HAPPY LIVING WITH SOKHI

Course: main Preparation time: 15 mins Cooking time: 20 mins Ingredients : Prawns. : 300 grams Chopped Onion:   2  Chopped Tomato: 2 Potatoes: 2 medium sizes diced into small cubes. Mustard Oil: 4 tbsp  Salt to taste  Sugar: 1- 2 tsp Turmeric Powder:1 tsp  Chilli Powder. : 2 tsp  Nigella (Kalo jeera) Seeds little Green Chilli Paste 2  also 3 - 4 whole green chillies (slit) Poppy Seeds Paste 4 tbsp (Poppy seeds soaked in warm water for about 10 minutes, then removed from the water and blended to a paste with 2 tbsp of water and 3-4 green chillies and a pinch of salt) Ghee: 1 tsp. Procedure: Clean the prawns carefully, de-shelled, and de-veined keeping the tails intact. Rub the prawns with a little turmeric powder and salt. Heat 1 tbsp of mustard oil in a frying pan till smoking hot.  Add the prawns and fry till light golden (be careful not to over fry the prawns). Now keep ...

Think Happy , Be Happy In psychology,  happiness  is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by, among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy. Happiness is not a life without problems rather the struggle to overcome the problems that come your way . There is no such thing as problem free life , difficulties are unavoidable , its the manner in which we experience and react to our problems. Happiness  is not that we can ask for or buy in market or people distribute it ,we can only achieve it. Achieving happiness is not very tough job its actually how one lead his or her life . Everyone desire and deserve happiness. There are few  points which can help one  to increase one’s liveliness and bring more  happiness  into their life.  Smile and be with the people who make you smile.  Researches have shown that we are happiest when we are around those who are also happy. Be with th...

Hi FRIENDS, Today i am going to tell you about my pets who are very important part of my life . I always say i was born with a dog. As it is said that "Dogs are men's best friends" this is so very true and i love my dogs. Before my marriage we had 5 dogs in my parents house , we had 3 spitz named Lucky, Tushi and Brandy (3 generation)and 2 german shepherd named Jim and Jimmy. They were like life to the house .  After my marriage initially  my in-laws had a german shepherd too who was quite old named Jimmy who died few years after my marriage . After loosing all the dogs (they died) we thought we won't keep anymore dogs but we couldn't do so and in 2010 we got a dalmatian in our home and named her Bingo ,who was a very playful dog , she was 45 days old when i got her but it was very sad that we lost her within a year due to cerebral attack . I was really upset after she died and promised to my ownself no more dogs. Unless suddenly one day my elder son got a cute...

Ingredients : Baingan - 2 medium size . Onion - 2 large chopped  Tomato - 2 medium chopped Ginger - 2 inch finely grated Garlic - 10 cloves finely chopped Coriander leaves - 1/2 cup chopped Green chilli - 4 chopped Cumin (whole) - 1/2 tsp Bay Leaf - 1 Turmeric Pd - 1 tsp Chilli Pd - 1 tsp Cumin pd -1tsp Coriander Pd - 1 tsp Amchur Pd - 1 tsp Salt - according to taste  Oil - Mustard or olive oil 2 Tbsp Procedure : Roast Baingan first then de-skin it  then mash it and keep it aside. Heat oil in a pan add whole cumin and bay leaf when its little brown add chopped garlic fry little then add onion to it fry till it changes its colour .Add tomato fry it together adding little salt,  when nicely cooked add all the dry spices to and fry till it starts leaving oil and its cooked.Add mashed baingan and fry it again thoroughly till its cooked add garam masala pd and ginger chopped . Your Baingan Bharta is ready to serve . Enjoy!!!...

Together in new journey My day with my old sokhi's to reach out to new sokhi's. SOKHI means female friend, saheli , dost . Inspired by my very good old friend from my college days Barnali whom we friends call Kothakoli . In college we 8 girls were very close friends who were together in their lives in thick and thin times though seperated for long times and reunited very recently we are trying to help each other to do something creative which we may enjoy doing.Arati, Barnali(kotha),Madhumita,Nandini(Nondu),Nandini(Rintu),Ranjana, Sadhana(Mona/ that's me) Susmita(sulu), old good friends are still friends and hopefully will be together till their last breathe. Hope positive for the future of our friendship. I love you all my friends you are my precious possession . God bless u all. seven of us  Ranjana missing. old pic from college time Ranjana in center college excursion  YEH DOSTI HUM NAHI TORENGAY. LOVE U ALL.