Just successfully made chapaties for the first time ever. Or rather, my daughter and I did. This won't seem like much of an achievement to people on this forum, but it's a big deal for someone who hates doing anything with flour and water.

Phil

Dear Phil & Daughter

Welcome to the world of the perfect "Chapatti"

it only took me about a year to get them right every time!!!! :)

All the best

curry-man86

How wonderful and congratulations to both of you.

I still remember learning to make chapatties when young. Three things come to mind;

1. They were all different shapes, never perfect rounds.

2. They hardly ever ballooned up.

3. In summer holidays, when servants went on their annual holidays, my mum used to make us take turns making them. We served them hot, as they were made. I still remember asking my siblings if they had finished yet!! It always seemed like everyone ate a lot more when I had to make them LOL!

I believe those people are the lucky who were served hot chappatis regularly by their mother. Nowadays i seek this pleasure only in restaurants LOL!!

"Nowadays i seek this pleasure only in restaurants LOL!! "

I still make it for the family, but they have to eat on the kitchen bar. Last night, I made some fresh parathas for my husband, brother and his brother, who have been visiting us for his 70th birthday.

If I have 5-6 people to feed, I often make tandoori roties;http://www.mamtaskitchen.com/recipe_display.php?id=10263

I haven't posted a picture here of these cooking in the traditional oven (I don't have a tandoor), must take one next time I make them! This way, you can cook 5-6 at a time.

Chapaties are quickly scoffed by the whole family. What with that and a savoury cake baked every week by my son, my belly isn't getting any smaller!

Phil

Phil, try the 5:2 diet, it works. You can fast 2 days (600 cal) and eat normally 5 days. I lost just over a stone and am keeping it off at the moment, even though I haven't been able to fast any days for the last 2 weeks.

The human body is probably set up to cope better with being starved from time to time. You imagine if you were hunting and gathering your own food, there would be many days where you didn't catch anything or the berries weren't out... Its probably the right way to eat..

Steve

I take your point, Steve, but I'm far too much of a greedy guts to do fasting, perhaps because I knew what it was like to go to bed hungry when I was a young boy, and those are bad memories.

My son did version 3 of the 'cake sal?' yesterday, with sliced almonds, sliced black olives, prunes and raisins. Am trying to stick to one slice a day. Great for taking with you on train journeys!

Phil

This savoury cake with olives sounds nice Phill. How old is your son, making all these cakes for you?

He's 14, Mamta; will be 15 in March. He never helped out in the kitchen, unlike his sister, so it was great when he started doing cakes. It was an English friend of his who got him started, cooking a lemon drizzle cake at his home in Sussex, so we had a go at it here together, and got it right the second time round;

Then he moved on to chocolate cake, which means we don't have to buy birthday cakes any longer, and now he does these savoury cakes, which he doesn't like, but that's fine by me!

Phil

Wonderful!