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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Vinayaka Chuturthi(Ganesh Festival)
" Suklaambara Dharam VishnumSashi Varnam Chatur Bhujam"
"Prasanna Vadhanam DhyaayetSarva Vighna Upashaanthaye "
" Vakratunda MahakaayaSuryakoti Samaprabha"
"Nirvighnam Kuru Mey DevaSarva Kaaryeshu Sarvada "
Vinayaka chaturthi.(15th September)
Vinayaka chaturthi falls in the month of Baadrapada in between Aug 20 to Sepetember 15. It is celebrated all over India.In south India we celebrate by decorating the Ganesh idol brought on the previous day. The festival celebrated for 10 days. On Chturthi day we do puja, make sweet modak, salt modak, vada and payasam. We recite slokas, sing bhajans and last do the aarathi. All members present at that time. On 3 rd day we immersed the idol on the sea.In Mumbai, Pune , Chennai Ganesh festival is celebrated with big way.Puja vidhi can be get from this site.http://www.vishuji.com/ganpooja.htm
Kozhakattai
Ingredients
grated coconut.........2 cups
powdered jaggery....2cups
rice flour.....................2cups
water...........................1 cup
cardamom powder.....1/4 tsp
oil...................................1tsp
Method
Mix the coconut and jaggery in pan and heat it. the jaggery melts and mix with the coconut when you can make a ball with the poornam then it is ready.With the wet hand make small balls and keep. Heat 1cup water with half tsp salt, and oil. When the water boils add the rice flour slowly with out lumps. When the rice flour is cooked, cover it and keep for some time. Take lemon size dough and with the help of oil spread with bthe thumb and keep one ball poornam and cover from all sides. Make all the kozhakattai and steam them.
Friday, August 31, 2007
Looking Good, Made Easy
Looking good, made easy
Chembur-Ghatkopar Plus gives you a lowdown on how you can acquire those perfect looks you have always yearned for, without spending a fortune on them
People
generally believe that looking good is a gift of God to a few blessed souls or is in the reach of those who have the time to frequent beauty parlours regularly. Seldom, people believe that coveted looks can be derived without wasting long hours in front of the mirror. Wondering how? Here is what you can do.
Visualisation
To begin with, you need to visualise the specific changes you want to work on. See yourself with a streamlined body, healthier hair, a clearer skin and a majestic posture. These changes are realistic and attainable. Stay away from goals you will never reach. Also, never compare yourself with someone you have seen on the TV or on the movie screen or on the cover of a magazine. Accept your uniqueness and capitalise on it.
Mirrors
Boost Attitude: The quickest attitude adjustment you have to make is by working on your self-image. Women who have low self-esteem, often avoid mirrors like the plague. However, mirrors can become a big ally. Mirrors can tell you how you are progressing, in those little ways that may not be noticeable to the casual eye. It ultimately has the most objective eye.
Do
Everything Better: The way you use your beauty products will make all the difference. For instance, try to duplicate the way products are handled in the salon. Never pour your shampoos or hair oils directly on your hair. Also make it a point to give your scalp a 10-minute massage before washing. While rinsing, lift your hair away from your scalp for about two minutes until it squeaks.
Discover
The Virtues of Vanity Confident women enjoy experimenting as a way of relieving stress and boosting their morale. Women who care about how they look are fascinating to watch and do grab attention.
Look
Pretty Amazing :Do not worry about looking pretty. Look amazing and show the world that you care about yourself. Real beauty celebrates individuality. Rather than running around looking for beauty in expensive external products, discover it within yourself. Make the most of what you have. You will learn to like yourself and that will spark a light within.
Do
One Thing For Yourself :Everyday Make yourself do it. It is the ultimate act of self-respect. Soak in the bubble bath or read an inspiring book. These little pleasures allow you to feel special, which will show and make you feel much better. You can fake it if you, until you actually feel deserving of it. Whatever you choose, follow the action by writing down what you did and how it made you feel. Make it your own attitude. Include stories, quotes from friends and photographs that have made you feel good about yourself.
Project
Beauty :Feel good, feel pretty and that is just what the world will see. If you feel ugly, that is what people will see. Try to look as good as you can. There are ways to live in beauty without being obsessive about the same.
Find
Supportive Friends :What people say, whether intentional or not, make us feel good or bad about ourselves. Look for people who make you feel good when you are down. This person will give you compliment. If you have done something different or if you are wearing something new, they will notice it. Keep these compliments and they will go a long way in building your self-esteem.
Listen
To Your Inner Voice Each of us has a voice inside our head that will give us advice. This is like a therapist. It will guide us in the right direction. It will calm us down, cheer us up and even help us figure out why we are overeating or not bothering to iron our clothes. The problem is that we often do not take time we need to hear this important information. Take out some quiet time during a leisurely bath or during your regular walks, or even while applying your makeup. Treat this intuition as an inner cheering section.
