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• Chocolate Lovers' Cake

  Saturday, Feb 21, 2009 3:50AM / Standard Entry

  At the very beginning of this blog I would like to give special thanks to DD ( Diana, MoonChild) for giving me a nice suggestion to add a new blog entry for my every new recipe, so that people can find it easily and can add their comment and suggestion if they wants to.Thank you so much DD:)

                              

   

                                                           CHOCOLATE LOVERS' CAKE

      INGREDIENTS                                                                                                    QUANTITY               

  CHOCOLATE CAKE

  1.Butter --------------------------------------------------------------------------225gms+2 Tbsp melted butter

  2.Chocolate chips -------------------------------------------------------------------------------225gms

  3.Egg yolks -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------10

  4.Sugar -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1/2 Cup

  5.Egg whites ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8

  6.Flour ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------225gm

   

  CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

  1.Chocolate chips ----------------------------------------------------------------------------170gms

  2.Whipping Cream --------------------------------------------------------------------------1 1/2 Cups

  3.Egg white -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  3

  4.Sugar  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2Tbsp

  5.Vanilla essence ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1tsp

   

  CHOCOLATE GANACHE

  1.Whipping cream --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 1/2 Cups

  2.Chocolate Chips ---------------------------------------------------------------------------   510gms

  3.Hazel nuts(Toasted) ----------------------------------------------------------------------   2 Cups

   

  METHOD

  CAKE:-

  1.Grind the chocolate chips in a grinder.

  2.Cream the butter in a mixing bowl.Add Sugar and keep on creaming it till it's become fluffy.

  3.Add the beaten egg yolks.

  4.Add the chocolate chips powder and mix it well.

  5.Mix the flour and the melted butter in it.

  6.Beat the egg whites in a bowl and fold it in the cake mixture.

  7.Pour the mixture in baking pan lined with a baking paper.Bake it in a preheated oven(350F) for around 30 minutes or until it's baked completely.

   

  CHOCOLATE MOUSSE:-

  1.Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler and let it to come in room temperature.

  2.Beat the egg yolks and add it in the melted chocolate chips.

  3.Add vanilla essence in it.

  4.Beat the egg whites with sugar in a bowl and add the vanilla essence till it's become fluffy.Fold the beaten egg in the chocolate mixture

  5.Whip the cream in a mixing bowl till it's become fluffy and stiff.Then fold it in the chocolate mixture.

   

  CHOCOLATE GANACHE':-

  1.Melt the chocolate chips in a double boiler.

  2.Heat the cream in sauce pan till it's reach to the boiling temperature.

  3.Pour the cream over melted chocolates and mix it well.

  4.Grind the toasted hazel nuts in the mixture.

   

  ASSEMBLING THE CAKE:-

  1.Cut the cake in to 3 layers.

  2.pour and spread the chocolate mousse mixture in between every layer and press the layer lightly.Let it set for at least 1/2 hour.

  3.Then you can cut or give the shape of the cake according to your choice.

  4.Pour the ganache on the cake and spread it nicely.

  5You can decorate the cake according your choice.

   

  NOTE:- Usually I decorate the Chocolate Lvoers Cake with dark and white chocolate piping.But this time I have decorated it with strawberries(which is my favourite fruit) and with blue berries( which is Saturn dear's favourite fruit).I think it's really looking better than my old fashion one.Thanks to SATURN DEAR:) for telling me to decorate it.
  
  

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• SAFETY FIRST

  Monday, Oct 27, 2008 3:47PM / Standard Entry

  Open the windows after you enter your car

   “In brief:  According to research done by a U.C., the car dashboard, sofa, air freshener will emit Benzene, a cancer causing toxin (carcinogen).  In addition to causing cancer, it poisons your bones,  causes anemia, and reduces white blood cells.  Prolonged exposure will cause Leukemia, increasing the risk of cancer.  May also cause miscarriage.

   

  Acceptable Benzene level indoors is 50 mg per sq. ft.  A car parked indoors with the windows closed will contain 400-800 mg of Benezene.  If parked outdoors under the sun at a temperature above 60 degrees F, the Benezene level goes up to 2000-4000 mg, 40 times the acceptable level.  The people inside the car will inevitably inhale an excess amount of the toxin.

