Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Praise To Raise Your Energy

Do you believe when people praise you, admire you or appreciate you is actually boost up the positive energy in you which was suppressed by negative thoughts.

Sometimes  my mind filled up with many thoughts most are negative, "what the hell I'm doing in this world" like thoughts dodge in my upper part of the head. I don't feel like to talk to anybody, don't feel like to do work..simply lying down on the bed and struggling with the bad thoughts.All of a sudden, a phone call comes, with a empty urge I picked it up and found my sweetheart hubby's voice at the other end,"What happen dear why are you so upset, you shouldn't be like this, you are my happiness, you have changed my world,I know this is difficult for both of us to live apart, but we have to do this...this is just a passing phase baby...come on cheer up...you know how brave you are, I have been telling others that see my wife is just the best, she never complaints about anything, she deals with the situation well. So please cheer up now".

These words entered in to blood circulating system and started circulating along with the blood....it works like a magic and I'm rejuvenated and filled with a positive energy all over again. 

So sometimes we need such booster doses of positive energy, no matter from where, it can be from your loved ones, any music which touches your soul, old pictures, spiritual attachments etc. This is what I learned today. 



Saturday, July 21, 2012

Paneer Stuffed fried Idlis with red chili sauce

From North to south, from East to west, India has got variety of taste. North Indian cuisine is famous for stuffing, gravies and lots of makhan and ghee, In South use of spices and rice moderation recipes can be seen, West Indian cuisines filled with lots of roasting, frying and all those tadkas, whereas in East India simplicity is the key included steaming and frying with different kind of sauces. Curiosity deepens here, what if we mingle all these cuisine making techniques from different zones and you never know what taste you will get. That's what I did here. I took idli from south, filled it with punjabi paneer stuffing, fried it like they did in gujrat, and serve it with red-hot chili sauce from east.And see what I got.

Fusion dish : a perfect blend of North South East West India. 

Paneer Stuffed Fried Idlis with red-chili sauce


Ingredients for Idli:

Rice idli batter
150 gm Cottage cheese
1 fine chopped onion
2 fine chopped green chili
Salt as per taste
Cumin powder half table spoon
Red chili powder half table spoon
Black pepper powder half table spoon
Oil for deep frying the idlis
Green chili, coriander leaf, cheese for garnishing.



Method:

Mash the cheese in a bowl, add onion, green chilies, salt, cumin powder, red chili powder, black pepper powder and mix well.This will be a filling for the idlis.
Grease the Idli steaming mold tray with little amount of oil and pour half spoon of idli batter in it.
Add  paneer filling in the middle of poured batter.
Pour some more amount of batter over the filling so that it covers completely.
After filling all the tray in the same manner, put it in a idli steaming vessel.
Keep it for 10-15 mins.
After that take out all the idlis from mould.
Now heat up the oil in a deep frying pan, fry all the idlis till golden brown.
Idlis are ready to serve, cut in to pieces or keep them as it is as per your choice.
Garnish them with green chilies, coriander leafs and paneer pieces.
You can also serve it with hot samber.




Paneer Stuffed Fried Idlis tastes real yummy and it includes the complete flavor from North-South-East-West India. it can be a awesome snack for parties. 

Ingredients for Red chili sauce:

100 gm of garlic cloves
25 dried red chilies
1 tbs sugar
1 cup malt vinegar 
2 tbs refined oil
salt as per taste

Method:

Peel off garlic cloves
Soak red chilies in vinegar from 1 hour
Now grind all the ingredients together in a mixer
Make a fine paste.
red chili sauce is ready to serve.


Enjoy!!!!!


This post has been published by me as a part of IBL; the Battle of Blogs, sponsored by WrightupCafe.com. Join us at our official website and Facebook page...




Wordless Saturday

Can any one name this bird...my father spotted him and clicked some nice poses.












Thursday, July 12, 2012

Story of Sunny

Long time ago in Germany, my ancestors were bred to prey small animals like rabbits,badgers etc. they were specially given isolated genes to scent and chase. People love them, feed them well. Time has flew like a feather, now people pet us for the sake of love of foreign dog's breed, they cuddle us, treat like a soft toy...yes we look cute that's why I think...but nobody know that..we never wanted to be like this, sometimes things become helpless for the creatures like me in big cities...but who understand my situation.



My name is Sunny...I'm a cute dog of Dachshund breed.I live in a small city of Madhya Pradesh name Gwalior. My owners brought me when I was too small....smaller than m today. Earlier I was happy to come here...I got my own family, and the kids loved me too...they play with me, cuddle me, feed me...but as I grown up, slowly slowly they started ignoring my needs, now they don't have time to play with me, Every morning   I m left on the terrace alone, they won't take me for a walk...I m left alone alone n alone.




