At times kids just want to play indoors and have a party with their friends; at least mine do a lot! So, why not make it their day, let’s arrange a party for them, quickly.
Here is a menu option:Orange Juice Drink, Cheese Pizza, Monaco Toppings, Chocolate Cake
Preparation time: 30-40minutes (Depending on your speed)
Things you need:Orange squash
Cheese Slice
Mini Pizza Base
Tomato Ketchup
Monaco Biscuit
Ripe Tomatoes
Parle-G or Tiger Biscuit – 32 pieces
Coco Powder
Eno Salt
Milk
Sugar
Thick chocolate syrup (optional)
Cadbury’s Gems (optional)
Oh yes, a microwave oven too
Take Parle-G biscuits, ¾ cup sugar, two tea spoon coco powder and one tea spoon Eno salt in a blender and blend it. Add one and quarter cup of milk to it and mix again. Pour this mixture in a microwave oven safe bowl (a plastic one will do well) and microwave it for seven minutes. Your cake is ready. Take it out of the oven and let it cool down.
If you have a thick chocolate syrup (Mapro is good, as it is thicker than Hershey’s) then spread it over the cooled cake. Place a few gems making some figure that the kids love, like a smiley face.
Chop the tomatoes into small squares (one will do if the size is big). Marinate it with a little Chat Masala. Take one cheese slice and cut it into 20 square pieces. Place one slice on the Monaco biscuit, top it with a piece of tomato. Good if you have some coriander leaves so that it can be placed over the tomato to make a topping more beautiful, tasty and also healthy.
Serve these toppings as soon as you make them so that they do not get soggy.
Place a no-stick tawa for heating. On it place three or four pizza base with the top side of pizza (with butter already applied on it) facing the heat. Heat it in medium heat for approximately 90 seconds. Remove them. Heat the remaining pizza base in similar manner. Take a cheese slice and make 15-17 pieces of it. On the preheated side of the pizza base, spread tomato ketchup liberally. Now place five pieces of the cheese slice on it. Apply some butter on the tawa, place this pizza base on it and heat it on low flame for around two minutes. Place only three bases at a time and keep checking that the base is not being over cooked. You can cover it for faster cooking.
Sprinkle some oregano powder over it else a bit of black pepper powder also tastes good. Cut these mini cheese pizzas into four and serve hot or cold.
I need not mention the recipe of orange squash, as you can get ti on the label of the bottle.
So, now call the kids to the table, serve them the squash and Monaco toppings. Bring on the pizza and while they are praising you for the lovely treat, bring the chocolate cake on the table, yuppie!!!!! They are going to love you, Mom!!!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Please Ensure that You are NOT Suffering From CANCER
Dear friends, today I have come with a very important topic… Breast and Cervical Cancer.
The word cancer has always sounded deadly and I fear it as I have seen people so loving and dear dying of it. Anyone can get cancer but today we are going to talk about INDIA’S COMMONEST CANCER-CERVICAL CANCER and SECOND MOST COMMON IN WOMEN-BREAST CANCER.
Ever thought that you mother, sister, daughter, friend or you yourself might be having cancer? I am sure you don’t want to see them suffer or lose them. So please spread the awareness. Read about it, go for tests and take the women folk in your family and your friends for screening. I am furnishing some data that I searched from net, please go through it.
CERVICAL CANCER
Not many know that India, with a population of 365.71 million has women aged between 15 years and above who stand at the risk of developing cervical cancer. A World Health Organisation study reveals that every year 1,32,082 women are diagnosed with this particular kind of cancer and 74,118 die from the disease. The growing risk of cervical cancer in women in India (aged 0-64 years) is 2.4% compared to 1.3% for the world.
But, If detected at a pre-cancerous stage (when the cells are not normal, but are not yet cancerous), this cancer is 100 per cent curable. Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women 20 to 29 years old. And this can be contracted by women at any age.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/All-about-Indias-commonest-cancer-Cervical-Cancer/articleshow/3399745.cms#ixzz10DNQONMF
Cervical cancer, in women, is the second most common cancer worldwide, next only to breast cancer. In India, cervical cancer is the most common woman-related cancer, followed by breast cancer.
Every year cervical cancer is diagnosed in about 500,000 women globally and is responsible for more than 280,000 deaths annually. There is a wide variation in the incidence of cervical cancer across the globe. In the west, early detection through regular screening has aided to significantly control the prevalence of this disease, thereby, lowering its incidence. In the last 50 years in the United States, the Pap smear test has reduced the deaths related to cervical cancer by three-quarters. At one time cervical cancer was one of the most dreaded cancer and the leading causes of of death in women in the US but now it is the eighth most common cancer there. 80% of the new cervical cancer cases occur in developing countries, like India, which reports approximately one fourth of the world's cases of cervical cancer each year.