  It is recommended that you open the windows and door to give time for the interior to air out before you enter.  Benzene is a toxin that affects your kidney and liver, and is difficult for your body to expel. “

  
  

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• LOVE

  Monday, Oct 6, 2008 5:52AM / Standard Entry

  
  LOVE......It's just a word with four letters.But it has everything.It has sweetness,feeling,pain,smile,tears,togetherness.....and so many things.I love the word LOVE and respect to them those who truly love each other.There is nothing alternative of Love I mean the TRUE LOVE.It's very tough to define love in few words.But the inner meaning of the love is a relation with complete faith,sacrifice,understanding and care for each other.if one of these are missing that means love is incomplete.It will remain just as a relation with name like...Boy Friend and Girl Friend or Husband and Wife.Yes...there are many people they love each other but they don't want to give a name to that relation.They feel by giving a name to a relation is become limited.They can love each other by without saying I LOVE YOU and they can feel each other without touching PHYSICALLY.They don't demand anything from each other but ready to give up everything for each other....yes, this is also a kind of love.It's really very good to see when two people loving each other so deeply and so truly.

  Some times it happens with us that the person we want as our lover or life partner that person goes far away from our reach.We keep on chasing for that person and die to get that person in our life.By doing so some times we forget to look around someone who is very close to us.We can't even realize that there is someone who is looking and waiting for us from long time and wants to give all his or her love for us.By the time we realize it's too late.The love of that person who is waiting for us with a heart-full of love is one sided.But that also a love.Yes..may be there is someone waiting for me also but I don't know...or may be someday in one of the turns on the way of life I can see her.....

  MY LOVE:

  When it's about my love yes it had happened to me also.I was never serious about the love or affection for any girl in that sense.There was teen age infatuation...but love?? No way...I had many close friends those who are girls.They were just my friends.Like many other young guys I also was proposed by few girls.But I never took them seriously.May be they loved me truly or may be not....When I have realized what is called true love and what is called feelings for someone you love....love didn't stay for me.

