Sandwich recipe

Boil two medium size potatoes,one carrot, soaked overnight kidney beans, green peas, black head beans
Prepare paste of 4 green chillies,  ginger and garlic.
Smash the boiled ingrediants and add a tp garam masala, tp channa masala, half tp chilly powder, a tp of zeera powder, tp soya sauce, a tp green chilly sauce,a tp tomato sauce, one chopped onion, paste prepared and salt to taste.
Take bread slices, smear it with ghee, add the mixture between two slices and keep it in the sandwich maker. After 5-7 minutes, remove it and serve hot along with tomato sauce. 

Dr. Abdul Kalam

 

 Beautiful incident which I read , want to share and remember always.

 

 

Ex Indian President Dr. Abdul Kalam Says:
"When I was a kid, my Mom cooked food for us.
One night in particular when she had made dinner after a long hard day's work, Mom placed a plate of 'subzi' and extremely burnt roti in front of my Dad.

I was waiting to see if anyone noticed the burnt roti. But Dad just ate his roti and asked me how was my day at school.

I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember I heard Mom apologizing to Dad for the burnt roti.

And I'll never forget what he said: "Honey, I love burnt roti."

Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy, good night & I asked him if he really liked his roti burnt. He wrapped me in his arms & said:
"Your momma put in a long hard day at work today and she was really tired. And besides... A burnt roti never hurts anyone but HARSH WORDS DO!"
"You know beta - life is full of imperfect things... & imperfect people..."

I'M NOT THE BEST & AM HARDLY GOOD AT ANYTHING!
I forget birthdays & anniversaries just like everyone else.
What I've learnt over the years is: To Accept Each Others Faults & Choose To Celebrate Relationships"

Life Is Too Short To Wake Up With Regrets..

Love the people who treat you right & have compassion for the ones who don't.

Acalypha indica , a common weed to remove facial hair and treat skin diseases

 Acalypha indica (Kuppaimeni in Tamil ) is called as Indian Nettle in English

To get rid of facial hair:

Prepare paste of sprouted moong , kasturi turmeric, fresh 10 leaves of kuppaimeni and five neem leaves and apply as face pack , leave it for just 10 to 15 minutes and just pull it off.  We can do once in a week.
Please look into the plant photo properly, check out for the correct identity in the internet pages. Then after confirmation proceed. 

To treat skin diseases :

Prepare juice of 20-30 leaves of fresh kuppaimeni with water ,filter to get a half cup juice, half cup of coconut oil, and turmeric freshly powdered , all the three things put it in a kadai, and heat it, the sizzling sound due to water arises .  Turn off the stove when this sound stops, this indicates that the water has completely evaporated. Apply the oil to the body just one hour before  bath (with warm water).

Simple amla pickle

Ingredients

500 g amla
2 tp mustard seeds - roast it slightly and grind it to powder
2 tp fenugreek seeds - roast it slightly and grind it to powder
half tp hing
a pinch of asafoetida
10 -15 garlic cloves
10 tp chilly powder
2 tp haldi powder
1 cup sesame oil and salt as per the requirement

Procedure

Wash all the amlas in tap water. 
Boil it with little amount of water
cook boil it till the amla becomes soft. and there shouldn't be any water left.
with the help of knife just press the amla, it will just open up like a flower, with the help to spoon remove all the seeds.
Heat the oil in a kadaicool it, when it is slightly warm add hing and the amlas
when the oil is completely cool add the  mustard and fenugreek powder, garlic cloves, chilly powder, haldi powder, asafoetida , salt and mix it thoroughly.
do not touch it with hand
transfer it in a clean dry glass bottle.
After three to four days, the pickle is ready to relish

Simple Groundnut chutney

Ingredients required

handful of roasted groundnuts
handful of Puffed chick pea - Puttanalu/daria dal/bhuna dal 
3-4 cloves of garlic
1 green chilly
a small flat piece of tamarind
salt as per the requirement
option : few coriander leaves stem 

Oil for seasoning

Dry red chillies - 2

Black gram dhal ( urad) - 1/4 tsp

Mustard - 1/2 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Method

Add all the ingredients in small jar of mixer and grind it to paste. 
Take the paste in a bowel. 

Season with black gram, mustard and curry leaves.

Serve with idli/ dosa/ uthapam  

Mango pickle - simple recipe

Mango pickle is one of the tastiest item in  hot rice with few drops of ghee mixed.
Just the name itself makes ones mouth watery. Very simple to prepare, but should be soaked and kept aside for one week, only then the flavor develops.
Five medium sized mangoes, chilly powder, cloves of garlic, garlic paste, mustard seeds roasted, methi seeds (fenugreek ) roasted and salt for taste.

 

Wash the mangoes thoroughly and with the help of clean cotton towel or cloth make it moisture free. Then Cut the mangoes into small pieces,   air dry it for nearly one hour.

Add garlic paste, powder of roasted mustard and fenugreek seeds, chilly powder required as per your taste for hot pickle. few garlic cloves and at last salt for taste. Mix it nicely, then add oil till the pieces gets soaked as shown in the image. Transfer the mixed content in a clean air dry glass container. Keep it aside for nearly one week and then taste it. Yummy Mango pickle is ready to eat.

Precautions:

There should not be any moisture, which leads to fungal development immediately.

Importance:

The garlic cloves soaked can be eaten in the morning, good to control blood pressure. 

Saturn and its exploration

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Named after the Roman god of agriculture, Saturn, its astronomical symbol represents the god's sickle.

The planet has 60 moons and is the least dense planet in the Solar System . Saturn is mostly a massive ball of hydrogen and helium with thousands of beautiful ringlets, made of chunks of ice and rock. These separate layers effectively insulate the planet and prevent heat from radiating out efficiently; this keeps Saturn warm and bright.”

NASA's Cassini orbiter is on an extended mission to explore Saturn and its rings, its magnetosphere and its moons particularly Titan and the icy satellites. Cassini also delivered Europe's Huygens probe to its historic landing on Titan in January 2005. The Huygens probe -- the first spacecraft landing in the outer solar system and the farthest from Earth. The 318 kg (852 pound) probe was designed to study the smog-like atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan as it parachuted to the surface. It also carried cameras to photograph the moon's surface.

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has provided scientists the first close-up, visible-light views of a behemoth hurricane swirling around Saturn's north pole. The hurricane swirls inside a large, mysterious, six-sided weather pattern known as the hexagon ( April 2013).

The meteoroids that NASA's Cassini spacecraft detected crashing into Saturn's rings are comparable in size to the meteor that hurtled over Russia in February 2013.

Titan is the only other place in the solar system besides Earth that has stable liquid on its surface. Scientists think methane is at the heart of a cycle at Titan that is somewhat similar to the role of water in Earth's hydrological cycle - causing rain, carving channels and evaporating from lakes. The lakes must be dominated by methane's sister hydrocarbon ethane, which evaporates more slowly.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington.