Happy birthday to my blogging

Hello everyone,hope everyone is fine.

One fine day  of winter somewhere in the beginning of November, I published my first post for the world to see.One year has passed by so soon.............
On this occasion of my blog anniversary, I thank my followers and readers for taking time to post their  lovely comments in all of my posts.Your comments are of great value to me and they are a source of motivation to do more blogging.Also I learnt a lot from the blog land, I thank all the bloggers who were of inspiration to me.

Good bye until next post!

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Deepawali fever and shopo wish list

Hi every one ! I am blogging after Deepwali with great expectations.  Fantastic gifts from Patrica,  who blogs at Colours deckor  here  and from shopo are in pipe line.  You can also get such great gifts,  if you participate in the giveaway.
Here is my wish list from Shopo......
The jwellery box, loved the motif and the colour of the wood.

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Next comes this beautiful mirror, the hand work on it is amazing!

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Finally, I love bharanis but this is a tea light holder in the form of bharani, stunning colours!

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After selecting, I realized that quench for antiques in me has made me select these three stuffs.

Keeping my fingers crossed. 

Wish me Good luck!

Linking this post to colour dekor

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Guess what it's?

Happy Deepawali to all my dear followers and readers!!!!!


In my  last post here  I showed you a sweet dessert that my husband prepared for me for Deepawali.
A follower of my blog Mrs.Rama  and a reader guessed  it wrong.Dr.Sonia ,  came back to check what was it? Thank you  all for those lovely  comments!!!!!
Still I am not saying what it's? Don't worry......
Here it is...........................................

It came from China!!!!!!
Any guess now............
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Its nothing but a dessert made of

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Its so easy, You have to soak china grass for 10-15mts in warm water.Boil the it with water.Boil till the china grass get dissolves well  and then add milk,  sugar and your favorite flavouring agent my husband used saffron. Pour it in a tray greased with ghee and allow to cool.You can keep it in fridge and slice according to the shape you want.The dessert is ready to be served with love.

Happy and safe Deepawali to all!!!!!

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Itz festival time 2011

Diwali is nearing ... For us Diwali is new dress, lots of sweets and savories to eat and crackers for fun.When it somes to preparing sweet dish it's is like an adventure for me.I wanted to experient some of the Indian sweet recipe a little earlier so that I will not do any mistakes while  preparing for Diwali. For this Diwali my husband want something new.... So, I was introduced to an simple but tasty dessert by my dear husband.He is a great cook :) and its soley because of him I am cooking variety of dishes.See here what he cooked for me...

I was only his assistant and he was the chef.Guess what it is?
Linking it to

http://liventhingsup.blogspot.com/2011/10/itz-festival-time-2011.html

Drawstring pouch

Hello friends, trust this post finds you all good.It has been a long break from blogging.I sewed  a cute little draw string pouch, a month back.(So lazy to post)  I sewed it from a left over fabric after stitching a bag.The bag is not yet completed. :-(
I have used silk cotton fabric.To decorate, I did  embroidery with yellow thread, added beads and gloden ribbon for the draw string.

This is how it looks when its filled with stuff.


Hope you liked it.

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Back to blogging with a Surprise

Hello Friends, I am back to blogging with a surprise I got from Lakshmi, who blogs at Adithisammasews.Thanks a lot for the Versatile blogger Award Lakshmi! This is my first blogger award!!!!!!!!!!!!.

If you like sewing hop over to her blog here
To accept the award link back to the person who gave it to you and Share 7 things about self.

1. I love to keep changing my hobbies.
2. I dream to have a big farm house so that I have a lot of space to do gardening. (Hope this dream comes true)
3. I am a vegetarian.
4. I hate gossiping.
5. My recent craze is for bangles.
6. I like to play with the kids.
7. Like to read short stories.

I am passing this award to the blogs below

http://thesundialgarden.blogspot.com/



http://acreativeproject.blogspot.com/


http://notyet100hub.blogspot.com/


http://nayanadonga.blogspot.com/


http://sroygharonda.blogspot.com/


http://dubaicraftermom.blogspot.com/


http://creativemind-zeshuregi.blogspot.com/


http://happy-to-be-home.blogspot.com/

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Give away!

Adithi's Amma is hosting a giveaway at Adithiammasews, as her blog got 200 followers.The giveaway is a Vogue tote bag with lots of cute goodies in it.So try your luck at her blog here

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Green purse

Recently, my sewing machine has become my best friend, though I bought it last year.

I had the plan of sewing a purse for a long time.

