About Me

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Over the last few decades I've spent a number of hours cooking for my family of 5. My husband is a retired bank Manager and my 3 boys are IIT graduates. Now I'm sharing my knowledge and thoughts to the world through this site. Whether you are a busy mom or a student learning to cook, you will find this blog helpful for cooking simple and easy to make food for yourself and the whole family. Hope you enjoy my recipe blog! I also love listening to devotional songs. Please browse through my devotional blogs to know more about them. I am always looking for ways to improve my blogs. Please leave your comments. If you like to see recipe of any particular dish or lyrics of a devotional song, please also let me know. Thanks for reading my blog.

Friday, 19 August 2011

Very Interesting Facts

1.     If time doesn't wait for you, don't worry! Just remove the damn battery from the clock and Enjoy life! 

2. Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting the lion not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.  Think about it.

3. Beauty isn't measured by outer appearance and what clothes we wear, but what we are inside. So, try going out naked tomorrow and see the admiration! 

. Don't walk as if you rule the world, walk as if you don't care who rules the world! That's called Attitude! Keep on rocking!

  5. Every lady hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did!  

6. He was a good man. He never smoked, drank had no affair. When he died, the insurance company refused the claim. They s aid, he who never lived, cannot die!

  
7. Only 20 percent boys have brains, rests have girlfriends!

8. Drinking is our biggest enemy- Jawaharlal Nehru
      We should learn to love our enemies- Mahatma Gandhi
      Now, whom to follow and which one to choose?

Very interesting facts

If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on the right side of your mouth. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on the left side of your mouth.

To make half a kilo of honey, bees must collect nectar from over 2 million individual flowers

Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult!

People in nudist colonies play volleyball more than any other sport.

Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

Astronauts can't belch - there is no gravity to separate liquid from gas in their stomachs.

Ancient Roman, Chinese and German societies often used urine as mouthwash.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. In the Renaissance era, it was fashion to shave them off!

Because of the speed at which Earth moves around the Sun, it is impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than 7 minutes and 58 seconds.

Google is actually the common name for a number with a million zeros

It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times!

Gold is the only metal that doesn't rust, even if it's buried in the ground for thousands of years

Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end

If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst
Mechanism shuts off.

Each year 2,000,000 smokers either quit smoking or die of tobacco-related diseases.

Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals

Kites were used in the American Civil War to deliver letters and newspapers.

Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent

Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn't smoke unless it's heated above 450°F

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear.

Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean

The banana cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man

Airports at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density

The University of Alaska spans four time zones

The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself..

Warner Communications paid $28 million for the copyright to the song Happy Birthday.

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

A comet's tail always points away from the sun

The Swine Flu vaccine in 1976 caused more death and illness than the disease it was intended to prevent

Caffeine increases the power of aspirin and other painkillers, that is why it is found in some medicines.

The military salute is a motion that evolved from medieval times, when knights in armor raised their visors to reveal their identity.

If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day.

When a person dies, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight

In ancient times strangers shook hands to show that they were unarmed

Strawberries are the only fruits whose seeds grow on the outside

Avocados have the highest calories of any fruit at 167 calories per hundred grams


The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year

The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust

Due to earth's gravity it is impossible for mountains to be higher than 15,000 meters


Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy

Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down

Everything weighs one percent less at the equator

For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel are needed at lift-off

The letter J does not appear anywhere on the periodic table of the elements.

Saturday, 6 August 2011

Pulihora - Tamarind Rice



ingredients

  • White Rice       3 cups
  • Tamarind          thick pulp    1/2 cup
  • Turmeric           liittle
  • Salt to taste 
 for seasoning 
  •  oil                       5tsp
  •  Red Chillies        2
  •  Mustard              2tsp
  •  Cumin                 1 tsp
  •  Green chillies      4
  •  Groundnuts        10 no.s
  •  Curry leaves 
  •  Asoeftida            2 pinches        
Procedure
  1. Soak the tamarind for around half an hour in water and extract juice and keep it aside.
  2. Heat oil in a a frying pan and , seasoning with redchili, mustard, cumin, gram dal, ground nuts, asoeftida, greenchillie and curry leaves.
  3.  Add the seasoning to the cooked rice.
  4.  Now take the tamarind juice. in the same pane, add salt and turmeric,  boil it till the tamarind juice becomes a thick consistent paste ( till all the water evaporates ). 
  5. Add the pulp  to the cooked rice. Mix well. Serve min. after 1/2 an hour.

