Mixed batter Dosa

I make this recipe with left over dosa and idli batter. Believe me it tastes good.

Ingredients: 

1. Dosa batter - 1 cup
2. Idli batter - 1 cup
3. Ragi flour - 1 cup
4. Rice flour - half cup
5. Wheat flour - half cup
6. Salt - little
7. Water - required amount to mix all ingredients.
8. oil - 2 spoons
9. Carrots - 2 - finely grated
10. chillies - 2 - finely chopped
11.onions- 1 - finely chopped
12. coriander - 1 katta - finely chopped.

Preparation:

Add All Ingredients except oil in a bowl. IT will look like a thick batter for dosa/uttapam. Now heat tawa and spread dosa as usual, but these dosa's look little thicker than normal dosa and thinner than Uttapam.
Fry dosa both sides nicely. it takes little longer time to cook than normal dosa as it has Ragi flour and veggies. Serve hot with any chutney. Even plain dosa's tastes good.

Will add pic soon.

Sprouts upma

Ingredients:

Upma(Bombai) rava - 1 cup
Sprouts - half cup
Water - 2 cups
Chillies- 2
Garlic - small piece
Tomato- 1
Onion - 1
Carrot - 1
Popu dinusulu
Salt - half spoon
Oil: 2 spoons

Preparation:

Put 2 spoons of oil in the pan, let it boil and then put popu dinusulu.
Then add chopped onions,carrots,chillies,garlic and tomatoes. After 1 min add sprouts and fry for 1 more minute with little salt. Now add 2 cups of water and little salt and let it boil and all the ingredients will get cooked in the boiling water. After 2 mins add upma rava slowly...keep stirring while adding rava. keep it on low flame and switch off flame after 1 min. Sprouts upma is ready. its easy, healthy and filling.

Will add pic soon.

Silver Earrings and Jewellery

Latest trend in silver jewelry. Silver earrings look very pretty and decent. They come for reasonable and affordable prices.My latest crush--- silver earrings. Silver neck pieces are also very beautiful but are on little costlier side.They look extraordinarily beautiful for saris and ethnic dresses.Here are some sites which i browse.

1. www.thekojewelleryshop.com
2. www.fabindia.com
3. www.tribebyamrapali.com
4. www.jaypore.com
5. www.fourseven.com
6. www.exoticindiaart.com

We should read details and description of this silver jewelry before we buy as there is a chance that they write that they are silver color or coated earrings instead of 92.5 sterling silver.We should not get confused with silver color and silver. so be careful while ordering.

Thambulam return gifts

I have gone through below sites. They can make our life easy in selecting return gifts for our any occassions like "Gruha pravesam", "Half saree function", "Varalakshmi Vratham", "Mehendi" , "Wedding" etc. These combos are very useful especially for busy women.

1. www.tambulya.com
2. www.thugil.com
3. http://www.theonlineshoppingstores.com/
4. www.webtree.com
5. http://www.weddingreturngifts.co.in
6. https://www.marriagecolours.com/Return-Gifts

We can buy personalized combos from different facebook accounts.
They help us in finding out return gifts.
ex : https://www.facebook.com/SweekarGiftGalli/
      https://www.facebook.com/uniquepartyitems

Thambulam ideas

Here are some images which attracted me. we can give these kits as return gifts for pujas or as a thambulam.













I got these Pics from google images which are from different sites.

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Andra style Mangala Sutram or Tali bottu

Normally married women wear Mangala sutram. Men tie this to women at the time of marriage.
These things should be there in Mangala sutram.

1. Sutram one should be given by Husband's mother. (count 1)
2. Sutram two should be given by Bride's mother. (count 2)
    Both will be in different formats. some people take similar ones. but one given by husband will be flat and brides one should be puffy.
3. We should put one gold rod between two sutras. so that they won't touch each other and make noise while walking and all.(count 3)
4. Two black beads on both sides. (count 5)
5. Two Motis (Muthyalu) on both sides of the string. (count 7)
6. Two Pagadalu (Red beads kind) on both sides of the string. (count 9)
7. One Lakshmi Kasu.(count 10)
8. One small Lotus flower bead. We will get them in small gold shops. (count 11)
    If you don't find this, you can add one more Lakshmi kasu. So that count will be 11.
9. You can tie all these things using gold/raagi string or thick yellow thread.

All together count should come to 11 items. Even 9 items is fine. This is how we follow while making Mangala sutram. Happy Married Life . :)

Ugadi Pachadi receipe

We  will see Ugadi Pachhadi receipe today. I will give you tasty version :)

1. Tamarind paste - 5 spoons
2. finely greated Jaggery (add according to your taste)
3. Neem tree small flowers/buds (vepa putha)
4. Half chilli
5. Salt
6. very little Pepper
7.one Mango cutted into small pieces
8.Nicely chopped banana

Mix all the above ingredients in a bowl with 2 glasses of water. It is a liquid version.It tastes good, even kids will eat. If you want it thick, add less water around half or 3/4th of a glass.

