Candle Holder

I mixed Epsom salt glitter and food color and glued the mixture to the glass, you can make your own pattern.

            I drew the ganesha with black acrylic paint and used glitter glue to fill it up.

Bird Toran

 Take a template of your favorite design, cut it out on a felt, sew the edges and stuff with some pillow insert your favourite character would be ready, add the embellishments according to your desire, I have used some scrap cloth for the wings.

           I used the beads from my daughter's bracelet kid, so you can use your own imagination to do it.

Crochet Blanket

Well it took almost 6 months for me to finish this project, since I used medium weight yarn and made it in queen size.
I used about 15 bundles of yarn 3 bundles for each stripe.
                                 For the first stripe I did single crochet in both the loops

                 For the second stripe I did ribbed pattern by doing single crochet in the back loop alone.

For the middle stripe I did triple crochet.

               For the remaining 2 stripes did the same pattern as did for the first two stripes.

KOTHU PAROTTA

         Ingredients Needed are onions, tomatoes, g&g paste, green chillies, eggs and of course parotta.

                             Saute the onions well and add the gg paste and green chillies.

                 

 Then add the tomatoes and cook it well, in the meantime beat 2 to 3 eggs well with salt and turmeric.

                 

Add the beaten eggs to onion tomato masala and mix it well immediately so that it becomes something like this, if not the eggs well get cooked as big chunks and it would be bit difficult to break it up into fine pieces or paste like this.

                 

Cover it and let it cook for 2 mins, then add the parotta which is cut into fine pieces. Mix it well and sprinkle few tbspns of water, use a sharp or thin edge spatula to break the mixture more finer. Cook it until the moisture is gone.

                 

Cross Body Hobo Bag

Make a chain of 40 and single crochet in the top loop of each chain, at the end chain 1 and turn your work and single crochet in the top loop again this will create the ribbed crochet look, when you reach the end chain 1 and turn your work do single crochet in the top loop, repeat this for 7 10 8 rows depending on however you want the look to be.

                               

Then for the broom stick stitch or peacock stitch, you can use the same color yarn or a contrasting color, pull up a loop from each single crochet and insert them into a knitting needle, there should be a total of 40 loops, now to close the loop take a group of 5 loops, pinch them with your thumb, considering it as a single loop, make 5 single crochets around it, so that you will end up with 8 peacock stitches.
For the next row continue doing the single crochet ribbed stitch. Continue to the desired length you want.

       Now fold it into half leaving a flap of about 4 inches at the top to close the bag, and sew the ends. Make a strap of your desired width and length, I made chain of 5 and did single ribbed crochet.

 Attach the straps to the ends by sewing, and attach buttons, I have used the middle hole in the peacock stitch as a button insert.

Chicken Ball Gravy

Ingredients Needed : onion, tomatoes, g&g paste, chiilipowder, turmeric and ground chicken.

For the balls saute the onions, green chiilies, g&g paste and add it to the ground chicken with salt and turmeric and make it into small balls.

Now for the gravy  season some whole garam masala, saute onions and gg paste and tomatoes with chilli powder and salt, once done add some cashew and coconut paste(optional) it adds thickness to the gravy.

Add desired water to the gravy and bring it to ball, now drop the balls one by one to the boiling gravy.

                  Cook it for 10 to 13 mins, your yummy chicken ball gravy would be ready.

                            Note: Do not mix the gravy immediately, the balls might break.

Mutton Keema

Heat the oil add the spices and onions, once done add ginger garlic paste cook it foe few minutes then add tomatoes.

                               

After the oil gets separated from the tomatoes add the ground meat, chilli powder, salt and turmeric, mix it well.

                               

              Cook it well until the moisture is completely gone and it becomes nice and dry.

                               

You can use this keema to make parathas, dosa, uthappam or you can have it just like that with rice.

Southern Style Mutton Gravy

 

        Heat some oil and add the spices, green chillies and ginger garlic paste, saute it for few minutes.

                               

              Add the onions and tomatoes saute it and cook it well, once done add the mutton.

                               
           
                Add the chiili powder, salt and turmeric and pressure cook it for about 15 mins.

                               

                  In the mean time grind a paste of coconut, fennel seeds and  cashews.

                               

                       Add the coconut paste and bring it to boil and cook it for about10 mins.