Will be on Two months Leave

I am taking an off from blogging for 2 months. In between please keep on following my FB page Here. Will try to keep on updating if something special food related things happen in my life. Hope you all are also following me on Instagram.

And most important don't miss us on 13th of March,2016 at our (KFB) Annual Bakesale: Bakers Showcase 2016 & lots of Fun with Food.  You will get to know almost 20 Home Bakers from all over Kolkata and get flooded with the sweet and savoury baked goodies - cakes, cookies, breads, pies , tarts and chocolates and many more.

Address:

Uday Sadan

Golf Green

Kolkata-95

Time:

 12 noon to 8.00pm

Date: 

13th March'16

Stay well and keep following.

Happy Blogging.

Travel Chitchat

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” 

― Lao Tzu

Remember those hazards of standing in a long queue from the early morning and buying tickets for the tours our parents used to do. Sometimes we too accompany them to experience the pathetic inert conditions and made our parents' life miserable at that point of time by continuously nagging about how long we had to stand there. And if we were at home the excitement used to keep on fueling inside the heart and the glance was fixed on the door to see whether our parents returned with a happy smile on their face to declare "YES we got the tickets" or not. 

Buying tickets, planning a vacation was then all hand written and used to be done manually. We either rush straight to the stations, airports, bus depots or to the agents to make it bit easier. But many used to avoid the agents to save the little money what the agents would charge extra. First fill up a form to buy a ticket for bus, train or flights, and then do the payment in cash. But now, the days are gone when we have to stand in queues for booking train/bus or even Flight tickets. This is the advance era where day by day we are blessed with all the easy mode of communications. And when travel is concern you just have to sit in front of a desk top with an internet connection, click a button, fill up the mandatory requirement and here your travel booking is done. The online booking system has made life too easy and less time consuming.

Fly with an airline was quite a fancy in previous days. To avoid the exorbitant price of the flight tickets, people used to travel by train or bus. And on the contrary the rail routes and services where quite good on those old days. Now people feel more secure to fly rather than travelling on land. So the present scenario depicts the first preference to travel by flights and then choose the second option going by train. People have learnt to save their precious time too and therefore getting prone towards choosing the option to fly with the different airlines. The catchiest present situation is, Airline tickets have become very cheap too. You can buy directly from the respected airlines or go for the different travel booking sites which will not only help one to find the flight tickets in cheap rates, it will also provide all other information and booking options about hotels, car rentals etc. In one search on the net it will give you numerous options to visit the online travel industry.

 The online booking sites are always flooded with many attractive deals and budget tour package programs. And the best part of an online booking site is that it will give the detail of what the cheapest flight offers are going on. The scoring punch line of Air Arabia 'Pay Less, Fly More' does the just to explain about the online travel industry. This is what they provide. Once you are accustomed with this service you will become addicted to it. Sometimes people do have some different and negative notes on this too. But the famous and reputed online booking sites are always reliable and handy with their utmost comfortable services. Even airlines like Air Asia offers the cheapest deal to travel. Now we are more tend towards wrapping ourselves in the comfort zone and our advanced society speedily developing to give us the utmost felicities which we avail without wasting much time. We have learnt to value our time and the money too. The pleasure of vacation demands the conveniences, where time and money can be spent economically and this is what the tourism industry is providing us. Cheers to the online travel industry for making the world of tourism so easy.

If Jamai Shashti is there, why not Meye/Bou Shashti!!!!

Yesterday religiously and ceremoniously the Jamai Shashti got celebrated in West Bengal or rather all over the world wherever Bengalis are domiciling. On this day Mother- In-Law or the wives, as a representative of their mothers, cook delectable widely spread delicacies directly from a Bengali Kitchen. When it comes to food we Bengalis are always ready with our creative version of delicious dishes. Mishti Polao, Five types of Fries, Dal, Vegetable Torkari/curry, variations with Prawns dishes, mutton or chicken, Ilish/Hilsha, the must present dish, Chatni, Mishti/Sweets, etc are offered to the Jamai with an eye catching presentation during this fest. This is a day when the Jamai/Son-In-Law gets pampered by his Mom-In-Law.

