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Clarified butter or as we call it in India-"Ghee", has been a part of my home ever since Maple was born. When we started with solid food for her, my mother used to put in a drop of ghee made by her. The story of making ghee at home goes way back when I was studying engineering. I happen to visit my roommates home at Mangalore. Jacy's mom is such a warm person, she cooked yummy food for me, and when I left she handed me a bottle of home made ghee (they had cows at home, so milk was bountiful there) With the arrival of that bottle at my house, my mom saw to it that the bottle was never empty. Every week she would collect the cream from the ilk we used and store it to make clarified butter to add onto the bottle. However, once we introduced Maple to ghee, she became a huge fan of the flavor it imparts to food. Then she wanted in on her rice, rotis, bread etc etc.. With depleting resource from mom, i was forced to make mine at home. Here's how I do it from the scr...

{Pretty Happy Funny Real} ~ Capturing the context of contentment in everyday life ~ Its raining..... not continuous though! and I am not a "love the rains" kind of a person, however I do like to get out when its sunny after the rain, everything looks so washed and cleaned out! {Pretty}   {Happy} All shelf and furniture dusted and cleaned {Funny} Sparkle is kind of claiming his right on stuff that use to be Maple's and my sweet little daughter ever ready to give it to her little brother. However, she does come and tell me in my ears: "Mama you better teach Sparkle, how to share things with me " This bean bag was bought on request from Maple as her old one had torn apart and now we find Sparkle always on it {Real}  Covering Maple's schools books, she started with her academic year this June after a long summer vacation As monsoon gets into action, I need to give special attention into my Sunshine...

For this weeks Favorite Five linking up with  Hallie at moxiewife.   ~~~1~~~ Favorite Picture of ours as young couple sweet couple na! ~~~2~~~ Gift from those given by my husband beauty    ~~~3~~~ My Jar of  home made Ghee (Clarified Butter) yummy ~~~4~~~ Bean Bag Family favorite old bean bag new one ~~~5~~~ This mug was also a gift from my youngest sister on my birthday. nice na

No I am not complaining! I had a very nice weekend. Many of my to do list things done. Above all, Sparkle is all fine and happy. Talking about weekend, I bought in my monthly supplies within my budget Made the brownies I mentioned in my last post (Maple loved it) Revived an old shoe rack. Deep Cleaned my Bathroom using idea from here   and greatest feeling of fulfillment was going to church was so refreshing. There were 5 (Sparkle included) babies just few months old last Sunday at the church. Every time I see a baby, I feel its a proof that God loves human being so much. I know I should have clicked some pics of all the cuties, :( I don't carry my phone to church).

My First  7 Quick Takes Friday -Vol1 from www.conversiondiary.com ----1---- Why do things just pop up without warning? I had things planned out and everything went out of schedule, or did I not pay close attention around ? Anyways! I had to enjoy what I was doing. Though sparkle was not keeping that very well ( a stomach infection), I had to attend a workshop. It was not like someone had pointed a gun on my head to attend it; however it was way to stay away from feeding sparkle as doc suggested that I feed him a little less till his stomach calms down and also a chance to meet all my old colleagues. I did return home early, and found sparkle to be more active than the previous day. (we both hardly slept that night due to his stomach-poor baby) As I see Sparkle achieving his milestone on his way to become a naughty toddler, I am kind of  keep checking Maple's pics as a toddler ---2--- Plans for weekend is a little unsure due to sparkle's health, however will s...

I'm joining this blog for my 1st favorite five at  Moxie Wife! 1. My wedding Tiara I love it 2. Favorite place at home Sun-shines through my window 3. Cuddles & snuggles! Cute 4. Favorite corner love cooking here 5. Glass spice jars away with plastic containers

Breakfast is one meal that I just cannot miss, and I need it to be really heavy and healthy. Do I need to say that, me being so lazy these days, I hardly look forward to cook specially the breakfast. So what I need to do is do maximum preparation previous day night itself. Thus I land up making stuffs like appam, dosa, idli, upma etc.. Today was idli's turn! These are however dishes that one thinks of as very, I wouldn't say difficult but, needs preparation and thus serves my schedule. These are very old Idli moulds used by my ma-in law, very convenient ones. Tasty Idlis with Sambhar & Chutney (I didn't get to click my Sambhar & chutney pics; was running late to work!) However cooking the same over and over again gets very monotonous, and we at home are not very used to a sweet breakfast. Since I am just not able to keep up with healthy demand of breakfast I am on hunt fro easy and fast breakfast recipes to list a few that I make: Idlis Plain dosa...