Cabbage chutney(side dish)

CABBAGE CHUTNEY

Its a side dish served with chapati, rotti(bakhri) and  rice.It includes very simple ingredients and it takes very less time to prepare.

Ingredients

cabbage-1/4 of a whole cabbage or less also

1 tomato(ripe or unripe) doesn't matters

Green chillie 4-5

garlic 2 cloves(optional)

jeera 1tsp

salt 2tsp

Roasted groundnut powder 2 tbs

Putani pudi 1 tbs

oil for seasoning

Hing a pinch

curry leaves

Directions

In a kadai, add 2 tsp of oil.

Add chopped cabbage, tomato, green chillie, curryleaves and garlic.

Shallow fry for about 5-10 mins.

While you are about to turn off the stove then add jeera, salt and hing.Give it a good stir.

Let it cool for few mins.

Transfer into mixer jar or blender.

Add shenga pudi, putani pudi and if required some salt also.Grind it.

Transfer chutney into serving bowl with a seasoning and serve with coriander leaves.

MUDDIPALYA

MUDDIPALYA

Its our traditional side dish and its pretty famous in our Northkarnataka and its a Brahmins version of muddipalya..usually people call this as daal but we call this as Muddipalya.It is served with plain rice, rotti or bakhri.

Ingredients

1bunch of fenugreek leaves

4-5 green chillie

1/2 cup tamarind juice-

1 tsp turmeric  powder

1 cup cooked toor dal or togari bele

salt

seasoning

oil

mustard seeds

jeera

urad ki dal(uddin bele)

Channa dal(kadle bele)

asafoetida or hing

curry leaves

red chilie

Directions

In a kadai, start with a seasoning.Then add split green chillies..let it cook for few mins..

Now add chopped fenugreek leaves and cover the lid.Let it cook for few mins.

Now add tamarind juice and let it come to boil.

In the mean time get ready with your daal by slightly smashing.

Now add daal and give it a good stir.

At this point add turmeric powder and salt.Add about half cup of water and let it cook for 5-10 mins.

Serve with coriander leaves.

This recipe serves 4 people.

 

 

 

DIY SLIPPERS

Turn your waste teddy into slippers

Ingredients

Teddy's fur

Waste paper

Pencil

Thin and thick cardboard

Hot glue gun(optional)

Glue

Thread and Needle

Directions

 Take any kind of waste paper and mark your feet with pencil and cut it.

 Similarly cut your thin and thick cardboard and fur into your feet size .

 Place thin layer of cardboard on fur.

 Glue with a hot glue gun or else if you are comfortable with stitching you can directly go for stitching.

 Here I have taken white fur from teddy..it was on Teddy's leg..it was already in round shape, i have just trimmed it.

 Fold it as shown in the image and glue with hot glue gun.

 Place it as shown in the image.

 Glue the edges with hot glue gun or you can stitch also.

 Stitch the edges with thread and needle.

 Take thick piece of cardboard.

 Glue it

 Paste it and let it dry for few mins and cut the extra edges.

Here you go...Slippers are ready..

BLUEBERRY LEMONADE

Blueberry Lemonade

Here I have taken riped blueberries so that I can feel the taste of blueberries.I recommend you people to try this, it tastes very well..you can easily offer this drink to your guests. 

Ingredients

1cup blueberries

1 cup sugar

1 1/2 cup water

1 lemon

Directions

In a heating sauce pan, place water sugar and blueberries.

Let it come to boil for 15 to 20 mins and then let it simmer for about 5 mins in a low temp heat.

By that time smash the blueberries with spatula or with any kind of smasher..

Let it cool for few mins and strain with a strainer.

Lastly add lemon juice to the mixture.

You can adjust sugar and lemon according to your taste.

Serve with ice cubes...

Rubber Duckie

Bathroom Decorative Ideas

Rubber Duckie paint

Ingredients

white paper

color sketch pens

black marker

scissor

gum tape

Directions

Firstly draw a duck on your plain paper along with water.

Now paint the duckie with yellow and orange sketch pens.

Draw eye with black marker and color the water with sky blue and dark blue sketch pens.

Cut out the duckie from your paper and outline with black marker pen.

Now draw some circles on your plain paper and color with blue sketch pen leaving some space inside the circle here and there so that it looks like a bubble.

Cut the bubbles.
Now paste your duckie on your desired wall in bathroom with double sided gum tape or with common gum tape.
Paste the bubbles seperately.

Decorative pillow

Decorative pillow(no sew)

Ingredients

Any fabric

Fur

Hot glue gun

candle

match stick

Directions

Cut your fabric into two round shape in your desired size.

keep your main fabric inside and glue the edges, leaving one side for about 2-3 inches.

Now take your fabric outside with the help of that left over edge.

Now fill your fur inside your pillow until it becomes sponzy.

Now close that edge with hot glue gun and your pillow is ready.

Now will make some flowers.

Take any kind of paper and cut into three different round shapes, bigger to smaller.

Cut your fabric in those shapes and keep it aside.

Now take one round shaped fabric and fold into two to three times.

Burn the edges with a candle flame, repeate the same steps for other fabric petals also.

Now glue the petals

Agasi pudi(flax seed powder)

Flax seed is generally known as Linseed and ALSI -- there are regional names for this as well. General grocery stores where you get your dals will carry this or you could ask them where to get it.. 
Flaxseeds is known as San, Alsi in Hindi, Agasi in Kannada, Ali Vidai/Ali Virai in Tamil, Atasi and Jawas in Marathi, Tishi in Bengali, Pesi in Oriya, , Avise Ginzalu in Telugu, and Cheruchana vithu in Malayalam.
        In our North Karnataka, we make agasi pudi just like other pudis(chatni pudi,putani pudi,gurellu pudi) and it is usually served with jawar rotti or bakhri and with rice also.

Ingridients

1cup agasi
5-6 cloves garlic
2 tbs jeera
1 tsp salt
4-5 tbs red chillie powder

Directions

If u are frying on tava then first fry agasi and then jeera and garlic.let it cool for few mins.
In a mixer grinder put agasi,jeera,garlic,salt and red chillie powder and make into fine powder.

In oven

spread your flax seeds, jeera and garlic cloves and let it sit in oven at 350 deg for about 20-25 mins and let it cool and in a mixer grinder put agasi,jeera,garlic,salt and red chillie powder and make into fine powder.

Eggless red velvet cake

                                         EGGLESS RED VELVET CAKE

Hi everyone..this is the best cake i ever had..its so moist and tasty so i wanted to share this recipe so that you people can also give a try.

Ingredients

11/2 cup all purpose flour or maida
2 tbs of cocoa powder
1tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp powder
1 tbs vinegar
11/2 milk
1tsp vanilla extract
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup vegetable oil or any oil
1/2 stick or 5 tbs butter
a pinch of salt
red food color

Icing

1 can heavy whip cream
1/2 cup confection sugar

Directions

First mix all your dry ingredients ie all purpose flour,cocoa powder,baking soda,baking powder and salt.mix well.
Now mix your wet ingredients ie sugar,butter,vanilla extract,oil,vinegar milk and red color.
now mix your all dry ingredients into wet ingredients,pour into your greased baking tin and bake it for about 35 to 40 mins.
let it cool for few mins.

Icing Directions

Blend heavy whip cream using electric mixer for few mins about 5 mins till it thickens and then mix your sugar n again blend it till you get your right icing consistency.