The Pink Café

Parfait pronounced as "Parfae" in French means Perfect, and there is no doubt how this dish got that name. It is a perfect blend of its ingredients which touches all senses of your taste buds, sweet, sour, crunchy, crispy, nutty... And good thing is we can have it guilt free if made with right ingredients and proposition. Parfait is such a flexible dish where you can master the ingredients yourself and you won't go wrong about it. Its easy and a fulfilling dessert which everyone would love and you can save your efforts for your other courses in meal, if this is planned for dessert :) Traditionally Parfait is made with a custard cream as per wiki, but all the later ones and YouTube videos shows the Greek Yogurt, fruity layers, the healthy one. To make it more healthy, I added honey as substitute to sugar. So you guys know, weekends are my time to pamper myself, and while pampering I don't want myself to go overboard and over do and put on my pounds. Parfait save...

Sweet potato is a long lost food of mine, one of the food I used to like growing up. In Kerala, cooking tubers is like a tradition, which I have seen in many homes. The standard evening snack in many old homes would be some form of steam boiled root vegetables. See our ancestors where even so particular about their health, and they don't want the evening snacks to be something junk, cooked in lot of oil or sweet. I have also grown up in such a home, where every crop was available within our premises or in our crop land. I still remember people bringing crops like rice, banana, tuber stuffs, vegetables and all from my grandfather's leased crop land as a gifts. See going back to my old memories itself is making me talk like a kid :P Now the time has changed that we are no longer relying on our crops, rather we buy everything from shops. People got lot busy with work and this fast life, and who has time for farming now! You know something, the things we wouldn't have app...