Ram Navami 12 april 11

Valmiki in his Sanskrit text Ramayan describes the natal or birth chart of young Rama [13], and this day is celebrated as Ramanavami festival throughout India and amongst Indian diaspora [14].:
“ “On completion of the ritual six seasons have passed by and then in the twelfth month, on the ninth day of Chaitra month [March-April], when the presiding deity of ruling star of the day is Aditi, where the ruling star of day is Punarvasu (Nakshatra), the asterism is in the ascendant, and when five of the nine planets viz., Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus are at their highest position, when Jupiter with Moon is ascendant in Cancer, and when day is advancing, then Queen Kausalya gave birth to a son with all the divine attributes like lotus-red eyes, lengthy arms, roseate lips, voice like drumbeat, and who took birth to delight the Ikshwaku dynasty, who is adored by all the worlds, and who is the greatly blessed epitome of Vishnu, namely Rama.”
- Book I : Bala Kanda, Ramayana by Valmiki, Chapter (Sarga) 18, Verse 8, 9, 10 and 11 [15] ”


...happens to be the day i was born too! :)

Vegitable Sizzler

Tried making veg sizzler for the first time....and it was awesome!!!

Recipe:
Ingredients:
Veggies: Mashroom, baby corn, sweet corns, Broccoli, cabbage, Carrots, beans, matar, aloo and onion
Steamed all vegetables(chopped)

keep Mashroom and Baby corn seperate.

To make a white sauce: Mix cornflr (2 ts) in one cup cold milk. Keep aside.
Make a paste of garlic, gingler, red chillies and kasoori methi.
Heat some oilve oil, put the paste into it and then add steamed mashroom and babycorns...after a while put the cornflr paste and cover for 3-4 mins. Make sure that the sauce does not become thick due to heat. It shud be flowing consistency.

Remove it and keep it aside.

In the same hot pan..add some butter and add all other vegitables(keep some carrots and mutter and corns for fried rice). Add, salt,soya sauce, red chilli sauce till u get thick gravy. Cover it for few mins and remove from heat.

Boil some rice. Heat butter or olive oil, add finely chopped garlic, add vegitables and the add boiled rice. Add some soya sauce(optional)

Now make some fingerchips from the aloo. I used frozen ones that you easily get it in market.

Cut the onion rings...sperate all those rings....cut the simala mirch, red, green, yellow in round.
Saute onion rings in butter and then simpal mirch..keep aside.

Put the sizzler plate on gas stove....let it get heated till it starts making sizzling noize as you put some butter over it. Put some cauliflower leaves on the plate....put onion rings on the outer side of the plate, put simla mirch rounds over onions...then put mashrooms with white sauce on one side of the plate, put rice on one side and red sauce wala veggies in the middle of the plate. As you put everything on plate, the stove flame should be on high mode. Now put potato fries everywhr...yummy!!! Just before you take the sizzler plate off the stove....thoda nimbu ka zataka...add some lemon juice over the dish...adds flavour!!! and its ready to eat!!!!

Aala Shravn aala

Pahila Shravan somwar!

Start of a festive season..get ready for "Narali Pornima'