Methi Paratha

Happy Weekend …. It’s so chilled outside….almost …..12 degree, in the morning at 5 a.m. Wearing sweater, socks, track pant for whole days cause I am feeling that we are staying at Manali….oohhhhh……its so cold here. Saee having running nose and little bit of cough too, but still ready to give pose for a click….

My model..

Am I looking so thin or in shape ?

Winter is my favorite season. You will get a fresh variety of food and veggies in the market. This is the season where you can feed a variety of food to your kiddos which are fresh and juicy too.

Methi which is also known as Fenugreek is one of my favorite vegetable. They are rich in antioxidant, iron and good source of fiber. Though it is bitter in taste but have so many healthy benefits like, enhance breast milk production, reduce cholesterol, regulate blood sugar and control Diabetes, protect from cancer and help in digestion.

Today I am sharing a recipe of Methi Paratha, which is husband and toddler approved.  I love making various kind of paratha. No…no…no…not all paratha approved by Nitin….ha …this is one of his favorite dish, if it is served with curd raita. No matter saee is following to her dad too. She also love all paratha….its my luck whatever vegetable I want to serve her I make the paratha…and….she finish it all with tomato sauce or curd. Sigh....she loves curd so much……knock on the wood plzzz….. This is my trick to feed both of them the vegetables that they don’t like so much or avoid to eating. Many of you also doing the same thing na…..?

This is very simple recipe with step by step pictorial presentation.

Knead dough like chapatti by mixing all ingredients like flour, curd, chopped methi leaves, haldi powder, red chilli powder, ginger and garlic paste and salt.

And keep it aside with covered for at least 10 minute. Then make a lemon size ball and dip in the floor. Dust some floor on rolling pin and roll out round shape chapatti.

Heat a tawa and place the rolled chapatti on it and cook for a minute. When bubbles star appearing apply little oil and flip it on the other side, cook until got some crispy and golden color.

Taddaa…methi paratha is ready.Serve it hot with spoonful of butter on it and curd raita or pickle.

Detailed Recipe

Serve size: 2 people

Ingredient

Whole Wheat flour: 2 cup

Fenugreek Leaves: 1 cup

Curd: 2 tbsp

Ginger Garlic paste: 1 tsp

Red Chili powder: ½ tsp or as per your taste

Turmeric Powder: ¼ tsp

Salt: as per taste

Recipe:

Wash Fenugreek leaves thoroughly under running cold water and chopped them finely. Take a whole wheat flour or atta. Mix all above ingredients with atta and knead soft dough by mixing little water at a time. Cover it with cloth and rest for at least 10 minute.

Make small lemon size ball, dust some floor on rolling pin and rolled out a round shaped chapatti from that ball. Heat a tawa and place the rolled out chapatti on it, when bubbles appear apply some oil on it. Flip on the other side and apply some oil there to, and let it cook until got some nice golden color.

Serve it with raita, pickle, sauce anything you like.

Lets chatt

What is your trick to feed your toddler or kid?

Does your family member love parathas?

Inspirational Goals for 2016

Hello people ……Happy  Makarsankrati …..(Tilgul ghya ani god god bola)

You will be thinking I am crazy….its mid of the January and I am writing about the goals. Everyone is making resolution for the New Year 2016 and almost on their way to quitting….ha ha ha (just kidding). No I am not the resolustinst person, I have never made any resolution for any new year, in fact I am believing to live life as the way it comes, But Nowadays I am as mommy, wife, daughter ...etc. feeling so overwhelmed and need to set some goals for self growth which make me inspired and happy too. There will be long list …..so here we go

Family Goals

My family is always my top priority. Nitin and I  always make some goals for a family and constantly achieving. We focus on our new home. This year we will decorate our new home as dreamed it. We start with the Gallery which is our favorite place in our home. We have lots of plans for that and will accomplish soon.

We also establish goals for monthly budget, saving and investments on month to month basis, hope to stick with them.

