starter snack

For serving as starters before dinner or even as a snack with tea its a tasty accompaniment.Its a non fried tasty snacking.
ingredients------

• 200gm peanuts---roasted----normally if you put them in microwave at high for 3 minutes, shaking them once in between-----they are well done.
• 2 tomatoes finely chopped
• 1onion finely chopped
• 3 green chillies finely chopped
• half cup cucumber finely chopped.
• 2-3 tbsp. green coriander-finely chopped
• 1lemon
• salt to taste

just before serving mix everything together and the sprinkle the lemon juice and serve it garnished with green coriander. its a very tasty, crunchy snack. In the garnishing you may add Bhujia also.
Just before serving

SHAHI TUKRA & pudding

you made gulabjamuns and finished them but the syrup is left.........dont know what to do.......................what i do is............

• Fry bread pieces and dip them in the syrup and take out immediately and put on the plate. As it is, it is a good sweet, crisp and sweet, but to make it more sumptuous or to serve it to the guest, put all the fried and dipped in syrup slices in a big plate. Thicken the milk, like rabri,add sugar and cardamom and pour over the slices. Garnish with chopped dry fruits and a very delicious rich dessert is ready.
• The second choice is put some flour in the syrup and some chopped dry fruits and either you can make the pan cakes or fry little balls ( for this put enough flour in the syrup to make it semisolid, ) or even you can bake it.If you bake it then it will be something like scones, fried one like Malpua.

Normally when we buy biscuit, some are always broken, so in 15 days quite a good quantity of broken biscuits is collected and we dont know what to do.We can make pudding out of that.

• make custard with half litre milk.....it should be flowing type. Now in a bowl put the biscuits, there shouldnt be big pieces, crush them into small pieces and pour over them the custard, it should cover them completely, and then pour some more. Chill it in the fridge, then add some diced fruits like mango, banana, and while serving garnish it with cherry.

So make it and tell me how did you like it:)

FIVE TIPS FOR SAFE DRIVING IN MONSOON

Car Care

Remember to check battery, electrical wiring, headlights , tyres, engine, wipers and the underbody anti- rust coating on a regualar basis.Tyre pressure, tread depth and spare wheel should also be checked. Replace cloth floor mats with plastic/ rubber mats as it avoids dampness and bad odour.


Driving Care

Avoid driving when it is pouring heavily . But if urgent, drive using first gear only and avoid using full accelerator.Lower your window panes while driving through water logged areas. If the car stalls in between, do not try to push start or crank start. It is advisable to get technical help and towing the vehicle to the the nearest authorised garage. Avoid parking the vehicle near a newly built compound wall or under big trees, as storms or heavy thundershowers may collapse them.


Personal Care

A well equipped first aid kit with bandage, pain relief spray, antiseptic cream, anti-allergics such as Avil and Aspirin should be kept handy, also carry umbrella / raincoats. People with serious illness should carry their prescribed medicines while travelling.


Emergency Care

In case you are stuck, park your car and look for the nearest garage. Be prepared to carry a list of the name of garages. It is also advisable that you create the ICE (In Case Emergency) number in your cell phone so that incase of an eventuality near ones can be informed. Also store emergency numbers of hospitals , police stations, fire stations

Modern day grocery stores

• Now when so many big MNCs have come in the market for opening the general departmental stores type, one sees in the market at every nook and corner a Fresh, Spencers, More and in big malls, food world, then regional ones like Magna and Trinethra in Hyderabad.The question is are they really better then our idigenous ones, are they really providing a good service and value for money and can they ever replace our Kirana stores.Since i have lived in many cities like Nagpur, Delhi, Hyderabad and now in Chennai, I am privileged to see many varieties and can see the changes and a pattern. The first indian super store the one like abroad I saw was Nanz in Delhi. We went there like sight seeing, for us it was a first experience in India to shop vegetables in air conditioned comfort and all things at one place. But the prices were exorbitant over there, and the result-----it was closed after some time. As I think about,the few advantages I find are.........
• For me it is a big comfort to shop in air conditioned environment in the tropical climate of our country. The shopping becomes a pleasant experience.
• One can find everything at one place, and we dont have to go from one shop to another, specially with small kids its very comfy to shop all your needs at one place.
• These stores first started the self service model, its very convenient, one can see all the varieties in a leisurely pace and compare the prices also of different products.
• Most of big stores have a food court also, so it becomes a total outing experience.
• They are providing the parking which is a real big problem now a days in the old style markets.

And the dis advantages are..............

