Lovely Weekend

Its Holiday season...Season full of party's. This weekend was so wonderful, had so many party's to attend. The best things about these party's is getting ready with colorful clothes and food of-course...I finally got a break from cooking for 2 days...
Its quite a time I attended series of party's. 
Coming to the outfit, to one of the party's I wore Muse Purple dress with a Tadashi Shoji Black Stole/Scarf. I got this stole from Nordstrom, its stretchable a bit and very comfort. The stylist taught me few ways to take it on dress and loved it totally. With this outfit I wore like a short hand cardigan, and the ends tied like a bow at the back...I forgot to take the picture of the bow :(

Last invite of the weekend was from a good friend of mine to attend a Christmas party at his church. This is first time ever I was attending a Christmas party @ church. It was so much fun. coming to my outfit I was not sure about the outfit for church but wanted 2 wear in Red as its X'mas time... So was time for my Cashmere cardigan with Derek heart floral knit top and Levis Jeans

I remembered a Quote
" Live for today, Plan for tomorrow and Party Tonight!!!"
Hasta la Vista...

Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies are sweet cookies that is primarily made during the Christmas season.
Bake!!! Decorate!!! Celebrate!!!


Ingredients:
3 cups all purpose flour 
1tsp Baking Powder
1/4tsp Salt
1cup Sugar
1/2 cup / 1 Stick butter
2 Large eggs
2tsp Vanilla extract
Method:
1. In a bowl Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
2. Take another bowl and beat sugar and butter adding 1 egg at a time.
3. Add vanilla extract and beat in the flour mixture too.
4. Divide the dough in to 4 equal parts, wrap each piece with food wrap and refrigerate for about 30 mins.
5. After 30 mins, use the rolling pin and roll 1 piece dough to 1 to 1.5 inch thick.
6. Preheat the oven to 350 F
6. Using cookie cutter cut the dough to as many cookies desired.
7. Use aluminium foil on the baking tray and move the cookies on to the tray
8. Bake them 10-12 mins or till golden brown
9. Cool Decorate and Serve


I'm sharing this recipe to EasytoCookRecipes for the Christmas Event

Winter Garden

Did any one see the blossoming winter wonderland any time? 

Oh yes winter, where there are no leaves on trees and yes I meant Blossom too...

Today I was very fortunate to see this amazing beauty and had no words. A garden full of lights. Its Christmas time and one can see Christmas lights and decorations every where but, this garden with lights was very special. All trees in the garden were blushing with happiness in this winter. 

Kudos to the garden team who has helped in such a fantastic show. 

These lights were arranged in a theme like water fall, swimming pool, garden and what not. All most all trees in the garden were decorated.

There were Alligators, Turtles, Rabbits too in this garden

It was raining whole of day and we were in fix to go or not, but we made our mind to visit this place. God's grace there was no rain but was damn freezing. 

Sharing the website details GardenDlights

Coming to my outfit I wore Nicole Miller Red Crush Velvet Ruffle dress with my Guess Jacket. I love this Jacket a lot, this was my first purchase @ US @ Nordstrom
Mistake I did with this outfit was pairing up Black Tights with Black Sandals :(

           

           

Christmas Brownies

Its been sometime I really baked something. Today I went out to a local store here and when I saw all the Christmas cookies/goodies my heart filled with happiness. Soon rushed out of the store came home and decided to bake.
Its Christmas and how can one not bake any...
Brownie, A tasty treat to satisfy our chocolate sweet tooths. This name makes my mouth water.
Make it, Love it and Eat it
Ingredients
1/2 cup butter

• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
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• Method:
• 1. Preheat oven to 350 Degrees F. Grease an 8 inch sqaure pan
• 2. Melt 1/2 cup of butter and mix in sugar, eggs and vanilla extract. Use hand mixer if you have one. Beat in cocoa powder, flour,salt and baking powder. 
• 3. Spread the batter into prepared baking pan
• 4. Bake in oven for 30-35 mins.
• Note: Do not over cook
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• If you find this process difficult or feel tired to do from scratch, use Ghirardelli triple chocolate brownie mix and follow the instructions on it to bake
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• Tip to check if your cake is done:
• one can test a cake by inserting a clean toothpick into the middle of the cake. If the toothpick comes out clean, the cake is done. If the toothpick comes out with crumbs, or clearly shows wet cake batter, the cake is not finished cooking. Don’t use a knife to test the cake as this can deflate a cake.