Shashti is actually a name of a Hindu Goddess who is worshiped "as the benefactor and protector of children (especially, as the giver of male child)." (source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashthi). On the other hand "Shashthi (Sanskrit: Ṣaṣṭhī ) is the sixth day or tithi of a Paksha or fourteen-day phase of the moon. The word comes from the Sanskrit cardinal ShaRh (six), whence the ordinal number (linguistics) ShaShTha (sixth), fem. ShaShThI (days of the pakSha are feminine gender)". (Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashthi_(day) )

Usually the sixth tithi, known as Shahsti and especially in the waxing period (shuklapaksha), the mothers in Bengal worship Goddes Shashti during this day by fasting for her child's well being. But in a particular day of the month of Jaishthya is mainly celebrated as Jamai Shahsti, though the elders shower new cloths to the younger in family and the mothers do Shahsti puja during this time too. This fest symbolically ties up a strong bonding between two families and mainly an affectionate bonding of love between the parents-in-laws with their son-in-laws. Every ritual in a sense brings the family members close together and a quality time to be spent in a festive manner. And a Bengali Festival means the scrumptious kingly size spread of delicious food and new clothing.

Now let me come to my point what I want to establish and urge for in this post. A thought just came in my mind why we don't have a Meye/Bou Shashti?? Posted in my facebook status yesterday and got many positive vibes to start one for. Even when I shared my thought with my Mom-In-Law, I found her more excited than me and asked me several times when we are going to have that day…...

We spent a particular day for the Jamai/ Son-In-Laws, but whenever a son-in-law is visiting his in-laws house he always gets the special treatment and offerings of the inviting delicacies. So Jamai Shahsti often cycles around, though not along with all those rituals, pampering is always the priority. May be I might sound a bit jealous but we ladies many a times secretly crave for this kind of treatment. Busy with our every day household chores, work place, taking care of the every family member, we, ladies also need this kind of special care often. But OFTEN the word may sound too much to the men. Ok at least one day we can have at least. Who knows while spending one special day for the ladies of the household may cycle back every month.. It will make a relationship not only strong but will infuse a fun in our busy boring live too. And yes the Man will also get a different taste of life by relaxing himself from his busy schedule and tiring days. (Strategy to make them convince…wink) 

So therefore let us have special day for Meye/Bou Shashti in the Indian calendar like Jamai Shashti. I know many may oppose my claim and may argue with it. But let me clear my views rightly. The main symbolic hidden secret of a festival or a ritual is, it creates a strong bonding in between people. As Jamai Shahsti brings closer the son and parents in laws, same like, I also want a day should be celebrated, if not religiously, to make a strong bonding between the ladies and the men, between the daughter- in-law and the parent-in-laws in a household. The Ladies may spend many special days by herself,  with her husband and in-laws but I call for a day where the ladies should get pampered and treated with special care on a particular day (Though I claim this too be specially treated every day, that might give too much pressure to the men…:P).  But it is something like feeling special for a day when the Men will cook for the ladies of the house and give us a full day leave by showing their love and affectionate for us.

 Even from our childhood we two sisters celebrated Bon PoNta as we don't have any brother and tying up Rakhi on each other's hand…So it's not always that the boys will dominate most rituals we can also have ours..

So what do you say????? If the month June is for the Jamai/Son-in-Law then let us make July our month.

So we are going to spend every year the Second Saturday or Sunday of Month July. Let me see how many of you are going to celebrate this with us.

Last but not the least I have a request. Please don't spoil this would be happy celebration by too much arguments and criticism. If you don't like it or don't want be a part that is absolutely your choice. But those who want please let them enjoy it to the fullest. Thanks in advance.

An Evening spent with Preeti Shenoy, Agnimitra Paul & Arupa Lahiry at the Book Launch of The Secret Wish List (Starmarks, South city Mall, Kolkata)

Presented by Starmark, at South City Mall, Kolkata, the book launch of The Secret Wish List by Preeti Shenoy was a great success. Meeting the Author in person, anchored by Arupa Lahiry and the honourable guest invitee, renowned fashionista Agnimitra Paul, was like leading to a land of mesmerism with all the discussions on the novel, thoughts provoking to it, prolonged with a question-answer session. Preeti Shenoy had written already three novels and this one was the fourth one. I had read Preeti Shenoy’s third novel Tea for Two and a Piece of Cake and literally liked it, reviewed it.  