• Most of the stores are highly priced, except for a few items which are under any scheme.India value for money is very important for us.
• They are not providing everything, some small items, though low cost, but very necessary in a home are not there.And that is very irritating for a customer to go to another place for small items.
• Sometimes they are employing inefficient people, not knowing computer billing properly, and for the customers its very bad experience, like we went to MORE VELACHERY-CHENNAI-- there one comp. is not working, one other girl was so slow that she wasted our full one hour. I vowed never to go there again. Once in TRINETHRA ( NOW MORE ) HYDERABAD-GACHIBOWLI the salesman and girl, nobody knew the right price of the products even and in this type of store there were no labels, here also we never went again.
• Most of the times sales people dont want to exert at all, if the customers dont find anything, they dont bother to look for it, just say its not there. SPENCERS STORE IN AMEERPET HYDERABAD, there also we had a bad experience due to no proper labelling and in billing also.

For BIG BAZAR i have seen is very popular and always crowded whether in Hyderabad, Ghaziabad or Chennai. Though the store is much better in ghaziabad and Htyderaba, in Chennai, it doesnt have much variety.
The best store I have seen is APNA BHANDAR-SITABUILDI-NAGPUR-it had the amazing variety of products at a very reasonable prices, one could buy anything from here. Even for greeting cards they had good variety and gave discounts. I really wonder why they dont advertise and do any expansion.
Another one I would recommend is this THANGAM SUPER MARKET- MAIN VELACHERY ROAD-CHENNAI, though its only grocery store. but for the grocery items, they have most of the things and at a very reasonable price and good quality and they take orders on phone and do the home delivery.
For green grocery the best places in Chennai if one wants fresh and cheap, then it has to be greenlands. In hyderabad the best places are RYTHU BAZAR----there vegetables are very fresh grocery on the shops are very good in quality and low in cost, as they are maintained by the government , I think.

desserts-serving in a different way

• Indian sweet gujhia ------- top it with Rabri ( milk made thick by boiling over and added with sugar, cardamom, dry fruits )---makes a delicious dessert. For choclate lovers, one can top it with choclate sauce.

• Gulabjamun------cut them into two halves-----put some cream on the flat surface and half a cherry in the centre-----looks as yummy as it tastes.
  White rasogullas------ take small size of rasogullas and put them in rabri and heat a little, then chill and serve them .

• Rabri------Cut the fruits ( like cheekoo, oranges, banana, mango , apple ,grapes ) and serve them in rabri------its a very tasty dessert.

How to get rid of cockroaches

cockraches are quite a menace and to tackle ,one has to work on all the levels.Avoid moisture, keep it clean, then in the shelves bfore lining them put a line from Krazy lines or Hit chalk on the boundaries, then put naphthalene balls on all the drain nets. Then take boric powder and flour in equal measure and make small balls and put them in all the shelves.It is sure to get rid of cocraches.

gulabjamun

While preparing gulabjamun from any packet if few precautions are taken, results are astounding-----
1-- After frying the gulabjamun immediately dont put them in syrup as then its outer covering dissolves sometimes a little and sometimes completely.Just put them outside for a minute and then dip them in syrup, they will taste more delicious.
2-while frying first heat the oil till its quite hot, put the balls in and take the pot off the heat, stirr and then again put it on the medium heat and keep stirring all the time, so that they brown uniformly.
3--syrup shouldnt be very thick.
4- before kneading the mix into ball, if its sieved, its better as then it turns into a smooth ball easily.

obesity

Everywhere I keep reading about how to remain slim, or reduce fat or maintain BMI or whatver. Seems to me that it has become a ma problem major problem in everyhousehold. When that sweet plumpness turns into Obesity,nobody knows. The seed is always sown in the childhood. Everybody loves plump kids, we love to pinch rounded cheeks.Even the habits of healthy eating are also formed from the beginning only.In the childhood most of the kids are so pampered to give them what they want. For us love means feeding the person to the hilt.I remember my mother and mother-in-law always insisting on taking one more, even if a person has already eaten more than he should.So the need is to change our attitude, our meaning of love, as somebody has said-love doesnt mean just giving,it means judicial giving and judicial withholding.
I fully believe that if we really care and love somebody be it a child or an adult, we should always endeavour to enhance that person's personality in all respects physically, mentally.Thats why earlier it was said that company makes or breaks a person.In this respect, what we can give to our near and dear ones can not be measured by any standards because it enriches their lives in a way nothing can do ever.Certain principles taught to me by my father have remained with me, and they are so highly ingrained in my mind that i can never behave otherwise.And they have made me what I am today, an optimist with an idealistic attiude.
Healthy food, eaten at regular intervals and a little exercise are key to good health. It doeant mean one shouldnt eat tasty food, or not indulge oneself, that would be quite unrealistic to think about, but these binges can be left for the weekends.Spend a healthy week and then enjoy the weekends.

First thing in the morning,before even brushing the teeth, drink 3-4 glasses of water, do this regularly and you will get rid of many problems like acidity, indigestion etc( I am doing it and feeling so good)

For a glowing skin, every day take a tomato, cut it into halves, take one half and pour a few drops of glycerine over it and then rub this on your face, till it is finished. Leave it on for 20 minutes and then wash your face. Do it regularly, and you will get a glowing skin and will not need to use any make up even:).