One Month of Togetherness

Last Sunday(17/June, 2012) we celebrated our 1st month anniversary with my no bake mango cheese cake. We had lots of fun that day. He took me for a long drive to his uncles house, we also went to one of my friends house and had a nice lunch. We enjoyed a lot on that day. I still can't believe that this is our first month, it feels like yesterday we got married. But one month has passed away, time is running so fast.

I want to thank my sweet hubby for making my life so special for this whole month and  certainly he is going to do the same for the rest of years..I am really really blessed to have him as my twin soul. Thank you god for gifting him as my husband..I love you dear..

Finally We Are Married!!!

Its been over a month since I touched this blog. I miss blogging a lot. I have slowly started to catch up my food blog YUMMY TUMMY. But I am finding it difficult to post here. And finally I found some free time of mine and here I am with the wedding update. Lately I have made so many changes in my blogs, I have merged my "Colours of my life" and "Aarthi's Collection" as "Love of my Life". Because I am finding it really really difficult to maintain those two blogs. So I have converted it to one. I hope you all will continue to visit me here.

I am sure that I will update this regularly starting from now on.Ofcourse you are going to get all new updates of my newly wedded life and my sweet hubby. I am getting lots of emails from my sweet friends  to post my wedding pics as well as wedding update. So I thought to share with you all about the big day.

Early morning of the big day was like a miracle for me. I was not able to imagine that this could happen in real this soon. I was so thrilled and excited about the day. I got ready and we all left from my home to the mandapam. Everything is nicely decorated and chairs were arranged. I went into the bride's room and beautician started to show her skills on me. I was thinking and getting so scared that how I am going to handle the day,this definitely put me in the pressure.

Finally all tradition got over and the muhurtham time arrived. The moment he tied the rope around my neck, I felt like flying in the sky, getting to the roof of the mountain and shout over, yes WE ARE MARRIED. My hands were kept over his hands. I still remember how tightly he holded mine, and he told me that I won't leave this hands untill I am gone. That was so touching. I felt like holding his hands and flying all over the world. Hmm..

Its going to be a month now that we are happily married. And I am enjoying each and every moment of my life. I am still learning lot about him, which is making me quite surprised. Because till my wedding I thought that I know everything about him. But there is a lot more to know that I have thought. I am planning to celebrate our first month anniversary with a little surprise for him. I will post the updates soon.

For now I am leaving you with a couple of our wedding picture. I will post more of them in my coming post.

To Make My Little Sis Happy !!!

This is not really a post, but i wanted to share this image so badly (Read further). I used to tell my little sis that she needs to improve in taking pictures a lot..The reason is she won't focus on the object which she takes and click randomly.So the result is blur images... I think she took is so seriously and was taking pictures of each and everything...One day she came to me and showed me this image, i was really impressed with that..And i told her that she is getting better and better..She was so happy and she insisted me to post this picture in my blog and share her joy..Hence this image..

I hope that after seeing this she will be happy..

What do you think about this??

Amma's Poori with Potato Masala - Breakfast Staple

Poori masala remids me of so many memories from my childhood. Amma makes this only during weekends..And we as a litte kids will be waiting for weekends the whole week. Amma’s method of making poori is entirely different from mine. It was not the traditional one but taste so good with poori. She makes the masala little runnier, so that everyone gets a little of the gravy..

One more weird thing which she adds in all the korma is MILK..Yes, Amma adds milk in all the dishes. This gravy can be done in very less time than anyother curry. This is amma’s way of cooking stuffs. I am very glad to share my mom’s signature recipe with you all..Thanks Amma for giving the recipe to me..I LOVE YOU..

Amma's Poori Recipe

Ingrediants:

Wheat flour – 2 cup

Salt to taste

Oil- 1 tblspn

Water as needed

Method:

Mix all the ingrediants together except water.

Slowly add in the water and make a stiff dough.Let this rest for 15 mins.

Take a small portion from the dough and roll into thin poori.

Heat oil for deep frying and fry this till golden and puffed.

Remove on a paper towel and serve with curry

Amma's Potato Masala Recipe

Ingrediants:

Onion – 1 chopped

Potato – 3 large chopped

Green Chilli – 5 slit

Ginger – 1 tblspn minced

Turmeric powder – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Milk – ½ cup

Oil  1 tblspn

Whole Spices:

Mustard Seeds / Kaduku – 1 tsp

Channa Dal /Kadala paruppu – 1 tblspn

Urad dal / Ulundu – 1 tblspn

Curry leaves – 1 spring

Method:

Heat oil and add in all the whole spices. Let them splatter for a min.

Add in onions, ginger, green chilli along with salt and turmeric.Cook for 3 mins..

Add in potatoes and mix well. Pour enough water to cover the potato. Bring it to boil and simmer for 20 mins.

Now once the potatoes are done..Switch off the flame and add milk.

Mix well and serve with poori.

Oats Chapati & Quick Potato Curry - Lunch Box Combo Recipes

Have no time to cook..Are you in diet..Need some thing delicious for your kids..Are you hungry and need some thing so quick..Then check out this combo..It is so healthy, hardly takes anytime to cook so delicious and so quick to make..I can assure you that this is a keeper..I love eating oats because I know they are healthy for me. I hope you think the same too..Try this and you will love it anytime and let me know what you think..