  I was in the final year of Hotel Management.That day I was with my new black blazer of college carrying my bag of books in one shoulder and in one hand I was carrying a bag of my project works for college.I was waiting for my next bus for college..then suddenly I saw a girl is looking at me.When I just looked at her at the first sight I felt this is the girl I was waiting for.There were many people in the bus stop but who cares...I was keep on looking at her and she was looking at me.We got up in the same bus.There was no vacant seat so we both were standing and keep on looking at each other.We just forgot about the people around us.She got a seat and then she asked me to give my bags to her for holding.I gave it to her.When the bus conductor asked me for the ticket I  have asked her where she will get down because I wanted to buy her ticket.She was shocked and I was very normal and got the ticket for both of us.People are looking at me and as I said who care....We both have the same place to get down.Her house is very close our college campus.When we got down I asked her name and she asked mine.She was asking about my college.Since I was in rush for my practical class.I told her I want to meet her later in the evening at the bus stop.She said no I can't.I said it's up to you but I will wait for you.I had my industrial training interview on that afternoon.But I came to the bus stop on time and waited there.She didn't come.That night riot broke out in India.Due to curfew I missed 2 days of college.Actually I was dying to meet her.So on third I told my mom that I must go to college for I have exam next day I will stay with my friends in their hostel.I went to college almost all the way by walk.In the evening after the college I was waiting for her on the bus stop for I know she comes from the school at that time,she only told me that before.I saw her to come down from the bus with her friends.When she saw me to coming towards her she was shocked but there was a slight smile on her face.Without caring her friends or anyone.I told her that I was just waiting for you.Her friends just gave a look at me and started walking ahead.She was very nervous and was telling "are you CRAZY?".I just gave a smile to her and I said yes I am Crazy for you.I said her "I like you and I am fall in love with you".She said I don't love you and I can't love anyone.I said it's OK..but can we talk for 10 minutes.She said NOOOOO.I said may be for the first and last time only 10 minutes.She said OK but you are really CRAZY.Again I gave a smile on that.Then we started walking and talking.She told me about her reason why she don't want to fall in love with anyone.She is a girl from a family where parents are divorced and she was getting all sorts of ill treatment from the people on whom she was depending to live a life.And her elder sister faced lots of problem and pain just because having affair with someone.Just typical back dated mentality.When she came to know about me and my family how we enjoy in our family she had started crying.We talked so many things,some of them are very sensible and some of them are not, we laughed a lot,we came to know each others hobbies,tastes,etc..While talking with her I was just observing that she was like relax after 1000 years.She was so HAPPYYY..And time to time she was telling me you are really Crazy.She also had talk about me with her school friends about our first meeting We gave each others telephone no. and she also gave me her house address.She told me she wants to visit my family.She wanted to go to church with me.Bye the way she is from Hindu family.She didn't want to talk with me for 10 minutes.But finally we talked almost 1 and 1/2 hours:)))While talking we just forgot about the time.Christmas was just after few days.So,I have asked her to come with me for shopping.She said she can't and it's impossible for her because of her family.I have given her the date and time and I told her I will wait for you there.She said not to wait for her because she can not come.When she realized about the time she rushed for the house.I went back to the hostel and was studying with my friends.Suddenly one of my college teachers came with his bike and was asking about one of my friends.We asked what happen.He said there is a complaint from a girl's family that their daughter was talking with one of the students of our college and still she didn't go back to the house.Our teacher was suspecting about that particular guy since he has some bad records and the initial of his name is same of mine.The girl family could able to say only the initial of my name and they came to know that from her friends.I told to my teacher it's me who was talking with that girl and she left for the house it's been almost 1 hour now.Ohh.... it was very bad situation for me in front of the college teachers...But my friends were with me.They said don't worry and let's find out what happen to that girl.I was not worried about my own situation I was worried about that girl.But then only we got the call from the family that their daughter has got back to the house.Actually their family came to our college when we were still talking and the girl went to home from other side.Ohh.... it was a terrible time next day in the college.My close friends were very happy to know that finally I am in love with some one.Some of the teachers and my friends were pulling my legs.It was going like this.But I was still worried about that girl.I was dying to know how her family reacted with her.I saw her at the bus stop near to our college and showed her to some of my friends.But I couldn't talk to her since she had to board into the bus with her friends before we reached to bus stop.

  After a couple of days there was college picnic.It was around 6AM we reached to college.We were feeling hungry and also cold.Myself and four of my friends were started jogging on the road.Suddenly I saw that girl crossing the road for the bus stand.I ran so fast to reach her.My friends were shocked what I was doing.I reached to her and was so breathless.She gave me a smile and said good morning.I was so happy to see her and was more anxious to know what had happen to her after that evening.She told me everyone was very upset and angry on her.But it was something more than that what she didn't tell me.But I know.She said only her father had listened to her about me when he came to meet her.Well we were talking and laughing in the bus stand and from the opposite side of the road all my college friends were looking at us and saying so many things...but...who cares:)))She was going for her tuition and she missed 6 buses for me.Just because I had promised one of my teachers that I will go for picnic and some of my friends are going to picnic just because of my request,otherwise I would have not gone for the picnic and stayed with her.As usual she told me that she can't go with me for shopping and as usual I told her I will wait for you and the same words came out from her 'You are crazy' and I laughed on it.

  Then day of shopping came when I reached there I saw her she came well before my given time.I was so happy to see her and I knew she will come.She told me "I never wanted to come but again I thought you can do anything if you don't see me here"...and I was laughing on that.Ohhhh.....that was the most lovely day for me in my life.I was praying let the time pause here and let us be together for ever and ever.She was so matured and intelligent than her age.The way she used to talk and the way she used to smile...I just can't forget.She was so beautiful and her eyes used to speak faster than her tongue.Some times we were holding each others hands and some times my hand around her neck.We did purchasing.But more than purchasing we gave time for knowing each other.I felt she was feeling like happiness of heaven with me.We ate in a restaurant.While in the restaurant she told me about her life.I never cry so easily.But when I came to know all the biter side of her life I just can't believe a girl of only 15 yrs can face so much of pain in the life and the tears rolled out from my eyes.I gave her some of my snaps as she had requested me.She told me she love me so much and wants to come to our family as soon as possible.She was afraid of her family on who she was depending.not because of her but because of me.As they had given warning to her if she will try to keep relation with me they will make my life like hell.There were so many things she didn't tell me but she faced it her own.She always wanted to keep me away from all kind of harms from her family.She was very ambitious like me.She wanted to become a doctor and she was very good in her study.She told me about her dreams of life.I have found our thoughts are so same.

