We all know that today is shivratri. Most of you have kept fast today. So Here i am giving you some special reciepies for you for your fast: List of Shivratri Recipes: Lauki ka halwa Thandai Cashew Nut Barfi (Kaju Katli) Saboodana Kheer Potato Pumpkin Pancakes Shivratri Raita Aloo Khichdi Aloo Tikki Green Gram Fry [...]
Ingredients(makes 8 glasses): 1 cup: Milk 1½ cups: Sugar 1/4 cup: Dried or fresh Rose petals (gulkand variety) 1½ litres: Water 1 tbsp: Almonds 1 tbsp: Kharbooj/Tarbooj seeds skinned (commercially available) (these are skinned dried seeds of watermelon and cantaloupes) 1 tsp: Peppercorns (whole) ½ tbsp: Khuskhus (poppy seeds) ½ tbsp: Saunf (aniseed) ½ tsp: [...]
Ingredients: 1/2 lit.-milk(fatty) 1/2 peeled -lauki 3/4cup-sugar 100 gms.-khoya 1 tsp.-elaichi powder 1 tbsp.-dry fruits(almonds,raisins,cahwes) Method: Peel lauki & grate it with a grater. Boil lauki in a pan in a very small quantity of water(1/2 cup), when it gets boiled drain whole water so that only soft boiled lauki is left. Put milk in [...]
Festival of Mahashivaratri is the most important festival for the millions of devotees of Lord Shiva. The festival has been accorded lot of significance in Hindu mythology. It says that a devotee who performs sincere worship of Lord Shiva on the auspicious day of Shivratri is absolved of sins and attains moksha. Significance of Shivaratri [...]
All materialistic cultures are founded on the human craving for more. The bottom line is: Never be satisfied with what you have, always wish for more. Materialism and consumerism assume that fulfilling desires and the enjoyment of pleasures are all that is required to make us happy and contented. In India, Charvakas are the ones [...]
The older we get, the larger our memory banks become. Our memories, like everything else in life, are a medley of the good and bad, the positive and negative. Memory is more than just a receptacle of past experiences. We can review the contents of our memory bank and either energise ourselves and live a [...]