Happy B'day to 2 Beautiful Ladies of my life with Lisa's NO BAKE PEANUT BUTTER (marie) CHOCOLATE SQUARES

Yeah yeah yeah me too have gone crazy and joined in the NaBloPoMo - National Blog Posting Month, where all you have to post for the next 31 days continious, and this months theme is FOOD, so why not, this would be one good exercise for me to get back in form, i have noticed that iam lazing around way too much and i need to gear up, hope this brings in some discipline in me as Srivalli. So people you got to tolerate me for the next 31 days.



Another quick note, the voting for Open Sesame 2 starts today, please vote for my Tomato Shorba, that is in case you liked it :) even otherwise you can vote if you wish, hehe.You have to be registered at the Dining Hall for that.

Now a very happy birthday to my Periamma, yesterday the 30th(ok people dont open ur mouth wide and go hooo if i tell you that i call all my aunts by their names, so she is Yasho to me)


Yasho is my mothers elder sister and the gaurdian angel of the family. One lady who has selflessly lived some 55 years of her life only and only for her family, at first i was wondering should i mention about her handicap or not, but i think its worth the mention, she is one lady who has surpassed all her disabilities and proved that theres nothing called IMPOSSIBLE. Apart from her calipers that she wears we have nothing to prove that to the world she is handicapped. The vigour with which she does her work and taking care of a big house is commendable. You will never see her cry for herself, she can cook amazing elaborate tamil cuisines for 10s of people without a hush, and not a sign of thakaan or disinterest in her face, kudos to you yasho. OK she is the one who would keep reminding me o the upcoming festivals in d tamizh calender which otherwise i would never know.
She can be her age when it comes to taknig care of my granny (patti) and be the naughtiest kiddo with the kids of our family, believe me my 7 year old cousin is d chirpiest when he is with her and loves her d most other than her parents. OK her aura doesnt end in the family, she works full time in a school and is the all-in-all in the functioning there, the staff loves, hates, cannot do without her. She actively sends entries to tamizh magazines, kumudam, kalaki, mangayi malar etc, and has won quite a few prizes there for her recipes. And she even shares a nice rapport with the editors of these magazines, and all this when she is sitting far away from channai, in jamshedpur. And hey the wet grinder that i use nowadays for my idli dosa batter was something she won in one of those magazines. Not to end she even made us all proudy proudy by having our family photo in womens era twice or thrice. hehe... she is one enthu lady. She would solve crosswords in magazines and send entries etc etc etc... Need some time management classes, yah shes the right one to catch up on. Guess this is where i should stop.
Wish you a very very happy birthday Yasho, You are the shining star of the family. I wish we are 1/2 as active as you and amma at your age.

It is ammas birthday today, for amma i have already spoken a lot in my other post, love you amma you are the most beautiful women i have ever seen, you know something, one thing that comes to my mind is, you used to proudly say that 'main kabhi budhi nai hongi' and yeah not for a split second i can imagine old age on you, and yes you image will remain so forever, for generations to come, and thats one thing i can feel good about. Happy Birthday Amma.


These peanut butter squares were something Arundathi had suggested me coz these dont require baking, and thanks so much anu, it was loved by one and all. Well it is Lisa's creation and she's to be thanked for this one too. Lisa has a few more No Bake delights in the same post, you got to check them out, a similar one is there in pearlsofeast's blog, that is another date delight i really need to try, so good for diabetics.


The only changes i did were:
I used Vita Marie Gold biscuits instead of the crackers(again an idea by Anu and DK)
I was ok with 1 cup of icing sugar instead of 1 3/4 may coz the vita biscuits are a little sweet in itself.
And i used 95gm, cadbury's dairy milk, 45 gms cadburys roasted almond(i seperated the almonds and crushed them in a pestle and mortar) and 30 gms or vouchelle dark chocolate. Lisa suggests an equal quantity of milk and dark chocolate.
This is one thing i would like to make pretty often, you can store it in your frigde, its heavy so it cannot be finished at one go , hehe, and when served to people its a delight.
Thank you Lisa and Anu once again.