Read more: http://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/cervicalcancer-incidence.htm#ixzz10DWgnkpC
The most common cancer, in women, worldwide-BREAST CANCER
Right now breast cancer is second to cervical cancer in India, but by the year 2020 it will become the most common cancer in women here too.
The rise in breast cancer cases is being documented mainly in the metros, but it can be safely said that many cases in rural areas go unnoticed. It is reported that one in 22 women in India is likely to suffer from breast cancer during her lifetime, while the figure is definitely more in America with one in eight being a victim of this deadly cancer.
The problem with breast cancer is that it has no peculiar cause and a lump in breast, which is one of the major indications of this cancer, can be felt at times when your cancer is already six or ten years old. The best way is to get breast examination done by a breast specialist and go in for procedures like mammography in every two years by your doctor’s advice. Also Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) and biopsy are two ways of testing.
For more information on breast cancer go through the following link:
Read more at: http://doctor.ndtv.com/storypage/ndtv/id/003617/type/feature/Breast_Cancer_in_India.html?cp
For all this it is a must to visit a breast specialist or a reputed cancer hospital nearby. So PLEASE make an appointment today itself, for your happy future and for the happiness of the ones who love you!
The word cancer has always sounded deadly and I fear it as I have seen people so loving and dear dying of it. Anyone can get cancer but today we are going to talk about INDIA’S COMMONEST CANCER-CERVICAL CANCER and SECOND MOST COMMON IN WOMEN-BREAST CANCER.
Ever thought that you mother, sister, daughter, friend or you yourself might be having cancer? I am sure you don’t want to see them suffer or lose them. So please spread the awareness. Read about it, go for tests and take the women folk in your family and your friends for screening. I am furnishing some data that I searched from net, please go through it.
CERVICAL CANCER
Not many know that India, with a population of 365.71 million has women aged between 15 years and above who stand at the risk of developing cervical cancer. A World Health Organisation study reveals that every year 1,32,082 women are diagnosed with this particular kind of cancer and 74,118 die from the disease. The growing risk of cervical cancer in women in India (aged 0-64 years) is 2.4% compared to 1.3% for the world.
But, If detected at a pre-cancerous stage (when the cells are not normal, but are not yet cancerous), this cancer is 100 per cent curable. Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women 20 to 29 years old. And this can be contracted by women at any age.
Read more: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/All-about-Indias-commonest-cancer-Cervical-Cancer/articleshow/3399745.cms#ixzz10DNQONMF
Cervical cancer, in women, is the second most common cancer worldwide, next only to breast cancer. In India, cervical cancer is the most common woman-related cancer, followed by breast cancer.
Every year cervical cancer is diagnosed in about 500,000 women globally and is responsible for more than 280,000 deaths annually. There is a wide variation in the incidence of cervical cancer across the globe. In the west, early detection through regular screening has aided to significantly control the prevalence of this disease, thereby, lowering its incidence. In the last 50 years in the United States, the Pap smear test has reduced the deaths related to cervical cancer by three-quarters. At one time cervical cancer was one of the most dreaded cancer and the leading causes of of death in women in the US but now it is the eighth most common cancer there. 80% of the new cervical cancer cases occur in developing countries, like India, which reports approximately one fourth of the world's cases of cervical cancer each year.
Read more: http://www.medindia.net/patients/patientinfo/cervicalcancer-incidence.htm#ixzz10DWgnkpC
The most common cancer, in women, worldwide-BREAST CANCER
Right now breast cancer is second to cervical cancer in India, but by the year 2020 it will become the most common cancer in women here too.
The rise in breast cancer cases is being documented mainly in the metros, but it can be safely said that many cases in rural areas go unnoticed. It is reported that one in 22 women in India is likely to suffer from breast cancer during her lifetime, while the figure is definitely more in America with one in eight being a victim of this deadly cancer.
The problem with breast cancer is that it has no peculiar cause and a lump in breast, which is one of the major indications of this cancer, can be felt at times when your cancer is already six or ten years old. The best way is to get breast examination done by a breast specialist and go in for procedures like mammography in every two years by your doctor’s advice. Also Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology (FNAC) and biopsy are two ways of testing.
For more information on breast cancer go through the following link:
Read more at: http://doctor.ndtv.com/storypage/ndtv/id/003617/type/feature/Breast_Cancer_in_India.html?cp
For all this it is a must to visit a breast specialist or a reputed cancer hospital nearby. So PLEASE make an appointment today itself, for your happy future and for the happiness of the ones who love you!
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Launki Paratha
On seeing bottle guard, my elder daughter always says, "I hate launki, if u want to make me eat it, just put it in khichdi, where I will not get its taste!"
