5 min pulao :)

I have been posting back to back cooking recipes in my blog now! This is something that my husband initiated but I have taken credit  by posting it :) The origin of the idea is that we ran out of fresh vegetables & forgot to buy groceries but we didn't end up eating at a restaurant atleast! ;)

Pressure cook rice & mixed vegetables. At the end add salt & pepper...your pulao is ready. Pickle or raita is a great combination :)

Brocolli carrot curry

This is the first time I tried to cook something new & it happened to be a great dish :)

Ingredients:
Brocolli, carrot, moong dhal - 1:2:1 proportion
salt
coriander/cuimin powder
Chillies as much as you need
optional: I added mizhaga bajjji chillies(the big chillies) to make it even more hot :)

To grind:
coconut
chillies
jeera

Tadka:
mustard seeds
split urad dhal
hing

Pressure cook brocolli, carrot & moong dhal along with some salt. You can add a portion of the chillies here to get the hot flavor.
Meanwhile, grind the coconut, jeera & chillies & keep aside.
Then, do the tadka with the above ingredients in oil in a kadai. Now, add the cooked vegetables & ground paste & coriander cuimin powder. After 10 minutes, once everything seems well cooked  remove it from the flame.

The curry goes well with rice or roti. Enjoy :)

The unforgettable Navrathri of 2010

It's been 4 years since I missed  Golu/Navrathri. Having been in Mylapore, this festival is something that is dear to my heart for various seasons. I remember those days when I used to put kolam everyday for the Golu, take arati, plaiting my hair long & visiting ppl around. The fun part was to see what were the newly added dolls for the year & more importantly what was the spl gift given.

Once I came to U.S, I really missed this festival. This year after marriage I was given all the freedom to keep my own golu :) Thanks to my husband, we got considerably good amt of clay dolls.

It was a crazy week with lots of work at office, lots of ppl visiting us during the evening, making sundal everyday. I remember I had to make 3 times as there were more & more ppl coming :)

It was a day before the Saraswathi puja - and to add the icing to the cake was born my nephew. Those tiny hands & tiny legs - that's the first time am seeing a  new-born. I was too afraid to carry him. But, it was a really really eventful Navrathri for me with too many firsts :)

the best cake ever!

This was the cake my friends aka roomies had baked for my engagement :) One of the most delicious chocolates cake I had ever had! Ofcourse I was pretty touched by what they did! Thank you ash & pavi for that. :)

Best B'day gift ever!

Between the last time I wrote a blog & now there have been quite a bit of changes happening with/around me! My sudden decision to get engaged after falling for this guy who I met for hardly a couple of hours..lol!
Come the new year & then my birthday! I really wished I was with my fiance on my birthday. I knew I missed him. Unfortunately, it was on that day that he had to attend a conference call early in the morning & I could not talk to him for more than a few mins - a birthday wish & love you messages!
It was yet another day to work despite the fact that I started late from home! I was trying to wear my rain jacket when somebody knowcked at the door. I was wondering if it was lovely neighbor downstairs who wanted who specially wish for my b'day with his us usual - " you are creatng a lot of noise"! But no it was this guy with a boquet of red roses wishing me "happy b'day"! :) Totally surprised, the first thing I asked was why he was there when he was sick & had loads of work! The best birthday gift is to be with your beloved & I realized it that day :) He definitely made my day & I owe him one for that!

do what you think is right!

i am really at loss of words today..i feel like i really want to write a lot but don't know what 2 write about! Well, then why did I even start blogging - the reason is because i feel like saying a whole lot of new things but am not able to convey any of them in words:(
sometimes you never know what is right/wrong & sometimes the differentiating line b/w both is so less that you tend to not perceive the right thing. Everything is relative in the world. what is right to someone is wrong to another. But whatever be it, you can never satisfy all the people in the world. So just listen to your conscience & do what you think is right :)

tring tring...............!!

Woooooooooooh....i wud have never dreamt abt it..From 14 hrs of non -stop talking, its now less than an hr of talking each day..is that what is vcalled gettng to be a professional means! okay am just talking abt the non-professional talking!! whatever be it, i am just wondering what in the world I had to talk the whole day! When my sis & her friends usually ask how that was possible , i used to wonder how silly they were. OMG what's been happening these days..i talk for less than an hr - that's incredible!!

oh plz stop gibbering! ok now i know what I was talking then ! :D