Carrot Kheer recipe

"The rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with  complacency."  ~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons

Instead of "tea with hot scones and jam" I will add hot hot Carrot Kheer (drooling over :-))

Last saturday it was pouring heavily in hyderabad. Imagine sitting near a window, watching rain with a bowl full of hot sweet (here it is a sweet as I like treating my taste buds with hot sweet/hot chocolate...). Yes this is what i did on saturday. I prepared this awesome Carrot Kheer. It came out really good that after serving to my hubby and his friends, a very little is left for me and my sis to eat.

Ingredients:

5 cups milk
2 cups grated carrot
5 tbsp sugar
3tbsp ghee
4 to 5 elachi
few cashews and kismis

How to prepare:

1. Boil milk in a bowl till it becomes to 21/2 to 3 cups.
2. Take 3tbsp ghee in a pan and fry cashews and kismis
3. In the same pan with leftover ghee fry grated carrot for 10 to 15mins
4. Once carrot is cooked add bolied milk and stir occasionally for 10mins. Now add elachi and sugar to this. cook it for another 5mins.
5. Add roasted cashews and kismis to this.And yes you are done with piping hot Carrot Kheer

It is awesome when it is hot.

Rava Kesari

Come on girls... Today we will prepare Rava Kesari... Yummy yet easy to prepare.

All you need is

2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
1 cup bombay rava
4 to 5 elachi
few cashews and kismis
3tbsp ghee


Take tawa add 1 tbsp ghee and roast cashews and kismiss. In the same tawa roast rava.
Now take a heavy bottemed bowl and add milk, sugar and elachi. Once bolied add roasted rava. You have to stir while adding rava and stir continuously till it becomes thick. Add another tbsp of ghee in it and stir again. Add roasted cashews and kismiss. Switch off the stove. You can eat it directly by taking it into a bowl.

Or take a plate and apply ghee to it. Pour the mixture immediately in the plate and spread it evenly. Leave it for sometime and cut into pieces. You can preserve this for 2 to 3 days in refrigerator. Either you can eat hot or cold.

Yummy Yummy Rava Kesari ready!!!

You can add color to this as well by adding Saffron in some warm milk and mix it while preparing this.

Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstick in Autumn Rush

To brighten up your dull and boring day, switch on your makeup mode and take out a bright lippie or a bright nailpolish.Hurray!!! Your are all set to normal.

One day I went to H&G to get a lipstick for my friend. When I was checking lipsticks in Maybelline counter, I saw this cutely packed Maybelline Colorsensational lipstick in Autumn Rush. I fell in love with this in the first swipe.

Maybelline color sensational range has very good collection. It is a great value for money.
Look at the packaging!!! A see through maroon case with silver bottom. So cute!!

It is a nice soft brown shade with no shimmer in it. The day I bought this lippie I used it like mad (You will definitely accept this after seeing my lipstick pic). It can be worn anytime, anywhere irrespective of occassion or dress.

Pros:
They are super pigmented. One swipe and you are done with it.
It is super smooth on lips. Use it with a lip balm under this for better results. Moisturizes well.
Comfortable to wear.
Non drying.
Stays for about 3-4 hours.
It is easy to remove.
Packaging is good.
Decently priced at Rs.299 for 4g.

Cons:
Don't find any cons.

But the saddest part of this story is, they discontinued this particular shade in colorsensational range. :-(

Street Wear Nail Color: Ash Review

Is anyone there who never liked wearing nailpolish?

Anyways, I dont wear nail color very frequently but I like painting my nails once in a while .

The one which I am going to review today is Street Wear nailpolish in Ash, shade no 31.

Dont know how this street wear people decided to keep the shade name as Ash. It is a nice brown shade with very little shimmer in it.

This is how the shade looks on me.

  

Pros and Cons:

• This particular shade is opaque. Single coat gives full coverage.
• Brush is not much convineint to use. It is small. But the bristles are perfect, spreads evenly on the nail)
• Affordable. Priced at 90Rs for a 9ml bottle.
• Stays on nails for just 2 days and then chips off.
• The shimmer very less that you can wear this to office.

Home remedies for even skin tone

Atleast 5 in 10 people will be facing this uneven skin tone problem. This makes you look dull, older, tired and unhealthy.

