My love towards you never ends.....

Biryani....!!

Kabab, biryani, ghazal, sab urdu mein hai.

janaab zara muskuriye aap hyderabad mein hai...!!

Never let me go..!!

         Sachin Garg

Never let me go  was the most awaiting novel for me and this book made me to love more with books. The story line of this book was damn different which tempts everyone to read it.

What made Samar abandon everything he had --an Engineering degree and a drop dead gorgeous girlfriend - and flee to Goa instead to start life afresh?

On being kicked by life, harder than he could ever imagine, Samar had three options.

He could look life in the eye and fight back.
He could succumb and do something that would haunt him forever.
Or he could flee, to a place where there were no traces of the blow he had received.

these lines itself makes it interesting and to know the story. No wonder Never let me go will be one of the best selling book in India.

The tough part of Samar's life is explained in a simple way who is deeply in love, then betrayed, left with pain, goes to Goa for forgetting everything, finds a new life, enjoys it, but struggling with the memories of love and finally losing his love increases the curiosity regularly throughout the story.

The Good bit about Never let me go
During the journey the difficulties he face, how he deals with local police, what he does to get rid of the thoughts and that incident, how he manages to get a job, how he concentrates on his job to forget everything and how finally he is left with pain are the most significant part of the story.


The Not so good bit about Never let me go
for me absolutely nothing was bad in this book.

Final Verdict of Never let me go
Never let me go keeps us never let it go.  A must read for all book lovers and those who take quick decision in their love life without thinking. For me, Never Let it go is the best book of Sachin. The way he shared the story, his pain and especially about Goa is fantastic. He makes us to smell Goa with his words.

Key to success..!!!

                     Perfumes

“A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ”

It is true and you can admit it without the guilt...!!! You've it everywhere with you and you love it the most your first priority over lipsticks and you never imagine yourself separating from it and the key to your success....!!

4 Best perfumes are : Yardley- morning dew, Hey you- beautiful, French factor's- flower, Cupid's- aqua wave.

 I love perfumes and specially the process of hunting the most aromatic ingredient until I find something unique....!!!!

Yoga for fitness

 

 Let's nurture our body & mind with the practice of yoga

Yoga is a systematic practice of physical exercise, breath control, relaxation, diet control, and positive thinking and meditation aimed at developing harmony in the body, mind, and environment. 

The practice entails low-impact physical activity, postures (called asanas), breathing techniques (pranayama), relaxation, and meditation. Most people are familiar with the physical poses or yoga positions but don't know that yoga involves so much more.

In the West, several schools of yoga are popular and use some or all limbs of Asthanga-yoga described by Patanjali. The eight limbs are as follows:

• Yama: rules for successful living in society
• Niyama: techniques for managing and purifying self
• Asaana: posture techniques for physical and mental balance (what most people think of as yoga)
• Pranayama: breathing techniques for physical and mental balance
• Pratihara: techniques for detaching the mind from the senses for mental balance and calm
• Dharana: concentration techniques for mental balance and calm
• Dhyana: meditation techniques for mental balance and calm
• Samadhi: ultimate advanced meditation techniques and psychic procedures attained after regular practice for universal consciousness.

                                         Benefits of yoga

• Bring about better sleep and balance hormones
• Boost metabolism
• You will be toned up
• Reduce the need for caffeine
• Make your body energized
• Improve flexibility
• Drain your lymphs and boost immunity
• Improve heart rate

The Monk ( who inspires me & many of us).

     Life's Amazing secrets.....!                         

Being always trying to become a better person and living a fulfilling life, I get my inspiration in books about self development. Then I thought to read the “Life’s Amazing Secrets” by Gaur Gopal Das.

This book led me to many life changing insights, living a more balanced life by developing self-discovery, spirituality and learn how to deal with forgiveness and selflessness.

This book is simply and slowly make us realize what all wrong we are doing in life, how wrong we are living our relationships. And, then tell us the best way to over come it. The book explains us the four wheels of life, where we have to control the steering wheel. 

The best part I found was the two worksheets given at the end of the book i.e. One us forgiveness worksheet, which helps you to forgive the people and second is Ikigai, this is basically a Japanese word which means 'reason to live' and is best explained in the book. With every chapter comes a tagline which give you insights about the content following and a beautiful quote. I want to include two lines i really loved from the book as follows:

1)People don't care what you know, unless they know what you care.

