Life As I Know It

We have a kitchen garden at home. My mom grows vegetables, a few fruits and other herbs in the garden. The passion fruit plant is a creeper and hence covers one portion of our wall and this plant bears its fruits in abundance but how much passion fruit juice can one drink? So, I decided to make passion fruit jam instead. When I did cut the fruits I found that some of them were very sour and since we had a bunch of over ripe bananas I decided to use them as well in the jam. Ingredients: 6-8 Passion fruits 3 Over ripe bananas Jaggery (One lemon sized ball) Method: •  In a blender mash the bananas. •  In a deep container add the banana pulp, the passion fruit pulp and mix well. •  Cook this mixture on a medium flame while constantly stirring. •  Taste the mixture to see if it requires sweetening. Since the passion fruit, though ripe, tasted sour I added jaggery. •  Let it cook till it starts leaving the sides. •  Once done, take it off the heat and let it cool...

It was my dad’s birthday in July and I wanted to make him something nice. My dad loves the colours green, pink and white in that order. My mom and I decided to plan our menu accordingly so we decided to have a strawberry dessert. It was supposed to be a layered dessert with the layers in the following order – strawberry cake, strawberry custard with strawberry slices, strawberry cake, strawberry whipped cream and garnished with strawberry slices. Except when I told Lulu of my ambitious project she reminded me that Strawberry season was over and told me to make a Trifle instead. That’s how this idea was born. I now had to come up with ‘green’ fruit options and other fruits that would go well with the said green fruit. Suddenly like magic the ingredients fell into place and I was ready to make the dessert. Ingredients: For Custard: 500ml milk 3tbsp custard powder 6-8 Tbsps of sugar For Whipped Cream: 200ml Fresh cream (Amul) 1Tsp Corn starch 6-8 Tbsp of powdered sugar 2-3 drops of Vanill...

Image courtesy Wikipedia Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock has done an excellent job of portraying a man taken by a parasite – a parasite that has a mind of its own. The movie begins with an introduction to Eddie Brock and the nature of his work as a reporter and you know he is “all in” where his work is concerned. He will go any lengths to get his scoop, even sneak into his loved ones emails. Of course, he gets his scoop but along  with that he also loses his job, apartment and girlfriend.   Yet, there he is right outside a store paying $20 for a newspaper that is free. Parallely symbiotes have made their way to our planet via the Life Foundation Space Craft. The Craft crash lands in Malaysia and an emergency team reaches the spot to ensure that there aren’t too many causalities. The team finds the symbiotes that are captured and an astronaut who is barely alive. But not really… one of the symbiotes escapes and manages to wreak a RIOT . While riot ensues, scream, agony and venom mak...