I am in the dilemma of decidng to forgive or not to forgive and what does the word “frogive” mean atcually? Dictory would say “Stop blaming or grant forgiveness”

Whereas the recent article ( 

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/forgiveness/MH00131

) that i read says forgiving is not forgetting. And I agree on that 100%

I really liked this article and thought of …

Ingredients:-

Rice

Mushrooms

Corn kernels

Onion

Bell pepper - preferably mix of yellow,red and green

Salt/pepper/Cumin seeds

Oil

Water

Procedure:-

Wash rice and keep aside. Cut up mushrroms, onions and bell peppers in small pieces.

In a pan heat up some oil, add cumin seeds and then onions. Once the onions are translucent, add bell peppers and mushrooms. Saute till the water from mushrooms is evaporated and bell peppers are cooked …

Even as an insatiable language enthusiast who revels in the nuances of words, for most of my life, I had used the words choice and decision interchangeably. “Come on, hurry up and decide!” or, “Come on, hurry up and make a choice!” sound quite the same to most ears and minds, don’t they?

In the summer of 2005, at the urging …

When my older son was two, we got a ‘o-your-son-is-so-cute’ from the next table. But the lady, with long, curly, untamed dirty golden tresses and a long skirt followed it up by ‘Do you know what he was in his last life?’ I was clueless and smiled my very-neutral-dont-talk-to-me-anymore smile at her. But she went on ‘Keep watching. He will …

Taking care of my first boy introduced me to baby wipes. Soon I started carrying a packet in my purse (just take some out of the bulk packet and put it in a ziploc to save space). It became a bag staple as my son graduated to being a toddler and preschooler. It works on so many things -

Cleaning grubby …

Mom and I love to read about animals, their shelters and their young ones. But isn’t it boring to say what everyone else also says. So I have my developed my very own version of animals, their shelter and their young ones by adding bit of fun to the existing words. …

Exactly three years ago, in late June 2006, my childhood best friend Amrita came to visit me in Seattle from New Delhi. It was her first visit to the United States, and we had talked about it for years and years, ever since the inseparable two were separated with my move to America in 1997, …

I have been enjoying lying down and nursing the baby even during the day. This has started after my computer has collapsed again, and I can no longer use the ‘My Brest Friend’ nursing pillow which hitherto held baby like a horizontal smock belt around my bust. It gives me a few moments of rest (though way less time to …

posto chichinga ( long gourd with poppy seeds)
 
peel the skin of chichinga, cut the chichinga into small pieces, then in a wok, put oil , add dry red chillie, 1 onion cut into little pieces, stir, after that put the chichingas and put salt and turmeric ,   cook in low  flame covering the wok, once it is cooked , add …

Every evening I make tea and we seat around the table. While I & hubby are enjoying tea Aarohi my daughter enjoys her sippy with glucose biscuit. On last Sunday hubby went for groceries while Aarohi and I were enjoying a Sunday nap. After getting up she started asking where is “Baba”. I told her that he will be back …

Ahem. So I am having a thorough home inspection. The baby is crawling, which means that I spent a significant portion of my day crawling after him picking up tufts of dirt, dead bugs and all kinds of choking and health hazard that seem to astonishingly appear in front of him. With his brother, since there were just my husband …

My friend Naveena taught me this last year and it worked very well. Take the cake or ice cream cake, frosting included, slice it and wrap each slice in clingwrap. Or you can put each slice on a paper plate and cling wrap the whole thing. Freeze.

Then defrost whenever you need a sweet snack - its even good slightly thawed. …

Mixed Veggie Thepla with Daal

Mixed Veggies Thepla:-

Use any veggies combination like methi/spinach/carrots with mint/potato. Grate this vegetable along with ginger and garlic. Mix turmeric,salt to the grated vegetable. Mix in whole wheat flour (alternatively you can make with raagi flour or mixture of raagi and wheat flour). Make a firm dough. Then roll out rotis of this mxture and roast …

It’s the typical Monday morning and the alarm rings at 5.00 a.m. for me. Yesterday night as well my baby couldn’t sleep through out the night. But yesterday she had the valid excuse- teething (i’m hoping so…) Whenever she doesn’t sleep throughout the night I always blame it on either teething or night mare or good old separation anxiety…

But i …

To quickly clean and freshen your microwave, take about 2 tbs if lemon juice in water a bowl or even a slice of lemon and run the microwave for 45 s to a min (you will know the right time by experimentation). The fumes soften the greasy bits stuck here and there for easy wipe off and the lemon will freshen the smell. …

Before the days of the cable and internet came, entertainment was more or less limited to T.V.  In my childhood days, one of the serials I loved watching, (it used to be aired on Sunday evenings) was Vikram aur Betaal. It was both entertaining as well as educative. Didi and I would …

After 4 years of performing (music, theater) in various productions for the cause of Chaya, a Seattle-based community organization working with South Asian women and their families to provide culture-specific assistance in cases of domestic violence, I attended their annual fundraiser this May. I was further moved and inspired to join their large (100+) local volunteer force, who may assist in …

As a stay at home mom juggling kids and finances, I dont get very much time to treat myself to something which takes a long time or more money. So I decided to go in for ’small treats’ and its working for me - I do small things in the house or outside to pamper myself just a little bit. …

A delicious sweet,, easy to make!

Ingredients:
3 cups plain flour (maida)
3/4 cup ghee, melted & cool
Curds 1/2 cup
1/4 tsp. soda bicarb
1/4 tsp. fine cardamom powder
ghee to deep fry

Syrup:
1-1/2 cups sugar
3/4 cup water
5-6 drops lemon juice

Sieve together flour, and soda. Add cardamom powder.

Rub in ghee thoroughly.

Add curds and mix in one direction only….

One way - Give your spice rack a cool lift by using the transparent, air tight and pretty once you take off the label jars for colorful spices.

Another - Store colorful sewing supplies like buttons, needles etc.

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