Skillet Rolls Recipe – Baked and Stuffed with Jam

Gungun comes out from school and looking extremely concerned tells me, “Mom, you’re adopted! Maa (she calls my mom, her grandma, Maa) never told you this right.” For a second, I swear, her comment managed to knock the socks off me. I sternly tell her, “Let me drive, we will talk about this at home.” But she excitedly keeps on talking about blood groups and all that that she learned at school that day. “Your dad was A –ve and your mom is B +ve end how can you be O –ve. It’s not possible to get an O allele. BTW Mom, you have one of the rarest blood groups”. I am thinking in my head, “God is there a possibility, could I be adopted. I need to get on Google right now.”

Skillet Rolls Recipe – Filled with Jam

As we get home, it is one of those rare days when the Dad is home. She excitedly gives her verdict, “Papa, Mommy is adopted.” He is amused but one look at my face is good enough to discourage him to pit his wits against me. He tries to look concerned and suggests, “Hospital e paltayyyyyy…..”, his voice tapering off. (Maybe you got exchanged at the hospital). I can totally see how much fun he was having in his head.

I get on Google as I know I have to set facts straight. With Gungun’s new love for genetics, and the teen tendency of thinking she knows everything, this isn’t going to be easy. Sure enough, I read up and explained her in detail that I have been the one to have received the recessive O alleles from both my parents and each of them had a dominant A and B allele but passed on the recessive alleles to me. It’s rare but it does happen.

The next day I go to pick her up and she says, “Mom, Mrs.Mackewitz said you’re not adopted. I was wrong.” She also mentioned that her teachers had a good laugh on this. I could clearly see that she was a tad disappointed, as her hypothesis was proved wrong. But I was happy to see that this is a subject that gives her so much joy and forces her to think.

Gungun just turned 13 in April and it’s amazing to see how she is blossoming into an opinionated, bright young girl who is full of ideas about everything under the sun. I think she gives a tough fight to both her dad and me and a big part of anything is to getting her onboard with us on any plan. But I believe that’s how things should be. So yesterday I baked a little treat for her. Jam filled rolls and I used Indian made Kissan Mixed Fruit Jam. That’s a favorite in our household of three. The roll recipe is inspired by Maangchis’s ^[2] recipe and it has egg, but it gives you rich, buttery rolls.

Also, on a separate note, I met the Masterchef Sanjeev Kapoor last weekend at an Akshayapatra fundraiser. It was a dream come true sitting next to him and hearing him talk. And Akshayapatra is a cause close to my heart. It is an NGO in India which feeds mid-day meals to 1.6 million children in Government schools in India. Their kitchens are ISO certified and cooks up to 100,000 meals a day. Check out the Akshayapatra ^[3]website here. We also have a Facebook food group called Soups2Sweets ^[4] and as part of our anniversary celebrations last month, we made a decent donation to the Akshayapatra kitchen in Guwahati, Assam.

Along with Skille Rolls Reipe, You may also like the recipes below:

• Paneer and Peas stuffed Honeycomb Buns ^[5]
• Honeyed Pumpkin Oats Bran Bread ^[6]
• Banana Bread Baked Oats ^[7]

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