Meeting an Author in person is always a gainsaying job when prior attachment and an elusive relationship grow in between his/ her works and the reader. We, readers always portray a naïve calibre about the Author through the reads come to our way. So when we meet an Author in person it becomes quite challenging to confront him/her to match with the fictitious portrayal that we already created in our mind. But when I met Preeti Shenoy, I was too happy and inspired by her humble and down to earth characteristics. Preeti was a lady who could easily inspire anybody, too resonating and energetic when she spoke and above all too friendly who talked individually with her fans and gave her autographs to us.

The Famous Books and stationary retailers and one of the biggest uprising chain of book stores in Kolkata, Starmarks organised the launch of the Book The Secret Wish List on 26th April'13 at 6.30pm at their South City Mall book store. With a minimum of 20 audience, Author Preeti Shenoy, Fashion Designer Agnimitra Paul and anchor Arupa Lahiry, the launch event had become a booming success. I reached to the session a little late so I missed the exact moment when the book got launched. But other way lucky enough to be a part of the discussion that sprung up slowly through a question-answer dissertation. I enjoyed and loved the part when the discussion bloomed on about the Search of Identity of women and how could they achieve it. Preeti referred to homemaker's frustration and how can they too earn their Identity.  In India she referred women were mostly designated as someone's daughter or someone's wife or someone's mother.  That was one of the points that inspired Preeti to write something about the Indian woman and their daily frustration and how to cope up with it. Every woman has a dream imbedded inside her to secure a respected place for her and prove her Identity. That was what Preeti said, she wanted to portray in her latest novel The Secret Wish list, where the protagonist Diksha became from Nothing to Something. Angimitra Paul also added strong vibes how her women artisans were able to acquire their own Identity and became the proud earning members of their families.  Literally got motivated when Agnimitra Paul referred that her show stoppers for the Fashion shows were sometimes the common workers of her leading organization.

Arupa, when asked about the inspirations behind the book, Preeti shared some short anecdotes with us.  One I am sharing here:

"One lady was abandoned by her husband she was expecting that time. After some years she moved to USA with her daughter and on a snowy evening she sat with her daughter and playfully wrote 11 wishes listed down on a plain book. Before start writing the fiction Preeti talked to the lady and she informed that 9 out of those 11 wishes came true."

Talking about Diksha the Protagonist of the book did something of her own from zero to success. So Preety said that she did believe in the law of attraction what we did believe that really sometimes had come true.  Therefore at the end of her book she added an empty page which was quite a novel idea what I felt, titled it:

"What is your wish list? Go on write it down. You never know how it can change your life."

Preeti aded: "Unless and until you are writing down your wishes you are not giving a concrete shape to it".

Preeti is here launching her fourth fiction but she is already on to her fifth one. And she was characterised as a Voracious writer by Arupa. Preeti pointed out all the characters in her novel were borrowed from her own life and she had a real life experience with it.

Preeti confidently declares this book was different from her other novels and she ensured that everybody would like the book. And Arupa vouched for it when she shared her story while starting reading this book she denied visiting an invitation only because she could not leave the book in between. For her this book was absolutely a page turner and unputdownable. Arupa also wished for The Secret Wish List that may be in future it might be got screened as it has the perfect Cinematographic elements in it and Preeti wished too with her fingers crossed.

A glimpse of the Question & Answer session in between Preeti and the audience:

1.    How long you used to write?

Ans: I used to work for 8 to 10 hours a day. It took almost 8 months. 

2.    It is seen in the different part of the book you challenged the stereotypes.  Did you?

Ans: Yes I did challenge somewhere the stereotypes what I tried to illustrate in the book.

The overall experience of the event was wonderful. Preeti Shenoy herself looked very young, vibrating and enthusiastic and through her conversation she compelled us to listen to her that much confident and attitude she carried with her. Love the way Agnimitra Paul carried herself. With the minimum make up and not a single accessory on her, she is a true beauty and soft speaker too. Quite moved by the magnificent anchoring by Arupa Lahiry who is a professional dancer and studied English literature. She was well versed and swung the event giving totally a relaxed feeling creating a homely atmosphere. 

