May 2012
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April 2012
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January 2012
5 posts
Honey Cake III Recipe - Allrecipes.com →
South Indian Coconut Rice Recipe →
Eggless Chocolate Cake
This is a simple chocolate cake, prepared using sweetened condensed milk and Soda (Yep!). No eggs or milk, so it’s a great recipe for people who don’t like dairy products. You can substitute almost all of the butter (up to 3/4th the required quantity) with apple sauce to cut down on the calories. No extra sugar required, since the sweetened condensed milk is sweet enough. You could add...
December 2011
4 posts
Things I want to try to do in 2012
The keyword in the title is “try” :-) No compulsions, of course.
1. Lose the remaining 7 pounds. Enough already!
2. Visit India - Haven’t seen my friends and a lot of my extended family since almost 5 years. New nieces and nephews, sisters- in- law and brothers- in- law whom I haven’t met yet. Yeah, I’m a real slacker.
3. Visit a country other than India
4. Travel...
Natural Cure for Dandruff
Squeeze some fresh lemon juice in a bowl. Take a piece of cotton wool, soak it in the lemon juice and then dab it all over your dry scalp, starting with the area that has the highest concentration of dandruff. Tie your hair and let the lemon juice work its magic for 1/2-1 hr. Shampoo and condition as usual. Follow this process about 1-2 times a week.
Before treating my scalp with lemon juice, I...
Pookie Bear: help! i need natural remedies for... →
lund-rani:
Ok so
when i was younger, my hair used to be so thick, soft, silky, and shiny. now that i’m older; it’s thick, but not soft, silky, or shiny at all. i was wondering if you guys had any remedies to make my hair soft and silky again (even if its not natural). my hair is also really greasy so i have…
For hair, I would recommend that you massage it using warm coconut oil before...
The Year 2011 (yeah, one of those posts!)
I think this is the first time ever that I’m actually doing a year wrap up post. So here goes it!
1. Lost 26 pounds by exercising and eating like a human being (instead of a pig)
2. Realized that there is no shortcut to lose weight
3. Made a lifestyle change towards using more natural and chemical free things for personal and house care. My greatest find in this category: Dr....
November 2011
12 posts
HERSHEY'S | HERSHEY'S "PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE"... →
Using this recipe as a base for my chocolate cake. I used Nestle’s cocoa powder, since I don’t like Hershey’s cocoa taste. Also, used 1 1/2 cups of sugar instead of 2, since I’ll be using this cake to make cake balls! :)
“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and...”
– Pablo Neruda (via eles-dizem)
One of my favorite quotes. Ever.
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Vegetarian au Gratin (in White Sauce)
My mom’s recipe, modified a bit (she doesn’t use potatoes or bread crumbs- still comes out great!)
Ingredients:
2 1/3 cups milk (I used unsweetened almond milk)
1/4 cup corn flour or all purpose flour
salt to taste
pepper to taste
About 1 1/2 cups of mixed veggies (choose whatever you like- I used the mixed veggies frozen bag that had carrots, corn, beans)
1 potato,...
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Mint Chocolate Cake Balls
Makes approximately 50 (1” diameter) balls Ingredients: 1 box chocolate cake mix, plus ingredients to make the cake per box directions
3/4-1 cup of peppermint scnapps
~15 mint oreos, crumbled
2 12-ounce bags milk chocolate chocolate chips or other melting chocolate
1 box Andes Candies Creme de Menthe candies, crumbled or 1 bag Andes Candies baking chips*
Directions: 1. Make the...
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Khatti Arbi Ka Salan Recipe - Hyderabadi Recipe →
A great friend of mine from Hyderabad introduced me to Arbi. I followed this recipe (more or less), but also added some fenugreek seeds during sauté.
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Gatte ki Subzi →
Traditional Rajasthani dish made by mom at home. Gathered the courage to cook it for the first time. It came out REALLY well!
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Coconut Burfi Recipe →
Made this for Diwali and it came out amazing!
October 2011
7 posts
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On eBooks and my latest readings
I read my first eBook, The Last Man in Tower, using the Kindle app for iPad, a couple of weeks ago. Husband and I were about to fly out to New Mexico for a short vacation. Since the book was pretty lengthy (650+ pages), I thought it would be convenient to get the Kindle version and download it on my iPad. Admittedly, ever since, I’ve been HOOKED to eBooks. Let me tell you that I strongly...
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Homemade Mouthwash Recipe
Mix 2 ounces of Water, 1/4 Teaspoon of baking soda or Sea Salt, 1 drop of Pure Peppermint Oil, and 1 drop of Tea Tree oil. This Homemade mouthwash recipe leaves a great refreshing minty taste in your mouth and helps prevent bad breathe.
Source: Ultimate Cosmetics Just made a batch for me and my husband and I’m really amazed by how awesome this tastes. It’s really strong- So I would...
“He wonders if it is worth hoping for a future when there is no future, and from...”
– Sunset Park, Paul Auster
“Even if man has changed the world around him, man himself has not changed. The...”
– Sunset Park, Paul Auster
The Last Man in Tower- Aravind Adiga
Having loved The White Tiger, I really wanted to find lots of reasons to love Adiga’s latest book, The Last Man in Tower, but somehow, I felt that the book falls short of the tall expectations that are set when the author is a Booker Prize winner. The book does a great job explaining the typical middle class man’s views and struggles in the ever burgeoning city of Bombay and how...
September 2011
14 posts
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hope springs eternal: Mausam →
cora-crawley:
This poster is actually a super accurate representation of the way this film plays out…
In that at least half the running time is spent with Shahid either standing in front of a plane (Look, he’s a pilot! Do you see! ARE YOU SURE YOU GOT IT?!) or brooding off into the distance.
Not that…
Watched it last night and absolutely HATED it. But Shahid did look very handsome <3 I...
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“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath, on rape culture (via orcrist)
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“You can’t fight murder with murder.”
– [Ross Byrd], whose father, James Byrd Jr., was kidnapped and killed by three white supremacists. This horrific murder inspired Texas’s James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act, and the Federal Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act. One of the killers, Lawrence Russell Brewer, was...
I'm afraid that I will look like shit after I turn...
I am 27 currently. Can’t I always be young?
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Had a great Sunday- Woke up at noon, ate some lunch, slept again for 4 hours, got ready and went out grocery shopping, followed by some dinner at The Clay Pit.
During our ride to The Clay Pit, we saw this really sad & tired looking, dirty horse dragging a carriage with some people in it. What a sad life…Long time back, I had take a vow never to step inside a carriage. Tonight, my...