I feel very sad and helpless when they left me alone on terrace...I can't go back down to them as the door is also shut, I keep on striking the door loudly with the bark...but nobody listens. and also my bad luck...like other dogs I can't jump high to climb over the wall and escape through the adjacent terrace door as my legs are too short.



One day I have listen my owner was talking to one of his neighbor...to help him and find someone who can adopt me. I felt bad, n sad...what I have done, what is my mistake...you guys  are only not taking care of me.
But I kept myself is reconsidering mode...may be there is someone out there who can adopt me and love me unconditionally, may be there is someone who can understand me, my feeling. But when that someone will come  n how????...m afraid because once my owner handle me to his son's autoriksha-wala. But he handle me back to my owner.


Friends this is my sad story...is there anyone who can adopt me and let me out from this space. Please help me if you think i need a better place and home and owner.

P.S: yes this is the sad story of sunny lives in my neighborhood....and his owner asked us to find someone to adopt me....if anyone want to help or adopt him..you can contact me or mail me. But situation is we live in Gwalior city, so I hope we find someone from this city only.

At last sunny has been adopted....I don't know the exact details but now day sI don't see him around...it feels like he has been adopted.....may God Bless him.
            



Thursday, July 5, 2012

Indian Bloggers League- Battle Of Blogs


Pals know what's hot this season....Yes same like IPL, IBL season-1 is going on these days, last month I got an E-mail invitation from an stranger, to participate in Indian Bloggers league. I accepted it and today I'm a proud member of one of the IBL team...No IBL didn't follow the player buying system, this was open to all. Well I wanted to describe it in less words here, and posting a link of  IBL website where you can get more information.
http://www.indianbloggersleague.com/

Same like IPL.....IBL also contain 8 regional Teams [Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad,Kolkata ,Bangaluru, Pune, Chennai, Patna]


Well my team name is..."The Amdavadi Tadka"  Team-Ahmedabad



IBL is already started from 1st of July 2012 and we are handling a 1st round...which contain various topics on which each team member will write a exclusive blog post. Then IBL judges will decide the best out of them. Likewise there are other rounds too.

We have already shooted out our 1st Exclusive blog post entry under 'short story' genre. Below is the link to it you can read it and share your views here.



These are the 17 members of our team (Including me ;-))

1) Name:   Vishal Kataria (Captain)
    Blog:: Vishipedia

2) Name: Vishal Dahiya

3) Name: Disha Bhatt

4) Name: Rohan Vidyarthi
    Blog: Citysleepers

5) Name: Nikhil Poddar
    Blog: The Nikiller

6) Name: Ghazala Hossain
    Blog: A BLIND DATE

7) Name: Punit Dubey
    Blog: Ghumakkar's Diary

8) Name: Sumukh Bansal
    Blog: Gifts Of Silence

9) Name: Vinita Bahl
    Blog: Blogwati G

10) Name: Arun Bhat
      Blog: India Travel Blogs

11) Name: Rama Moondra
      Blog: Reflections of Solitude 

12) Name: Simran Kaur
      Blog: My Friendship

13) Name: Abhimanyu Manna
      Blog: Soul Pepper

14) Name: Devashri Birari
      Blog: TECHNOFUMES

15) Name: Sandeep Nair
      Blog: SandySpeak

16) Name: Akansha
      Blog: From My Chopping Board

17) Name: Sonali Desai (Reserve)
      Blog: Spectrum of Life


IBL is already started from 1st of July 2012 and we are handling a 1st round...which contain various topics on which each team member will write a exclusive blog post. Then IBL judges will decide the best out of them. Likewise there are other rounds too.


We have already shooted out our 1st Exclusive blog post entry under 'short story' genre. Below is the link to it you can read it and share your views here.


http://www.wherethoughtsarewords.com/2012/07/my-dilemma-pain-of-loss-or-deceit.html




Favorite Track-3


This is another song which I love to listen anytime...Voiced by Udit Narayan Music by A.R Rehman






Sunday, July 1, 2012

Bharma Mirchi

One day my Mom came up with this lovely looking green bharma mirchi (chili). She made a cut in to it and overloaded it with chatpata (spicy) filling and gave me to microwave it, while doing the microwaving.....oh! my my....it smells so so so so good...that I can't express

Here you can see in the pic how delicious it looks












Ingredients:

6-7 big green chilis (achar wali mirchi)
2 large spoons of gram flour.
Ajwine (carom seed) half table spoon
Dry mango powder half spoon
Salt as per taste


  Method:

  • Roast gram flour in a pan without any oil or ghee
  • add one by one ajwine, salt, dry mango powder in it.
  • After sometime sprinkle a little water and mix well.
  • put off the flam and keep the vessel aside and allow it to cool.
  • Make a cut in chili without parting it in to half (see in the pic) 
  • fill all the chilies by the gram flour mix.
  • Now grease all the chilies with some oil and put them in a microwave for at least 5-6 min
  • Let it be cool and serve it with daal chawal, kari chawal...etc etc