All is well when it ends well. I returned home almost flying high with pride with the exquisite joy of talking to the author in person and having her own signature in my copy of The Secret Wish List as a lifelong asset.

To know more about Preeti Shenoy visit her website and she is an avid blogger too: http://www.preetishenoy.com/

Review on The Secret Wish list will be coming shortly..

Hello Friends.....

Hi friends, Remember me…..May be not as it’s an enough span of  gap to forget a name or a person. But a hearty thanks in advance to those still remember me…First let me wish you all a Happy New Year,  though its late, not so late to wish . Last year was so hectic and busy for me that still the busy schedule of those days trembles me with a feel of exhaustion. I got shifted form USA. Then got fully heads into decorating my small dwelling place. Working with various kind of workers here, is the most tedious job I understood, as time is not so important for them. Syncing each of the worker with the other and fit them into my schedule was really the hardest job I have ever  faced. My hubby was then out of the country. All  responsibilities were on my head. My daughter's school, the interior work progression  and on  the other hand, the  preparation of my own sister's marriage in the same town, made me a machine to work like a maniac. But touch wood everything went nicely and I give some credit to myself as all alone I completed two big projects of my life yet - Decorating my home and arranging my sis's marriage.

So, Friends here I am back again. I can't assure about my regularity. But hopefully you are going to see me again in intervals.

 Wish all happy Blogging.

Voice Against Plagiarism- The First step

Dear Friends, Thanks for the support and I am glad to see your enthusiasm. So inspired by you all I have created a site- Voice Against Plagiarism. I have just taken an initiative. But now we altogether have to start this journey and fight.

The site needs few Board Members who will internally work and help to improve the site. So if you are willing to join as a board member then please send your email-ID to voiceplg@gmail.com. The board members will have the authority to post in the site and take decisions about the site. Please read the About section of the site.

I have just temporarily designed the blog only to make a boat through which we can start our journey. Now it is up to you to make it a ship to sail on the sea. Come join the site and make it a powerful site to kill the crime. Pls free to give your opinions and ideas to improve the site.

Attention Please!!!!



Picture courtesy: knol.google.com

Today I thought of posting a recipe as it has become a long gap since I have posted any. I have so many to share and all are standing in a queue, shouting for an attention. But today it's more important to share something else with you all .

Recently two of our blogger friends raised the voice against plagiarism when they suffered terribly with this infection as their posts were been reposted without their concern in some other blogs. In simple language their Posts and Photographs were stolen. Jaya and Pree both are the victims of this awful crime. But in no time anybody can be the victim of this plague. Even we don't know whether our works are already been stolen or not!! Then why we still are sitting idle and waiting for to see more plagiarist victims !!

We blog because we love to be get connected with people through the works which we cherish in our lone and creative hours. We are blogging not to earn money through it or there is no obligation that we have to blog because of some grand fortune. This is a kind of blood and breath for us when we inhale a peace of breath through our blogs. It's like a baby for us whom we are nurturing so gently,  with so much care to feel a pacification mainly when you can not go out. It gives you a way to get connected with people. It gives you satisfaction when you get appreciated by any of your creative work. It is also a way where you can get a recognition which is earned entirely by your own hard work.

But when we see a scratch on these babies' body it's really a heartrending situation for us. It might be healed in no time when we will just sigh and this will be a pastime regretting story for us. But what about those thieves?? Isn't there any way to punish them or raise a unified voice against this atrocious act. Blogging is not a silly joke or a minute's play which we do with in a second. Each post is a hard planned project where you involve your creativity, sources of knowledge to work it best as a magnet to draw the attention of the reader.

It is not a question of taking any legal action and sue the copycats. But let us make a unified world to fight against these offenses. Let us make a Forum on "Fake Bloggers" and highlight those weirdoes. Let us spread our voice and make everybody attentive against this malady. At least we can make them think twice before they steal any hard work to fulfill their own purpose.

We can not stop plagiarism but we can at list fight for it. Let us start the fight right now……..Who are going to join ??

I want to know your views.