Take A Break
At least twice a day, set aside five minutes to recheck your make-up, hair, posture and clothing. No matter how impeccably you started out your day, a touch is both necessary and warranted. Take somedeep breaths to renew and restore your appearance and it will definitely show.
http://www.chemburghatkoparplus.com/fullStory.asp?articleID=CGP4ART1231200650430
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Bisibela Bath
Bisibela Bath
Ingredients
Rice……….. ......................... 2cups
Tur dal…................................ 2cups
mixed vegetables (like sambar)2cups
tamarind juice…… ................. 1 cup(soak lemon sized tamarind and extract juice
salt to taste
hing………............................. 1 pinch
turmeric powder………………1/2 tsp
Dry masala(fry with little oil and powder)
red chilli................................... 6
coriander seeds....................... 2 tsp
chana dal................................. 1 tsp
clove....................................... 4
cinnamon................................. 1” piece
pepper.................................... 1/2 tsp
curry leaves............................. few
methi seeds.............................. 1/2 tsp
grated coconut......................... 2 tbsp
method
Heat a heavy bottom vessel with 8 cups of water add tur dal, turmeric powder and cook.when the dal is cooked add the vegetables and rice.Cover the vessal and cook in low flame. After 10 minutes add tamarind water,dry masala powder, salt and hing.Let it cook when dal and rice is completely cooked.. Add 2 tbsp ghee and garnish with coriander leaves.(you can cook rice and dal in pressure cooker also)
Serve besibela bath with fried pappad or vadam
Ingredients
Rice……….. ......................... 2cups
Tur dal…................................ 2cups
mixed vegetables (like sambar)2cups
tamarind juice…… ................. 1 cup(soak lemon sized tamarind and extract juice
salt to taste
hing………............................. 1 pinch
turmeric powder………………1/2 tsp
Dry masala(fry with little oil and powder)
red chilli................................... 6
coriander seeds....................... 2 tsp
chana dal................................. 1 tsp
clove....................................... 4
cinnamon................................. 1” piece
pepper.................................... 1/2 tsp
curry leaves............................. few
methi seeds.............................. 1/2 tsp
grated coconut......................... 2 tbsp
method
Heat a heavy bottom vessel with 8 cups of water add tur dal, turmeric powder and cook.when the dal is cooked add the vegetables and rice.Cover the vessal and cook in low flame. After 10 minutes add tamarind water,dry masala powder, salt and hing.Let it cook when dal and rice is completely cooked.. Add 2 tbsp ghee and garnish with coriander leaves.(you can cook rice and dal in pressure cooker also)
Serve besibela bath with fried pappad or vadam
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Kitchen Tips
Kitchen Tips
You can clean a greasy oven easily. Just put 1 cup of household ammonia inside it. And leave overnight with door closed. The ammonia will work on the grease and cleaned.
To unmould a cake, lightly sprinkle flour in the mould after greasing it.
To prevent a cake from burning put double fold of greased paper at the bottom of the cake.
To get rid of all the insects hidden in the cauliflower by immersing the whole cauliflower in a pan of water with a tsp of salt mixed in it.
To set the curd in winter use double the amount of starter.(If you use 1tsp of curd for one liter milk in summer increase 2 tsp of curd)
To prevent mould from forming over pickle, place a small muslin bag of mustard seeds on top before you seal it.
Use bits of vegetables left over for making vegetable pulao.
Do not add any raw oil to any pickle. Heat the oil until smoky, cool it. It prevents the formation of fungus in the pickle.
To prevent coconut oil from freezing in winter add a few drops of castor oilto it, shake well and store.
To make karela (bittergourd) less bitter rub them with flour and salt. Keep aside for sometime. Wash thoroughly before cooking.
You can clean a greasy oven easily. Just put 1 cup of household ammonia inside it. And leave overnight with door closed. The ammonia will work on the grease and cleaned.
To unmould a cake, lightly sprinkle flour in the mould after greasing it.
To prevent a cake from burning put double fold of greased paper at the bottom of the cake.
To get rid of all the insects hidden in the cauliflower by immersing the whole cauliflower in a pan of water with a tsp of salt mixed in it.
To set the curd in winter use double the amount of starter.(If you use 1tsp of curd for one liter milk in summer increase 2 tsp of curd)
To prevent mould from forming over pickle, place a small muslin bag of mustard seeds on top before you seal it.
Use bits of vegetables left over for making vegetable pulao.
Do not add any raw oil to any pickle. Heat the oil until smoky, cool it. It prevents the formation of fungus in the pickle.
To prevent coconut oil from freezing in winter add a few drops of castor oilto it, shake well and store.
To make karela (bittergourd) less bitter rub them with flour and salt. Keep aside for sometime. Wash thoroughly before cooking.
Monday, May 21, 2007
Intersting wedding invitation
Wedding Invitation
Mr &Mrs Masala Dosa invite your family at attend the marriage of
Chi SADA DOSA with
Sow PANIPURI
(the daughter of Mr&Mrs Panipuri)
Time:6.00PM
At Dahiwala Hall
Batatawada colony
Ragada Pattiswadi
Sukha Bhelpuri Achar Road
With Best Compliments from
Shendana and Chana.