Oats Chapati Recipe

Ingrediants:

Oats - 1 cup

Wheat Flour / Atta - 2 cup

Salt to taste

Oil- 1 tblspn

Water as needed

Method:

Dry roast oats till it gets nice aroma. Take it in a blender and make into a fine powder.

Take wheat flour, oast powder, salt and oil in  a bowl and mix well. Add water slowly and make into a soft dough. Cover and let it rest for 15 mins.

Drivide into equal portions. Take one ball out and start rolling into a chapati.

Heat up a pan and toast this on both sides till they are cooked.

Remove and keep in a insulated container.

Quick  Potato Curry Recipe

Ingrediants:

Potato - 2 large peeled & cubed

Chilli powder - 1 tsp

Garam masala powder - 1 tsp

Mango pickle - 1 tblspn ( any kind)

Cornflour / Corn Starch - 1 tblspn

Salt to taste

Oil - 1 tblspn

Method:

Heat oil in a pressure cooker, Add in potatoes along with chilli powder, salt, garam masala powder and mango pickle along with some water.

Cover it and cook it for 3 whistle, simmer for 5 mins. Switch off the flame and let the pressure go all by itself.

Now open the cooker and add more water if needed.

Mix some cornflour with water and pour that it and mix well.

Cook it till it get thick

Serve with roti.

My Wedding Jewels (Part 1) - Wedding Update 2

In india weddings are not completely fullfilled without drowning the bride in all those precious gold ornaments...These jewels are so elegant and charming and makes the whole wedding a blast..During my school or college days i was not that fond of gold ornaments or stuffs like that..There are times when i thought " what is this stupid culture of buying lots of jewels and wasting a whole lot of money in that, This is too bad"..But now i am getting to know the real fact..If it is a wedding specially in india, there must be golds, it is something so special.

Even now when someone meet me the first thing which they ask me is "JEWELS VANGIYACHA( Have you purchased jewels)". If i say no not yet..Then they will see me in some weird look and tell me "not yet, get soon..only few days for the wedding..right"...I was a kind of worried because of this questions and started bugging amma about that. Finally its all done.Yes we have finished purchasing all those gold.YAY...Wedding blast has started...

Like the clothes shopping experience, i have a unique experience while i went for purchasing my wedding jewels..Oneday amma told me 'why don't we go to those jewellery shops and see some design and collection for you, so that we can get some nice collections at the end'...I told ok we can go..Amma, my two perimma(aunts) and me got ready for that and we went to one of our trust old jewellery shop. 

At first i was not so interested in that, but later i got so overwhelmed and started searching so seriously..I have a great addiction towards bangles, so we first checked into the bangle section..That seller was so enthusiastic and started giving me lots of set of bangles to wear..When we finished our shopping my hand was red in colour and even a little of my outer skin is broken..I must have worn and removed over 200 bangles that day..OMG..

Ok coming to the matter..I was interested in some bangles so we thought "ok lets get into this, we can finish our whole jewels shopping in this shop itself"..This is a sudden decision....We selected few bangles and went to the chains and other stuff section..And finally we finished our whole shopping..And now comes the fun part, We have bought jewels worth more than a million, but we don't have a single penny to pay them..YES we just came here just to see new collections right...Then how would we have money to pay them..My aunt went and told the owner of that shop to " We didn bring any money today, Can you please keep all these jewels with you, we will get it tomorrow after paying the money"..But the owner who is a friend of our family told us "Don't play..Please take it..You can give us money later..Its not a problem..Do you want security untill you reach your home.."and he started laughing..Such a sweet seller right..

So we came home safe and sound with a million worth gold without paying even a single penny to them ...How cool is that..This is how my shopping for jewels went on...

 

But believe it or not purchasing million worth gold took us only 2 hours...Isn't that weird..I am such a express shopper...

Now comes the picture part..I want to share you some of the pictures of my jewels which we bought...Starting with the bangles..

All these bangles are my selection...I totally adore them..Specially the one with peacock design is my favorite.. I love the white stone studded bangle in the first picture too..

Will post the other pictures of my jewels in my new post.....

My Sister’s Egg Masala Recipe

Last week me and my sister were cooking together in the kitchen, which is quite unusual because we never cook together often. I made tandoori potatoes and my sister made this curry and some fried rice..I helped her a little in making fried rice. And once we sat together and tasted this it was so good..We had a yummy lunch..I wanted to share her recipe with you all..So here you go..

If you are so eager to see my sister’s picture..Check my About me page..

My Sister’s Egg Masala Recipe

Ingrediants:

Onion – 1 large chopped

Tomatoes- 2 chopped

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Turmeric powder / Manjal podi – 1 tsp

Garam masala powder – 1 tsp

Salt to taste

Oil- 2 tblspn

For Frying Eggs:

Oil- 1 tblspn

Eggs – 3 boiled and peeled

Salt to taste

Chilli powder – 1 tsp

Method:

Start by frying the eggs. Mix salt and chilli powder to the cooked eggs and mixwell. Heat a tblspn of oil and fry the eggs in that oil till light golden. Remove to a plate.

Now grind onion and tomatoes together and set aside.

Heat oil in a kadai. Add in ground onion and tomato paste and mix well.Cook this until oil separates from this.

Now add in all the spice powder and mix well. Cook this for a min.

Add enough water and mix well. Add in the fried eggs and cook for 5 mins till the mixture becomes dry.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.