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Kichari Food of the Gods

Kitchari or Kichadi 
The word is Hindi derived from Sanskrit. It can be made any way you wish but this is my own recipe that fit my husband's needs. It is heating for the cold winters and filling with the right amount of protein without meat when he does not wish to have any.
It can be served as is or covered in sauces and as a side dish. As you change the spices in this recipe to suit the season, it can be a cooling tasty food if you remove the ginger.

Enjoy!

1 c rice

1/2 c split mung beans

1

Gone With The Wind Never Too Old

Gone With the Wind never goes out of style. Whether you are sixteen or sixty there is no excuse for not reading this amazing saga. Heart break and wonder is what you find in Margaret Mitchell's novel.
A Southern belle, Scarlett may not be beautiful in the southern sense of the belle but she has men surrounding her admiring her charm and special attraction. She is spoilt and wonderful.
I remember reading this book growing up in Egypt. I was 16 years old and devoured the novel within days. My...

Write Your Passion Out

An interesting question came my way this week. I was asked how I decide on blog idea writing. Easy, I write about whatever my passion is for the day.

So, my advice for the day: Write on whatever you feel passionate about on the whole.

If your passion lies with books, review and write about them. Share with your audience your love for pulp, share your views and your feelings. If your passion is beaches and swimming, share with your readers all the wonderful things that you experience on sand...

Write your passion out

An interesting question came my way this week. I was asked how I decide on blog idea writing. Easy, I write about whatever my passion is for the day.

So, my advice for the day: Write on whatever you feel passionate about on the whole.

If your passion lies with books, review and write about them. Share with your audience your love for pulp, share your views and your feelings. If your passion is beaches and swimming, share with your readers all the wonderful things that you experience on sand...

Final Destination Love the Concept!

My husband and I decided to watch all four movies of The Final Destination Saga. Popcorn, diet soda and a comfortable couch and here we were watching the first one. A group of students are leaving for France and one of their friends sees the plane they will be on, crash and burn, seven people get off and die one after the other. Very cool and interesting how they crush, mush and break the bodies in this movie.

The second one, the girl who sees the whole highway explode and she stops in the...

Step Out In Faith

For you are our glory and our joy.

1 Thessalonians 2:20

 

When the Lord exhorts you to do a thing, do not waffle, do not shirk, and do not go about asking others if it is the right thing to do. Step out in faith and do it.

 

Nothing is more egregious to our walk than this need for constant confirmation that it is the will of God. Step out in faith. Make mistakes. Learn from your own mistakes. It is not the end of the world. If a child learning to walk stops with every step to find out if it is...

Be A Poet Even In Prose

Always be a poet even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire

 

"I am not a poet" is an unacceptable transgression in prose. If my writing is not poetry to my ears then it is a pile of dung also to others. If the purpose of writing is to elevate and impart ideas and some form of wisdom then it matters that the writing is well done with rhyme and reason.

 

Supposing that one cannot write meter and scale, it then matters even more to write with beauty and skill. Never assume that the reader is a moron, but...

Grandson Choking Controller At Play

When I walked into my grandson's bedroom last evening, I was horrified, he was having a seizure and my heart fell to the bottom of my chest. But he noticed and greeted me with a grin, lots of teeth and continued playing his game.

I'm telling you, he had a choke hold on the controller for his PS3  shaking it back and forth like he was seizing. Turns out he was choking someone on the screen, killing him and banging his head on the wall behind him. I was very concerned, even considered calling...

Twist on an Old Favorite by Chie Sonia

Foodie FridayChicken Cordon Blue by Chie Sonia

Serves 4

2 large chicken breasts (makes 4 servings, pound chicken flat)
4 slices bacon
4 slices swiss cheese
4 slices  ham
1 can Lobster bisque
Toothpicks

The best way to pound the chicken flat is to place it in a plastic bag to keep it from falling apart.
Lay the breast down, then Swiss cheese, then ham.
Wrap tightly like a roll.
Wrap slice of bacon around each one.
Stick toothpick in each.
Place in shallow baking dish.
Pour lobster bisque over all.

Ba...

How To Start An Interesting Sentence

Wordy Wednesday

Sentence starters are always a predicament. Nothing makes for boring reading as tedious, repetitive phrases and word constructions without thought to the possibilities the English language presents.

Here are some sentence beginnings that might alleviate some of the colorless repetitions experienced during novel, short story or any writings. Hoping that these come in handy and useful, I offer them with humble admission that it is my worst weakness.

At length the lights were...