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Uddiyana Bandha

BADAM DOODH

Saffron flavoured milk enriched with almonds and served warm garnished with silver warq
Preparation Time : 20 mins
Servings : 4



INGREDIENTS

Almonds, blanched and roughly chopped1/4 cup
Milk 4 cups
Green cardamom powder a pinch
Nutmeg powder a pinch
Honey 3-4 tablespoons
Silver warq 1-2 leaves


METHOD
Heat milk in a thick-bottomed vessel and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, add chopped almonds and simmer on low heat for fifteen to twenty minutes. Add green cardamom powder and nutmeg powder and continue to boil for another two minutes. Remove from heat, add honey and stir. Serve warm in individual earthenware glasses, garnished with silver varq.

Courtesy - Sanjeev Kapoor

मेरा अपार्टमेन्ट

A new year and a new begining. This new year seems to be good to me and i wish it to be quite promising because the last year was not that good :(. Yes i agree, i had a lot of learning last year but i think the coming year should be a balance between learning and implementation of the learning :). Balance is always good right hahahahaha. hmmmmmm the new year celebrations were quite simple - visited one of my freinds house and cut the cake and chatted for a while and way back home. Coincidently, it happenend to be his bday too so it was a double reason to party.

Well, there is not much happening in life here as i thought so. I actually dreamt of so many things before coming here but nothing seem to fall in place and things are entirely different than i thought them to be. I am not saying that i am unlucky, infact i should say that i am blessed as i have good frnds, Indian food, USA residence :) etc etc but somewhere in my heart there seems to be kind of disappointment - donno what kind of - but yeah - may be i am getting too personal here in the blog but nevertheless, moving on with a hope that things would be turning great in the near future.

Wishing all my friends the very best of luck in the future.

मेरा नया घर

Hi - this is my new house in Magnolia. I recorded the video in high quality with live commentary :) but while compressing the file size the audio and the quality of the video have been taken for a toss. so you can just see my new house - will try to make some changes if possible - :). Also it is awaiting permission from the youtube to be displayed - so wait until u get it :)

Short and sweet story

Once a boy went to a shop with his mother.
The shop keeper looked at the small cute child and showed him a bottle with sweets and said
'Dear Child..u can take the sweets...

But the child didnt take.

The shop keeper was surprised.. such a small child he is and why is he not taking the sweets from the bottle.

Again he said take the sweets....
Now the mother also heard that and said.. take the sweets dear..

Yet he didnt take...
The shopkeeper seeing the child not taking the sweets... he himself took the sweets and gave to the child.

The child was happy to get two hands full of sweets.
While returning home the Mother asked the child...
Why didnt you take the sweets, when the shop keeper told you to take?..

Can you guess the response:
Child replies... Mom! my hands are very small and if i take the sweets i can only take few.. but now you see when uncle gave with his big hands.... how many more sweets i got!
Moral:
When we take we may get little but when God gives... HE gives us more beyond our expectations....
more than what we can hold..!!