For beautiful silky hair

Every one has a bad hair day especially during winter. Hair tends to get dry ... So here are few easy tips to make your hair soft and silky..

Kobbari vundalu

Kobbari vundalu or coconut laddus were one of my favorites. I still remember my dad used to prepare these easy to make laddus when we were kids. So this time when I went home . I experimented and made lots of stuff. I baked a cake, made pizzas ,made rava laddus and then I tried making kobbari laddus. Hope you will like it as much as I loved it .. Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

1 cup - fresh grated Coconut

1 cup - grated Jaggery (Grate the jaggery into small pieces)

3 spoons - ghee

4- Elaichi
Preparation:

Fry coconut to medium brown with a spoonful of ghee.

Heat grated jaggery with a spoonful of water in a heavy bottom vessel on medium heat.

When jagger starts melting,add coconut to the jaggery syrup

let coconut cook well in the jaggery syrup. Stir continuously.

Cook until the mixture comes close/thick.

Add Elaichi powder

Harem it is...

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As fashion gurus says never follow trends blindly but make it personalized. Dress up in such way where it reflects your personality.

Lets tie scarf

So finally winter is here . Yes yes !!! The much awaited winter especially when you are living in a winter forbidden place called Chennai. There are few things which we can never wear like boots, cardigans , scarfs because of its weather. But when winter comes for a brief moment we wont miss flaunting those scarfs , stole's and duppatha's which we haven't touched for a long time. So gals here are few ideas to use those expensive assets and showing off your girlie side.

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1.Every morning 'brush your lips ' with a soft baby toothbrush and then apply some lip balm to your lips.

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My Rava ladoos

My sister was having sweets festival at her work place. I really motivated me to make something which I always loved. Rava Ladoo is Andhra's famous delicacies. This is my first attempt. I like my ladoos little soft so I have added little extra milk .

Happy Diwali

Ingredients:

1 cup - rava / semolina
1 cup - sugar
4 table spoons - ghee
1 cup - grated fresh coconut
25 ml - milk
10 whole nuts - cashew nuts

10- Badam
10 - raisins
a pinch - cardamom powder

How to prepare

Heat 2 tsp of ghee in a pan.

Once the ghee is hot enough, simmer the flame and roast cashew nuts and raisins.

Once the raisins balloon up, remove. Then roast the grated coconut.

Remove once done. Keep all these aside.

Add the remaining ghee and roast the Rava till its well roasted and aroma starts coming out.

In a bowl, take all the roasted Rava, Nuts, Coconut and add the Cardamom powder. Then add the sugar. Mix well.

Then slowly add the warm milk into the bowl. Check if you are able to gather as balls.

When you find that milk added is enough to get you laddoos, transfer it back to the kadai and cook in sim for 2 mins.

Mix well and then cover it and let it rest for 2 mins.

Then immediately make balls or laddoos.

Mom says I need a break

Recently I was on the phone with MOM . Usual daily chat... We are talking as usual for a long time then my Mom said that I never heard her saying ....... "she needed a BREAK".

All my life I have taken break almost every year sometimes even after 6 months once. I heard it from my sisters, my brother and even my Dad sometimes. But this is the First time she said something like this. And I was actually surprised to hear it.

My mom was the only daughter in her family she was pampered and was treated as a princess. But life took a unexpected turn when her father passed away.With in an year when she was 21 she got married and with in 17 days of her marriage her mom passed away and by the end of her first year of her marriage she even gave birth to her first born.. Life had been quite busy for her giving birth to 4 kids and working in a government sector no not as a teacher but in an office in a responsible position where they hardly have any leaves except for 12 public holidays . She was always busy juggling between work and family. She was successful in maintaining a perfect balance.

She was always there with her remedies even for our small fights at school to our difficult problems at work. When ever there is or was a problem we always turn to her.Sometimes it would from 1 of us and sometimes all five of us have problems at the same time and she being a perfect mom and wife would give solution or give us a shoulder to cry, or kneel before God crying and pleading for us. I sometime wonder how does she take so much pain . where does she get all that strength to carry on. And never get tried . May be thats why they call Mother is another form of God like the saying "God could not be everywhere and therefore He made Mom's is so true.When I heard her saying that she wanted a break I decided to give her the much needed break she deserves. So I asked her to come and stay with us at Chennai for a week.

As planned she came along with her came my Dad and brother . So I had little extra work to do. But it was ok. After all these years of toil I planned to give her a perfect break. First day was ok. but from second day my mom slowly started helping me. Initially it was cutting vegetables. And on the third day she started cooking, now cleaning vessels.Still I tried keeping her away from work and Just then I thought I have completed all household work like cleaning and cooking and sit down to relax I ll find my mom doing some new chores . Oh God!!! She is restless I thought.. But later did I realize that MOM's are so used to taking care of us that even when their body gives up, still there heart wants to do something or the other for her loved ones. Oh Mom!!! I love you for what you are and I hope in future your daughters will also be as loving mothers as you are..

XOXOXO......