{"id":82,"date":"2005-08-28T22:28:55","date_gmt":"2005-08-29T02:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-04-06T19:49:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T02:49:01","slug":"postcards-from-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/archives\/2005\/08\/28\/postcards-from-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards From Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu Kush mountain range touching the skies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/05indiatrip\/hindukushmountains.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=800,height=600,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"320\" border=\"0\" alt=\"HinduKush Mountain Range\" title=\"Hindu-Kush\" img src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/05indiatrip\/hindukushmountains.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"double_curve.gif\" class=\"noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/wampum.wabanaki.net\/double_curve.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"25\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAn impromptu party with a &#8216;butter cake&#8217;  from our neighbourhood famous &#8216;Peevis&#8217; bakery on Brother-in-law&#8217;s wedding anniversary, amid the other BIL marraige hungama. In addition to homemade sweets like <i>payasam<\/i> etc.,  celebrating with a cake seems to be a must and norm nowadays, a recent happening in small towns like ours.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/05indiatrip\/wedding%20anniversary%20cake.jpg\" alt=\"Butter Cake - Wedding day greetings - Nagarjuna &#038; Janaki\" \/><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"double_curve.gif\" class=\"noborder\" src=\"http:\/\/wampum.wabanaki.net\/double_curve.gif\" width=\"400\" height=\"25\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Preparing jangris is an art, so we hired the &#8220;Master&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/05indiatrip\/jangiris2.jpg\" alt=\"Jangris in Hot Oil\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Master&#8221; at work (Yes, master is his nickname, really, because of his expertise in making traditional sweets), finishing off preparing the last batch of jangris.<br \/>\nPiping the jangri batter in beautiful flower shape in hot oil.<br \/>\nDeep fried jangris taking a sugary soak in cardamom infused sugar syrup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/05indiatrip\/makingofjangiris.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=738,height=460,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Jangris\" title=\"Jangiris\"img src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/05indiatrip\/makingofjangiris.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJangri: A traditional sweet, usually made for marraiges, my favourite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/mahanandi\/images\/05indiatrip\/jangiris.jpg\" alt=\"Jangiris\" \/><!--e2deb8cfd74ead9c1e2987e2b855bab0--><!--6ebca63578f206c37350d2fde3cdb851--><!--d89ca4280bfe0fd66a1e5a9a5d87f16b--><!--a8745afc9343378f6760d58c4d4219cc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindu Kush mountain range touching the skies. An impromptu party with a &#8216;butter cake&#8217; from our neighbourhood famous &#8216;Peevis&#8217; bakery on Brother-in-law&#8217;s wedding anniversary, amid the other BIL marraige hungama. In addition to homemade sweets like payasam etc., celebrating with a cake seems to be a must and norm nowadays, a recent happening in small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authentic-andhra","category-indian-sweets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandyala.org\/mahanandi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}