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

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Mango Nut Muffins

Mango Nut Muffins1 3/4 cups flour3/4 cup sugar2 tsp. baking powder1/2 tsp. salt1/2 cup bananas mashed1 cup mango pulp1/2 cup cooking oil1/2 cup chopped nutsPreheat oven to 400 degree Fahrenheit. Stir together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.Mix in oil, mango pulp and banana. Add nuts.Grease muffin cups or put muffin paper cups in muffin pan.Pour and bake for 18-20 mins till golden Cool and ser...

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Lemon Recipes

Lemon Lollipops:2 cups sugar1 tsp. yellow food coloring1 cup light corn syrup2 tbsp. lemon extract1/2 cup waterMix 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 Cooler1 cup apple juice1 bottle (200 ml) lemonade2 tbsp. chopped cucumber2 tbsp. chopped apple1 tsp. chopped mint leaves1 tsp. honeyChill the...

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Coconut Roughs

Recipe for Coconut Roughs:1/2 cup mashed potato40 gms. butter1 1/2 cups icing sugar2 tbsp. cocoa2 cups coconut desiccated1 tsp. vanilla essencePlace butter and mashed potato in a large bowl and beat well.Gradually beat in the icing sugar and cocoa.Add coconut and vanilla essence.Place small spoonfuls of mixture on over proof paper.Refrigerate coconut roughts until s...

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Jam Tarts

Recipe for Jam Tarts:100 gms. plain flour50 gms. buttera pinch of saltcold waterjamPreheat oven to 180 degree Calories.Grease patty cake tins.Sieve flour and salt together into a large bowl.Rub butter into mix.Gradually add enough water to make a soft dough.Flour board and rolling pin.Roll mixture until 1/2 cm. thick.Cut into circles using cookie cutter, egg ring, cups, etc.Place cut pastry into patty tins.Add jam (not too much).Bake for 15 minutes or until pastry is cooked.Allow to cool before eating!Children Activity: (Make your naughty children...

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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 Mix the semolina, buttermilk, vegetables, ginger paste, oil and salt in a bowl to make a smooth batter. Keep aside for half an hour. Add the fruit salt, mix well and pour the batter into a greased (idli) pancake mould. Steam for 8 to 10 minutes. Prepare the...

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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...

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EGG BOATS

Children Activity: Hard-boil one egg for every two children Have the children work in pairs to peel the shell from the egg. Slice the egg in half and carefully scoop out the yolk and put it into a small paper cup Have each pair mix the yolk with1-tsp, mayonnaise1/2 tsp. mustard anda dash of salt and pepper. Stuff this mixture back into the hollows of the white. Have each child make a sail for the boat with a toothpick and a paper flag with teh letter E on it. 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,...

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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...

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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 bl...

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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.He...

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Fruit Critter Salad

10 pieces lettuce20 raisins10 cherries10 canned peach or pear halves1 traytoothpicksTake 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.!Help: payu2blog.com is one more site where u can earn...

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Delightful Doughnuts

To be mixed into a filling1 slice chopped pineapple2 tbsp. grated coconut2 tbsp. sultanas2 tbsp. brown sugar1/4 tsp. cinnamon powderoil to deep fryFor the dough:1 1/2 cups plain flour2 tbsp. fresh yeast, crumbled3 tbsp. sugar2 tbsp. cream1 tsp. oila pinch of salt1. 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 minutes4. Press teh dough with your palms5. Roll out the dough into a 5 mm thick sheet6. Using cookie cutter, cut out 10...

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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 flour¾ cup milk2 ripe bananas, mashed¼ cup chopped walnuts4 tsp. castor sugar½ tsp. vanilla essence¾ tsp. baking powder1 tbsp. melted buttersome butter and honey or jam to serve Mix...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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