Mozhikalum -- lyrics

Happy New Year everyone !!!
Its a great feeling to start off the new year with a smooth romantic number.... here goes....

mozhikalum..... mounangalum.... mizhikalum... vaachaalamaayi
thirakalum..... theeravum.... hridayavum..... vaachaalamayi
thammil thammil.... ormakal.... aarum kaanathe poovaninju    ---2

ilam thennale.. manju pookkale... kulirolame.... niravaaname
ithu munpu naam pranayaadramaayi parayaan maranna kadhayo
mozhikalum..... mounangalum.... mizhikalum... vaachaalamaayi

poove.. poovennoru vandin chundu vilichu.... melle vilichu
ninnodishtamennu poovinodumozhinju.... ullam mozhinju
anuraaga divyamanuraagamaarum ariyaa kanavaayi
avarennumee malarvaadiyil sneha poove ninne thedi alayunnitha
ilam thennale.. manju pookkale..kulirolame.... niravaaname
ithil munpu naam pranayaadramaayi parayaan maranna kadhayo

Its from an upcoming movie Padmasree Bharath Dr Saroj Kumar. Maybe a sequel to Udayanaanu Thaaram. Music by Deepak Dev. It sounds like a mix between “Thumbi Kinnaram” from Naran and “Ariyathe Parayathe” from Udayananu Tharam. Sung by Haricharan (The same guy who sang Jalsa in Chennai 600028)

Fruit pie

Ingredients:
Ready made biscuit crumb pie crust,
Vanilla cook and serve pudding,
2 kiwi,
1 apple

1. Peel the apple and chop it into very fine tiny pieces.
2. Peel and slice 1 kiwi thinly and line the base of the pie.
3. Cook the vanilla pudding.
4. Add the chopped apple into the pudding stirring it in well.
5. Pour the pudding into the pie crust.
6. Decorate the top of the pie with the remaining kiwi slices.
7. Keep outside for 2 hrs to cool well. Then refrigerate overnight.
Serve cold.

Time taken : 1/2 hour + overnight to set.

Potato Dosa

Potatoes - 2 (medium size)
Rice flour - 1 cup
Rava - 3/4 cup
Yogurt - 1 cup
Cumin seeds - a pinch or according to taste
Curry leaves / coriander leaves chopped
Salt
Water

1) Cook the potatoes well. Peel it and mash it after it cools a bit.
2) Mix the rice flour, rava and yogurt very well in the mixer by adding a little bit of water to make it smooth.
3) Add the mashed potatoes and a little more water into the mixer and mix till the batter becomes very smooth and lumpless.
4) Pour the smooth batter out into another vessel and add the cumin seeds, salt to taste and curry leaves or chopped coriander leaves.
5) Heat the tava well and smear it with oil.
6) Pour out the batter to make potato dosas. The dosas become crispy when spread thinly and brown a bit like naans when spread a bit more thickly.

Rava Dosa

Ingredients :
Rava -1 cup
Rice flour - 1 cup
All purpose flour - 1/2 cup
Ginger - 1 finger length piece chopped
Green chilies - 2-3 chopped
Curry leaves - 4-5
Onion - 1 big chopped
Cashew nuts - chopped small
Pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
Asafoetida - 1 pinch
Salt - to taste
Ghee

Preparation -
1. Mix all the ingredients except the chopped onion with 5 glasses of water. The batter should be the consistency of buttermilk.
2. Heat the tava very well amd rub it with oil.
3. Sprinkle the chopped onion on the tava according to taste.
4. Sprinkle the batter on the tava like watering plants.
5. Rava dosa takes double the time of a normal dosa to get crisp.
6. Once one side has become cooked rub on some melted ghee and flip it over.

Tejabhai and family - Pranayanila lyrics

I am addicted to Deepak Dev and I dont care if the movies flop (As I have serious doubts about this film)....I love his music!!