First keep it for God.Then you can have it as Ugadi prasadham.

Kubhera puja - coming up

I will write on it shortly. coming soon.

What should be there in Bogipallu

To put Bogipallu for your kids. We need to mix these things and pour on the kid. Married women will put kumkuma and bogipallu to kids. Even Kids will attend this function. Kids will collect whatever we pour on our kid.In some tradition they don't collect.

1. Bogipallu - means small regikayalu.
2. Flowers or flower petals
3. Small sugar cane pieces
4. Small choclates
5. Any change (one rupee and two rupee coins)

Akshinthalu should keep separately. First put kumkuma to kid then pour bogipallu and then put akshinthalu.
After that you can give thambulum to married women and can provide snacks(Optional).

kalesum for puja

This post gives you detailed insight of how Kalesum should be kept for puja.

1. Kalesum can be anything made of ragi or silver/gold . Normally asta lakshmi designs are available in it. if not, we can have a plain one. Put nice pasupu, kumkuma bottus on it . can be three or five bottus.

2. First put one cloth/blouse piece down or on a pita. Put some rice on it.

3. In kalesum put some water (small glass of water is enough), one coin (2 rupees coin), little(Chitikadu) pasupu and kumuma, one vokka inside it.

4. On top of the kalesum put five mango leaves, they should fall sides. I will try to put image soon.

5.On top of the leaves put coconut. put one bottu for it, little big.

6. On top of coconut put blouse piece, it should be in cone shape.

Now your kalesum is ready for puja.

After puja you drink one spoon full of that water in the kalesum and put rest of the water to tulasi plant.

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These sarees will give you decent look. Can wear for all occasions; especially for festivals and pujas.

Pure Uppada Silk/Pattu Sarees

Please go through this site for pure Uppada sarees.

www.vinnireddy.com

Offering pure Uppada light weight silk sarees for less cost as we get directly from weavers.

There are so many nice color combinations.

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What should be given in Thambulam

Thambulam should be given to married women. Normally people give Thambulam when we have done puja at our home. To give Thambulam to muthyaidulu(married women), first we need to invite them to our house.
Its like calling Lord lakshmi to our house. Thambulam should contain the following items -

1. Blouse piece (mainly bright colours like red, marron, green, orange, saffron, purple)
2. Any two fruits.
3. Thamalapakulu
4. vakka/ crane packet
5. pasupu +kumkuma packet
6. flowers

Some are optional based on the puja you did -
7. 1 or 2 rupees coin.
8. bangles.
9. nalla pusalu
10. dry coconut (endu kobbari)
11.one Endu kajuram.(dry dates).

How to treat Muthaidhulu-
1. Ask them to sit, then put pasupu to their legs. (it can be optional).
2. Put ghandham to neck, kumkum as bottu, ask them to take pasupu to put to their Mangala sutralu.
3. Give Akshinthalu (rice + pasupu mixed) to them, ask them to bless you by putting those Akshinthalu on you.( tell them what to bless also :) like - Dheerga sumangali bava, santhana prapthirasthu, gruha prapthirasthu, Arogya masthu etc according to your wish).
4. Then give Thambulum.
5. After that serve them with prasadhams ( whatever you made for puja).

Lord Hanuman Picture

I liked this sketch. I got this from some site. We can use this Picture for Hanuman Thoka Puja. The tail is long and convenient to do puja. We can enlarge it little bit.

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use site www.tubedown.net to download youtube videos.
Its bit slow. but ok. iam happy that i can able to download from youtube. :)

Vizag- places to visit

Site seeing places in vizag -
Three days stay to visit vizag would be enough.
1. One day you can plan to go Annavaram.
2. Vizag - RK beach,simhachalam,bhimili,rishi konda beach,erramati dhibbalu,aquamarine,zoo,thotlokonda,film city
To see full vizag at least 2 days are required.
3. Araaku valley,Borra Caves, Annanta giri.
4 days trip to vizag would be cool and luxurious trip. Happy journey.

Common Enterance Test for Medical colleges

Tthe Ministry of Health and the Medical Council of India (MCI) would conduct one common test for all the medical colleges in India. It include all private and government medical colleges in the country. They need to review the syllabus and need to finalize on it. CBSE is going to conduct this test and its first CET in medical would start from 2012.About 17 entrance tests are being held across India, which is a tedious exercise for aspiring MBBS students. If Iam not wrong, AP has declared that there will be no Eamcet for medical students.But iam not sure of it.