Times flew so fast…..saee is now toddler, still have one year for her school. We have started to research on school. In Mumbai there are many educational Boards like Delhi Board, State Board, International Board….list will go on, really get confused which board will be best for her in terms of education and fees. Yess….As parents we all do face huge burden of fees, and my intention is to provide her the best education which enhance her development and personality too, Plzzzz parents help me out, I need suggestion from your end.

Travel

We had made getaways to andman and Nicobar island in 2015. This was a memorable trip in my life. For 2016 we also hope to have a long full week vacation with family.

Blogging

2015 I had started my blog and thank you guys for your appreciation and suggestion. I will focus on writing a good post on which I am passionate about,  like food, travel, décor, and offcourse my kiddo. I will make at least three post in one month and improve my writing and grammatical mistakes, Ha ha ha…  So please stay tune for your suggestion and chat.

Read….

I want to read Marathi Kadambari, YAYATI of V.Sa. Khandekar, my favorite author.Want to read some nonfiction book too. My target for this year to read at least 3 books.

Social Media

I am totally disconnected with the social media from the last two year, so this year I want to be active on facebook , pintrest and also want to try the new one instagram…yup…yes I am pretty late latif. My focus is to be connected with the friends via social media.

Personal goals

Since saee born I am focusing on her only. Now she is 2 and half and I feel to give some attention towards me. This year I will make my doctor appointment for my eyesite. Want to take care of my skin and do some hair treatment. Will dress up myself properly with some real cloths and have exercise twice in a week.

Focus on relationship with family and friends. Lots of people complaining that I am not picking up the calls, not responding them …..Sorry guys but when I am with see, I always put my phone away from us. I do not want to get any distraction while I am playing with her. I will work on this now and try to be quick responder with everyone through calls, chats, message or whatsup.

Recipes

Nitin gifted me last year convection oven so want to learn oven based  baking recipe and also some traditional recipe. Bear me nitin…, but you know how much I love cooking. I will also share some recipe on my blog. My focus is to provide my family healthy and variety of meal which is mostly prepared at home only.

Here we go 2016……

Have you set any goals for 2016 ?

Do You set any family goals ?    

Thank You

2015 made me cry, made me smile, made me stand again…..to welcome now new year 2016. This year gave me the best gift of my life so special thanks to God.

My new own flat and my Father.

Yes we purchased our own flat in this year without having any planning. It just happened suddenly…. Older people said na ….(Jya gosthi jevha vahyachya astat tevach hotat .)

We lived on rental flat for 2 years and did not have any planning to buy new home due to huge cash requirement…..but somehow I felt it is better to give EMI to bank rather than to give rent to the owner. And we both started googling…..searching on olx, quicker or housing sites which were providing affordable home…n bingo……we took….its really Gods miracle for us when we do not have any extra cash in our hand without our small saving…..we crack the impossible. Thanks Nitin for such wonderful gift.

And second thing is my father.

We almost about to lossed him but he is a great fighter and he is with us to welcome 2016. He was admitted for COPD treatment for 15 days..n having oxygen therapy. Doc also said that he need continuously external oxygen cause he cant breathe naturally…so we took him at home and arrange oxygen  at home and within 3 days he was able to take normal breathing with our normal room temperature. Ohhh God… I never ever forget those crucial days…but now I am very happy that he is with us… to make us laugh, cry n inspire. Love you papa.

And off course today is the last day of the year so I would like to thanks all my family member. Its just humble gratitude to all of them

My attya (father’s sister) who is daddi, mother, friend, guide, teacher for me. I am learned and still learning  from her that not to give up and always have faith in yourself.

These are the ladies of my family. My mother, my tai, and my little sister Jaya….. Thank you for being supportive to me in every situation of my life.

My bro…Shashank and Vishal …are always there for me …no matter how rude I was with them sometime.

And last but not the least my Hubby and my sweet daughter See……Thank you.

My hubby nitin is God bleesing to me…who handle my anger, my craziness and I have learned or you can say still learning how to be calm in every situation as I was very short tempered girl.

