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Garlic Chutney: Made for Usha Bua (paternal aunt) with hopes to indulge her as she always does me

Usha Bua believes that garlic chutney is good for her health. Belief and faith are as important as fact and medicine to the overall goodness of our being. 

If garlic, has her eating more plan based food, which she does as a vegetarian, then who am I to question the science that might not find veracity behind the flawed studies cited to her about the curative powers of garlic. 

Dr. Willet of Harvard School of Public Health often says that is spices, aromatics (garlic and such) and herbs, can get people eating mostly plant based diets, then go ahead and believe what you want to, and eat lots of good veggies, whole grains, legumes, pulses, and herbs and spices - and find yourself doing good to your body. 

And so, this birthday of my beloved Bua (dad's cousin sister), I was on a mission to make her a jar of spicy and delicious garlic chutney.

Khattee Meethee Kathal Kee Sabzee

Sweet and sour jackfruit makes a vegetarian meal very friendly for meat lovers. Jackfruit provides meaty texture and looks to a vegetarian meal without much work invested in that goal. The flesh of the fruit and its seeds, the texture it takes on when cooked, all makes it seem like a stewed dish of meat, in a rich sauce.

Lucky for some, number thirteen

And just like that, the lovely gent helping me at the store in Khan Market, decided the weight of how many pounds of marmalade I would be canning. Thirteen pounds of citrus of four varieties. 

Mosambi (sweet lime), Keenu (Kinnow, a hybrid first develop in California mixing two cultivars), Malta (Tangerine) and Chakotra (Ruby  Red Grapefruit).

Armed with four more hands at our disposal, Smita and I decided to make even more marmalade. Marmalade that I was determined to make with hand-cut juliennes. 

It took us a good four hours to process the fruit. Shama and Kamal were wonderful abut learning quickly and then steadily going at the citrus till it was all done.

Smita and I made an apple cake as they readied the fruit to marmalade. Life was beautiful in more ways than one.