I have created another dish full of vegetarian proteins!

Hello to everybody out there!

Day before yesterday, I decided to cook a simple stir-fry and upload it on YouTube!

The recipe was created when I was recalling the prominent faces of school-mates during my school days! We all love to eat good food that is for sure, but not many of us do and can express our appreciation for the food that we eat!

I do very vividly remember the expression of "great appreciation" of our Canteen lady, who cooked the very simple dish at our "Day-camp" at school!

This classmate of mine, Judy was overjoyed eating the dish! Her beautiful large eyes with long lashes shone with glee and appreciation and she said that she really enjoyed eating that particular dish that was cooked that lunch time! It was a very simple vegetarian dish of just Mung-bean sprouts, stir-fried with garlic and ginger and some soy sauce!!!

If only most of us know how to express our gratitude to the person that had cooked a meal for us, just the way my old school-mate Judy had expressed, all "cooks" would be happy to slave for more hours in the hot kitchen to make someone happy!!!

My version of the Mung bean sprouts has the Snake beans and fermented soy beans that gives it a "nutty" wholesome flavour! The sprouts are stir fried briefly to give it a crunchy yet juicy flavour, and the Snake beans are just tenderly cooked to bring out its natural sweetness and colour! Chillies??? Yes, indeed chillies! Oh! They are hot stuff! They can be well blended with the rest of the vegetables, and thinly sliced so you don't get a big "pungent"bite of it, so it is De-li-cious!!!

Try cooking it the next time you are in the Kitchen!

To watch, please click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6vrrGb0dK4

Happy cooking at: http:/www.youtube.com/cookingwithnancy

Peace and Blessings,
Nancy


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You can see Shirdi Baba-ji during "bajan-session!"

Yes, my dear friends and relatives. In my previous blog-letter, I have mentioned how one can see Baba-ji by singing bajans to him, that which is easy to do.

Well, this evening at "bajan-session" at Shirdi Sai and Maa Durga Mandir, Sydney, that was what exactly happened again and again.

His "moorti"(statue) was all adorn beautifully in purplish/maroon-red attire.
I happened only to be also dressed in my first ("old" but looks "fresh") Seluar Kamis of intricate flowers and design of similar colour but with white in-between. I was very happy for this coincidence that is all!

When our Mandir's(temple) little Spiritual young boy sang, "Choti Choti Gayian-Choti Choti Gwaal", I was immediately tuned into this bajan and sung whole-heartedly and shaking my tambourine and enjoying myself tremendously!
Next moment, in the midst of the "bajan"(song), I saw a vision of Shirdi Baba-ji sitting on his throne and he was dressed up all in BLUE! When I opened my eyes, he was still in his purplish/maroon-red clothes!!!
Close my eyes again, he was in BLUE and his throne was creamish white in colour!

Be it that my eyes were playing tricks before my shut eye-lids, it really was such a beautiful feeling!!!

"Oh! What a feeling, JAI BABA!"

Hope for the Hopeful!

Life is what one makes out of it! There is so many worries, global recession, climatic changes, wars, illnesses, old-age, the list goes so on and so forth!

So what!!! To make myself happy, I put on some of my favourite music! We all have our own type of Music that makes us happy, so play your own choice!

For me, the moment I put on "bajans," meaning devotional songs in Hindi, it immediately up-lifts one's soul! Try enjoying the songs on the whole and then do also try to differentiate the different basic instruments being played for the song! I notice that every classical instrument had been designed to create a certain mood, played of course by the Skillful and Creative player!

When the lyrics are beautifully composed and sung by a passionate Singer and backed by a well-teamed "Orchestra," Magic just happens for you! So, all you have to do is Sit back and Relax, Enjoy! Can't??? Alright, do it Standing then or Lend your Ears to it, in whatever you are doing at that Frame of Mind! You must give Permission for the Magic to Play on for You! This is what I think is, "TO LOVE YOURSELF!

Get one of your favourite C.D. or tape and slot it on "play," and let it flow and fill your Empty Heart with Joy! Then let the magic alter your state of mind! Beautiful Music and Songs are a remedy for so many ailments! It is like being in "Heaven" or ""Paradise!"

That is one of the reasons, lots of places of Worship have some Devotional singing sessions or "Choir," they call it in English!

You can experience that it does enrich your Life and drowns away all your sorrows and recharges your "batteries" unlike "alcohol" that Numbs your Skull and Makes one get into a Drunken state and can lead to do "silly" things sometimes!

Let's All Stay Hopeful and Sing in Praise of Divinity or God!

God lives in all our hearts! So let's all Sing in Praise and be Happy!

"Sing all our Blues away and be Blessed!"


Joy and Peace to all!
Nancy

Reach out for Shirdi Sai by singing bajans from your heart!

Many devotees are curious and ancious to know how one can "see Shirdi Sai!"

From my humble and simple experiences, it is by singing in praise of him through "Bajans" only.
It really is that simple! Baba-ji is so Compassionate and so Simple, you don't have to know all the mantras to get to know him!

Just trust him and look up to him with your heart and he touches you!

Try it, and don't give up! He comes to you in visions, and dreams too!

Baba-ji loves us all!

Jai Sai Ram!
Nancy Tan