Well we cannot make khichdi everyday and launki is said to be one of the most nutritious vegetable. So I keep on experimenting. Then one day I came up with the idea of grating it and mixing it with the wheat flour to make paratha. I added a few more things to make it healthier and tastier. Hence, the launki parathas. My husband and daughters loved them; they are tasty, healthy and low in calories. Hope your family enjoys it too...
Ingredients
Wheat flour-2 cups
Gram flour-1/2 cup
or
Bajra flour-1/2 cup
Grated bottle guard-1 cup (retain the water)
Green coriander finely chopped- 1/2 cup
Mint leaves finely chopped- 1/4 cup (optional)
Garlic cloves- 9
Green chilli- 1
Cumin powder- 1 tsp
Red chilli powder- 1/2 to 1 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1tsp
Oil or Ghee for Parathas
Method
Make a paste of garlic and green chillies. Add all the ingredients, add water if required and make a little tight dough. Now make small balls and roll them round chapati style. There is no need to put any oil in the balls. Just roast them on the pan using minimum oil or ghee. Serve them hot with curd and chatni or achaar.
These taste good even when cold so you can keep them in lunch box for kids by applying some tomato ketchup on one side of the paratha and rolling it and for adults, along with some chatni and bhaji or curd.
Well we cannot make khichdi everyday and launki is said to be one of the most nutritious vegetable. So I keep on experimenting. Then one day I came up with the idea of grating it and mixing it with the wheat flour to make paratha. I added a few more things to make it healthier and tastier. Hence, the launki parathas. My husband and daughters loved them; they are tasty, healthy and low in calories. Hope your family enjoys it too...
Ingredients
Wheat flour-2 cups
Gram flour-1/2 cup
or
Bajra flour-1/2 cup
Grated bottle guard-1 cup (retain the water)
Green coriander finely chopped- 1/2 cup
Mint leaves finely chopped- 1/4 cup (optional)
Garlic cloves- 9
Green chilli- 1
Cumin powder- 1 tsp
Red chilli powder- 1/2 to 1 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1tsp
Oil or Ghee for Parathas
Method
Make a paste of garlic and green chillies. Add all the ingredients, add water if required and make a little tight dough. Now make small balls and roll them round chapati style. There is no need to put any oil in the balls. Just roast them on the pan using minimum oil or ghee. Serve them hot with curd and chatni or achaar.
These taste good even when cold so you can keep them in lunch box for kids by applying some tomato ketchup on one side of the paratha and rolling it and for adults, along with some chatni and bhaji or curd.
Friday, September 10, 2010
I feel all moms become Tarla Dalal... Experimental cooking!
Nutrients! Nutrients! Nutrients!
All the time while cooking for our kids, we try to make food as healthy and full of nutrients as possible and finally when we serve it to them.... they make a big face! And we mom either make a small face (if they are the ideal, patient mom) or we scold them, eat this or you get nothing!
As the child grows up, this gradually becomes a daily pattern and in order to get our way with them the only option that remains is to cook a nutritious meal the style they love to eat. This way kids make us innovative cooks-we become Tarla Dalal in our own way :)
Like other mothers I too have been doing innovative cooking for a while. So, along with the various experiences of motherhood, I will be sharing my recipes with you and would like your comments on them, plus I would love it if you too share your recipes. This way we will be able to cook better and help our kids grow up better. A lot of recipes might be similar, but it doesn't imply that we are copy-pasting them, after all many minds may think the same way when they are thinking in the same line :)
One more thing, all the recipes should be pure vegetarian, milk and milk products can be used.
In my next post I will share my latest recipe Launki ke Parathe or Bottleguard Thepla (again my own names for it).
All the time while cooking for our kids, we try to make food as healthy and full of nutrients as possible and finally when we serve it to them.... they make a big face! And we mom either make a small face (if they are the ideal, patient mom) or we scold them, eat this or you get nothing!
As the child grows up, this gradually becomes a daily pattern and in order to get our way with them the only option that remains is to cook a nutritious meal the style they love to eat. This way kids make us innovative cooks-we become Tarla Dalal in our own way :)
Like other mothers I too have been doing innovative cooking for a while. So, along with the various experiences of motherhood, I will be sharing my recipes with you and would like your comments on them, plus I would love it if you too share your recipes. This way we will be able to cook better and help our kids grow up better. A lot of recipes might be similar, but it doesn't imply that we are copy-pasting them, after all many minds may think the same way when they are thinking in the same line :)
One more thing, all the recipes should be pure vegetarian, milk and milk products can be used.
In my next post I will share my latest recipe Launki ke Parathe or Bottleguard Thepla (again my own names for it).
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