beach, CA (Near Santa Cruz)
COST: $115 (payable to Kitchen Sisters Productions)

Dear Friends,

Nikki Silva of The Kitchen Sisters, award winning producers for NPR, is conducting a recording, interviewing, and "sound doctor" workshop on Thursday, October 27 in La Selva Beach (at the commune where she lives) just south of Santa Cruz. This three-hour session is designed for people who want to acquire and hone their skills for radio, online storytelling, oral histories, audio slide shows, family histories, museum exhibits, news, documentaries, podcasts, and other multimedia platforms.

The workshop will cover miking techniques, sound gathering, use of archival audio, field recording techniques, how to make interviewees comfortable, how to frame evocative questions that make for compelling storytelling, how to listen (which is harder than it sounds) and more. We'll talk about creating audio and multimedia content for the web, and self-publishing projects. Nikki will also give a quick tour of her studio and ProTools editing set-up.

The workshop will be customized to fit your project and interests. People who attend come from many mediums and work worlds (from radio stations to detective agencies and beyond). The groups are lively and good contacts are made.
You are invited to bring a work-in-progress, a past work, or an idea you'd like to brainstorm during the "audio doctor" part of the session. Nikki will play excerpts from a few Kitchen Sisters stories that are illustrative of various problem-solving techniques.

The session will be limited in size so that everyone can fully participate around the table at La Selva. A snack will be provided.

If you, or someone you know is interested, email kitchen@kitchensisters.org. Please pass this along to a friend.

See you there,
The Kitchen Sisters

Baking with baby






Here we are baking a lovely banana cake. Baby helped - by eating the mix. And we just couldn't wait to try it.