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Wonders of colors

My scrape with jewelry making began when an undergraduate in the lab wore earrings that she had made, her mistake- telling me that jewelry making is easy! Well it might be easy but definitely not a hobby that can be sustained on a grad student salary. Somehow I have been keeping it up- although I now am trying out new territories of jewelry making, the one thing I sort of cannot do is color coordination, so it takes an unimaginable amount of time to create one piece of jewelry. But I am hoping some of these creations of mine would fetch me some moolah to keep up with this pursuit. Just to show off- Turqoise magic and cool gal's cool blue

My first venture into the food blog world!

So, after toying with whether or not I should write a food/ craft related blog, I finally decided to give it a shot! I love most of the food blogs- gives me tons of recipes to try out. When I first began to cook, I thought I would be terrible at it- but I have come to realize that amidst some terrible palate decisions, there are some amazing ones too! I really like the idea of a monthly blog patrol coz I surely have a lot of recipes to try out from different blogs. I have decided to submit this recipe from Archana's Kitchen for the MBP- street food . Lot of fond memories are associated with street food, so I thought it would be a nice start. My dad who still travels a lot gave me a list of foods that he has devoured on the streets of many cities Indian and foreign. These chillas were not on his list though! Dal chillas (since I used 4 different kinds) What went in it 1 cup yellow moong dal 1/4 cup urad dal ( I mixed in some urad dal with skin and some green moong dal ) 2 cups