Fascinating Cook Books!

I don't remember when I started reading cook books. I guess it aroused from my voracious reading of cooking blogs. Nowadays, whenever I go to library, I take some book from the cooking section.
At present I am reading "Lord Krishna's Cuisine". It's about Indian Veg cooking. The book was stacked up in the basement reserve of the library and I had to wait a couple of days to get it. What lured me was the captivating name of the book. Having started reading it, I felt it was just a normal cook book. I was more interested in knowing what Lord Krishna used to eat.

I was more fascinated by two other cook books I recently read. "Everyday Indian" by Bal Arneson and "Monsoon Diary: A Memoir With Recipes" by Shoba Narayan. Monsoon Diary is more of a biography, beautifully told through the tales of Indian recipes. I enjoyed the book very much. The book portrays the author's life journey. It started from her infancy, proceeded through her childhood ,studies and married life. At the end of each chapter, there is a mouth watering recipe. I liked the way, it was presented.

"Everyday Indian" by Bal Arneson gives you 100 fast and healthy recipes. Apart from my husband, this is the book that created a passion for cooking in me. After reading this book, I started to use grape seed oil for cooking. Grape seed oil is rich in omega 6, contains vitamin C & E and most importantly it is not filling my apartment with the strong burning odour of oil. More than everything, the book is truly motivating. It talks about the importance of eating a healthy diet and tries to create a passion of cooking in the readers.

2012

Is it going to end? I am not sure.

Anyway I liked the movie, though I went with mixed feelings. I feel it's a realistic movie, even though it received a lot of criticism. Of course, I don't have the back up of knowledge to talk about the catastrophe theoretically. I don't know anything about Mayan Calender and prophecies as well.But I believe, the movie portrays something which can happen.

Some of my friends laughed at me when I said I liked the movie. They say, it's a movie for children. My nephew, 7 year old Shambhu believes this is going to happen on 2012. He is making a list of ToDos and Not ToDos. He has prepared a huge list of psp games to be played and movies to be watched. In the list of Not ToDos, he is having a big consolation of not getting married also. I don't know what made him think marriage as a big burden. I remember my niece also said(9 year old) once that she will never get married. When I asked why, she said she doesn't want to have children. I did not try to ask again why. Anyway Shambhu's lists made the family laughed a lot. :)

I read some where about some teenagers writing to NASA Director saying that they are going to commit suicide before the year 2012, since they can't see the end. This trend is not good, if the movie results in such thoughts also.


In short, I enjoyed the movie.But I don't want to believe that it's going to happen.:)

palmistry

Proverb 3:16

Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.


Something I learned today. A reference about palmistry in bible also.

Interesting, right?

wierd!!!!!

I hate the phenomenon of having curiosity about others' life. Am I normal or not?
Even if it is your so called friends, I hate people make comments about how you do some things which you really want to do or as a treat to yourself. I am not talking about any bad addiction or anything of that sort. But for example, I am a person who loves traveling. It is my current policy that we should not waste the opportunity and time."Time and tide wait for no one". I regret many decisions which I made and thought was very practical at that point of time.

So if some one makes a comment like " why you are going for that trip now. Why you are wasting money? " at you, I seriously can't forgive him/her. It is my life. I know what should be my choices better than any one else.

Why people are so curious about others' financial matters? Why they are fuming so much when they realize some one else is enjoying? why people are lying so much? Why people want everyone else to think in the same lines they do? Why people are so negative? Why they are so cynical about others?

I am pissed off!!!

Julia Child...

Last week we saw "Julie and Julia".

I became a fan of Julia Child and french cuisine though I have never tried french cuisine yet. Soon I'll try it. :)

And I am thinking of the cooking passion. Do I have anything like that? :)
let me find out that also...:)
More updates soon....

I Dreamed a Dream

Les Miserables - I Dreamed a Dream Lyrics
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There was a time, when men were kind
And their voices were soft
And their words were inviting
There was a time, when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high and life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving

Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they turn your hope apart
As they turn your dreams to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my dreams with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

And still I dream he'd come to me
That we would live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from the hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed

Can see Susan Boyle's Song here.

Can see Susan Boyle's Song here.

Edelweiss - One of my favourites

Edelweiss(Sound of Music) lyrics

Captain :

Edelweiss, edelweiss
Ev'ry morning you greet me
Small and white
Clean and bright
You look happy to meet me

Blossom of snow
May you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever

The Captain, Maria, and Children:

Small and white
Clean and bright
You look happy to meet me

Blossom of snow
May you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever

Do we?

Never explain
    because your friends don't need that
    and your enemies are not going to believe it.

Some body said this. Yes..it's very true.

I was very convinced about this when I was a small child. I used to have a healthy don't care attitude to some people around me. I had a strong belief that I need to convince and explain only to my parents. And definitely I had the intelligence to distinguish the people who really care for me.

As I grew, I think this ability got reduced. We need to be diplomatic and assertive at the same time in this competitive world. In between those hard trials, we often  fail to distinguish the so called friends and enemies, and the people who really care for us. I realize we don't need to be pleasing to everyone and we have to get rid of the approval syndrome.

You don't need to explain things to those who don't deserve it. It's going to be of no use, rather than simply wasting your energy and time.

horror!!!! horror!!!!

I used to love watching horror movies. I was so happy when I  found out that every sunday there is a horror movie in a tv channel. I used to wait for this until last week end.



Last week we happened to see a DVD of movie "Exorcism of Emily Rose" in library and my husband said that it's one of the scariest horror movie he has ever watched and it's based on a true story. I was so excited and we took the DVD. I finished all the chores and sat to watch the movie. Before that I read the synopsis and brief review also. It looked fine. We watched the whole movie. It was really horrifying and I couldn't sleep. The movie really changed some of our basic beliefs. Even after days, still I am finding it difficult to have sound sleep.It's truely disturbing and making you to think a lot. I even did some research about the movie and the things mentioned in it.



I decided I'll never watch horror movies again.

train train !!!!

There was a time I used to be so crazy about driving. It was my biggest desire at one point of time to drive. I used to find out opportunities to drive, and places to visit only to enjoy my driving. But now I am so lazy to drive, even to think about it.




I enjoy the train journeys so much, though it's very short. I walk almost two kms everyday to reach train station and back to home. Funniest part is walking time is longer than the time I spend in train. But still I love these journeys.

FarmVille -FunVIlle

Yes...My recent craze is farm ville...It's so great to be a virtual farmer..
But I realize there is a farmer hidden in me ...:) a hardworking farmer...


It's really great to see your crops and harvest them...Definitely you have to plough and seed also..

The best thing in this virtual world is you can always rearrange everything..even the trees...

Enjoy farmville in facebook....