Piro achar !!

September 1st, 2010

taken by smila 012This hot and very spicy chutney is delicious to eat with dal bhat . We can make it easily, when there is a season of green chilly. taken by smila 001

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Take some green chilly and break each chilly with griender not that small just few. Then add salt as your taste, some chopped garlic and ginger, mustard oil, some turmeric powder, some herbal masals. Mix them properly and keep in dry bottle and store it for few days . After a week later you can serve it with your food like dal bhat or roti.

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh………….hot chilly chutney!!!!!!!!!!!

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C (chilly) momo!!

August 5th, 2010

taken by smila 007taken by smila 003taken by smila 006This yummy food is suit for those who likes hot and spicy. Well easy to prepare. Just make ordinary momos and make sauce with some vegetables and chillies!!.

Here we need only some vegetables what you find around, like spring onion,tomatos, capsicum, onion,green chillies.

Make the pan hot and put some oil. Then fry some chopped garlic. When it gets bit brown, fry some flour till it gets brownish, you can fry cut vegetables or you can cook it without frying, then add some water and all those cut vegetables then cook it for some time. Put salt,pepper as your taste. You can put some red chilly powder as your taste. It makes this item colorful.  When is cooked deep cooked momos and serve it hot. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm delicious!!taken by smila 004taken by smila 009

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Yoga my medicine -5

July 16th, 2010

After the poses done facing upward, now time to do more poses laying down ward. Some opposite poses are must done after, to make balance of our body structure. Spine which is the base of our body. When it is strong means we are strong. So let’s do the other way of this pose. Let me remind you, do every pose with full of spirit, then you get it’s advantage. It is better if you deep down with your soul while you do all yoga postures.

12. Biparit merudandasan ( opposite spinal chord pose):

Step 1:Lay down keeping your right hand straight in front and put your left hand at your back hip. Then rise your left leg to the opposite as much as you can  breathing in at the same time, feel the stretching at your spine. Now change to the other side same. Left hand in front and right leg stretching behind to the opposite side as much as you can breathing in and back to normal position breathing out.

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Step 2 : Now put your right hand in front like you did before and left hand to you back. Now lift your right hand and left leg at once breathing in , look at you hand in front.  Back to the normal breathing out. Now change your hand, left in front and right at your back. lift your left hand and right leg at once breathing in look at your left hand in front . Back to your normal position and relax.taken by smila 081taken by smila 082

Step 3: Now laying down put your hands to your back and catch your right wrist from your left hand. Breathing in lift your upper body , look up at the sky. Breathing down. Again breathing in lift your upper body and both legs also this time , look up at the sky. Then breathing down rest your body to normal. Repeat this for 3 times.taken by smila 083

Step 4:  Now put your both hands in front of your chest. Put your left hand first and on it put your right hand. Fold your legs behind . breath in  then twist your body to one side ,breathing out at the same time try to touch the ground by your legs , look at your legs. Again breath in and back to the position, then twist your body to the other side breathing out, look at your legs. So while twisting or squeezing your body feel the stretching at your back.taken by smila 084taken by smila 085

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Bulucha ( cereal soup )

June 24th, 2010

taken by smila 002It is my great pleasure to  post this recipe in request of  Sue Oliver(New Zea land). I hope you all will find great taking this soup for winter. It is summer here in Nepal, so some of masalas, i couldn’t find it. I will post it in winter as i find it.

This is made up of different types of cereal and masalas which makes you warm in winter.  You can make it as you need the portion for whole winter. This is really really good for everyone who likes cereal. It is rich food belongs to Newars  in valley in Nepal. Especially in Bhaktapur. We still take it in mornings as breakfast in winter. It makes not only warm plus  prevents from catching  cold. In winter we feel hungry soon as we digest food easier than summer. So this helps you to give more stamina for longer.

Ingredients:

1. rice 4 cups

2. green lentil( moongi) 1 cup

3. soya bean, brown  1 cup

4. soya bean, black two big spoon

5. green peas half cup

6. wheat 1 cup

7. some other lentil or beans what you have

8. some special aayurbedic masalas( it includes more than 10 verity of  like jwano, harro ,jeera barro,peepla,keshar etc.)

