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Dasara 2011 _ mangalore trip pillikulla JLR

2011-10-19T21:48:00.001-07:00

Hi

9 of us including kids enjoyed the Pillikulla JLR resort. We stayed here for 3 days and 2 nights. Over all it was relaxing for me from the day to day chores. I enjoyed doing nothing much but just relaxed in my own way.

This resort is pretty close to Shivaram Karanth Biological Park and Artisan Village. It also has some little nature path. The JLR is situated in a peaceful place, although I would have enjoyed any beach resort. More info on JLR refer Junglelodges.in. Would I visit again - NO.
I like the Artisan village a lot. You can find some of good artisan in terms of pottery, bamboo, poha making pottery, black smith wood craving here. Its a fun place to visit for me. But unfortunately, most of the huts were closed because of dasara.

We went to Parambur beach on the day2. We had to hire from JLR since it was not in package. Please don't expect the beach to be like a Goa. Its good but you cannot dress up the way you want coz the crowd is not use to it. For me it didn't matter. The charges were 800 and our means of travel was VRL bus.

Activities we did:
nature walk - we found loads of tree pie and racket tail drongo. This was the specialty if nature walk. we also found pide dragon fly which i never seen before. The touch me not was something different from usual.

Awesome veggie Sunday soup

2011-10-19T21:48:00.000-07:00

I had been to metro and couldnt resist the exotic veggies available. After reading chinmayee's blog Love Food Eat. I'm in love with soups.

I picked the following soup

Brocolli
Beans
small tomatoes
Paneer
Pasta
Peas
Onions
Garlic paste
Corn Flour
Olive oil

Cook little pasta and keep aside the stalk. Cut all the above vegetables and fry it with olive oil. Add the sufficient amount of water and little salt to taste. Boil the veggie well. Add butter paneer and cornflour mixed with pasta stalk and boil. Depending on the thickness of soup please add corn flour. Just boil it and you soup is ready. Believe me it was yummy!

Different types of huli (sambar)

2011-09-12T07:45:00.000-07:00

For drumstick:
1/2 grated coconut in the entire coconut
3 spoons of coriander seeds
4-5 red chilli
1 1/2 spoon jeera
1 spoon mustard
1 lavanga (clove)

Fry the above ingredients separately in a low flame. Make a paste in the mixer.
cook dal in pressure cooker as required

Boil drumsticks small length along with tamarind water. Add the paste and give tadka of hing, mustard seeds and curry leaves. You can also add coriander leaves.

For beans :
1/2 spoon Add methi seeds as extra for grinding

Mogge kayi - Mangalore cucumber
1 spoon jeera
1 spoon mustard
1 spoon urdal
1 spoon besan dal
1 spoon methi seeds

Fry the above ingredients. Mix coconut grated and grind in mixer.
Pressure cooker the following ingredients tuvar dal + jaggery little + Mangalore cucumber .

Add the paste grind-ed once the mixture of veggie and dhal taken out of pressure cooker. Add littke tamarind as required.
Give tadka of hing, curry leaves and mustard seeds.

Your yummy mogge kai sambar ready.

Mixed veggie sambar:
little garlic optional
onions
1 spoon methi seeds
3 spoons dhaniya seeds
clove 1
cinamon 1/2
curry leaves
grated cocunut as required.
Red chilli

Fry the above ingredients in low flame and grind it in mixer

Cook the dhal in pressure cooker . Boil the mixed veggie in tamarind water. You can also pressure cooker along with Tuvar dhal.

Mix the grind-ed paste along with all the ingredients above. Give tadka with hing mustard seeds and curry leaves

For soppu - greens
any soppu u like
Tuavrl dal
tomatoe
garlic
onion. Pressure cooker all this ingredients.

3 spoons daniya seeds
1 spoon saswe
red chilli es
1 spoon urdhal
coconut very little

Grind it in mixer the above and add the mixture in the cooked soppu. Boil and give tadka of hing mustard seeds.

Pineapple gojju

2011-09-12T07:37:00.000-07:00

methi seeds 1/2 teaspoon
urdal 1 teaspoon
white yellu or til 1 teaspoon
Curry leaves quite a bit may be 3 strands
hing
Grated coconut 1/2 cup
red Chilli (Byadge Menasinakai)

Fry all the ingredients in a low flame separately. Also Fry the grated coconut.
Grind everything in mixer

Boil the tamarind water, bella (jaggery) turmeric and salt. Put the grind ed powder sort of paste into the boiling tamarind water. Add pineapple at last and give Tadka or vagrane with mustard hing and curry leaves.
serve hot or cold.

Await for the pictures, I will upload when I do this next week.

The gift I will cherish for lifetime

2011-09-06T23:15:00.000-07:00

Its during the dastkar sale of 2011. I Kushala and Priya wanted to make it up on day one. All of us are busy with work and kids but still we are determined for first day. It was pouring cats and dogs that day and I was WHF. I had to take Sid along. He hates shopping a typical boy I can say. But he had no other go to accompany me. I went int he rain and reached palace ground by bus.
Of-course Kushala and Priya were already there to welcome me. We browsed through the shop having great fun. making whoa very nice oh I love it ..... mannnnnnnnn i need this. these were the words which came out from each one of us during the browsing session. This shop was at the last of that particular row. Kushala and me loved it. Kushala immediately bought this and gifted me immediately. I had no expression for words - I'm just glad that my friends love me so much. This is something which I will cherish for life time.

