Mushroom Magic

Mushroom Magic Recipe:

• 300 gms. mushrooms, cut into halves,
• 1/2 cup low fat milk
• 1/2 tsp. cornflour
• 1 tsp. oil
• salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp. dried fenugreek leaves

To be ground into a paste:

• 4 large cloves of garlic
• a piece of ginger
• 2 tsp. coriander-cumin seed powder

1. Wash the mushrooms, drain and keep aside
2. Dissolve the cornflour in the milk and keep aside.
3. Heat the oil, add the prepared chilli garlic paste, fenugreek and saute the mixture
4. Add the mushrooms, cornflour milk mixture and salt and saute till the mixture coats the mushrooms. Serve hot.

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Mango Nut Muffins

Mango Nut Muffins

• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 cup bananas mashed
• 1 cup mango pulp
• 1/2 cup cooking oil
• 1/2 cup chopped nuts

1. Preheat oven to 400 degree Fahrenheit. Stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
2. Mix in oil, mango pulp and banana. Add nuts.
3. Grease muffin cups or put muffin paper cups in muffin pan.
4. Pour and bake for 18-20 mins till golden Cool and serve.

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Lemon Recipes

Lemon Lollipops:

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tsp. yellow food coloring
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 2 tbsp. lemon extract
• 1/2 cup water

Mix sugar, corn syrup and water in a pan.
Bake to 300 degree Fahrenheit or cook until mixture spins a thread.
Turn off head, add color and flavoring.
Pour the mixture in small aluminum moulds and insert popsickle sticks in them.
Allow them to set and become hard.
Your lick able lollipops are ready!

Lemon Cooler

• 1 cup apple juice
• 1 bottle (200 ml) lemonade
• 2 tbsp. chopped cucumber
• 2 tbsp. chopped apple
• 1 tsp. chopped mint leaves
• 1 tsp. honey

Chill the juices. Mix all the ingredients, pour into 2 glasses and serve immediately.

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Coconut Roughs

Recipe for Coconut Roughs:

• 1/2 cup mashed potato
• 40 gms. butter
• 1 1/2 cups icing sugar
• 2 tbsp. cocoa
• 2 cups coconut desiccated
• 1 tsp. vanilla essence

1. Place butter and mashed potato in a large bowl and beat well.
2. Gradually beat in the icing sugar and cocoa.
3. Add coconut and vanilla essence.
4. Place small spoonfuls of mixture on over proof paper.
5. Refrigerate coconut roughts until set.
   

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Jam Tarts

Recipe for Jam Tarts:

• 100 gms. plain flour
• 50 gms. butter
• a pinch of salt
• cold water
• jam

1. Preheat oven to 180 degree Calories.
2. Grease patty cake tins.
3. Sieve flour and salt together into a large bowl.
4. Rub butter into mix.
5. Gradually add enough water to make a soft dough.
6. Flour board and rolling pin.
7. Roll mixture until 1/2 cm. thick.
8. Cut into circles using cookie cutter, egg ring, cups, etc.
9. Place cut pastry into patty tins.
10. Add jam (not too much).
11. Bake for 15 minutes or until pastry is cooked.
12. Allow to cool before eating!

Children Activity: (Make your naughty children do something interesting)
Give each child half of an English Muffin.
Spread Pizza sauce on it.
Let children break cheese slices into shapes for eys, nose and mouth.
Bake at 400 degree Fahreheit until cheese melts slightly

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Interesting Puffed Cakes (Idlis)

• 1 1/4 cups semolina
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 1/4 cup chopped, boiled vegetables (carrots, french beans, peas, corn, etc)
• 2 tsp. ginger paste
• 1 1/2 tsp. Eno's fruit salt
• 1 tbsp. oil
• salt to taste
• oil for greasing

For Seasoning

• 1 tsp. mustard seeds
• 1 tsp. sesame seeds
• a pinch asafoetida
• some oil

1. Mix the semolina, buttermilk, vegetables, ginger paste, oil and salt in a bowl to make a smooth batter. Keep aside for half an hour.
2. Add the fruit salt, mix well and pour the batter into a greased (idli) pancake mould. Steam for 8 to 10 minutes.
3. Prepare the seasoning by heating the oil, adding the mustard seeds, sesame seeds and asafoetida and frying until the seeds crackle.
4. Pour over the prepared pancakes.
5. Cut into pieces and serve hot.

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Ginger Punch

Ginger Punch

• 1 cup sliced ginger
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 1/2 cup lemon juice
• 1 bottle club soda

Bring the first 3 ingredients to a boil and cook for 15 minutes. Let them cool. When cool, pour in a punch bowl and stir in the fruit juices. Add the club soda and ice cubes and serve in punch cups.
Green Flat Cakes (Dosas)

• 1 cup soaked/sprouted green gram
• 1 piece ginger
• coriander leaves
• 1/2 tsp. cumin seeds
• salt to taste
• 2 tbsp. rice or plain flour
• 1 cup grated carrots
• 1 cup finely chopped onions
• 1 cup chopped tomatoes without seeds

1. Grind green gram, ginger, cumin seeds, salt and coriander leaves to a fine paste by adding water.
2. Add rice flour to make thin flat cakes (dosas) on a griddle.
3. Add a teaspoon of grated carrot, chopped onions and tomatoes in the centre.
4. Fold into half and make a tight roll and serve hot.

