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Leaf Painting

Yashu got an assignment to take the leaf impressions in any way. This is what we made together :)

Very Easy Idea to Label the Spice Containers!!

In Indian cooking, we have many spice powders in our kitchen and after filling our kitchen containers from the original packing, after some time we got confuse with which spice is this? Is it a chaat masala? or sambhar masala? or chana masala? 

The solution of this confusion is very simple that is label the container with the name of spice powder.

We have many ready made options to label this container. Some times I wrote with a permanent marker on the container  the name of the  spice powder. Or some times I follow the following method to label the container.

I cut the name of the spice (normally with brand name, so that I can decide in future whether I want to purchase the spice with the same brand or need to change it) from the original packing.

Take a broad cello tape and stick it on the container on the side you want to see when you open the cupboard.

Done!!!It helps me to find my spice powder quickly and easily :)

Hope it help to you too!!

Flash Card : My Favourite Animal - Panda

Yashu got an Homework to make a Flash Card on the topic "My Favourite Animal". In this flash card, she needs to draw/paste the picture of an animal, its food and its habitat. She took Panda as her favourite animal and we both created it like as:

Save Paper!! Save Trees!!! Save Earth!!!!

Do online shopping more often or got the paper circulars from your kid's school very often?? Don't throw the invoices or circulars without using the plain (without printed) side of the papers. Reuse them in the way you want. I did it in my way :)

Today morning I found many invoices in the empty packets of my recent online shopping and I found it quite difficult to throw them like that only.I got a quick idea.

• I cut those papers into strips.
• Stapled them together
• Stapled a ribbon to make a loop so that I can easily hang that. 
• And made a handy grocery list pad for my kitchen:) 

I hope you will also get some ideas to reuse the one side printed paper. Please share it with us.

Easy Macaroni Pasta!!!

Easy Macaroni Pasta

One of the favourite dish of my daughter :)

 

Ingredients: (I have taken all the ingredients without any measurements :-p)

* Macaroni
* Onion (Diced)
* Red, Green, Yellow Capsicum (Diced)
* Broccoli (Small Florets)
* Mushrooms (Sliced)
* Tomatoes (Big chunks)
* Tomato Puree
* Fresh Cream (I normally takes the malai from the milk and make it smooth by beating in a bowl) - A big heaped spoon will be enough
* Tomato Ketchup
* Salt
* Black Pepper
* Oregano
* Oil

The vegetables are optional according to the requirement or the availability. The more vegetables, more tastes good. 

Method: 

1. Boil some water and add 1 spoon oil and some salt to it.

2. Add macaroni to the boiling water.

3. We need to stir the macaroni and keep check them to be cook. To check for the cooked macaroni, take one macaroni out from the boiling water and press it by your nail. If it got soften properly without any hardness, the macaroni is done.

4. Drain the water in a strainer and put the macaroni in cold water for a minute and then drain it again.

5. Now take 2-3 spoon of oil (recommended olive oil) in a pan and add vegetables (except broccoli) to the hot oil and saute them until they done (like you can find the change in colour of capsicums and onions).

6. Now add tomato puree to this. We need to make a gravy of that much amount, so that all the macaroni should be covered. So, we need enough quantity of tomato puree.

7.Now add the cream (malai) and 2 spoon ketchup. 

8. Now add salt, black pepper and oregano to this. If you need much spicy then you can add red chilli or red chilli flakes.

9. Add macaroni and broccoli and toss it gently.


We are done! Want to make it more delicious? Add grated mozzarella cheese. Ready to serve GARMA GARAM....

Clothes We Wear...

Got a project from school to create a chart which should show the clothes we wear in different season..and this is a little effort from my side..

I used foam sheets and origami papers for clothes, cotton for snowman and plastic sheet for raincoat.