I still don't have any words to express. Through heart and soul I thank you my friend.
What would be your feeling if you were treated like this. Yes, I'm in cloud Nine.

Im Blessed - Ganesha Habba Gifts

2011-09-01T22:42:00.001-07:00

Hey

This Ganesha festival I rocked by making lots of offerings to Lord Ganesha(my fav god. Mostly every one's fav Hindu God).I did Pooja and really enjoyed doing it. Thanks to my hubby to help me in cooking. I always feel content in life having such a good life partner. I have been extremely happy in life (touch wood).
OK, Now here it goes what i got

A kurti from Ranathambore from my co-sis. She bought it from Dastkar. Oh its lovely more than that The love is more important fro me. I'm glad that she thinks of me when she buys something nice. She really thinks

My brother sent me NARS lip and cheek artist. Its really awesome.

My Sister gave a material - pure white very very pretty. She loves me to the core and we share one of the best relations in siblings. I'm blessed to have a sis and brother like this. You envy, Yes, I think you will if you see us the way we are :-)

This is super awesome. My MIL is impressed with me and my co-sis and gifted both of us her gold bangle. I have one and she has the other. Am I not blessed what else you need in life

Of course loads of wishes from my family and friends.

Enjoy the pictures. Isn't it lovely?

Tengol Receipe

2011-08-30T07:24:00.000-07:00

Ingredients:
1. 4 cup of rice
2. 1 cup of urdal
3. 1 cup hurkadle
4. lemon size butter
5. White yellu/ jeera
6. Sal to taste
7. Hing (optional)
8. Refined oil 250 ml

Fry Urdal in low flame. Mix all the mixture and make powder in mill or mixie. Which ever is convenient.

Heat the butter and pour it in the flour mixture. Add salt hing white yellu and mix it with water. Make a dough.

Heat the oil in a frying pan.Use the mould and make the tengol. Deep fry.

Your tengol is ready to eat.

Ribbon Mururku

2011-08-28T05:11:00.001-07:00

Ingredients:
1 cup of rice flour
1/2 cup of Besan flour (kadale hittu)
2 teaspoon of butter
white yellu (til in hindi)
1/2 teaspoon of salt
1 teaspoon of chilli powder
little hing

Method:
1. Put the rice flour in a container add the besan flour, salt, chlli powder, white yellu
and little hing. Mix well
2. Add heater butter to on the mixture
3. Mix the ingredients into a dough by adding little water

Frying:
Take 250 ml of refined oil and heat it
Put the dough in the ribbin muruku maker and deep fry.

Your ribbon mururku is ready to serve.

The Day I ......

2011-06-16T23:16:00.000-07:00

The day I saw my globe
The day I saw my mother
The day i saw my grandmother
The day I was able to puff
The day I heard my cry
The day I smiled
The day I was in my mom's cozy arm
The day I could sense

The day I had my first feed
The day I felt my bed wet
The day I got my first bath
The day I troubled my mom the most in pain

The day I was dressed like an angel
The day I saw all my loved ones

Yes, It was the special day for my mother
And now special day for all my loved ones.

My Birthday !!!

Never felt this before

2011-05-24T03:33:00.000-07:00

I had never felt this before

A feeling of fondness
A feeling of caress
A feeling of trueness

I had never felt this before
A feeling of warmth
A feeling of belonging
A feeling of entirety
I had never felt this before

Longing for such a bond was a dream come true and
I had never felt this before !!!

~ Kavitha.
This is dedicated to someone who visited like an angel last weekend.

Never Realised !!

2010-12-09T22:10:00.000-08:00

Never realised that your love is so immense
That I'm deep in your sense
Never realised that Im your best friend
That I always want to be apprehend
Never Realised that you share all your thoughts
Never realised that you influence my thought

You are such a wonderous soul
Who has shown the happiness in whole
The caring touch makes me hale
As our life sail
With a tear in my eyes I bow you,
for what your are !
That you are the BEST mate
I can ever get.

Never realised that I was the one who in bless
Never realised that you showered with caress

Never realised that you love me in excess !

- Kavitha

On My Life Lane

2010-11-19T01:45:00.000-08:00

Down on the lonely road of my lane,
With a melancholy feeling on the plane
I walk all alone on the life lane
I walk all alone on the life lane!
A strange feeling comes my mind
That I,m trying to find,
Hoping for another hand who can understand
To erase the raindrops from my eyes
Before my demise
I walk all alone on the life lane!

I'm Crazy About You

2010-09-17T05:26:00.000-07:00

It was a crazy desire
that put me in emotional fire
It's all about being crazy about someone
Realising that you are understood by none
I do my best for the rest
Expecting least from the dearest
By all this, you learn onething
Landing-up doing anything
Because I'm crazy about YOU
This fuels me being the best
Because I'm crazy about you

My heart Waits

2007-08-02T02:20:00.000-07:00

Amidst of the busy days,
my heart waits to talk and to be with you.
But it never happens,
still not losing the hope
it waits in the tranquil night too
with great hope to be with you
every day and every night.
After every night of disappointment,
It never gives up, although I tell it to forget
With no regrets
my heart waits waits and waits
Hoping for a day and night to be with you.
My heart waits and waits,
for a day of sunshine and a night of moonlight to be with you !

- Kavitha