Month: March 2019

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Kiwi-Pineapple Mocktail.

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Pineapple and kiwi mocktail is a fabulous drink. When served with crushed ice, it simply nourishes the soul. When it passes down through our throats, the crushed ice and the kiwi pineapple drink gives a pleasant and cool relief. To make this mocktail, take a tall glass. In it, first add crushed ice. Ice crushers are available in the market or you can grind it in an ice mixer or in a plain mixer.

Add 30-40 gm of crushed ice. Then add 40 ml kiwi syrup and 25 ml pineapple syrup.

Take two slices of kiwi (small sizes) and add it. Take a fresh lemon and make thin round slices of it.

Add four such thin slices in the glass. Then add seven to eight basil leaves.

To bring balance, taste and sweetness to the mocktail, add 25 ml of sugar syrup.

Then using a stirrer, give a stir. Stir it nicely. Have a sip. If it tastes bland, you can add more of the sugar syrup. If you want to make it more of a kiwi mocktail, then add twenty ml more kiwi syrup. If there’s need for adding a bit of more pineapple syrup, you can do so. But remember, it’s a kiwi-pineapple mocktail, with kiwi in a major proportion.  

It’s an excellent mocktail, make it, have it and be happy.

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THE LOVE AND TRUTH.

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The princess loved a pauper.How did she meet and love him? SHE has seen him in her garden  nurturing her flowering plants.In his hands plants laugh and flowers blossom.Once the princess wanted to make a bouquet for her father,the king.SHE went to the garden herself and ask that gardener to pluck and give the flowers of her choice.Gardener’s eyes were,bigger,calm,starry and soft.He obeyed her order. The princess could not forget his eyes and the majesty in his look.While making the bouquet, mesmerised princess arranged the flowers thinking him and the bouquet became a golden creation to describe.It was placed in the court.The king and the courtiers appreciated it again and again .In the private the princess asked her father to tie her knot with the gardener.The king called for the gardener with much power and kingliness like how could he dare to make her daughter even think of marrying him! The gardener entered the court room.

Lo! The king was also speechless seeing his humble and pure and majestic personality.He came to reality and asked the gardener to marry her daughter.

The gardener with his folded hands replied that he is already married and had two kids. The most of his toil that he can give to the king was his skill and love to grow more garden .The sound echoed in the court room even puzzled the courtiers who were enjoying the fun of the situation. Moreover he had to spend his nights in the cowshed tendering the cows as the milk supply that the king enjoys was from his seven cows collected by the milk agent and the smell from the cow shed what about that? Could the princess be able to withstand it? The King forgot wife and the kids of the gardener, but without them the gardener was incomplete.

KING saw horror in her daughter’s eyes and asked the gardener to resume his work. God save the gardener,his wife,kids and cows.The  princess married another golden king of her father’s choice.

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Rotis.

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I bought seven kilogram of wheat grains. It was in the mall, where they have a grinding machine, means the flour mill. The powdered wheat which is known as flour is coming out and the whole space was smelling of the flour. I love this smell. “AAhh, Ma will make rotis, parathas, puris and all.

It is the best of life. Atleast two breads we need for lunch and dinner. Any sabzi or vegetable or gravy, always goes well with roti. It can be thick, it can be thin, it can be made by sprinkling oil, then it becomes bhakri. Do you know the varieties of roti? All of us love this at a daily basis. It is my love only. I love naan, paratha, tandoori roti, romali roti. See the magic. The flattened raw roti when you put on a tawa and press it with a soft cloth, it slowly puffs up and becomes a ball and sometimes it bursts. The love of anybody who prepares roti for lunch or dinner is contained in that roti. It is the base of life, same as the wheat plants which are ground to the earth. Wheat plants are the members of the Graminae family. Everybody says to earn bread you have to work very hard. It is very true.

But there are so many who eat them without working hard.

Cooking a double roti is so unique, that I ate in Gujarat (a state of India) with aamras (Mango pulp with a little water and sugar).

To make the roti it takes a long time.

Ma is looking for an atta kneader, but still could not get it. But to break the roti is instant and to eat it! The piece of roti goes to the mouth with any sabzi and dal, by God’s grace. It is true for one and all.

Adios!