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Health, Healthy Recipes, Lifestyle, MyFriendAlexa

Clean Eating

Clean eating is the first step towards a healthier lifestyle. To say that is not always easy to be focussed on eathing healthy food is actually a huge understatement! Working throughout the day, being super busy, multi tasking, home management, all of it takes quite a toll on the healthy eating part. When I am […]

Health, Healthy Recipes

Beetroot Raita

I love yoghurt and curd in any form. I try to include at least one helping of curd in one of my meals. It is during this quest of mine that I came across a lovely beetroot raita recipe.If not curd I definitely have buttermilk which is a great source of probiotics. I first came […]

Gardening, Health, Lifestyle

When Life gives you Lemons

Life and lemons There is a very famous saying that when life gives you lemons, you should go make lemonade with them.This is a method of trying to stay positive even when things in life are not going as planned (which it seldom does!) So the best bet is to take the situation in hand […]

Drinks and Beverages, MyFriendAlexa

Perfect cup of Milk Tea

I love tea. And by tea I mean chai/ doodh cha. My mornings are incomplete without the fragrant perfect cup of milk tea infused with the flavours of ginger and cardamom. I am swooning just thinking about it. Now dont get me wrong though. I equally enjoy my cups of golden darjeeling, oolong, assam and […]

Health, Mental Health, MyFriendAlexa

Magic Mushroom

One fine morning, I was getting into the car to go to work and a pretty thing caught my eye. I went closer to the base of the mango tree in our apartment compound, and found this wild magic mushroom blooming in its full glory. This is the first time I saw a mushroom growing […]

MyFriendAlexa, Skincare

DIY Tan Removal Tips

I am a geologist by profession. That involves a lot ( I mean really a lot) of sun exposure. That is a real bummer for the skin. Weeks and weeks of fieldwork in the hot sun to work out the inner mysteries of the earth does its bit for the poor skin. And by the […]

MyFriendAlexa, Savoury, Travel

Samosa, a savoury gift to mankind!

The Beginning For me the golden crispy savoury triangles more commonly called samosa( or shingara as my wife calls it) came straight from ‘Heaven’ for the hungry soul. My love tryst with the humble samosa started from my school canteen days. After having our tiffin during lunch hours I used to loiter around the school […]

Healthy Recipes, Lifestyle, MyFriendAlexa

Easy Homemade Ghee Recipe

Easy Homemade Ghee Recipe We love ghee in our family. I use ghee in all the recipes that call for vegetable oil. Ghee is called clarified butter i.e butter minus the water and milk solids gives us ghee. I learnt this Easy Homemade Ghee Recipe from a colleague of mine. You can read about health […]

Gardening, Lifestyle, Mental Health, MyFriendAlexa

When It Rains…

When it Rains…the theme is green When it rains all the plants and trees are happy. Seeing the plants happy makes me happy turn. The rains seem to wash away all the year long dust and grime and bring an eye soothing freshness. All my balcony garden plants are healthy and happy. That is because […]

Lifestyle, Mental Health, MyFriendAlexa

Being Good

How to be a good human being? I remember when I was young I used to always worry about whether I was being a good human being or not. For some reason it was very important for me. I always felt that it is the only thing in this world that is totally in our […]