India Traveling 2012

My mom is an India and bollywood fan and she traveled with her friend in India this March. Here some photos made in a video with bollywood music Sonu Nigam, Acon etc.... Enjoy the show.




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Suprise Bunny

Bunny Toy with suprise

Easter is comming and for smaller kids who wants little gifts when you are comming

could this be somethings for you. I found a bunny toy post @craft-craft.net and
turned it into a Soft Bunny Toy with Easter suprise. I couldn't find any pattern so I
made it by my own with the paint program. I also changed a few things as the original
post shows. You can sew it by hand or with your sewing machine.

If you want my pattern just ask me

or write to: stregana@yahoo.de

Let's make an Easter bunny!!!

You will need:

- bunny pattern

- 2 kinds of fabric (I used an old white t-shirt & some left over colored coton fabic)

- glitter glue (I used red glitter creme & pink nail glitter for the nose)

- pins

- freezer paper

- eyes on paper

- cutter

- cutting pad

- textil color in black

- paint brush

- iron

- seam fix

- wool thread (I used white thread for nose hair)
- needle

- stuffing

- pen or tailor's chalk

- scissors

and of course: - flat candy (I used a flat chocolate easter bunny wraped in foil)

Cut out a pattern. Draw now (2x body, 8x arms and legs, 4x ears) on the wrong side

of your white fabrics with 1 cm extra for the seam and cut it also. Draw 2x inner

ears, 1x belly, 1 tail & 1 pocket on your colored fabric but with no extra cm seam

exept the belly 1 cm where you sew it and cut it also.

 Fix the tail, inner ears and belly part with seam fix or pins on body and ears. Aply it

by hand or with your sewing machine on the bunny segments. Make from a rectangle

part(not bigger than the belly a little pocket. Aply it on belly part with open up.

Sew ears with wrong side in together and pull right side out. Sew arms & legs and

pull out. Pin ears, arms and legs between the 2 body parts(wrong side out) in place.

Sew everthing togehter and let  an oping for stuffing. Stuff the bunny and close it

by hand.

Draw some eyes on freezer paper and cut out. Iron freezer paper with glossy side on
bunny. Use a paint brush to fill out the eyes with black textil color. Remove freezer
paper and let dry. Paint a nose with glitter glue or glitter creme & nail glitter and
let dry. When it is dried take a needle and make some nose hair.

(this is totally optional hmm does a bunny has nose hair??? lol)

Last thing of course take candy and give it in your bunny's belly bag.

Finished!!!

to everyone

Twilight BD Night

Finally part 1 of  Twilight Breaking Dawn is out on DVD in Germany.

And my friend is so crazy about it that she asked me for a Twilight DVD "session" lol.

Van you resist when your best friend ask you for such amazing sexy wolfy awww

I don't know how to tell ya. I don't so we will watch the movie.

Probally if you were a tiny little mouse in our home you might need some oropax

or earmuffs or you could take it with awwwww owwwww.

Ok, where are my pretzel my drink my tissus c'mon I want to see it now.

Don't ya??

Trailer Part I

Teaser Part 2 from 1

Lil' Whale

Free Softie Whale Pattern

Finally I can share with you my first sewing thing that I made. I am also a hobby crafter. I ♥ to work with my sewing machine. So the thing that I sewed is a whale. I found this Free Pattern Softie Whale@ Small Dream Factory. Here it is.

Materials I used: Two different fabrics (cotton and fleece for body and fins)
2 Safty Eyes (or use knobs for eyes and nose)

Stuffing - polyfill

also: Scissor, pins, tailor's chalk and pen, cutting board, Fiskars eyelet setter(smallest 1,6 mm), pearl pen, sewing machine and thread

Instructions: Download free pattern here (original file), or download the user/printer-friendly version; part one, part two and part three.

First I did was of course I trace and cut out the pattern. Than I pined the pattern on the fabrics and cut out the fins, upper and bottom part of the whale body. Than I cut out the inners circle of the pattern and used pen on cotton and the chalk on fleece to make markings for the inner circle on fabrics.

The first thing I sewed the fins. I sewed with the wrong sides together and turned right-side out. Now I sewed the little parts of upper and bottom body together.

For the eyes I used 2 safty eyes. Here for I made to little holes with with the eyelet setter on eye markings.

So sewing together: Place the front body piece right-side up on your work surface. Pin the fins into position. Place the second body piece right-side down on top and pin the body pieces together. Sew the body pattern. Be careful not to sew the stuffing opening. I got the eye in the body and got the back ofe the safty eye through the littles eye holes and cloed it up with the safty metal piece.

Turn right-side out. Now I filled with small amounts of stuffing up the whale until the whale is firm and even, but not too tight. Last bu not least I hand-sewed the stuffing opening. And last I droped a whale's nose with a pearl pen.

 Finished Whale!!! Tada. It's quiet easy.

Just try it!!!

Vegetable Kheema

Vegetable Kheema or Mutton Kheema

(Minced Lamb Peas & Potato Curry)

I really love cooking and the "Indian Cusine" is also one of the best.

This for I share with you this easy recipe. It's rich and very flavorful.

Actually the recipe contens lamb but you can take minced meat which

ever you like. Also cook with carrots or half peas halt carrots or spinach.

I tried it from the "All Color Indian Cookbook" by Hamlyn Pubs.

