Beautiful things to be remembered always

1. Deep rivers move in silence, shallow brooks are noisy
2. Even a single hair has its own shadow
3. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably wont lead anywhere
4. Excuses are the nails used to build the house of failure
5. He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning
6. Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings
7. If everyone give one thread, the poor man will have a shirt
8. doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself
9. Cowards die many a death but the brave only once.
10. patience is the support of weakness, impatience is running of strength.
11. Lose an hour in the morning and you will be all day hunting for it
12. If you run after two hares, you will catch neither
13. Never share secrets with your superiors
14. It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.
15. the achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself
16. to be successful the first thing to do is fall in love with your work
17. most the things we worry about never happens
18. trust neither a new friend nor an old enemy
19. time is natures way of priventing everything from happening at once.
20. the surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
21. it takes the whole of life to learn how to live 
22. if you want your dreams to come true dont sleep
23. if you act like a worm, why blame others for stepping on you.

Home remedy for throat infection

Tea is prepared with guava leaves, coriander leaves, anjeer leaves, suku, pepper, pipili and panavellam

 

Fried rice and Mutton curry

Fried rice

Ingredients:

Rice - 2 1/2 cups
onion - 3 large size
tomato - 3 large size
pudina-  handful
spices - cloves 4, cinnamon sticks - 3 small pieces, elaichi 1, starflower - 1 - prepared course powder
bay leaves - 2
chilly powder full 3 spoons
dhaniya powder full 6 spoons
garam masala powder 1 spoon
haldi - 1/2 spoon
green chillies large 8
ginger garlic paste - 3 large spoons

Procedure:

Heat the oil. add ghee and add onions to it, when the onions are brown add bay leaves. saute it nicely. add spices powder and then ginger garlic paste, after few minutes add pudina, and all the other powders. add tomatoes and chillies . when the tomatoes have become soft add rice and salt as required at last add garam masala powder and coriander leaves.  cook it.

Mutton curry

Ingredients:

half Kg mutton
Grind tomatoes 4 large size; onion 2 large size; chilli powder 3 spoons; dhaniya powder 6 spoons; four green chillies , haldi to a fine paste
ginger garlic paste 1 tea spoon

Procedure:

Cook mutton first separately. Take a kadai , add oil, when the oil is hot add onions , saute it and add ginger garlic paste, when it has become brown add the grinded paste and saute it nicely.add garam masala and then add mutton and cook it. add coriander leaves.serve it hot.

Mothers' recipe Kolukattai and Meat curry

Kolukattai

Ingredients

• Rice powder or dry roast ragi powder - 1 cup 
• Ghee - 3 tbps
• Grated coconut - half cup
• Jaggery - grated half cup
• Cardamom powder - 3 - half tbps
• Salt - pinch
• Sugar - 1 spoon
• Water - 3 spoon.

Procedure

In a bowl take the flour, add coconut , Jaggery, cardamom powder, salt, sugar, and mix it with water and prepare a dry dough. Take hand full of dough in  palm and press it with your fingers to make kolukattai. Place it on the plate and steam in a pressure cooker as we do to prepare idli. Serve hot.

Meat curry

Ingredients

Meat - half kg

Grated coconut

Green chillies - 6

garlic cloves - 10

ginger garlic paste- 4 tbps

tomatoes - 4

Onion - 4

turmeric powder - 1 tbps

dry chilly powder- 4 tbps

coriander powder- 4 tbps

garam masala powder - 1 tbps

curd - 1 tbps

Salt for taste

oil as required

Procedure

Wash the meat thoroughly three to four times until the water is clear without blood color. 

Marinate the meat with salt, turmeric powder, chilly powder, ginger garlic paste and curd . Keep it aside for nearly one hour. Prepare paste of coconut, green chillies, garlic.

Heat oil in cooker, add chopped onion, ginger garlic paste, chopped tomatoes, when they are cooked add the paste prepared, coriander powder and garam masala. Add the marinated meat and pressure cook for nearly 10 minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Beans fry

Ingredients
2 tablespoons               Ghee or vegetable oil
8 nos.                           Green Cardamom pods
8 to 10                         Cloves
1 inch stick                  Cinnamon
1 medium                    Onion (peeled & grated)
3                                  Green chillies (slit lengthwise)
1 teaspoon                   Turmeric powder
½ cup                           Potato, peeled and diced
½ cup                           Carrots,            peeled and diced
1 cup                           Fresh or frozen peas (thawed)
1 cup                           Basmati rice (rinsed twice and soaked for 45 minutes)
½ cup                           Split pigeon peas/ Toor dal (rinsed twice and soaked for 30 minutes)
3 cups                          Water
to taste                         Salt

Method:

1. Heat the ghee or oil over medium heat in a medium pot with a lid. Add the cardamom pods, cloves, cinnamon, onion, chillies and turmeric powder and cook, stirring, until fragrant, for about a minute.
2. Add the potatoes, carrots and peas and sauté for a minute.
3. Add the rice, lentils and salt and stir continuously for 3-4 minutes until well mixed.
4. Add the water, bring to a boil, and then reduce the heat to low. Cover and cook until the mixture has a thick, risotto-like consistency, about 15-20 minutes.
5. Serve hot.

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.