Everyone knows that color and mood are inextricably
linked. You can either be influenced by
the color around you or you can surround yourself with the color that suits your
mood at that point of time. Here are
some awesome ideas for table centerpieces
in various colors. Follow your
mood or let your mood overwhelm you! Either way, let color impact your mood and décor!!
WHITE: White lie?White knight? White , the color of purity
RED: Seeing Red? Red faced? In the Red? Red is a strong eye catching color - the color of romance !
PURPLE: Born to the purple? The color of Royalty. A calm and soothing color.
YELLOW: Yellow streaked? Or may be yellow bellied? Yellow is a joyful color- the color of sunshine!
BLUE: Feeling Blue?Out of the Blue?Once in a Blue moon? Blue, a peaceful and relaxing color.
PINK: Tickled pink?In the pink? Pink
,the color of femininity, softness and
innocence.
GREEN: Green with envy? Green eyed monster? Green Thumb ? Green, the color of nature,is a restful color.
ORANGE: Apples and oranges? Orange is a bright, joyful and cheerful color.
BROWNS:Brown as a berry?Brown off? Brown is the color of our Mother Earth.
ECO- Feel on top of the world by feeling that you have done your bit to save the earth! Use eco friendly brown paper vase!!
CANDLES:Nothing like a softly illuminated candlelit décor.
Go ahead and splash with whatever color impacts you!!
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A friend from America
was doing interview questions for an assignment in Interpersonal
Communication class and needed Baby Boomers (born between the years 1946 and
1964) to answer 4 questions. I agreed to answer them and it was a wonderful experience
of introspection as I never really got down to contemplating my thoughts and
feelings. This self examination was an eye opener for me and reminded me of
Aristotle’s words, “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
Q . How do you think your family and friends see you, and do you think it's the
same way you see yourself?
A. My friends and family which includes my siblings, extended family,
cousins, nieces and nephews see me as I see myself - a loving, caring, helpful,
thoughtful and a bubbly person who laughs out loudly at the drop of a hat!
People tell me that it is a God given gift to be able to laugh so heartily and
merrily even at my age! :) I love appreciation and indeed I do get them
abundantly. My family and friends are confident that I will be there for them
whenever needed and certainly yes, I will always be! I also see myself as a
very optimistic person, because, when I look back at the many negative
situations that I have faced, I've realized that instead of brooding and
ranting, my mind has always started automatically working on what has to be
done next! Finally, I see myself as a blessed person who is loved and called as
a favorite person by so many!
Now for the flip side! Unfortunately my three children (a
married son and daughter and the youngest girl yet to be married)though they
love me immensely, see me in a complete different light. All three of them are
working, independent, having their own life style and stay in the city far away
from our town. With so many crimes and accidents happening around us, I
naturally do worry a lot about them for which I am branded as paranoid. My
concern for their safety is misunderstood as suffocating them and not very
normal! My advices to them now and then, to follow certain social norms and traditions
have me promptly labeled as being narrow minded! They need me hovering in the
background and do they take me for granted? Indeed, yes. I am expected to
pamper them, it’s their birth right isn’t it? Well, whatever. My mother (who is
still with us) cheers me up by constantly saying that when they have kids
of their own they will be able to understand me! That's a real encouraging and
positive thought. Sam Levenson said ‘Insanity is hereditary, you get it from
your children.' Very very true! :)
In retrospect,
as a very young parent ( I was a mother of 2 kids by the time I was 24) may be
I've made some wrong decisions and choices. Now that I am older and
wiser, when I reflect on my early parenting, I do have a few regrets, but then,
I’m consoled that most parents my age feel the same! But my love for my
children, family and home was and always will be unparalleled ! I do feel that
I have let time slip through my fingers without having spent more time with my
elder two kids who grew up in no time and left for college! Since my youngest
arrived when I was in mid thirties,I spent all my time with her and with
the elder two away from home,I became very emotionally dependent on the
youngest. Whatever. Right now,I do miss the point in time when I was the very
center of my children’s existence! Anyway, that’s part and parcel of life and I
look forward to many more blessings from above! :)
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I was stuck with 12 eggs! Since I needed 12 egg shells to make 'Chocolate Eggs with Cream cheese' , I had cracked and poured 12 eggs on to a container. ‘Now what do I do with all these eggs?’ I wondered. Should I make omelets or scrambled eggs? I was not inclined towards making elaborate cakes or deserts. Egg curry? No, not today! The cracked full eggs in the container looked so cute that I did not feel like mixing the yolk and white together. Weird? Well, maybe I was in one of those moods! :) Then, I hit upon an idea…why not bake it as it and throw in some curry powder to make it tangy and spicy? Yes. That's it. When done, it was such a hit with the family, I served it with chicken steak and mushroom sauce! You can make with fewer eggs as well or according to your requirements.
