Turmeric Milk with Saffron-Haldi for all seasons...

Turmeric.Health.Omnipotent.Panacea for all ills.Cold.Sniffles.Cough and Congestion.Warmth...Make sense???Double ,double, toil and troublefire burn and cauldron bubble...Somewhere these are all related.And when they are mom -made to alleviate all aches and pains and allow you to sleep snug and warm at night...any potion is good.And when it comes with the goodness of turmeric and the warmth of peppers and the ethereal saffron adding another zing along...

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Hair-Story...Gillette Satin Care

I'm finally home...Finally happy to be surrounded by my own stuff...Too many pictures hanging from the walls...My books where ever I can place them...Shoes under all my favourite chairs and seats(though I have yet to make them my favourite places)My favourite chipped coffee mug at my elbow...My clothes falling out of my cupboards -already??And my favourite weird looking statuettes staring at me from everywhere...It feels so good to be home!Fortunately...

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Goodness of Coconut for Skin -Parachute Advansed Body Lotion

Almost South Indian...Born in God's own Country-Kerala...Love the smell of filter Coffee...Adore Anything fried in coconut oil...Love to walk barefoot...Love the smell of fish...Love the taste of anything coconut...Love to slather coconut oil on my wet skin after a shower...That's me...I count my blessings...Every time I get access to the purest coconut oil...Coconut ...The new wonder nut...The world is just discovering...But we are watching and...

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Chicken Chettinad- North Indian Style

Good Friends and Good Food...Sunshine and the smell of coconuts...And Chicken drenched in curry leaves...And a soft Appam to mop up the juicy gravy clinging to the spoon...Chrysanthemums and my brass urli...How much more south Indian can our repast have gotten??We had vegetable (ish)stew,dosas,idiappams,idlis and vadas...along with a ginger and tomato based coconut chutney and sambhar and gun powder...Just a tiny bite of cold in the air...Last week...

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Nightmares and Reality-Write over the Weekend-Jan18,2013

Write Over the Weekend theme for this weekBegin your story using this ‘You wake up, go to the bathroom and look at the mirror.’6 o'clock already...I woke up with a start...Rather- a heart defying drum beat..Groped in the darkness for the light switch and went into the bathroom and...Opened my eyes...To look at the mirror...Aargh!After an almost skipped heartbeat...Oh thank god for small mercies!!After last evenings shearing...I fully expected to...

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Super Potato Wedges McCains Style-Baked

Comfort Food...Hot, crisp, fried...well almost- baked potato wedges...When they come out of a zip pouch...Wow!The smell of a buttery new potato, baking n its skin...Slathered in spices and then dipped in a cilantro flavoured yogurt sauce...Yum, yum,yum!!!The best way to begin and end a meal...The easiest meal to make...Wholesome and comforting and loaded with calories...Satisfying...I know,  I am ,in all probability going on like a  teenager...However,...

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Til ke Laddo Til Phugga-Happy Makar Sankranti -Homemade and Microwaved...

As the Sun transmigrates and begins its ascendancy and entry into the Northern hemisphere, let all your lives be filled with resplendent joy and may you all have an year of success and prosperity.Happy Makar Sankranti...Happiness and sunshine..OK ,I may be a little late...OK,I may be a lot late....But I am here.I am not cribbing about the cold...that is being done to death...I am cribbing about the binging that the cold is making me do.I hope it...

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