How to get rid of a Burning Yellow Stain from your Microwave

Last Sunday when my day started in exultation, it gleamed off to a galling fortuity. That Sunday morning was too lustrous for me as I resumed my blog again. My Husband was occupied in his prolonged last hours nap. My daughter woke up early, had her breakfast and we both were about to start our dance practice. Before that, to come down my hungry appetite I put the Ready-to-eat Chow-Mein to the microwave and joined my daughter to tap the floor. The music was on, my heart was floating in a kind of glee and my daughter was as usual in her gaiety mood. Suddenly my great redolent power froze me and the fume from the microwave made me stuck dumb for few seconds. I gathered all my intelligence and in a quick jump turn off the microwave. A burning smell almost clogged my breath. I locked my daughter in the bedroom with my husband. Opened all the possible way outs to get rid of the reek and to avoid the smoke alarm on. Covered my face with a towel and with a pounding heart opened the door of the microwave and found the charred plastic container. It didn’t take a second more to reveal what bungled mistake I had done. I had forgotten to add water to the Chow-Mein. Hapless I was just got the final shock when I stared into the Microwave. Somebody had just changed the white body into a yellow tarnish. We live in a rented house along with a furnished kitchen and the rental clauses say to leave the house before departure just as same we found while entering. The first dismaying thought crashed my mind with an outlay of around $300-400. The second thought came of getting a berating about my carelessness form my husband. Just on the verge of a sinking soul and ready to flow tears I started to scrub the yellow stain. All my efforts just went in vein when the firm stain didn’t lighten up a little. Without wasting more time and effort I sat down with my Laptop and started searching for the solution in the net. I felt relaxed that I was not the only execrable lady to bawl out. I found almost a handful of posting about burning plastic in the microwave and there were a handful of angels too who gave different solutions to get rid of the burning yellow stain from the microwave. So I started experimenting the solutions one by one.

Solution No 1:-

Scrub the stain with vinegar and water.

Result:-

Didn’t work.

Solution No 2:-

Scrub the stain with vinegar and baking soda.

Result:-

Didn’t work.

Solution No 3:-

Clean the stain with 100% bleach.

Result:-

I didn’t have Bleach at home. So not sure about the fact. But majority voted for the best result.

Solution No 4:-

Use Nail polish remover to scrub the stain. Always use white napkin each time you scrub.

Result:-

It did work. The stain just got vanished like a magic.

There were many more but I stopped my search here.

I am not so much fond of cosmetics. I hardly apply nail polishes and use removers. I bought one nail polish remover a year back in India and it did travel with me in this far away land, kept itself settled in a corner of a shelf without any notice all these months. But now it came like a saviour and emptied itself to save my poor soul from the dismay. Forgot to mention, while I was busy in staining off the parchedness, I felt a pat in my back and found my husband with an impish smile and a question mark in his face. I explained what happened in tears and to my surprise he just smiled and told me not to take too much tension, we would find out some solution. At that moment I just thought that I got the best husband of the world. Any way the little bottle of my nail polish remover saved me and showed me the path of the solution. It would be a great mistake if I would not praise my daughter. During this skirmish she didn’t disturb me for a second. She obeyed my each and every single word to my surprise.

5 days passed but still I can nose the burning smell. I got a solution to obviate the burning smell from the microwave. Put some Orange skin in water and microwave it for 5-6 minutes. It really worked well.
 

My husband arranged that day a delectable lunch in one of my favourite restaurants to celebrate my win over the tarnish. Whatever happened in between, the day started good and ended good. Truly said - All is well that ends well.

Back Again

Ah, a long gap......Last three months almost without any post is really a great gap. This is how time flies. You never know how time swings so fast and you keep on grudging that time is not moving. Every day before I retired to bed I used to visit my blog and my other fellow bloggers but I didn’t have enough time to leave a comment on each and everybody’s new post. Sometimes I like to enjoy this kind of hibernating state. Though I know there are hardly a few people who will look for me or think of me. But still this gives my heart a kind of peace to become inactive for a long time from the world which I cherish so much. On the other hand when you get a disruption it’s very difficult to set your mind to resume it again. That’s what happened to me. The first month I was really too busy to blog. The following next month I enjoyed my dormant state and this last month went by boosting myself to blog again. Today in this Sunday morning, when the regular weekend wakeup times are usually late, my sleep left me at 5.30am in the morning and made me too irritated to lay down with the opened eyes. It was too early to go for a walk, so I took my second love on my lap (my laptop), a frozen yoghurt and my mind automatically switched to engender my blog alive again. So friends, here I am once again. May be my comments missed your posts but I didn’t missed your posts. So please help me again with all your inspirational and encouraging feedbacks to walk with you all and your talents with my small world.