9. some butter or ghee

10. some salt as your taste

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How to prepare??

First we need to fry dry or roast like popcorn in a pan or in a pot like pressure cooker(means bit thick one). Fry one at a time small portion in a low flame of stove until it gets good looking brown.

Then after fry different lentil or grains one at a time.

Then grind it in grinder and make  flour.

All masalas should be dry and grind it .

When you grind all, not much like powdered, not too much grind is nicer.

Then mix up all  flour you just made rice,lentil, beans,masalas then make it cool.

Now store it in vacumed dried  jar or bottle.

You can cook it as much you want per day.

First make a pot hot . Boil some water about 2/3 glasses in another pot.

Put some ghee as you like then fry a masala,  jwano when it gets black  and fry some prepared flour about one big spoonfull for per bowl. If you are preparing for two people take two big spoonfull and boiled water about two glasses.

You fry it in ghee until it gets nice brown look, then add boiled water .

Stir it well then add salt as your taste. cook it until gets bit thicker. As you like !!

Now you serve it hot with bread or chapati.

Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyy BULUCHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Sitinakha

June 17th, 2010

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Sitinakha, today this year 17 June 2010, one of nice festival for the year in Newar community in Nepal. On this day lots of families have their special worshiping for their main god called DEU PUJA. On this day special food called WO CHATAMARI  is prepared. It is delicious made of rice flour and different lentil black (mas), green (mung).

This festival falls during monsoon season. People are waiting or monsoon and plant rice. Farmers are ready with paddy fields.taken by smila 010taken by smila 012

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Beautiful Nepal

May 20th, 2010

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Namobudhha

April 5th, 2010

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Namobudhha, very pleasant place for hiking lovers. It is just near Dhulikhel and Panauti. Actually it is very peaceful holy place for Buddhist and Tibetans. On  Janai Purnima, there lots of  pilgrims  visit as well as others and observe mela (fair).

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You can do hiking from Dhulikhel, it takes about three hours, but depends how you walk. The road is just raw and dusty even it is nice walk or biking . You can come back to Dhulikhel or got to Panauti – stay there or go by bus to Bhaktapur. It is a nice one day  hiking trip. img 003

Very few known about this stupa, actually it is important destination for foreigners as well as citizens. We can see some of pictures of dead people hung on the wall. Those are kept by families to rest their soul in peace in this holy place. That is the strong belief  of Newars in the community. It looks so interesting to feel such part.

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It is worth going up from the back  left of the stupa about 10 minutes up hill to see some beautiful monastries and gompas. There is an interesting story about the place where we can see some statue made showing Budhha feeding himself to a tigress. A legend relates that the Buddha came across a tigress close to death from starvation and unable to feed her cubs.  Then sorrowful Buddha allowed himself to eat to hungry tigress. So one can learn to save this nature and animals to save our beautiful earth. It is a lesson for the mankind in this society,and tells Buddhism to the community.img 031

So, to bring peace in this world, we should take this and practice in our daily life. I hope and suggest you can try this hiking trip for peace, for fun,  to observe nature closely. Good luck!!img 079

The view from the back area of Namobuddha is just fantastic!!!img 029

Before leaving from there, we had yaameeeeee  tasty dal bhat, especially buff sukuti which was hung and dried up that wooden stove, very tasty, still my mouth waters……!!!! when i remember this.

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YOGA MY MEDICINE -4

March 23rd, 2010

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Dear friends!! Sorry for not posting newer chapter for yoga. Load shedding  in Nepal made all plans effected. Any way new postures continues…….

10.Jhulasan ( Swinging posture):

This posture is done after Merudandasan ( Spinal chord posture). Laying down on the ground with full of force rise your both legs like we do for Halasan (Plough posture) then swinging try to stand on your toes only. Again swing for more like 8/10 times.taken by smila 073taken by smila 075taken by smila 074

This posture makes your back bones a proper massage/acupressure  and helps to reduce sinus problem.

