From the collection “360 Golden Dishes” by Revathy

Maha 2013

From the collection “360  Golden Dishes” by Revathy

Category: Tamil Festival sweet snacks

ID-251

Dish Name:  Thiruvathira kali

Occasion:    on a Tamil festival day : Thiruvathira

a) Ingradients:

1.       Prepare 1^st ingredient -Rice Flour:  In a small kadai, roast without oil, 2 glasses of coarse Rice flour till its colour changes. Remove from fire and put it in a bowl.

2.       Prepare 2^nd ingredient-Dhal Flour: In the small kadai roast without oil half glass full of Channa Dhal (halfed) +Moong Dhal (halfed). Cool it and powder it coarsely. Heat again without oil till it turns to reddish brown colour. Remove from fire and add to the rice flour bowl.

3.       Prepare 3^rd ingredient for taste: Powder jaggery to measure 2.5 glasses and keep in a plate.

4.       Prepare 4^th   Ingredient- Grate half coconut and keep aside.

5.       Prepare 5^th   ingredient-Seasoning: Fry Cashew nut 15 nos split to half and kismis 10 nos in 3 teaspoons of ghee and keep aside.

6.       Prepare 6^th  ingredient for flavour: Powder 10 nos Elaichi

b) Preparation Method using kadai over fire:

7.       In a big Kadai, heat to boil 6 glasses of water.

8.       Take 2.5 glasses of powdered Jaggery and add to the boiling water. Simmer for 5 mins / till jaggery dissolves well.

9.       Add 4 more teaspoons of Ghee to the boiling water.

10.   Add the grated coconut as in step-4 to the boiling water.

11.   Add the flour slowly and continuously with one hand while turning with the other hand using a flat ladle. Turn from bottom towards all sides of Kadai to the middle to get uniform mixture.

12.   Turn with ladle till the mixture solidifies. Now remove from fire.

c)Seasoning and serving

13.   Add seasoning as in step 5 and step-6

14.   The soft pulpy sweet dish Thiruvathira Kali is ready to eat. It is a standalone dish. Best while serving hot. Store in a steel container with lid and consume within a day or two. 

Avoid plastic container /plate or spoon.

Secret of coming out of life dissatisfaction

Secret of coming out of  life dissatisfaction




Dissatisfaction is relative.
You will come to know of  what is 'life satisfaction' all about, when you actually go through dissatisfaction phase in life. You will realise the importance of coming out of this dissatisfaction phase. The sooner- the better. 

How it affects your normal life?
When you feel dissatisfied with your life, you won't feel to do any more effort. You may feel nothing whatsoever seem to work. you find no meaning in anything happening around.

STOP then and there with a red signal.

Then do the below steps.

1. Accept it . Accept anything bad life is offering you if you think there is no solution to the problem. Afterall life is not created by yourself alone. You are not the creator of even you own physical self. You have only limited knowledge of what, why, when, and how things are happening in this world and to yourself.

2. Understand that this is a temporary phase. No one can escape this phase though it is a temporary period. These are designed in this way and it is a part of life. This will aid to obtain certain positive results. Take few past examples from your own life to convince yourself of this theory of temporary nature of events.

3. Dont waste this phase and make full use of it.

Think of the advantages this period can give to you and make full use of it. eg: If you are fired from job, think of the free time you get to improve your fitness and physical health and learning a new skill. Think of construction of your home which you were postponing for years due to want of time. Pamper yourself in Spa. Make new friends. Write an article or poem or paint whatever coming to your mind. Learn Belly Dance steps if you are a gal. Be interested in Outdoor sports. Do computer games. Read a romantic story book. See a funny film. Gift yourself a holiday or buy a new car. Get married or plan for future. Try another job. Try to get satisfaction from other things in life.

4. Hope for the future

Be very ambitious and design your own desire, dreams and hope for the future. Don't allow this phase to disappoint you a bit. Dont waste a second brooding over it. Think that you are fighting and going to win this battle.

5. Emerge as a winner

After performing the above steps, look at yourself in the mirror. You will be surprised to see yourself as the most successful being even during most difficult and adverse of times. You will be much more confident now to realise that you can handle any terrible situations or events life can offer. You emerge a winner! Pat yourself at your back.