Ingredients for 4 Serves:

4 tbsp oil

2 onions, chopped

2 tsp ground coriander

1/2 tsp tumeric powder

1 piece of fresh ginger, chopped (1 x 2,5 cm)

1 headed tsp garam masala

about 450g /1lb minced lamb (beef optional)

225 g /8 oz small potatos, quartered

salt to taste

450 g /1 lb shelled peas (or frozen peas)

Preparation:

Heat the oil to medium high and cook the onion until soft.

Add the spieces and fry it for about 5 minutes. Stir in minced

beef and cook now over high heat until well browned.

Lower ther heat and add the potatoes and salt to taste.

Cover and cook gently for 5 minutes. Now, add the peas

and cook until potatos and peas are tender.

Serve hot and maybe with some Indian flat bread.

Save the last bite

My Birthday Rainbow Cake

I turned 33 last week. Nobody was there to make my cake so I had to do it alone.

I like diferent colours so it was clear to make a rainbow cake. When I was a child

my mom used to make it but she was in India and came back right at my birthday.

She also use to call it Easter cake or parrot cake. Funny because she celebrate her

birthday only one week earlier just in India :). Ok! Let's do it.

This cake has some eggs in it. So for all no egg eaters just replace it.

Ingredients:

300 g soft butter

270 g caster sugar

1 tsp vanilla extract or 1 vanilla sugar

1 pinch salt

5 eggs

375 g all pourpose flour

1 package baking powder

3 tbsp milk

1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tsp extra caster sugar

1 tbsp extra milk

4 extra different food colors

powdered sugar

(or melted chocolate)for garnishing

some extra butter +

some bread crumbs for cake pan

a round cake pan with hole

4 extra mugs

1 toothpick

Preparation:

Preheat oven up to 175°C or 350F.

Stir soft butter and sugar, vanilla extract or vanilla sugar and salt

together until you have a creamy mix. Stir in the eggs one by one. 

Siff flour and baking powder over butter egg mixture, stir well.

Lightly grease cake pan with extra butter and sprinkle with bread crumbs.

Fill about 3 "big" tbsp in your mugs, add food colors in every mug and stir.

For chocolate layer: mix cocoa powder with extra sugar and extra milk.

Keep some uncolored cake mix for light yellow.

my cake 1. "yellow" cake mix

2. cocoa

3. blue

4. green

5. red(turns into pink)

6. orange

Put in oven and bake for about 1 hour. When it gets to dark, cover
with aluminum foil. The cake is done when nothing stucks on the toothpick.

Let the cake cool completly and decorate with icing sugar or melted chololate.
Maybe also use some bd candles.


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My version of Sheperd's Pie

I did not feel well but promissed my friend Diana to cook fo her.

So I called her an canceled our meeting today and prommissedher for

tomorrow to come.

Originally found this sheperd's pie recipe @Cook Like James.

This recipe intence beer and heavy cream but I don't like it and

changed this recipe a little. Instead of beer, cream, peas

I used apple juice, milk, green beans, also I used just 1 pound minced
beef but about 1 pound more veggies like carrots, leek and pumkin.
I ♥ it.

Pumkin, Carots, Green Beans

It provides fiber and  vitamin a, vitamin c, bs , calcium,

potassium, iron, b2 , thiamine, β-carotene, dietary fibre,

antioxidants, minerals, lectins and more

Minced Beef must be cooked to 72 °C (160 °F) to ensure that all
bacterial contamination and has from fat also iron, vitamine b1,2,6,12,
zinc, calcium and more

The photos not mine

but as soon as possible I add mine.

My version of Old Fashioned

Shepherd's Pie

by James

  

Filling:

2 tbspunsalted butter

1 large onion, chopped fine

5 medium carrots, peeled and chopped fine

1 piece of pumkin or leek, chopped

1 pounds ground beef

1 tsp salt

1 tsp ground black pepper

5 tsp all-purpose flour

1 tbsp tomato paste

2 tbsp Sambal Oelek

1/4 cup milk

1 3/4 cups low-sodium chicken broth

3/4 cup apple juice

2 tbsp soy sauce

2 tsp minced fresh thyme leaves

1 cup frozen green beans, chopped(or mixed vegs)

Topping:

2 1/2 pounds potatoes, peeled and cut into pieces

1 tbsp salt

2 tbsp unsalted butter

1/3 cup milk, warmed

1 pinch ground black pepper, optional

1 pinch nutmeg

1 large egg, beaten

1 handful of shredded cheese

1.    Filling: Heat butter in large skillet over medium-high heat until foaming. Add onion and carrots and cook until soft, about 8 minutes. Add meat, 1/2 tsp salt, and 1/2 tsp pepper and cook, breaking up meat into small pieces, until browned, about 12 minutes. Add flour, tomato paste and sambal oelek and cook until paste begins to darken, about 1 minute.

2. Add milk and cook until it spatters, about 1 minute. Add broth, juice, soy sauce, and thyme and simmer over medium heat, stirring frequently, until mixture is thick but still saucy, 15 to 20 minutes. After 10 Minutes stir in green beans. Remove from heat, adjust seasonings, and transfer to broiler-safe 2-quart casserole dish.

3.    Topping: Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 375 degrees. Bring potatoes, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and water to cover to boil in large saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until tender, 15 to 20 minutes. Drain potatoes, return to saucepan, and mash potatoes with butter,egg and milk until smooth. Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg

4. Spread potatoes over filling, using spatula to smooth top (see photo). Top it with cheese. Bake until pie top is golden brown, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven

and cool 10 minutes. Serve.

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