Instead of using commercial products to get rid of uneven skin tone, herewith I will be providing you some remedies with products from you own kitchen.

Tomato:
Tomato is very good for body. It is not necessary to eat tomato to get its benefits.
Cut the tomato into two halves and rub it on your face and body. It removes tan on the skin.

Oatmeal:
Oatmeal acts a cleanser, mild scrub. Take some finely ground oatmeal and combine with water. Wash your face with this mixture. You feel the difference immediately. Your skin will be super smooth.
You can mix oatmeal with yogurt and use it as a skin brightening mask. Yogurt will have lactic acid which helps in removing dead cells and brighten the complexion.

Honey and Lemon:
Especially for those who have dry skin, honey works wonders. It has powerful anti-bacterial properties on at least sixty species of bacteria, and unlike antibiotics, which are often useless against certain types of bacteria. Honey is non-toxic and has strong effects. Mix honey with lemon and apply evenly on the face and neck. Keep it for 10mins and rinse. Skin will be mositured and glowing.

Lemon:
Combine a few drops of lemon juice to equal parts distilled water in a clean bottle.
Shake well and apply with a cotton pad and leave the toner to dry on the skin. Lemon juice contains citric acid which helps as a bleaching agent and minimizes pores.
You can add chickpea flour, curd and turmeric to lemon, use this as a pack. This is an age old recipe for glowing skin.

Banana:
Take a ripe banana and mash it with a spoon and apply it on face. Leave it on for 10mins and wash. It gives instant glow. Banana tightens the skin.

Last but not least wash your face twice a day. Remove all traces of your makeup before sleeping.
Drink atleast 8 to 10 glasses of water. Add more fruits and veggies to your menu.
It is always better to use hot water splash before face wash so that pores will be opened and the cleansing can be done more effectively.
The last splash of water during face wash should be with cold water so that the pores will be closed.
Apply sunscreen 20minutes before going out in sun.

I started following these and I am happy to say that I feel the difference.

Thanks for your time...  

Online Shopping: FirstCry

Hi All,

Welcome to PoorisBlog....
 

I am so excited to share my experiences and reviews with u guys...

Thanks alot for passing by.

Coming to the review. I am an online shopping freak. Shopping- Ahhhh! I love it to the core. That too Sitting at home and ordering whatever we want just in a click away with special discounts is a great fun. Today I am going to review the online shopping website www.firstcry.com which is one of the asia's largest online website for maternity and kids products.

I am having a 2 year old girl baby who will always make everyone in the house busy with something or the other stuff. There is a situation when i became very busy with my personal and professional life that I can't even go and spend time in shopping. Then this website came in my way as a life saviour.

I started ordering all the stuff for my girl through this website for the past 1 year. From diapers, dresses,toys, feeding bottles, toileteries and even hair accessories. I could say I am pretty much happy with the service they are providing. 

 
Website claims:

• Over 3500 Baby and Kid products
• Over 250+ major brands like Mattel, Ben10, Pigeon, Funskool, Hotwheels, Nuby, Farlin, Medela, Pampers, Disney, Barbie,Gerber, Zapak, Mee Mee and so on.
• Easy return policy
• More than 2lakh happy customers
• Over time, we hope to ‘Change’ the way, Indian parents buy, so that they can be at home to spend more quality time with their ‘Little ones’ and family. (Impressed)

Some pros and cons:

Pros:

• Having many major brands in their basket certificate.
• Free shipping on orders over Rs100 which is reasonable.
• Cash on delivery
• Return policy: Within 45 days(on clothes) and 7 days(on other products) the whole amount will be refunded with a gift coupon
• Shipping will be in 3 to 4 business days (excluding sundays and other holidays).
• The packaging is good.
• Website is very much user friendly. Can order by phone and also have 24*7 customer care.

Cons:

• Previously the website used to be updated with new collections very frequently. Now I feel like the products are not frequently updated.
• The packaging can be much better. (Got a broken hair band 5months back. But then I got it replaced with a gift coupon after sending few snaps of the broken hair band to the customer care, in a single day).
• Before there used to be discounts for almost all the categories. But now very few products are having discounts.

Inspite of all the pros and cons, I would definitely recommend this to everyone.

Explore and enjoy the website. I am going to shop more and more from this :-)

Thanks alot for reading my review.