2) we don't see things as they are we see things as we are.
Not just these two lines but on every page of this treasure writer put forth the amazing lessons, stories and secrets which is tremendous.

Bake Without Oven

Ingredients

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1st mixture

• 1 cup all purpose flour (maida) or 125 grams maida
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• ½ cup sugar or 100 grams sugar

2nd mixture

• ¼ cup cocoa powder or 20 grams cocoa powder
• ¼ cup unsalted butter or 30 grams butter, if using salted butter then skip adding salt
• ¼ cup oil
• ½ cup water

3rd mixture

• ¼ cup curd (yogurt or dahi)
• ¼ cup water
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
• ½ teaspoon baking soda

icing for cake

• ¼ cup cocoa powder or 20 grams cocoa powder
• ¼ cup butter or 30 grams butter, salted or unsalted
• 10 tablespoons brown sugar - regular sugar can also be used
• ¼ cup milk you can also use cream
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or ½ teaspoon vanilla essence

Instructions

• Grease a baking pan or baking bowl with butter.

first mixture

• In a bowl, take the flour, salt and sugar.
• Mix everything very well with a spoon or wired whisk.

second mixture

• Then in a pan, take butter, oil, cocoa and water.
• Keep the pan on a low flame and with a wired whisk, continuously stir so that all the cocoa powder dissolves and the mixture becomes uniform. There should be no lumps.
• Bring just to a boil over medium heat, stirring continuously with the whisk.
• As soon as the chocolate mixture comes to a boil, immediately pour it into the flour mixture.
• Just light mix. If you don't mix then also its fine.
• In a 5 or 6 litre pressure cooker, spread 1 cup salt evenly. Place the cooker on a low flame.

third mixture

• In another bowl, take curd, water, vinegar and vanilla extract.  mix very well.
• Lastly add baking soda.
• Mix very well. This mixture will begin to froth.
• Immediately add this mixture to the flour+chocolate mixture.

mixing and making cake without oven

• With a wired whisk mix very well. However do not over do the mixing.
• Pour into the greased baking tin. gently shake the pan.
• Place a rack or stand on the salt layer. place the cake pan on the stand.
• Cover with a lid. The rubber gasket and the whistle should be removed.
• Bake cake for 40 to 45 minutes on a low flame. If baking in an oven, then bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees f (approx 177 degrees c) for 35 to 40 minutes.
• Check with a tooth pick to see if the cake is done or not. The tooth pick should come out clean.
• Remove the cake pan carefully from the pressure cooker. While the cake is still hot poke a lot of holes in it using a fork or a toothpick or a wooden skewer. Make a lot of holes as this is where the icing seeps into and they cannot be seen once the icing has been cooled.

to make the chocolate icing for cake

• In a saucepan, take butter, vanilla extract,brown sugar, milk and cocoa powder.
• Keep the pan on a low flame and with a wired whisk stir very well. The sugar should melt and the cocoa powder should dissolve. Keep on stirring continuously to get an even mixture.
• Bring this mixture to a boil.
• Once this icing mixture comes to a boil, then immediately pour it all over the cake. You don't need to spread it as the icing seeps down inside the cake.
• This cake tastes good warm also, but you cannot slice them and you can just have them directly from the pan. 
• You can also cool the cake in the fridge and then have it. Cover the pan with a lid or foil when keeping in the fridge also you can decorate with toffees and chocolate syrup.
• Slice and then serve the cake as a dessert.

Covid-19 Turned us into a Chef. "The Chef"

Hello,

I know food and foodie's are around the globe. Here the journey begins of every "New Chef".


But, none of us ever thought that we could be a good chef too, unless we've tasted our food.

Yeah, Yeah In the beginning we all gonna turn our kitchens into a big messy thing and we think of  like dam!! it gonna take couple of days to clean it.

This thing pops-up into every lazy person like me & then suddenly your brain alerts you dude your mom gonna kill you.

Then guess what? It took only 10 minutes to clean the mess, where in the beginning we were thinking  of it takes couple of days. 

Cooking and understanding the tools used in kitchen which are measuring cups, tea-spoon, table-spoon plays vital role.

Being Foodie is every easiest thing & now cooking too due to quarantine.