Pav Bhaji

Ingredients

Potatoes – 3 nos

Green peas – 50 g

Capsicum – 1 no

Tomatoes – 2 nos

Big Onions – 2 nos

Ginger/garlic paste – 1tsp

Chilli powder – ¼ tsp

Lemon juice – ½ tsp

Butter – 50 g

Pav bun – 2 nos

Salt – as required

Water

For masala

Coriander seeds – 1/2 tsp

Dry Red chilli – 2 nos

Dry mango powder – ½ tsp

Cumin – ½ tsp

Fennel – ¼ tsp

Black pepper – 3 nos

Cinnamon – 1 no

Cloves – 2 nos

Cardamom – 1 no

Method

♥ Boil and mash the potatoes.

♥ Cook the green peas until they become tender.

♥ Slightly fry the masala ingredients without oil in a pan and grind them all well.

♥ Now melt 4 tbsp butter and sauté the chopped onions until golden brown.

♥ Then add ginger/garlic paste and chopped capsicum and cook for 3 mins.

♥ Add chopped tomatoes and cook until soft.

♥ Now add 1tsp of the grinded dry masala powder or use instant pav bhaji masala

♥ Add mashed potatoes and green peas.

♥ Then Add chilli powder, salt and little water and let it cook for few mins to the desired consistency.

♥ Now sprinkle lemon juice for taste.

♥ Now the gravy for pav bhaji is ready.

♥ Cut the pav buns in the middle and toast them in butter.

♥ Serve the buns with gravy and enjoy.

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Heart Feelings 10

At one point of view,

the person whom you

thought as your enemy

may suddenly shown as

 your friend to you and

the person whom you

 thought as your best friend

may betray you. It’s the

serious game of life and

 it’s rules always change

as often with full of unexpected

 surprises and shocks. Those

who understands this game

completely can win and

others simply stay behind

and fails in life.

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Rain - The Gift Of Nature

Clouds mingle to a gloomy dark,

Covering the world like a giant shark,

Blows the thunder drums so noisy,

To announce the arrival of holy sprinkles down cozy,

Sky celebrates the farewell with fireworks,

Signals the sparkling silver streaks,

Pitter, patter the drizzle drops,

Fragrance of petrichor pops,

Thirsty flowers open their wings,

For thy catch the dew clings,

Magic potion scrubs the earth,

Mother nature brings a new birth,

Indefinite are the pleasures it brings,

Softly forms the ripple of rings,

Fresh dawn appears the later shower,

Brushed up with a pretty power,

As the droplets flows so loud and loud,

Everyone loves this gift of cloud!

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Honor Your Anger

You don’t believe or realize what anger will do to you. I mean what bothers you on a really deep level? What makes you burn inside? What makes you uncontrollable and fired up, you cant stop talking about it? You may not have realized this before, but knowing is a valuable knowledge. Why? Because your anger reveals your passion.

Some people handle their anger better than others. That’s admirable. Getting angry is acceptable, but acting negatively based on that anger is not. Persons with good thoughts see anger as unfulfilled passion and find their ways to convert it to productive use. Negative side of anger causes danger. But the other beautiful side of anger gives you a sense of power.

Anger provides the courage to do the things which you might have thought it can’t be possible. The destructive anger where it is born out of ignorance and exists for the sake of itself. The constructive anger where it is born out of an injustice or dissatisfaction and a will to make a change towards a positive.

Listen, anger is a great energy. First of all, we should not be in denial mood but gladly accept this feeling. Accept it as master, it is the mantra. Do not fight with this (anger) enemy, you will never win. Understand this enemy, you will always win. Don’t be slave to it by controlling it. Be friendly with anger and see it from distance.

When someone makes you angry, don’t let them win in making you angry, instead just give time for your mind to think, is it a valid reason to express your anger on the person who is trying to make you angry? Express your anger in a calm way so that the person is ashamed of his behavior. This is really a wise act.

One of my friend often tease me by saying “you are not expressive and you don’t know how to express things”. It provoke my anger and irritate me. It was a feeling that burn inside of me. It made me think deeply to work out on it. And that made me to express things through my writing. I found my passion of writing with the help of anger.

The next time something makes you angry, take a moment to explore where that passion really wants to go. It might be worth the journey without side effects.

“Do not teach your children never to be angry, Teach them how to be angry”          -Lyman Abbott

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