Winter Pea & Lettuce Soup
January 3rd, 2006

I have tried this soup & it is really delicious, want to share it with everybody. Try it…
Ingredients
100g butter
1 onion, finely chopped
1 big lettuce, finely shredded
800g frozen peas or u can use fresh peas also
1 tsp garlic
900ml vegetable stock
1 tsp lemon juice
150ml cream
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Method
Melt the butter in a large pan. Add the onions & cook gently for 10 minutes, until soft. Add the lettuce & peas, mix them well with butter. Now add garlic, stock, lemon zest & lemon juice, bring it to boil and let it simmer the peas are soft. Now pour the mixture or soup into a blender and blend until smooth. Again reheat the soup ...
Thai Fish Soup
January 3rd, 2006

Ingredients
1 can coconut milk
500ml fish stock
2 tsp green Thai curry paste
4 spring onions, sliced
2 tsp fish sauce
Few dried lemon grass
2 tsp lime juice
1 bag of mixed frozen seafood, defrost or use any fish u like such as fish fillets, prawns & mussels.
Coriander
Lime zest
Lime segments to garnish
Method
Take a pan put coconut milk, stock, curry paste, lemon grass, spring onions, fish sauce and lime juice in it and bring it to boil then reduce the heat and let it simmer for another 5 minutes. Remove the lime leaves. Add the defrost seafood and coriander and cook it for more 5 minutes till the seafood is soft and ready to eat. Serve hot garnished with lime ...
Talking to your baby matters
January 3rd, 2006

I have a 11 months old baby "Yash" and now he has started talking to me, first words were ma-ma-ma & now he says mummy & sometimes baby, don’t know if it is really mummy or not but it always sounds like mummy. It is really very interesting to hear them talk with you, because they try their level best to communicate with you.
Here are some tips which I want to share with you all. I got these tips from my midwife and some are from my mom.
Talking and listening to your child will benefit you both. Your child will feel valued and loved, and the two of you will form a close bond with each other. Infact talking and listening to children from the ...
Red kidney beans or Rajma
January 2nd, 2006

Ingredients
Red kidney beans soaked overnight
1 big onion (grated)
1 big tomato (grated)
1 tsp of ginger paste
1 tsp of garlic paste
½ tsp cumin seeds
Red chilli powder as you wishes
1 spoon turmeric powder
1 tsp garam masala
Fresh bunch of coriander leaves
Salt as per taste
Method to cook
First wash the kidney beans and put them into pressure cooker to boil them with enough water and add some salt to it, pressure cook for atleast 20 minutes and then you can open the cooker and check if the beans are soft or not, if not pressure cook them again. Once kidney beans are boiled, start making your paste for gravy. Take a pan put 3 tsp of cooking oil in ...
Skin care in winter
January 2nd, 2006

Lemon as a beauty aid
Start your morning with a combination of half a lemon of juice and an orange, squeezed in hot water, sweetened with honey.
For weight watchers & those on a reducing programme, lemon is excellent. Since it helps in depigmentation of the skin, it is useful for those suffering from blemishing and blotchy skin.
Lemon as a hand lotion: Mix lemon juice to rose water and rub on hands to get smooth hands. Rub granulated sugar and the juice of a lemon together till the sugar is dissolved. Then rinse it off. Do this regularly for a month and see the difference.
Lemon ...
Chola & Batura Or Chick peas & Naan
December 30th, 2005

Ingredients for Chick Peas (Chola)
1 boil canned Chick Peas or u can soak chick peas in water overnight.
Salt to taste
1 Tea bag
1/2 tsp Zeera
4 piece Kadi Patta
2 big Onions
1/8 piece of Ginger, 3 cloves of Garlic grated
1 tsp Garam Masala
1 Tomato or 2 tbsp Tomato Puree
1/4 tsp each turmeric, red chilli powder, Dhaniya powder
Method for chick peas
If u are using chick peas soaked in water overnight, then next day pressure cook chick peas adding salt to taste and 1 tea bag. This will change the color of chola to black. Pressure cook it for 30 minutes till they are ...
Spicy Mixed Vegetable
December 30th, 2005

1 large Aubergine cut into lengthwise pieces
1 large green peper cut lenghtwise
10 - 12 Green Beans cut lenghtwise
1 Carrots cut into thin & long pieces
2 Potatoes medium size cut as you wish
Spring Onions 1 bunch cut lenghtwise
Ginger paste 1 tbsp
Green Chilies 2-3 slit
Turmeric 1tsp
Red Chili Powder 1 tsp
Jeera powder 1-1/2 tsp
Dhania powder 1 tsp
Tomato puree (canned tomato sauce) 4tbsp
Salt to taste
Cooking oil 4-5 tbsp
Method for cooking
Heat oil in a large saucepan or skillet. Add whole mustard seeds until ...
New Look of Sheetudeep
December 30th, 2005
Sheetudeep.com unveiled a new look for its website, which offers cleaner design and sharper focus on the topic. The newly designed layout is featuring new brighter and inviting color, user friendly webpages, pageheader to focus the content of the webpage. The content has largely remained unchanged in our new website, but few other additions are in the website;
Advertisements have been added to all our webpages to generate the revenue for the maintenance of the website.The
news section has been added to provide the news from leading news website.We have also added website tools like Recommend Page, Send Feedback, Submit Articles(Quotes,Poems,Jokes etc) to every webpage of the website. These tools will help the viewers to share ...
Beauty from the kitchen shelf
December 26th, 2005

Hello everybody,
I want to share some beauty tips with u all, I found these tips from different books and some are from friends, I have tried them all and am very happy with the results.
Here are some home made beauty tips to share.
Eggs – Eggs are very good for face, it helps to tighten the pores and nourish the skin. Beat a raw egg and apply it as a mask on the face and neck, leave it for 20 minutes and then wash your face with cold water. The egg white can be used as a cleanser, apply it on the head for half-an- hour before you shampoo. I have tried this and believe me it works, beat an egg and ...
Recipe Gobi Manchurian
December 25th, 2005

I want to share this recipe with everybody, it’s very delicious and easy to make.
It’s called Gobi Manchurian.
Ingredients:
1 Cauliflower clean and broken into small florettes.
1 small bunch spring onion finely chopped
3 onions cut lengthwise
3 capsicums cut lengthwise
3tsp ginger finely chopped
2tsp garlic finely chopped
Green chillies finely chopped
1/4 cup plain flour and 3 tbsp corn flour
Red chilli powder as per taste
Salt as needed
Pinch of turmeric powder
Soya sauce and Tomato sauce
First boil the cauliflower florettes for 10 mins in water with a pinch of salt added to it.Then drain and let it dry, make a thick batter of mixing plain flour and corn flour with red chilli powder and salt. Dip the florettes in the batter and deep fry them till they turn golden ...