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EGG BOATS

Children Activity:

1. Hard-boil one egg for every two children
2. Have the children work in pairs to peel the shell from the egg.
3. Slice the egg in half and carefully scoop out the yolk and put it into a small paper cup
4. Have each pair mix the yolk with
   1-tsp, mayonnaise
   1/2 tsp. mustard and
   a dash of salt and pepper.
5. Stuff this mixture back into the hollows of the white.
6. Have each child make a sail for the boat with a toothpick and a paper flag with teh letter E on it.
7. Don't forgot to stick the sail into their "boats" before they eat!!!

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Love in Friendship Enemity is LIFE.

"Love In Friendship Enemity", in this line put the first letters, join them and read it is Life.

First of all, listen and analyze whatever your opposite person tells you, wait for a moment think and then answer them. You have built a relationship with them. That person would feel you are good.

Person can be anybody - your parents, in-laws, team mates, managers, children, strangers and so on.

Give up anger and wear a smile, this is the best thing to taste the sweetness of life.

When you wanted to tell something and impress others in a group, first understand their mood bring their attention towards you and reveal it. Definitely you have won the hearts of the crowd atleast 80%.

When you are angry on somebody don't show them be in an immense silence, that would make others understand.

This is how I have learnt tasting the sweetness of life.

Cheers.

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Today's dressing is incomplete without a perfume

Dressing sense is very important right from the house till office. For any/all kinds of occassion viz., birthdays, anniversaries, and so on, for festivals, for interviews.

Different kind of dresses include Saree, cashmere, evening gowns, party dresses, salwar-kameez, pyajamas, night dresses, western formals, casuals, minis, sequins, long skirts, and so on. For any kind of dresses a little perfume (strong or mild) will be the most significant thing to attract attention towards you. And at times it makes you to feel that you are very fresh enough.

Today you have many kind of perfumes but the most fragrance ones which can be used lies in the branded perfumes.

Calvin Klein is a famous women perfume which comes in two varieties Floral & Fresh and White Flower based on these names its easy to understand that they are made up of Flowers and the fragrance lasts for a longer time.

Anna Sui is one more brand which is for women and comes in various shapes viz., butterfly, hand bag, and so on. It doesn't only keep you fresh for a longer time and is a perfect combination with your formals. It contains bergamot, jasmine, rose, sandalwood, tangeriene, vanilla, anise and peach. Its known for its fantasy.

Apart from this daily things, it would be necessary to massage our oils once in a week, Maitresse is one of those which is rich to use for your scalps and keeps you cool.

Prices ranges from 1 Pound onwards.

Fragrance online is a shop which provides with wide varieties of perfumes, aftershave, miniature perfumes for gifts, skin cares at a very discounted price.

Thanks for going through this post.

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Nice Quotes put a smile on your face

Source for these pictures was a forwarded mail.

I liked the wordings in them so made a simple blog.

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Rare but Nice Pictures

"No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments." this saying was written by Eric Hoffer.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily - Christopher Guest.

Similarly, the flash file I have put contains rare pictures.

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Inspired by this couple, Must see

Hi Blog Readers,

I was very much inspired by seeing this video. How a couple can do a wonderful dance, when both of them are handicapped, too?

A big applause from my end. Let God make them successful.

Thanks for watching this worth watching video.

Hema.

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Fruit Critter Salad

10 pieces lettuce
20 raisins
10 cherries
10 canned peach or pear halves
1 tray
toothpicks

Take the tray and the lettuce. Put lettuce in rows. Take peaches or pears and put on each piece of lettuce, round side up. Take raisins and toothpicks and put the raisins on the toothpicks. Put the raisins on the peach so it looks like 2 eyes. Take the cherries and the toothpicks and put the cherries on the toothpicks. Stick on the peach or pear so that it looks like a nose. Then you have fruit critter salads.!

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Delightful Doughnuts

To be mixed into a filling
1 slice chopped pineapple
2 tbsp. grated coconut
2 tbsp. sultanas
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. cinnamon powder
oil to deep fry

For the dough:
1 1/2 cups plain flour
2 tbsp. fresh yeast, crumbled
3 tbsp. sugar
2 tbsp. cream
1 tsp. oil
a pinch of salt

1. Mix all the ingredients except the oil in a bowl and make a soft dough using water.
2. Add the oil and knead again.
3. Cover with a damp cloth and leave for 15 to 20 minutes
4. Press teh dough with your palms
5. Roll out the dough into a 5 mm thick sheet
6. Using cookie cutter, cut out 10 circles
7. Place a spoonful of the filling mixture on each of the 5 dough circles
8. Place the other 5 dough circles on top of the filling mixture and seal the edges tightly
9. Deep fry these doughnuts in hot oil over a medium flame till golden brown on both sides.
10. Serve hot.

