Cheese Sour Cream

1 kilo Fresh Curd if you are not serious about the Sourness factor, or else, 2-day old curd

200gms Cheddar Cheese (grated)

1 Tablespoon cream

a bunch of fresh coriander

5-6 green chillies

1/2teaspoon red Cayenne peppah (arrey yaar, laal mirch doesn't sound sexy, does it?)

3/4th teaspoon salt

Flakes (this time its garlic, next round, grab a few of your brother's friends;) finely chopped

1 large onion, finely chopped

pinch of sugar

A strong Fork

A clean muslin (mul-mul, you desi-dudes - grab Bade Papa's pooja-time dhoti or lickle baby's summer vest for a decent size square)

 

Strain the curd into the muslin cloth, gather into the center and take up the ends to twist to a firm enmeshed stage: your 1kg curd is a prisoner of time (at least for 4 hours) and stays 'hung' to drip out the excess water in it. Place a dish below the suspended curd cloth to collect the water in case you are one of those health-freaks that like making power-juices to get you up and going at 5 Un-godly-thirty in the morning...though I seriously doubt any of you can lay claim to that, judging by your presence here!

 

Khair, to get on with our positively to-die-for Cream Cheese Dip:

 

When you've finished tearing apart your common friends' dress sense/choice of significant other, possible reasons why you may be adopted and Bade Papa's dhotie over the phone or in virtual reality and flipped through a bunch of old magazines that do as little for your own sense of worth as a two-piece for a fish (at least they show that on tv: the absolutely perfectedly made up model Mummas on the idiot box with their crisp sarees and 4 gold bangles and far from flustered demeanour with regualar household affairs to see to, casually flipping pages of some glam mag only to be delicately interuppted by the 'ting' of the micro to have an exotic array of dishes -all garnished and ready -to-be-served beckoning them to carry them over to the table of adoring, encouraging family members.), perhaps you could bring that hung curd 'potlie' down to beat it into shape.

 

Whip the darn thing till it's smooth and smother the assorted flavorings (refer above) into the inviting curves of the curd-waves.

 

Put the final concoction into a crystal bowl (what have you learnt from the generous dose of grumbling above if not to do things in style??) or better still, into Grandma's porcelain depiction of old-fashioned lovers-on-nigh plate, surrounded by cherry tomatoes, cream crackers, chips, soup-sticks, pappadums (I luvv this word - its got character and drum beat...pappadums...actually no, it makes one feel kinda silly in the head..but who cares, pappadums, dum de dum) and whatever else your little heart desires....

 

and ta-dah...you are ready for friends, films and sinfully fatty but delightfully finger-lickin'Sour Cream Cheese Dip.....

 

a-la Dips!

 

Isn't it great -being Dips? I get to fatten everybody else too....for, in sooth, pray tell, if you'll be able to honestly deny yourself the pleasure of making this yummitoes recipe even if only once????