Rasgulla

Ingredients:
Milk - 1/2 litre
Lemon Juice - 1 tbsp (or) Curd - 2 tbsp
Water - 2 cups water
Icecubes - 5
Sugar - 3/4 cup
Cardamom powder- A pinch
Badam - for decoration

Steps:

1. Boil milk, simmer and then add Lemon juice/curd.
2. Stir continuously as the whey water and curdled milk separates.
3. Add the ice cubes to them and wait till all of them melts completely.
4. Filter them in a muslin cloth and wash in a running water to remove the lemon smell.
5. Tie into a small bag, squeeze the bag a remove water and place a heavy weight on it, so that excess water expells
6. The paneer would be now in a crumbled form, make into a smooth dough.
7. And roll into small balls (remember that the rasgullas would be double the size of the balls once cooked)
8. Heat the water, add sugar and cardamom, drop the paneer balls one by one. Close the vessel with a lid
9. Open the lid now and then, and in 10 to 15 mins the rasgullas will be double the size.
10. Garnish with badam or nuts of your choice

 Rasgullas are at their best when served chill.

1001 things to do before I die

This post might sound silly.. but came to my mind some point of time :)
So all of them in one go... My checklist ;)

Cook all varieties of cuisine, learn catering
Do a Europe tour
Do a All India tour ( long time plans of visiting Coorg, Mysore,Bombay)
Learn Tailoring
Want to start a business ( future entrepreneur :P )
Want to build a house
Work as a teacher
Start to study again
Want to drive  a car
Do scuba diving
Go on a world's biggest roller coaster
Bungee jumping
Australian tour
Visit Singapore
Join a Gym- get back to my weight before marriage ;)
Visit all temples in Chennai
Do a Interior Decoration to my home
Own a cosmetic kit that has A to Z of cosmetics
Do a mad shopping
Have a get together with my cousins and siblings
Own iPad/ iPad Mini
Attend atleast 10 interviews in SW companies
Do a sky diving
Get few of the jewels designed by me.
Want get decked up with jewels and make up and attend a function


To be continued :)

Time time quality time :)

Oh Boy when am I going to publish the experiments with my kitchen, its very long since am having them in drafts.. hope give them to you soon...

Busy...

Busy busy busy.. I have used this word when I was in school, college, my office.. but, do I know the meaning then???

I got to know it right now... Busy mom.. spinning on my toes.. angry, sad, tired, happy, joyful, what not... my little one can bring out of me all these :)

Two words often repeated by him even in sleep is "Daddy and Eiya (Divya called by him so)", I know showing my anger on him is bad, yet he started understanding when I am sad or happy..

This has been in my drafts for a long time...

Posting this incomplete post :)

New York and ME

Am back with a bang, (bang I meant some pics in my post ;) ).....

As a child I had a dream of visiting the Green lady atleast once in my life, Green Lady with a crown, torch book and standing tall on the Hudson. Yeah, The Statue of Liberty. And my dream came true in Nov 2011, as soon as we came to New York the first place we visited is the Liberty statue.

What US has given me? Inspite of me giving up my job, this is the time for me to show my different Avatars, best MOM, best WIFE, best COOK, best CARE PROVIDER (ofcourse each and every girl is THE best to her family). After all these, I never regret of coming to the land of opportunities on H4.

I have seen few of my friends posting their pictures of gathering in their apartment, every weekend would be a fun and gaala time at someone's home and it would happen in each of their apartment in a round fashion. I met just two tamil speaking families in my apartment, was very excited that I would have a good time with them, as it was a vast Indian populated community apartment I kept a strong hope that I would find some friends for  life. Gone with the wind, my hope withered as a dry leaf, Must thank 2 Telugu friends for the wonderful evenings spent with them (Both of them from Andhra and dont know Tamil).

Should count Niagara trip as the best trip and spent sweet times with Kris and family,  Meena and family.


I am done with thanking my friends.I have had the best and worst times of my life here. Now moving on to NEW YORK, My best friend made a point that I should never feel that am alone without any friends in apartment, he did the best to make me and my son happy. We had and having a good shopping time, though he hates to shop,he accompanies me and takes care of the kid when am busy shopping. He is none other than my dear HUSBAND.

Though we did not own car initially, we rent a car every fortnight till we bought one. I roamed around New York till my heart content. Posted few pics for your visual treat.


Streets of New York.

I saw a man pulling cycle rickshaw near Times Square.

                                          

Then Holland Tunnel, Manhattan.

This is the Brooklyn bridge.

These are the Sky scrapers.

Facebook craze.

Best way to kill time - FB
Getting into enemies profile and track him/her - FB
Finding X's new pairs ;) - FB

Being in touch with friends, those who weren't in touch for long - FB
One of  the favorites saved in the browser used ( for most the home page :) ) - FB
Can have the movie stars as friends on profile (without even knowing its fake :) ) - FB
Being friends with people, right from the clients with whom we work, teachers, juniors, seniors, neighbors, co- travelers  - FB

              Yep.. FACEBOOK!!! Place where family members and relatives are added to the restricted list and unwanted contacts in the friends' list. Incidents do take place where a kid calls 911(police) saying his father not allowing him to use FB.

               We are in the world where good mornings and good nights are wished through FB, Just for publicity. Think of checking FB for 5 minutes and check the time to find that one hour has passed.

               Once upon a time there was a forum called orkut :). Poor orkut I should say. It had the facility of knowing the recent visitors. Is that the reason people started to avoid it?

               Me too was a Facebook addict once, took one long month to find am loosing something precious and thats time :).  But still leave my profile online at times even though am not looking  into FB.


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First post..

       Happy to pen down after a long time..  Creative essays written by me was in school and college,the only person lucky :P to read it was the teacher of course who corrected the paper ;).  Later it was in Infy ILI sessions, not much of them but remember writing short story/essay.

    All the above said was to write on a given topic and that too for marks :(

    Now I found a place to continue my awesome work (might be awful to you ;) )