So I am on a diet! It never fails to amaze me how easy it is to put weight on yet how hard one has to work to get it off. I need to get some off double quick! My diet involves not eating sweet stuff during the week. Why sweets only? Because sugar is my 'weak spot' - I have, what I affectionately call a 'vicious' sweet tooth. If I feel like something sugary, I MUST have it. If I don't, I will keep thinking about it till I do! Then after going around thinking about it for a few hours and denying myself, I will succumb and have it anyway! So the way I figure it is, why bother, just give in when the urge hits! As you must have guessed by now, this diet is tough. The results however, are showing on the scales! Yippeeeee...

Anyway back to the sweet stuff, the range of it in Indian cuisine is mind-boggling. I reckon if you made a different dessert everyday for a few years you'd still only have tried a fraction of them! There's absolutely delicious Gajar Ka Halwa (pictured at right) from the north, Payasam from the south, Rasgulla from the east and Shrikhand from the west.... I could go on and on and on... but I probably shouldn't. Don't want to bust the diet.