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Snacks from Banana

BANANA SPLITS:
Let the children cut their own bananas with a plastic knife. Put these banana slices into ice cream (preferably vanilla) to make Banana Split Ice Cream.


BEAN SALAD:
Point out that beans are a vegetable. Make bean salad by mixing green beans and kidney beans. Top them with Italian dressing mixed with a little sugar. Serve.

BANANA PANCAKES:
1 cup plain flour
¾ cup milk
2 ripe bananas, mashed
¼ cup chopped walnuts
4 tsp. castor sugar
½ tsp. vanilla essence
¾ tsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. melted butter
some butter and honey or jam to serve

Mix all the ingredients in a bowl to make a smooth batter, making sure that no lumps remain.
Heat a non-stick pan, spread about 3 to 4 tbsp. (¼ cup) of the batter to make a thick pancake.
Cook the pancake over medium heat, using a little butter to cook both sides until golden brown.
Serve hot with honey or jam.

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Children Snacks Time with "Apple Chop and Apple Crumble"

APPLE CHOP:Chop apples, bananas and mangoes into bite-size pieces. Mix them in a bowl with grapes and a little bit of lemon juice. Sprinkle salt and black pepper over them. Serve cold.

APPLE CRUMBLE:
Ingredients:
400 gm tin of cooked apples
60 gm melted butter
½ cup rolled oats
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup desiccated coconut
pinch of cinnamon
ice cream or custard (optional)

Method:
Open the tin of apples and spread apple in a shallow microwave proof pie dish.
Mix dry ingredients together in a large bowl.
Melt butter and add to dry ingredients
Spread evenly on top of apples
Microwave for approximately 5 minutes
Cool and serve it as it is or with ice cream or custard

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Baby Seal - Extinct

A Baby Seal requests..

"Norway and Canada have a new kind of tourism. Killing baby seals!!!! They call it 'hunting' and it's a sport. You want to call this sport ?? Can they be called as sportsman??? Why should they kill us?

You're our only hope !!! Please let it stop. This barbarism shouldn't be possible in our society.

Don't turn your back on us, we are so defenseless, we have no guns, please help us..!!!

I know these images seem painful for you, but we feel the pain...!! We are being slaughtered by ruthless people and it's going on RIGHT NOW...!!!

What gives him the right to kill us. Who is he to decide about life and death

What kind of sport is this..?? I didn't harm anyone..!! I was just swimming around doing nothing, now I'm dead...!!

Please help me and my friends...!!!

You can't just ignore these images..?? Keep silent and doing nothing makes you guilty...!!

Please help us...!!

Please don't leave us alone...!!"


If this goes on like this, even seals will get extincted.

Make a statement "STOP THE KILLING OF SEALS" by forwarding this blog link to as many people as you can.

Let us save them from now on.

Your action is much appreciated. Thanks!!!

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Save Life - Beware of Ants

Please read this and advise your friends and family! You may save others' lives!

Incident One: A little boy died because surgeons found ants in his brain! Apparently this boy fell asleep with some sweets in his mouth or with some sweet stuff beside him.

Ants soon got to him and some ants in fact crawled into his ear which somehow managed to go to his brain. When he woke up, he did not realize that ants had gone to his head.

After that, he constantly complained about itchiness around his face. His mother brought him to a doctor, but the doctor could not figure out what was wrong with him. He took an X-ray of the boy and to his horror; he found a group of live ants in his skull. Since the ants were still alive, the doctor could not operate on him because the ants were constantly moving around. The boy finally died. So please be careful when leaving food stuff near your bed or when eating in bed. This might attract ants. Most importantly,

NEVER you or your child eat sweets before going to bed. You or your child might attract ants while you are asleep.

Incident Two: Another similar incident happened in a hospital in Taiwan . This man was warded in the hospital and was constantly warned by the nurses not to leave food stuff by his bedside because there were ants about. He did not heed their advice. Ants finally got to him. His family members said that the man constantly complained about headaches. He died and a postmortem or autopsy was done on him. Doctors found a group of live ants in his head. Apparently, the ants had been eating bits of his brain. So friends, better be safe than sorry. Never leave food stuff beside your bed you when you go to sleep.

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M.V.Kamath, Journalist

A photo taken in "The Cosmos Cafe", which is a 3 Star Hotel in Manipal. The 60+ yrs old man, whom u can see in this photo is Mr.M.V.Kamath, who was the greatest journalist during the freedom fighters time (1940's).

It happened so that I went to a trip from my office (NDS) and stopped at Manipal, near Mangalore for a dinner around 7pm.

We found 3 sofas and ran to catch them to give a pose for photo. Next to us, Hotel Manager of that hotel was speaking to a man.

During that time, manager introduced us to this great man as "Do you know who he is? He is Mr.M.V.Kamath, journalist during the time of freedom fighters".

Mr. M.V.Kamath is a very simple man and soft in his speech. I found him as a very friendly person too.

This post is just a small gift for him.

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