That plan was implemented this week.The picture has not done justice...... my house is not gifted with sunlight :-(

 I felt so happy when I finished this project.It was a great acheivement for me.

To make it more beautiful, I added a Ganasha key chain to the zip.

Linking this post to kerative korner here 

 

and to colour deckor here

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Weekend Lunch

This weekend we had guests for lunch.So I prepared biryani, thayir pachadi,Pappadam :-), Cauliflower manchurian, coconut rice and curd rice.In that, I was able to take the picture of biriyani alone.

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Linking this post to Weekend wrap up at colour dekor here.

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My cup cake baking lesson

I wanted to try cup cake ......My goal of reducing  weight stopped me from baking. My husband's birthday is nearing and I wanted to make something special for him. Thought of testing  the cup cake recepie which I had written in a paper long back. I don't remember from where I got the recepie. It was for 14 to 16 cup cakes.Often I was not  sucessfull in baking,  I have wasted a lot.So decided  to make  half of it. I reduced all the ingredients to half so that I will get 6-8 cup cakes.

Yesterday afternoon I thought of doing my experiment.I measured all the ingredients to half the quantity.... and followed the recepies.The recpie was with all purpose flour, but I used cake mix instead of it.Finally, when I mixed everything, my intution was saying me that the batter is too thin for the cake.Now, I thought this cake is not going to turn into a cake :(

I thought why not to add more of the cake mixture to make the batter thick.I did add  the remaining half of the cake mixture that was said for 16 cup cakes. The batter was thick but still I wanted it to be more thick, again I dusted some cake mixture.

Now it was upto my expectation.I added some raisins which the recpie didn't mention. Now its ready to pour into the beautiful  papercup, that was lying down in my kitchen drawer for a long time.I was attracted by the prints on the papercup while shopping and grabbed it immediately.The time has come for its use.....

 Filled  the papercup with two-third of the batter.While the cup cake was baking, I kept my finger crossed that it should turn out well. I did the tooth pick test to check whether it was done? It didn't stick so its cooked .The cupcake  looked edible.

At last the result of my experiment came when I tasted.

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Oh ! I passed in cupcake test!!!!!!!!!!!! The taste was amazing! Didn't have the patience to do the icing. 

Previously I had tried several cakes, a few turned out well and many were not cake at all.My husband the guiena pig with whom I do all my experiments, told  not to try any more cakes but I kept trying.So finally, I learnt that baking also doesn't need exact measurement.

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Wall hanger

Hello everyone, I hope all are doing good. Today's post is a Wall hanger, which you can also do and decorate your wall.

For this you will need :
A cardbord preferably weightless
3D fabric outliners
Acrylic paint
Paint brushes
Beads, satin ribbion, lace for decoration
Fevicol
Your creativity.


Procedure:
Paint the cardboard with acrylic colours of your choice.
Allow it to dry.
I have used red color.
You can cut the bottom end in the form a triangle or semicircle.
Then paint borders with acrylic colors of your choice.
It should match the background color.
Divide the cardbord into three and draw with a pencil( if you are a beginner)the design which you want.
Use the 3D outliner to give an embossed look.
Stick the sequence or lace or satin ribbon or beads with the help of fevicol as the divider and press it firmly and allow to dry.
Stick the satin ribbon or thread at the back of the cardbord and make a loop for hanging.
Decorate your wall with it!
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Paneer butter masala

Paneer butter masala, this post was in my draft for a long time.Couple of days back,  I visited Aparna's blog http://www.mydiversekitchen.com/ and read the kashmiri cusine, I was inspired to post my panneer dish.Thank you Aprana!
This dish, I tried after watching a cookery show in the TV.
Recently, I am trying different varieties of paneer recepies after becoming aware of  the benefits of paneer.
I have modified the orginal dish a little bit for reducing the calories.


Ingredients
Paneer-5-7 cubes
Ghee -2 tsps
Chopped Onion(big)-1
Tomato chopped -1cup
Green chillies -2(according to taste)
Garlic-3 cloves
Fennel seeds-1tsp
Jeera-1tsp
Chilli powder-1tsp
Jeera powder-1tsp
Garam masala powder-1/4tsp
Corriander powder-1 1/2tsp
Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
Salt-to taste
Corriander leaves-to garnish

Prepration

If you have stored the paneer in freezer, take the paneer and soak it in luke warm water for half an hour.Pour 1tsp of  ghee in a hot pan and fry fennels seeds .Add onion and saute it until its transparent.After the onions are cooked .Saute the garlic and green chillies also.Allow this to cool and grind in a blender.