Happy Blogging!!!!

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The Bengali New Year Delicacies

How we celebrated our Bengali new year, what we kind of foods we had, there would be a different story if we were celebrating this day in Bengal. Staying far away from home to a foreign land the story of the celebration day is nothing so special. The very day just passed like a common and busy day. My Husband went to office and my daughter to her school. I buried myself with all the household chores. Just to illuminate the festive mood I cooked a couple of speciality dishes, what we usually cook in a festive occasion and one of my family’s favourite taste. Food is an integrated part of any festival. And mainly in this New Year day fare of delectable dishes are served in the lunch and dinner menu. But at my home I just cooked a dish with Ilish/Hilsa fish which is probably the Bengali's first love, with coconut milk. This dish is mainly famous in the Eastern part of bengal.

 Pulav or polao, the most famous and common festive dish in the Bengali houses.

And my husband’s and daughter’s favourite Saag chicken/palak chicken or Spinach chicken.

CLICK ON THE DISHES TO VIEW THE RECIPES.

Apart from what I cooked, the most precious gift I had in this New Year day was the first craft made by my ready to turn three years old daughter which she brought home from her school. She came jumping and hugged me, saying “Mama this is for you”. I was just on the verge of the watery line with the intense feeling joy and surprise. Just on that day I posted and shared my childhood memories with you all where I mentioned about the creative cards exchange and I also shared that might be I would get those days back through my daughter. Didn’t guess, that, this wish would come so soon to me and would make my day so beautiful and special like this.

My First Awards

Yesterday when I opened my mail box, I was hardly on the verge to believe on my eyes. I was showered by a bundle of awards by N S of the feastinthekitchen.blogspot.com. I was so thrilled that I didn’t know how to react.

I first joined the blogosphere, that’s a couple of years back, only to savour the craze about the blog world. Then I had a long gap and discontinuation. Again I rejoined this sphere last month with a new tune and a new outlook. Before, the blog for me was just a place where I could post few of my hidden creative thoughts, nurturing all alone within myself, but now, I found that blogging is a place where you can get a recognition, get acquainted with so many talented and creative personalities, and breeding your talents and creativity as well.

The day I actively step in this spree, I get surprised and totally tuned, seeing the bunch of colourful blogs, bloom like a fresh rare flower. Each blog is a small proud world, depicting the beauty of the owner’s inner I. Creatively rich, literarily enriched; each and every blog deserves round of applause. I too wanted to be the part of their creative world; I too wanted to be awarded with those lovely blog awards. Now, here I am, entered the world and each and every day getting acquainted with so many talented bloggers. Just with the hope and fingers crossed, I waited for the day when my day will come and I would proudly publish a post on receiving awards. Not to wait so long my day has come at last, the day for which I desired so much, though it’s just the beginning of my journey.

First of all I would like to thank N S, who shared the awards with me and I wish she should get more awards and fame in the blogosphere. Now it’s my turn to share these awards with my fellow bloggers. I would like and love to share these awards with-

1.  Sayatani, who from her childhood is blessed with an outstanding creativity and talents and if you visit her blog, you will see that each of her post is a master piece of her beaut talent. One of my childhood good friends, her blog inspired me a lot to open my eyes about what the blog world actually is.

2. Next is Sushma, she is the one who from the beginning encouraged me with her regular feedbacks on my each post. Wonderful by nature is also an owner of a very colourful and creative blog.
3. Then, to Sharmilee, from whom I learned a lot about food photography and how to make my blog more attractive.

4. Then, of course Tina, one of the sweetest bloggers till I met, who called me DEAR in our first interaction.
5. Next, Priya and Divya need no Introduction, one of the most active and regular bloggers encourage me too with their expert comments.