Rainy Day And An Umbrella In hand

I live in a place where it rains most of time. However this rain never made us to sit at home. Was a wonderful day with family get together and pleasant walk in the evening. This was the first time I had an Umbrella in my hand. Coming to my outfit I wore my Mom's favorite Tunic today, I got this in my recent trip to India. This is my first yellow in the closet. 

The best thing about walk with my husband is his photography. I love the way he clicks them.

Tunic: India

Leggings: Kohl's

Kische Lace open Cardigan

Sandals: India

Chain/Ear Tops : Macy's

I love Black

I don’t consider myself the most fashion-obsessed person. I browse trends and styles from time to time, but I don’t feel obliged to follow them. 

I think what we chose to wear makes a big difference, whether we realize it or not.

And now thru this blog I would try to bring more fashion in me.

Today I had a Party to attend. After a week of flu sickness, I wanted to look brighter and smarter. After running through my closet I came up with this outfit. It was too cold outside so had to wear tights to be sickness free

WhiteTop : Old Navy

Black Top: Levis

Skirt: Old Navy

Boots: Nicole

Bangle: Macy’s

Tights: Target

Tweet Tweet Reel People

We are so star struck by celebrities[Reel People] that we sometimes forget that they are real people. They are real people right??? And celebrities always tend to forget that we are the one who made them. Did we not ???

We are the soul creators of the celebrities. NO DOUBT. It's the public who decides the fate of the reel person, if person has impressed the viewer; he becomes celebrity else he is one among us.

But, would these celebrities give the same respect to the public.

I have been using twitter for sometime now and all I follow are celebrities. Some of their tweets are funny, some are informative and some are just the causal tweets.I replied to few of the tweets and never received any reply from them. Few of my friends also shared the same opinion, and few are Like I don't care for their tweets, I tweet because I'm a normal person.

And that made me think 1001 times if the celebrities are Real people, Of-course NOT was all I concluded, if they were they would have replied to the tweets (sounds kiddish). They are more famous than the real Normal people. The real people do not get feted by the press,mobbed by groupies or excoriated from the pulpit and for sure they can never be one among us.

My friend quoted this one day...
“Real people use face book and Reel people use Twitter!!!”
And I feel its very true. Twitter has less tweets from real world and more tweets from reel world.

I spoke to few people who always think this way. Reel people do the way the public wants from them. They act they change all according to what we expect from them which indeed made me very strong enough in my thinking.

With all the mixed feelings I still respect the celebrities, just wish them to be good to the public and respect there feelings and thoughts too

Chicken 65 and Baked Fish

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

-Thanking my family and god for all support and blessing this year

This day most people in America cook turkey but I made a special feast with chicken and Fish

Chicken 65 Dry

Ingredients

1. Boneless chicken: 2 lbs
2. Coriander leaves chopped:1/4 cup
3. corn flour: 2 tsp
4. Cumin seeds: 1 tsp
5. Pepper powder: 1tsp
6. Red chilli powder: 1 tsp
7. Salt: ½ tsp
8. Curry leaves: 5-6 number
9. Egg: 1
10. Ginger and garlic chopped: I tsp each
11. Ginger-Garlic paste: ½ tsp
12. Green chilli: 4-5
13. Chilli Garlic Paste: 1 TBS( Optional) [ Store brought]
14. Oil: to fry
15. Red color : 3 drops

Method

Add salt, ginger/garlic paste, pepper powder, cornflour and add egg and mix in completely.

Heat oil in a Pan and add chicken pieces few at a time and fry until lightly golden brown. Take them in separate bowl

To make the sauce:-Heat 2-3 tsp oil in a pan-Add cumin, add the chopped ginger and garlic and suate until fragrant-Add chopped chillies, curry leaves,1 tsp ginger/garlic paste, chilli powder, salt,Chilli Garlic paste, red color and mix-Cook for a few minutes and add a little water and then add chicken to this paste and toss lightly-Stir in the coriander leaves and serve

Baked Fish

Method:

Used Tilapia Fillets

In a bowl add salt, Red Chilli powder [ both according to taste], 1 TBS Lemon juice, ½ tsp coriander powder and mix well

Add some colander leaves too. Coat the fillets with above mixture and place them in the baking tray

[ Use aluminum foil coated with Oil in the tray to avoid fish from over cooking because of direct heat]

Preheat the over to 350 F and place the baking tray and cook the fish for 15-20 min.

[Flip the fillets after 10 min to other side]

Place the fillets on the serving plate and serve hot

Simple to cook and very healthy