Saee my sweety…… I have learned lot from her… I will make separate post for that, but thank you baccha ….for being in my life to make me mother and make our life with full of happiness and joy.

And thank you all the readers, my friends for being with me.

Wish all of you Happy New Year 2016.

Happy Diwali 2015

       Dhoom….Dhadam….Dhomm…. its 5.30 a.m. ….and saee wakes up with this firecrackers noise. Yes you are right its Diwali here. She cames to meet u, hugs u, light up your positivity and hopes. Open your door and let welcome her.

Diwali is one of the biggest festival of India. Right beginning from cleaning the house, scrubbing tiles, decorating our home, preparing sweet and traditional meals, and shopping …..list will go on … I love to do each and every thing for diwali. This 2015 Diwali is special for us… because my baby is now toddler and she understands everything. This is first diwali for saee and our new sweet home.We both are happy for … she is constantly asking so many questions like…mummy kai karate, panti ka lavate, pappa kandil ka lavto….bla bla ...bla….. and we both love to answer her. 

Dipavali its Sanskrit word, it means Rows of lights.Light is symbol of hope. Diwali is celebrated in all religion . Its bring positivity n spreading a joy. Every house and entire neighborhoods are decorated with candles, earthen lamps and fairy lights on the auspicious moonlight. Rangoli is another special feature. I love to make rangoli and nitin loves to decorate fairy lights.

This is my rangoli simple and sweet.

Saee had tasted first time diwali faral, Oh myyy this girl love Besan ka laddo and chakali …so much. she finished one at a time. No matter she is great eater too…. Knock at the door..

Wish you a very Happy and green Diwali. Today is Padwa, a new year for Maharashtrian people.Wish you all a glorious and victorious year ahead, its new beginning, new learning and new year.

 cheerssss to allllll.....

Bandh Maitriche

I was thinking from last one and half year to start a blog ….but…don’t know, it didnt happened. Saee my baby girl is now 2 year old so i think its right time to start a blog. And one more thing you can say that I was not getting any inspirational post to make a good start so i decided to start  with this topic.

Inauguration of book

Bandh Maitriche is the small book launched by my hubby Nitin on the decade of their friendship. They all are about 18 people who had joined as a batch on 5 th October 2005 at BARC (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre) and now they reached at decade on 5 th October 2015 .You will say what’s in that everyone had a group n everyone enjoyed on their own way….. yup….. But these people are really different and so  I want to start my post with this only. Yes they are friends like a normal group as we all have…..but different….?? What is that difference?????

Ya ya I am coming to the main point…..

Bandh Maitriche……..is the book of the memories all of these guys of the last 10 years. Nitin gave everyone three pages to write what they feel about the group and completion of decade. Then he printed all about the groups thought on this book…..its such nice idea to hold your memories….yes or no ? They arranged the picnic with the friends and their families too……but that picnics was not a regular picnic like masti and masti , fooding n all that ….but they had small teeny tiny programmes like games…. Ramp walk,, kusthi, dance n musical competition …..labbblabbbb…….etc……list will not end. This all are throughout the picnic and make sure that each and every member of the group should participate in this programmes.  The most important part of this is that they were filming the video of their picnic, the places they visited.

Cake cutting snap

It was the family get-together on the date 5 october 2015. We cut the small cake and launched the book n dinner.  We had lots of balloons n small cartoon character to entertain the kiddos. And then last but not the list ice cream n kiddos were dancing.

Kiddo snap

The programme is ended up with the photo session with all beautiful ladies n their pretty kiddos…Photosession is not d ending ….all time favorite all this guys wherever they go… they always late or got time out due to this photo session.

Thanku Guys….. for being part of this small get-togethers….. all of you are equally important as the book, the event n the group is incomplete without you.

So here is the big big thanks…and we all ladies expecting that many more programmes will be on the way.

Do u have friends and groups like this?

Do u arranged such type of get-together n party?

I would like to hear from you…..waiting for your comments