  Next we met on Christmas day  near her house.For me it was so easy to meet her but for her it was so difficult.Still she used to meet me and never let me know what are the problem she had faced so that I don't lose my smile.I have given her some gift and and some roses including her favourite yellow roses.My gift was nothing when she gave me her hand made gift.It was so nice of her that even facing lot of problems she gave her time to make that wonderful gift which was a hand made calender.She was very  happy to see me with my Christmas suit.

  After Christmas she gone to her uncle's place who was a police officer.As it was not easy for her to talk with me but still she used to call me and talk to me over the phone.Then suddenly I was not getting her calls and I called up her house through my friend who is girl and we came to know still she was in her uncle's house and they don't want to give contact number.After Christmas holidays when I went to college I met her one evening.She was smiling at me as usual.But I have found she is like sick as if she cried for whole week.She told me she wants to tell me something and asked me to meet her next day since it was too late in the evening.I went to meet her next day in a park where she had asked me to come.She was playing badminton with one of her friends and was waiting for me as her family would never allowed her to go park alone.When she saw me she stopped playing and came to me and broke into tears.She was crying like anything.People in the park were looking at us.I was keep on asking her what happened.She was telling me please (with my name) go from my life pleaseee.I asked but why?What happen??...She was not answering that but was keep on telling just go....and was keep on crying...For that moment I felt like I have lost everything and all around me is full darkness.Her friend came to me and requested me to not to misunderstanding her...I asked her but why she is doing like this??I didn't get the answer that day.....The other guys who were observing us some of them were teasing me....If it was some other time I would have smashed their faces.But I was so heart broken at that time I have found myself into pieces.I was trying to make her calm down and I said you can tell me later.When my friends came to know they were so upset and more upset because this is the first time when I said someone I love you and fell in love so deeply.For my craziness I could have done anything for her and my friends were always with me at that time.But neither I did anything like that nor I have allowed them to do.Thanks God I didn't do anything out of my craziness.Later I came to know everything why she did like that and after knowing that I not only started loving her more but also have realized she is much better lover than me.She had sacrifice her love just for me and for my life.Some of her family members and relatives had threatened her they will put me in trouble if she don't cut off the relation with me.They have connection with many sources and they could have easily done that to me.I was never concern about that and I was never afraid.But when I came to know that just because of me she is getting mental and physical torture at home I was so worried.She was facing that long time but she never told me before.She taught me what is call sacrifice in love.Only my love was everything for her that also she had sacrificed just for my life.She always used to tell love is not meant for her and I never knew how truly she was telling that.We used to talk to each other time to time over the phone.She always used to ask me about my family members whom she wanted to meet.Then she went to different city for higher education was staying with her sister and I have started my job career.We used to send each other greetings time to time.Last time I came to know about her from her grandpa that she was doing very good in her medical study.I just want her to go ahead like this.I want her to reach her goal.Love never end or love never die.May be our destiny was that much only.But the way of love and sacrifice she has taught me I will always respect her for that and I will treasure her love till the end of my life and may be life after.She taught that "LOVE ALWAYS DOESN'T MEAN TO GET SOMEONE BUT TO SACRIFICE FOR SOMEONE WHOM YOU LOVE"

  Right at this moment I just want her to get all kind of happiness in her life and also the love from her own family.And I??? I will just go ahead in my life with my career and will keep on trying smile for others around me as I am keep on doing it since last more than 8 years.Who knows may be still there is someone waiting for me whom I know but still don't know.I don't have any regret to my life for anything for I believe there is always a positive meaning what happens with us.Well that's the long story of my love what was only for a month but still more than a life for me because those every moment of that one month I had lived like years:))
  