                                                                          Procedure
 Add 1tsp of ghee in a pan and add jeera.When it splutter add  the chopped tomatoe and saute until its cooked, then pour the masala that you have grinded.
Now its the time to add all the powders and salt.
Add water and allow it to boil.Once the bubble starts to add the paneer.
Mix well and cook for a while.Check if salt and other spices are according to your taste.
Garnish it with corriander leaves and serve with love.
This dish goes well with chapathi and poori.


Note
You can add more amount of ghee or butter, I have reduced it.
Also cinnamon, cloves and cardomam can be added along with Jeera while seasoning.
If you want the dish to appear red in color, use red chillies instead of green chilles.
Cashew nut was fried along with onion and grinded in the orginal dish.






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Yellow Yellow happy Fellow....

Couple of days back I was cooking Moorukuzhambhu in my Kitchen.

In the end of the preparation, yellow color of the dish was so beautiful!

Thought of taking a shot in my camera.

Here it goes.............

I think its the black color rim of the pan that adds beauty to the yellow color of the dish.














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Sunflower

Today's post is a sunflower painting that was done by me when I was a beginner in painting.
Its not  perfect, but for me it was a great acheivement at that stage.

Take care!

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One of my favorite painting

Hello followers and readers, Hope you are all doing good.Today I am posting one of my favorite painting Hibiscus, which I painted two years back....








Have a nice weekend!!!!!!!!





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First flower

Last week, every morning I am so happy to see my balcony garden.The reason is, my jasmine plants has two flower buds.
In the beginning of the week, the buds where like this.

 In the middle of the week.............

Today, one bud has bloomed.Waiting for the other one to bloom, I hope tomorrow it will bloom.

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I have a couple of flowering plant in my balcony.From last year, I buy seasonal flowering plants.All of them had flowers when I bring it from the nursery, but later not even a single plant gave flowers.
Fortunately, when I saw the jasmine buds, I was so happy!!!
Linking it to Saturday cutting at http://thesundialgarden.blogspot.com/

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Crochet journey

Before I started blogging, I spent some time learning crochet.
As beginner, I was practicing  the types of stitches.I don't want to waste that piece.
Some how I converted it into mobile pouch.

I was trying to practice with double colours of wool, thats how green color came at the bottom.

If you ask what is the pattern?

No idea.I practiced single crochet, double crochet and half double crochet.

Two kids(girl & boy) from my neighbourhood visit my house frequently.The girl child was attracted by this pouch and she asked for it.

So, now she possess this pouch and she uses it as little hand bag.

Have a good day!

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Methi potatoes curry

My poor food photography skills keeps me away from posting recepies. Today, I decided to post this curry, since it has been a long time that I have not posted any recepies.This recipe is easy to cook.I wanted to try potatoes fry differently and was thinking of some healthy options.So thought of adding methi leaves to the usual potatoe fry that I make.

Ingredients

1. Potatoes-2( If its big in size)
2. Methi leaves-1 cup
3. Mustard-1 tsp
4. Split Urd dhal-1/2 tsp
5. Jeera-1 tsp
6. Hing- a pinch
7. Onion-1( cut into small pieces)
8. Salt- to taste
9. Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
10. Chilli powder-1 tsp
11. Pepper powder-1/2tsp

Method:

Wash and boil the potatoes.
 Peel the skin of the potatoes and cut into cubes.
Wash the methi leaves and drain the water.
Place a frying pan on the stove and add oil.
Once the oil is hot do the seasoning with  the  mustard, urad dhal, jeera and hing.Add the onion and saute until its golden brown.
Now add the methi leaves, turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt.
Cover and keep for few minutes until the methi leaves are cooked.No need to add water for cooking the leaves.
Remove the lid and saute until the water in the pan evaporates.
Add the potatoes and mix it well.
Sprinkle the pepper powder.
Check for salt and spice.
Remove the pan  from the stove.
Serve and enjoy it with rice or chappathi.


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Visitor to our garden

 The Garden back home has many visitors starting from beautiful butterflies to poisonous snakes.During my stay at home, my brother captured the picture of a special and new visitor to our garden. 
Here is the visitor-Indian wood pecker who visits our garden frequently.

Its searching for its food.

               Picked its food

Posed for the picture.

Actually,the bird noticed us.

          Turned back to escape.

Its very difficult to take  picture of birds, once they come to know that you are watching them they escape.

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