eXpressions- Oat Payasam

Ingredients

Oats- 1 cup
Milk- 2 cups
Water- 2cups
Cashewnuts- half cup
Jaggery ( Sharkara)- half cup
Banana ( Robusta) 1
  

Procedure

1. Soak cashewnuts in half cup milk and 5 spoons of sugar. Keep in freezer for 1 hour or more.

2.Mix half cup of jaggery and half cup of milk

3. Boil oats with 1cup milk and 2 cups of water. When the oats get cooked, add jaggery mixture to it.

4.Add banana paste to the mixture.

5. Blend together cashewnuts and milk. Add it to the payasam and mix well.

Happy Janmashtami 2k17

The Princess

Dark brown eyes made hazel by the sun
Her mottled teeth, brown and cream
She smiled at, visible to none other
A vibrant, marvelous dream
The princess I saw, sitting on a rock
The most cheerful creature I know
Breathing in, dust laden air of that site
That coated her hair and brow
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That ran down her parched throat
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A much awaited, for her mortal
Starved, stunted being
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Seeming like she weaved the wind
But princess she is, and much envied
By those who cannot stand the sun
As she locked her eyes on the weaving disc
with no prince or Godmother to wait for
Left with an abyss of her life
She is willing to take the risk