Fry Onions and Tomatoes..add ginger garlic paste and curry powder .Add salt to taste.
Crack eggs and empty on to a baking dish spread with a thin layer of curried mix.Bake till done.
Sprinkle pepper and spread the remaining curried mix on top.
Garnish with capsicum and spring onions.
Sprinkle Morzella Cheese and grill till cheese melts!
Curried Baked Eggs
Ingredients
12 Eggs
4 big Onion ,grated
4 big Tomatoes ,pureed
1 tsp Ginger garlic paste
1tsp Curry powder
1 Capsicum
2 sprigs
Spring Onions
½ cup Morzella cheese
Salt and Pepper to taste
Method:
Fry the grated onions and pureed tomatoes in a little oil in a pan. When fried till
transparent, add the ginger garlic paste .Saute .Add the curry powder and salt
to taste. Remove from pan and let it cool. Alternately, you can fry chopped
onions and chopped tomatoes, then add
ginger garlic paste, curry powder .Remove from heat and cool. Then put them in
a mixer and grind coarsely. Keep aside.
Preheat the oven at 200c .Take a baking dish, spread a thin layer of curried
onion and tomatoes mix. Crack eggs and empty them on to the baking dish on top
of the thin layer of curried mix. Do not beat them. Put the dish in the oven and
bake them till they are set (approximately 220 mins)
Remove from oven, sprinkle pepper and spread the remaining
curried mix on top of the set egg.Garnish with cut round capsicum and snip some
spring onions. Top with grated morzella cheese and grill till the cheese melts.
Done! Yum Yum!!! Served with chicken steak ,mashed potato and mushroom sauce.
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Chocolate Eggs - soft boil egg lookalike ... so very pretty and appealing!
Hate soft boil eggs?
Well, you would love this soft boil egg, that is, if you have a chocolatey
sweet tooth!!
I came across a
picture of this choc soft boil egg on the net and I knew that I HAD to try out
this cutie!! If you are lucky to get readymade empty choc shells from the
stores, then that’s absolutely great. But I belong to the unlucky group who
live in tiny towns where such items are unheard off. But that is not going to
deter my enthusiasm or my decision to try out this soft boil egg. What’s the
big deal? Yes, I WILL do it from scratch!
Armed with my
resolution, I selected 12 eggs...
I broke
the top quarter of the eggs and emptied the eggs on to a bowl (use the eggs for
baked dishes or omelets or whatever you crave for, at that time! :)
I washed the empty
egg shells , rinsed them in soap water.Wash again thoroughly.
Then, I microwaved the empty shells for 15
seconds to dry them out completely.
Here are the clean shiny egg shells...
Next, melt Chocolate and put in 1 teaspoon of the melted chocolate inside the egg shell and coated the sides with a spoon till the inside of the egg shell is completely covered.
Freeze the chocolate coated egg shells in the refrigerator till the chocolate gets hard.
Remove from fridge and peel off the egg shells.I was honestly surprised and thrilled that the shells come off easily leaving behind a smooth chocolate egg shell. While peeling the shells, some parts of the shells were stubborn and they did poke under my nails and hurt me.. :(
Fill the egg shells with cream cheese and put them in the fridge to set.
When set,scoop out a tiny portion in the middle and squeeze in yellow colored butter icing to look like yolks.
Wow...your Chocolate soft boil look alike egg is ready!!
You can see my Chocolate Eggs below, which I served on Easter with my homemade Chocolate Easter Egg in the background..
The kids admiring the chocolate soft boil egg !!
Chocolate Eggs with Cream Cheese
For Egg shells:
12 eggs
100 gms Dark Chocolate
For cream cheese filling:
150g (about 5oz) cream cheese, softened
1/4 cup icing sugar or confectioners'
sugar, sifted
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
For the Egg yolk:
Make Butter Icing with..
1 Tbsp butter
3 Tbsp icing sugar
Yellow color
Place
the cream cheese, icing sugar, lemon juice and vanilla in a large mixing bowl
and beat on high until the mixture is smooth and fluffy, about 3-4 minutes. Set
aside.
Whip
the thickened cream in a separate mixing bowl to stiff peaks
Gently
combine the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture until it is smooth.
Carefully spoon or pipe the mixture into the prepared chocolate shells. Chill
eggs till the cream cheese is set.
Next,scoop out a tiny portion from the center of the set cream cheese.
Make the butter icing by creaming butter and adding the sugar and yellow color.Pipe into the tiny scooped out centers to look like yolks.
Done! Aren't they pretty?
It was indeed satisfying and reasonably easy to make these eggs from scratch and it was not at all complicated like I thought it would be!! Try them..you will get loads of oohhs and awwws from your guests!! :) :) :)
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