Month: April 2019

Book Review, Lifestyle

Yummy Book Review of Dare Eat That: A Guide to Bizzare Foods From Around the World by Divya Anand

Book Review of Dare Eat That : A Guide to Bizzare Foods From Around the World by Divya Anand.There are foodies who love to eat. And then there are food fanatics who have a single minded passion to eat their way through life one species after another! Dare Eat That: A Guide to Bizzare Foods […]

BlogchatterA2Zchallenge, Drinks and Beverages, Healthy Recipes

Smoothie recipes for a healthy start

Smoothie recipes are my favourite. I can have healthy smoothies for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Most of the time I am a major foodie and am obsessed with healthy tasty food. But there are somedays when normal daily life seem to be too cumbersome. As a result of this simple tasks like the three daily […]

QUINOA:HOW IS IT HELPFUL
Health, Healthy Recipes

Quinoa in Salad

What is Quinoa? Quinoa is a vegan superfood which is an annual seed-producing flowering plant (Chenopodium quinoa) grown as a grain crop. It is a pseudocereal, not a grass, unlike wheat and rice.It is botanically related to spinach. Quinoa seeds are rich in protein, dietary fiber, B vitamins, and dietary minerals in amounts greater than […]

BlogchatterA2Zchallenge, Health, Pickles

Jujubes

Jujubes or Chinese date is a fruit which to us Indians is known as “kul” in Bengali, “bogori” in Assamese and “ber” in Hindi. Few days back when I was snacking on a bowlful of rosy tipped ber/kul I suddenly realised I did not know what this fruit is called in English. I immediately launched […]

Art, BlogchatterA2Zchallenge, Lifestyle, Ultimatebloggingchallenge

Ink Pen

Ink Pen and handwriting During my farewell from college to join the current job, a ‘Parker’ ink pen was one of the parting gifts amongst many others by my friends. For about half a decade, the gift was lying idle, until recently. I accidently got hold of the pen while I was searching for something […]

Baked Goodies, BlogchatterA2Zchallenge, Desserts, Drinks and Beverages, Health, Healthy Recipes, Skincare, Ultimatebloggingchallenge

Honey and its Magical benefits

I did not like the smell of honey when I was young. The smell was very strongly medicinal for me and I tried to stay as far away from honey as possible. But when I reached my twenties something changed. I cannot recall the exact incident. It might have been an article or a book […]

Gardening, Lifestyle, Mental Health

Gardening and Greens

The beginning… I love plants and flowers a lot. My plants give me a lot of happiness in my life. It all began way back in 2015 when my first tryst with Gardening and Greens began. My living arrangement was a tiny one bedroom flat in the desert state of India, Rajasthan. Jaipur, the capital […]

BlogchatterA2Zchallenge, Drinks and Beverages, Health, Healthy Recipes, Lifestyle, Ultimatebloggingchallenge

Fenugreek, From seeds to seeds…

Fenugreek or methi as we know it in our part of the world, is one of my favourite kitchen ingredient. It is a herb with an impressive list of health benefits. The leaves can be eaten as vegetables. The seeds can be used in cooking, in pickles and in so many other ways. It is […]

BlogchatterA2Zchallenge, Health, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Ultimatebloggingchallenge

Elephant in the Room

I was diagnosed with high blood pressure in my mid 20’s. In the early days,before it was diagnosed, it was a very scary phase of my life. I would have sudden bouts of palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness panic attackd and what not. At that point of time stress was at an all time high […]