6. Next Sarah, a wonderful cook and food photographer who would just within a second steal your heart with her delectable dishes.

7. Next, Indrani newly made blogger and Bengali friend, is too a super cook.

8. Mary, is the one, in whose blog I first introduced that condense milk can be made at home. All her wonderful recipes will just make u drooled.

9. Pradhu, one of my favourites, whose creative style of presenting a dish make overwhelmed.

10. Last but not the least An Open Book, Vrinda, Aruna, Super Chef ,Uma are also my new fellow bloggers who really deserve to be awarded.

My heartiest warm regards and best wishes to all of you for encouraging and inspiring me. I humbly welcome you all to visit my blog regularly and keep me telling that you all there to support me and encourage me. Here I am giving you all a virtual treat with my recently made Chocolate Cake. Hope you all would enjoy it till the last bite. The recipe of the Chocolate Cake is following in my next post.

NOTE:-

The winner, please

Put the logo in your post or blog
Pass on to atleast 12 bloggers
Link the blogger in your post
Let them know they have received this award
Share the love and link to the person from whom you have received the award

Launched the website of Déjà Vu

20th Feb'10 is one of the most remarkable days of my life. I got a domain site for our Magazine Déjà Vu. Since a long time I was just planning to create a website for the Magazine. But plans were not materialising somehow. Previously we used to create our magazine in Google Page creator. And therefore every time we used to have a separate URL for each publication. Now we have got and one and only URL for Déjà Vu– http://www.magazinedejavu.com/ . Now wish me luck to resume the next publication asap.

Happy Valentine's Day

Dear all, hope you enjoyed the Valentine’s Day to its full pit solely in your way. When I was surfing through the nice and talented blogs, I found so many posts on Valentine’s Day, how marvellously they celebrated. Even after reading them I too celebrated the day a thousand times better with them. Now I was not able to control myself to share with you all, my Valentine’s Day Celebration.

My marriage was an arranged marriage. And I was not lucky to taste love before that. So love came to me like a shower of blooms just after I got married. Though Valentine’s Day is mainly celebrated between the couples, love birds, I used to celebrate it with my near dear ones. My mom, dad, sister, my dear friends all were the part of this celebration before my marriage. At that time I used to make some kind of crafts by my own hand and gift it to them. I always believe that a best gift is a gift which comes direct from the heart and is made by the own hands of the presenter. Whether it is a single line written in a piece of paper or a simple thing presented in a simple way. The gift should speak the language of celebrations itself and also the love and care for the person you are bestowing.

After marriage my celebration world has become narrowed down to my husband and then to my daughter. The gift exchange world has become walled in between three of us. This Year my husband has gifted a special Valentine’s Day to spend a whole day in the San Diego Zoo. My daughter gave us a tight hug with a bright kiss and wished us Happy Valentine’s Day in her sweet melodious tune. And I gave them few special dishes blended with the aroma of love.

I will be posting soon how we spend our day in San Diego Zoo and the recipes I specially made in honour of the Valentine’s Day. What I cooked for the very day, are listed below-

1. Stuffed Pasta Shell Salad.

2. Love Delight-1 (Sweet Dish).

3. Love Delight-2(Sweet Dish)

Hope you will enjoy what we enjoyed on the Valentine's Day.

It has become a long gap to blog, more than a year. I have few lame excuses of not blogging. But let them keep aside and let me share with you only the main excuse of my detachment from the blogger.com. In between the gap I have given birth to an E-Magazine, named Déjà Vu, with the help of some of my good friends.

By nature, I am a dreamer, a bit lazy and always need an inspiration to boost me up. The publication of the 4 Editions of Déjà Vu put an indescribable success in my life, in my innersole. Though not in the professional world so much, in my own life progress book the birth of the Magazine inscribed a new meaning and a new way to live life. During that time I was kind of running through a frustrating stage. A busy motherhood, not a single second to spend for myself, all the time busy in the household chores, all these made me mad to do something or anything only to enlighten my inner being. And one morning suddenly the journey of Déjà Vu started.

After the 4th publication of Déjà Vu, we have to stop the continuation of our magazine due to the lack of integration of our community members and my bohemian shifts from this place to that place. So again am back to blog, and once again trying to resume the continuation of the Magazine.