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Ganesh Festival
Ganesh festival
We celebrate ganesh festival on August/September month. His birthday is celebrated all over India .This festival is celebrated for 10 days from Ganesh Chathurthi to Anantchaturdashi
People clean and decorate the houses with mandap and garlands.They bring the ganesh idol on that day with beatingdrums and music. They install Lord Ganapthi and do puja. Make prasad like Modak and do arathi.
There are many public mandals celebrating this festival. People visit many pandals where different ganapathis are installed during this festival.
Invite relatives and friends to their houses to participate in the function.Ganesh is worshipped for 3 days/5 days or 10 days .On the 11th day, the Idol is taken through the streets in a procession accompanied with dancing, singing, to be immersed in a river or the sea chanitng ""Ganapathi Bappa Morya, Purchya Varshi Laukariya" (O father Ganesha, come fast early next year).
Check these sites out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesh_Chaturthi
http://www.baps.org/festivals/ganeshchaturthi/
Thursday, August 17, 2006
Nice to know this
NICE TO KNOW THIS
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a
Person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. ndeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow
Then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
Never stop growing.
15.Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16 Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14. 4 calories per hour by
Breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt
Every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk
Rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot,left
Foot...
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of Nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
22. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watchAnd make it look=20 like it's smiling.
23. The color blue can have a calming affect on people.
24. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing
Chemicals to calm the body
25. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!!
26. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
27. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot.
28. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
29. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
Reaches 2-6 years of age
30. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
31. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
32. All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.
33. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
34. Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before.
1. Chewing on gum while cutting onions can help a
Person from stop producing tears. Try it next time you chop onions!!!!!!!!!!
2. Until babies are six months old, they can breathe and swallow at the same time. ndeed convenient!
3. Offered a new pen to write with, 97% of all people will write their own name.
4. Male mosquitoes are vegetarians. Only females bite.
5. The average person's field of vision encompasses a 200-degree wide angle.
6. To find out if a watermelon is ripe, knock it, and if it sounds hollow
Then it is ripe.
7. Canadians can send letters with personalized postage stamps showing their own photos on each stamp.
8. Babies' eyes do not produce tears until the baby is approximately six to eight weeks old.
9. It snowed in the Sahara Desert in February of 1979.
10. Plants watered with warm water grow larger and more quickly than plants watered with cold water.
11. Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
12. Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
13. Those stars and colours you see when you rub your eyes are called phosphenes.
14. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears
Never stop growing.
15.Everyone's tongue print is different, like fingerprints.
16 Contrary to popular belief, a swallowed chewing gum doesn't stay in the gut. It will pass through the system and be excreted.
17. At 40 Centigrade a person loses about 14. 4 calories per hour by
Breathing.
18. There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice; it is rebuilt
Every year.
19. Cats, camels and giraffes are the only animals in the world that walk
Rightfoot, right foot, left foot, left foot, rather than right foot,left
Foot...
20. Onions help reduce cholesterol if eaten after a fatty meal.
21. The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of Nitrogen gas bubbles bursting.
22. In most watch advertisements the time displayed on the watch is 10:10 because then the arms frame the brand of the watchAnd make it look=20 like it's smiling.
23. The color blue can have a calming affect on people.
24. Depending upon the shade, the brain may send up to 11 tranquilizing
Chemicals to calm the body
25. Leonardo DA Vinci could write with the one hand and draw with the other simultaneously. Now we know why his pictures were exquisite!!
26. Names of the three wise monkeys are: Mizaru (See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru (Speak no evil).
27. The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and parrot.
28. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
29. Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child
Reaches 2-6 years of age
30. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start.
31. Electricity doesn't move through a wire but through a field around the wire.
32. All U.S. Presidents have worn glasses; some of them just didn't like to be seen wearing them in public.
33. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, and purple.
34. Raw cashews are poisonous and must be roasted before.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
My favourite web sites
These are my favourite sites
. www.oprah.com
.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.google.com
.http://www.yahoo.com/
. www.musicindiaonline.com
.http://www.malayalavedhi.com/
www.cs.wisc.edu/~navin/india/songs
http://www.indianscreen.com/songs.htm
.http://www.astrojyoti.com/
. http://www.karnatik.com/
Friday, May 5, 2006
It all depends on the way you look at things !
One day a father and his rich family took his son to a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family. When they got back from their trip the father asked his son, "How was the trip?" "Very good Dad!" "Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked. "Yeah!" "And what did you learn?" The son answered, "I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden, they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden, they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon." When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless. His son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are!" Isn't it true that it all depends on the way you look at things? If you have love, friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life you've got everything! You can't buy any of these things, but still you can have all the material possessions you can imagine, provisions for the future, etc., but if you are poor of spirit, you have nothing
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