Here's a song from his latest movie - Tejabhai and family.. a light and breezy romantic number on the lines of "walking in the moonlight" from the Kunchacko Bobban starrer "Sathyam Shivam Sundaram".

pranayanilaaa....ba ba baaba

pavizhamithaaa...ba ba baaba

pulakamithaaaa...ba ba baaba

pranayamithethra ethra ethra sundaram...

chashakamithaa...ba ba baaba

madhuramithaaa...ba ba baaba

ithu vazhi vaa...ba ba baaba

jeevitham ethra ethra ethra mohanam...

sugandhiyaayi.. suvarna sandhyayil..

varuu priyee.. vilola chandrike..

varu varu kinavil en priye vilasa lolayaayi

vasantham ethra ethra ethra sundaram..

hey baby...I wanna love you..

hey baby...dont wanna leave you..

thirakalithaa...ba ba baaba

theeramithaaa...ba ba baaba

ithuvazhi vaaa..ba ba baaba

alakadal ethra ethra ethra sundaram..

thennal ithaa...ba ba baaba

minnal ithaaa...ba ba baaba

thudikalithaa...ba ba baaba

puthumazha ethra ethra ethra sundaram..

sitarile suratha thantrithan

swarangalaayi thalodayanu nee..

swarangale padangalai

priye parannirangu nee

kinavil ethra ethra sundaram...

hey baby...I wanna love you..

hey baby...dont wanna leave you..

nin mukham sandhyayil poovupole sundaram

mulamkuzhal pattu pol nin swaram manoharam

aadyamaayi kanda naal muthalkku njan

ninnil veenalinju poyi... alinju poyi..

ethra naal thedi njan ninne onnu kaanuvaan

nirangalil mayanguvan ethra naal kothichu njan

aadyamaayi kettu njan alinju poyi ninte ganadharayil

sundari.. sugandhiyaayi..suvarna sandhyayil

varu priye vilola chandrike...

varu varu kinavil en priye vilasa lolayaayi

vasantham ethra ethra sundaram

hey baby...I wanna love you..

hey baby...dont wanna leave you..

PS: Are the lines correct "I wanna love you.. I wanna leave you"?? doesn't make much sense!!

Edit 10/3/2011 : (i have edited the lyrics to make it 'dont wanna leave you")

PS1: Prithvirajappan does not have a natural comic timing and I hope he realizes it soon before his self-hyped super stardom comes crashing down!!

Guacamole

Ingredients : soft avocado, onion, tomato, lemon juice, chilly powder, salt, tortilla chips

1. Scoop and mash avocado.
2. Add finely chopped onion, skinless tomato
3. Add pinch of salt and chilly powder.
4. Squeeze lemon juice to this.
5. Mash and mix everything finely together.
6. Eat with tacos or tortilla chips.

Time taken : 5 mins

Manolo Blahniks someday??

17 months old and already 6 pairs of shoes!! Am I developing a shoe fetish for my daughters little feet? :-p

Chicken mushroom soup

Ingredients: boneless chicken, mushroom, turmeric, salt, pepper, ginger garlic paste, flour, milk, cilantro

1. Cook chicken in water with turmeric and salt.
2. Keep chicken and resulting stock separately.
3. Mince cooked chicken into small pieces.
4. Chop the mushroom into small pieces.
5. Take the chicken stock in a soup pot and keep on simmer.
6. Add 1 tsp of flour and dissolve completely.
7. Add the mushroom and chicken
8. Add pepper and salt according to taste.
9. Add 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste.
10. Add 1/2 cup of milk and add little water if too thick.
11. Bring to a boil on medium flame. Stirring often.
12. Add chopped cilantro when serving.

Time taken : 1 hr

Dumela Mma

Yes its time to admit the truth.... Yes the idiot box has sunk its hook and claws real deep into me and i can be called a true blue couch potato. I was getting tired of all the vampires/ gangsters/ single ladies on american television when i discovered a small gem on HBO On Demand : The No1 Ladies Detective Agency :-)

Its just one of those dainty little serials about the going ons in a small village anywhere in the world..... only this one takes place in Botswana, Africa. The best thing I liked about it was that all the characters were simple and straight forward. They made it seem as though the world only has black or white people ( i meant their behaviour not colour of skin) no grey people. No people who are really innocent but do weird things in weird circumstances and no do gooders in a totally black hearted world. Just very very simple storylines where good people do good things and same for the baddies.

Due to the over dramatized and complicated tangles that we have by now been accustomed to one keeps expecting a twist an unpredictable shocker of a climax.... Nothing.... Many critics have blasted the series for "cardboard cutout characters". But i felt we all need to see some form of "malgudi days" once in a while to just keep our senses fresh and open to everything else.

Despite all the cult following the series has now got HBO had it only for 1 season :-( I hope they renew it due to popular demand !!

Bilsila Bilsila

If there is anything worse than the "Silsila" song and Santhosh Pandit it is the song "Bilsila" sung by Jayasurya in the movie Three kings :-P