  
  

  
  

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• My Dreams

  Sunday, Oct 5, 2008 4:08AM / Standard Entry

  Ohhhhhhh......I have lots of dream.So many of my dreams came true in the past and many of them still as my dream.I believe that only by seeing a dream it will never become a reality.To convert dream into reality one has to give effort in practical.An effortless dream is always remain as a dream only........There is no harm of seeing a dream and try to achieve it.No matter whether I can achieve it or not but the end of the I will feel that I at least have given my full effort on it.It's not necessary what we dream we can always achieve that.Failure is the one who give up so easily and winner is the one who never give up.Well there are few dreams of mine.......

  1. A complete peaceful world.A world with full of love.

  2.A pollution free earth.

  3.To see everyone getting enough food to eat and living in a safe home.

  4.No deviding of world by race,religion,caste or by anything.

  5.To have my own restaurant with a different outlets of dining.Where I can explore more varieties of food and beverages.Where I can encourage all the employees to come out with their skill and talents.

  6.My own cottage house in a place where I can view more beauty of nature away from the noise and pollution of the city.With a small garden and a lash green lawn surrounded by white picket fence.

  7.My own family with a wonderful wife and kids.I love kids and I want to have at least one daughter.

  Oh there are many more.....I will write them later...hehehehe

  
   

  
  

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• Quotations

  Monday, Sep 29, 2008 3:22AM / Standard Entry / Some words from the heart

   

  Here are few quotations what I like to share with you all.I hope you all will try to feel those words......

  1."No shadows to depress you only joys to surround you, many friends to love   you,God himself to bless you,these are my wishes for you for today,tomorrow and always."

  2."Make a heart which never breaks, make a smile which never hurts, make touch which never pains and make a relationship which never ends."

  3."Whenever you are sad and whenever you are gray, remember I am there to listen you whatever you say.Just walk with me for a little while, and I promise to bring back your sweet smile."

  4."Wonderful people are carefully created by God,wonderful moments are carefully planned by God and wonderful friends like you are carefully gifted by God."

  5."When any tension creeps into your mind just close your eyes and think of me and see your fingers..... and you will find my fingers are clutched into yours to say ....... DON'T WORRY I AM THERE WITH YOU."

  6."Dont't say it is morning and dismiss it with a name of yesterday...See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name...." ( This one from RABINDRANATH TAGORE )

  7."Courage dosent always roar, sometimes courage is the quiet voice.....at the end of the day saying....I WILL TRY AGAIN TOMORROW."

  8."Anyone can give up,it's the easiest thing in the world to do.But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart.....that's the truest strength.Consider calling it a challenge rather than a crisis.Don't cry because it's happened.Smile because it's over and beging each day as it was on purpose.Laugh often,dream big and reach for the stars."

  9."Today you are you,that is truer than true.There is no one alive who is youer than you."

  10."You better live your best,act your best and think your best today,for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."     

  11."Feel good when somebody miss you,feel better when somebody loves you.But feel best when somebody never forgets you."

  12."God knows your future.He may not reveal it to you.But he will walk with you as the future unfolds.Don't trust the stars, trust the one who made them."

  13.Laughing faces dosen't mean that there is absence of sorrow.But it means that they have the ability to deal with them.So, keep smiling inspite of anything."

  14."For the world you are somebody, but for SOMEBODY you are the WORLD." 

  15."To live this life I need a heart-beat, to have a heart-beat I need a heart,to have a heart I need happiness and to have happiness I need you."

  16." if you want to know how much I miss you then try to catch rain drops.The ones you catch is how much you miss me and the other you miss is how much I miss you."

  17."Butterflies don't know the colour of their wings.But human eyes know how nice it is.Likewise you don't know how nice you are.But I know how special you are."

  18."Miss me or hate me..both are in my favour.If you miss me I will always be in your heart and if you hate me I will always be in your mind."

   

  
  

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