11. Gudasan ( Rolling posture):

This is also done for back bone massage and acupressure to the other way from right to left. To this claps to your folded legs like you hold to your legs for Pawanmuktasan, then roll to the right taking long breath in at the same time and when your body reach to the other ground then squeeze your neck in other way breathing out. Then roll to the other side breathing in and again move your head squeezing and breathing out at the same time. Repeat this for 5/6 times.taken by smila 076taken by smila 077

This posture helps to reduce your pain at your back and tension .

12. Balasan ( Child posture):

This is done laying down and moving your hands and legs as well as you head like an infant does when it is about 3/4 months. Then laugh from you heart, at the same time as much as you can moving all your body parts with legs/hands/ head at the same time.

This makes you feel better doing yogasan. This posture motivates to do other postures and make you feel happy and goes away your shyness.

After this postures do some full stretching taking long breath in and lifting your legs and hands bit above like 2/3 inches from the ground. This is the end of the postures done laying upward. Then we need to turn over laying downward and do other postures. To turn over do it in yoga way, turn over from left .taken by smila 078taken by smila 079

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HOLI FESTIVAL OF COLOR IN NEPAL

February 22nd, 2010

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Season has changed Autumn to Spring, falls holi festival in Nepal. It is a festival of color. In the season spring we get color so this festival reminds it the season as arrived. We get colorful flowers and plants in spring and that is shown by this color festival. People get entertained by playing color, throwing each other and throwing water balloons. People celebrate this as a means of harmony. Some times it gets wild these days, while throwing in force to unwanted . People play with water in friend circle and  in neighbour hood. We can buy many powdered color in red/white/pink/green/yellow. Some make black with mobile which is hard to remove later. Young girls are the target to throw such water balloons and color. There is a popular folk newari song speciality of holi festival,

” Holi ya mela tan chayala lyashe, aviran chhangu khwa hisi deka be” ( in this holi festival don’t get angry if i rub you avir ( red color power) on you face to make you pretty….)

Jhya jayaka tukan maa  ohe misa jita ma…..o misa maweka he ja manaya eh hoi ja manaya…..(window is full of mustard plant, i  want that beauty…until i get her …won’t take any food…..!!!!)n594936913_1583865_1057320n594936913_1583984_174747424689_324028991138_109811961138_3612328_759099_n24689_325617006138_109811961138_3617841_5490781_nn566321797_2186655_5859219

I have used some of pictures of  Holi festival from facebook …..friends hope you won’t mind it!!!!sorry!!taken by smila 073taken by smila 019taken by smila 072

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FACES FROM NEPAL!!!!

January 7th, 2010

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I meet these boys every day in Taumadhi square. Very cheeky , even they are small …talks lot like adults…..loved this picture!!!!Early morning they meet and make plans for the day…..meeting tourist and asking with them …this and that……hahaha hope they go to school soon.bungy (3)She earns with her tea shop. This was taken on the way to Kodari. Special milk tea (cause there we can find better quality milk).mixed bag 015This picture is from Durbar square, doing yoga, young girls in traditional outfit,looks so nice.  Yoga, these days is being famous as people started interest in this very perfect workout!!! There are many classes running in Bhaktapur, makes positive change.just taken 078

Girls from Unnati foundation ( home for orphans), gave me innocent smile!!!IMG_0962Hard worker!!P1000309This typical musical gathering is still exits in many places of Bhaktapur. Every evening, people who are interested take part in such chanting/ bhajan(religious songs of god and goddess). It makes relax for those who takes part in. taken by smila 190I met this man on the way to Gosainkunda, as a porter. They are very strong people. They can carry such kilos more than they weigh and can run those steep hills!!!! ups and downs.taken by smila 135taken by smila 140Children from Dhunche (Rasuwa)taken by smila 136P1000268Chat time, spending some free time with brotherhood.taken by smila 101Showing religious activity, hindus …….taken by smila 206During dashain festival……IMG_0879Lots and lots of people gather in Taumadhi near Nyatapola temple for Bisket festival……all in festive mood.taken by smila 218

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Tea shop on the way to Goshainkunda……and lady shopkeeper…IMG_1046Playful boys….playing with rope …making it as swing under Bhairab chariot …. ….during Bisket festival.

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