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( Lord Ganesha has arrived, had sweet offerings till he's full... he dunks into the small lake and then rises out of the big lake)
There was a time when children would sing this every Ganesh Chaturthi. Today's youth might not do that, but are singing a `green' tune this festive season.
The eco-ambassadors are gung-ho about celebrating the festival without harming natural surroundings. Some Bangalore schools are leading the way to pass on this message to students. Environmental c...
sheermal. recipe
Ingredients:
3 cups - plain flour
1 cup - milk
2 tbsp - milk extra
1 tsp - sugar
3/4 cup - ghee
salt to taste
few saffron strands
Method
Soak saffron strands in 2 tbsp. milk warmed.
Keep aside.
Sift together flour and salt, sprinkle in sugar.
Take in a large bowl, add melted ghee.
Run in ghee with finger till evenly distributed.
Add milk a little at a time, and knead in dough.
When it form...
Milk helps quick recovery
At the end of nearly every training session, Matt Whitmore downs a pint of milk straight from the bottle.
`I do it pretty religiously,` said Whitmore, 25, a gym trainer in London. He first started drinking milk after exercise about 10 years ago when he couldn`t afford expensive supplements or protein shakes. `Milk helps me recover faster and I feel great afterwards,` he said. `And now, I hate to train without it`.
Researchers are giving scientific support to a view that Wh...
Unstuffed Modak for Naivedya
Ingredients:
3 bananas ripe
1/2 cup mixture of: maida, rava and riceflour
2 pinches salt
3 tsp. sugar powdered
3 cardamom pods
1 tbsp. hot ghee
Ghee for deep frying
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Method
Sieve together all flours, sugar, salt.
Seed and crush cardamoms.
Peel and mash bananas well.
Mix all ingredients except ghee for frying.
Knead into a soft sticky dough.
Heat ghee in frying pan.
When hot, wet hand, pick up some dough.
Drop pellet s...
Nearing the New Year, birthdays, or other special occasions, we never fail to make resolutions. However, losing weight which often tops the list is a resolution that’s easier to make than fulfill. The secret wish, however, to get rid of those extra kilos or flab on you tummy need not be difficult with the right alterations to your diet.
To help you, here are some ground rules to keep in mind:
To do so, start by improving your knowledge of nutrition: It is essential to learn about which food is ben...
Sedentary men who work beyond 45 hours a week double their risk of dying from heart failure. However, men who keep fit or exercise and work long hours face no increased risk of dying from cardiac conditions.
The study examined data for 5,000 men - aged between 40 and 59 years from 14 different companies - which included their fitness levels over 30 years, reports the Daily Mail. The men did cycling exercise tests to assess their fitness and provided details on the average number of hours they wor...
Sunlight is known to be the best and only natural source of vitamin D. But, scientists say that sunshine could give you wrinkles, even through a window.
Two studies have found that the damage caused by sun coming through glass can be so dramatic that, over time, the side of the face exposed to the rays can end up looking up to seven years older than the other.
Even a few hours sitting in a car during April results in skin damage, according to the studies.
For the first study, the scientists at the ...
