Sunday, March 28, 2010

Simple things about life 2 (Samosa - Indian snack 1)

I love Indian food and I am sure like me most of the Indians will say our food is the best in the world. Well, it all depends from person to person. We love spicey and hot food. But these days it's becoming a trend to minimize the fat part and go for healthy food. Specially, in metropolitan cities it's good to see that we are becoming more and more health conscious.
But here I just want to talk about our Indian junk food which we get in Delhi and Delhites crave for it where ever they go in the world. How can anybody not like samosa (a triangular patty filled with either potatoes and peas or meat and then deep fried) with tamarind chutney. 
We eat samosa in so many different ways that I thought I will dedicate one of my whole blog to it. The simplest way is samosa with chutney and chai (Indian Tea). You can get samosa chaat where they break samosa in a plate and pour red tamarind chutney which is sweet and green chutney made of coriander leaves and green chillies, and Chickpeas (Kabuli or Safed Chana) with little gravy.  Then they make samosa sandwich or bun by breaking samosa and heating it up on a Tawaa and then put it either between two slices of bread or in a bun and then put some red and green chutney, thinly sliced onions on it. If you don't have any chutney you can replace it by any tomato ketchup. Even while writing I am getting the craving for samosa. It feels like now I should go and get my hands on a samosa so I am finishing here. I am sure, after reading this you are feeling the same.
But before I go, just a word of caution, samosa is a deep fried snack so it's calorie count is very high. Whoever counting their calorie intake should take into account this too. But still once in a while you can enjoy a good and yummy snack like samosa, isn't it :)
Also, if anybody knows more ways of enjoying this wonderful Indian snack please do let me know or leave a comment. I would be thankful to you.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Simple things about Life - I

I felt like writing a blog so that I can reach out to people like me who are out there and who need a support system. I am talking about people, especially females who are out there, sacrificing and giving up things for their families but still there is no one who understands that sacrifice of yours. And this keeps on going for ages and you get blamed, dominated, abused mentally or physically by others. Your heart keeps bleeding and you reach a point where you start raising your voice but it's too late. Your voice is suppressed. You are told that you are manner less, shameless, self centered and thankless person. These blames cut your wounds more deeper and you start going into depression, deeper and deeper. You become a zombie and stop taking interest in anything in life. You stop living the life and the life starts living you. But we have to wake up ourselves from this zombie like stance and start living our own life before the life passes us by.
If you feel after reading this that it sounds similar then please do write and share your story on this blog. Let's build a platform for ourselves to vent out our emotions and feel free to live and enjoy our lives. Let's support each other and be their for each other in our times of need. It doesn't matter which part of the world are you in. Right girls! Well guys are welcome too who agree with us and support us.
May God Bless us all.