Friday, 5 August 2011

kheer

Ingredients

  • Rice                          1 cup
  • Sugar                        1cup
  • 1water+3milk            4 cups
  • Cardamom powder    1/2 tsp
  • Cashew nuts               5
  • Raisins                        10
  • Ghee                           1tsp 
Porcedure
  1.  Heat ghee in a thick bottom vessel, fry cashe nuts and raisins. Keep them aside. 
  2.  Heat milk and water in the same vessel,  till the milk reaches its boiling point.
  3.  Add rice and mix well. cook in low flame, tll the rice  become soft.
  4.  Add sugar and mix well , cook it  for two minutes. 
  5. Add cashew nuts, raisins and cardmom powder and mix well. 
  6. Rice kheer is ready to eat. 
  7. Serve it with roasted bread.
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Wednesday, 3 August 2011

Aloo paratha


for stuffing
Aloo paratha
Ingredients


For stuffing  or filling
  •  Pototoes                    3
  • Coriander powder      3/4 tsp
  • Cumin powder              1/2 tsp
  • Redchillli pwder            1/2 spoon
  • Salt to taste
for dough
  • wheat flour         3 cups
  • salt to taste
  • oil                       1/4 cup
  • salt to taste
 procedure

Stuffing
  1. Boil the potatoes in pressure cooker.
  2. Cool , peal and mash the pototes.
  3. Add all ingredients for stuffing and mix well
  4. The mix should be dry, free of water, other wise it is difficult to roll out porathas.
  5. Keep the stuffing mixture aside.
    dough
    1. For the cover make dough out of wheat flour as u would do for paratha or roti
    2. Divide the dough  into equal proportions.

    aloo paratha
    1. Roll one ball at a time in the form of a small poori
    2. Put small quantity of stuffing over it and close it from all sides.
    3. Roll it gently into a poratha
    4. Put the rolled poratha on a heated thavva for 2 minutes, pour little oil and cook the paratha 2 sides on medium low flame
    5.  till the paratha colour changes to light brown.
    6. Serve with dal fry or onion salad etc.
















    Monday, 1 August 2011

    Masala Upma


    Ingredients
    • Sooji                                                        1 cup
    • Onion                                                      ¼ cup(Chopped)
    • Chopped carrot,beans                          1cup
    •  green peas                                            ½ cup
    • Cashew nut (option)                            10 nos
    • Oil                                                           3 tsp
    • Water                                                     4 cups
    • Crushed garlic                                        ½ tsp
    • Turmeric powder                                   ½ tsp
    • Ghee (option)                                            1 tsp 
    • Salt  to taste
    For Seasoning
    • Mustard seeds                                    ½ tsp 
    • Urad Dal                                              1 tsp 
    • Channa Dal                                          1 tsp 
    • Green chilli                                          3 no.s   
    • Curry leaves 
    • oil                                                          4 tsp

      Procedure

      1. Heat oil in a cooking vessel, seasoning with mustard, channa dal, urad dal, green chilli, ginger pieces and curry leaves.
      2. Add water, allow the water to start boiling, add vegetable pieces, salt, crushed garlic and turmeric powder. Mix well.
      3. Cook until the vegetables becomes  soft. 
      4. Then add the  suji slowly stirring continuously (if you do not do this the suji will form lumps). Mix well. 
      5. Reduce heat to medium-low and cover for two3 minutes. Put off the stove. 
      6. Serve with chatni or ketch up