I don't know to cook but I love to eat sweets
When it comes to food, choosing between healthy and delicious is like fighting between heart and brain. Often the heart goes for delicious food but the brain keeps on pinching in the subconscious mind to go for healthy food. If you get both, then it's like a lucky draw but that is possible only in home food, prepared with much love. And preparing sweet regularly at home, is no easy task. Taking care of my craving for sweets, the lady does prepare varieties of sweets at home, like Gaja ka halwa, Kheer, but then they don't last long as we have much competition at home. So often I end up bringing sweets from shop, since we do get many varieties of sweets, Of late I am trying not to go to those places where the sweet shops are located, since she keeps on convincing me that I should eat less sweets, but this was an interesting story.
When we were about to return from Kolkata, the kid said his teacher wants him to bring some special sweets from Kolkata. If you don't know, then Kolkata is famous for sweets as well, apart from a very sweet language. I was not in favor of going to a sweet shop but to honor his commitment, we decided to find out a good sweet shop and since we had a car with a driver at our leverage, he took us to the famous Balaram Mullick sweet shop located at Gariahat. And now let me show you the varieties they had, we tasted a few and almost everything tasted amazing.
Initially we thought, we would just eat few there and pack couple of packets for his teacher. But after tasting the kid wanted to bring some for home as well. His friend who was traveling with us, also did not want to miss the opportunity and brought a big packet. And we ended up bringing 4 packets for us alone, one of them to give to our in-laws.
These three packets lasted only five days at home, the lady and my son don't like sweets much, but they equally participated in the competition to finish them fast. And for me and my daughter, it was like a sweet feast, so much so that, my daughter was saying we should go often to Kolkata. And Kolkata is equally good for shopping as well, you will get unbranded items in a much cheaper price, will share more on that.
What are your favorite dishes to cook or to eat? Do you like sweets more than anything else ? And do you cook them at home or you have some nice shops like us, from where you buy? What about varieties ? We get so many varieties here that you will never get bored.
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