Why is Banana Plant called as a Plant not as a Tree?

Banana Plant is a distant relative of Ginger. This plant does not contain true woody tissues, because of which it never forms a woody stem the way a tree does. They do not have Trunk, so they are not trees. Banana Plants are not seasonal. Banana plants are generally short-life perennial plants. Bananas are an excellent source of nutrients: Calcium, potassium, vitamin A, vitamin C, fiber, electrolytes and more fuel the body with natural energy and protection. The leaf of the banana plant is used as plates to serve food and they are used for cooking as well in some regions.

Tortoise vs Turtle

All Tortoises are Turtles but not vice versa, means we can not call Turtles as Tortoises. They are Reptiles. Tortoises mainly live on land, they occasionally visit water for bathing and drinking, whereas Turtles visit land occasionally for laying eggs they spend most of their time in the water.

    

Tortoises are herbivores, they mainly feed on leaves. Turtles are omnivorous, they eat plants as well as animals. Tortoises mostly have a large dome-shaped shell whereas Turtles mostly have flat, streamlined shells.

   

Tortoises feet are short and sturdy with bent legs which helps them to move freely on land. Turtles have webbed feet with long claws which help them to swim in water.

Frog vs Toad

You know about Frog, which is an amphibian (which can live both on land and water) so as Toad. Toad is a look-alike of Frog. They belong to the same family. 

Toads are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands. Although Toad is an amphibian it lives mostly on land. We can commonly see them in gardens and yards. Toads lay their eggs in water, toad eggs are more in a chain.

Frogs usually have moist skin. An adult frog has a stout body, protruding eyes, cleft tongue, limbs folded underneath, and no tail. Frog's habitat is in and near ponds. Frogs usually lay their eggs in water and they will be in mass.

Shira / Kesari Bath

Ingredients:

Sooji ( Upma Rava) - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Dry Fruits - handfull
Milk - 2 and half cups
Ghee - 1 cup

Method:

Step 1: Dry roast sooji with little ghee and keep it aside.

Step 2: Roast dry fruits in ghee and keep them aside.

Step 3: Put milk in a pan and let it boil.

Step 4: Add roasted sooji into the boiling milk and stir continuously.

Step 5: Add roasted dry fruits and stir it continuously till the mixture leaves the pan.

Step 6: Add Sugar, keep stirring till sugar melts.

Step 7: Add in ghee, stir the mixture till it leaves the pan.

Step 8: Hot Shira is ready to be served.

Note: Chopped Bananas and Pineapples can be added with sugar.

Beans and Carrot Fried Rice

Ingredients:

Beans - 100gms
Carrot - 100gms
Green Chilly - 2
Pepper Powder - 1tsp
Cumin
Cumin Powder - 1tsp
Ginger Garlic paste - 1tsp
Oil - 5tsp
Cooked Basmati Rice - 1cup

Method:

Step 1: Chop Green Chillies, Carrots and Beans lengthwise or as you prefer.

Step 2: Take a pan: put oil and cumin seeds, let the cumin seeds splutter.

Step 3: Put green chilies, ginger garlic paste and saute for 2 mins.

Step 4: Add chopped vegetables and saute for 2-3 mins do not overcook. Vegetables should retain their crunchiness.

Step 5: Add pepper powder and cumin powder. Saute a little.

Step 6: Add cooked rice and mix. Close the pan and simmer for 2 mins.

Step 7: Hot Beans and Carrot fried rice is ready to be served with Raita.

Note: If you prefer soya sause and vineger can be added.

Cheese Balls

Ingredients:

Alu Masala
Mozzarella cheese cubes
Maida(All Purpose Flour) - 2 tsp
Corn Flour - 2 tsp
Salt - to taste
Pepper - to taste
Bread Crumbs
Oil for frying
Water

Method:

Step 1: Take a bowl and add Maida, Corn Flour, Salt and Pepper into it. Add water to it, make a running batter and keep it aside.

Step 2: Take Bread crumbs in a plate.

Step 3: Take a ball size alu masala mixture and give it a ball shape. Flatten it and put a mozzarella cube in the middle and give it a ball shape again.

Step 4: Put the prepared balls in the maida mixture, coat it evenly then coat it with the bread crumbs. Cheese balls are ready to fry.

Step 5: Deep fry these cheese balls in the medium hot oil till they turn golden brown.

Step 6: ChesseBalls are ready to serve.

Instant Paddu

Kuzhi paniyaram (Tamil) or Paddu/GuLiyappa/Yeriyappa (Kannada) or Gunta Ponganalu (Telugu) or Appe or is an Indian dish made by steaming batter using a mould.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rava / semolina / sooji
• ¾ cup curd / yogurt
• Salt to taste
• ½ cup water
• 2 tsp oil
• 1 green chilli finely chopped
• ½ onion finely chopped
• Few curry leaves chopped
• Few coriander leaves finely chopped
• Pinch baking soda

Method: 

Step 1: In a large mixing bowl combine 1 cup rava, ¾ cup curd and ½ tsp salt,

Step 2: Mix well to form a paste without forming any lumps add little water if required.

 

Step 3: In a pan heat 2 tsp oil and saute 1 green chilli and ½ onion till onions shrink slightly.

Step 4: Transfer the roasted onions into prepared rava batter, also add  curry leaves, coriander leaves and combine well.

 Step 5: Rest for 20 minutes or untill rava absorbs water.

 Step 6: Furthermore add a pinch baking soda just before preparing paddu and  

 combine well.

 Step 7: Heat paddu pan and add add few drops of oil inside the holes.

 Step 8: Fill the holes with a spoon of sooji batter in each.

 

Step 9: Cover and simmer for a minute or untill appe gets cooked slightly. Once the base turns golden, flip it over to the other side using a spoon. Simmer further and cook on low heat until it turns golden browns.

Step 10: Serve instant rava paddu with chutney of your choice.

Door Poster - Quilling

Do Not Disturb the Princess Door Poster using Quilling

Step 1: Princess top is made using an Arrow shape.
 

Step 2: Princess frock(first stage) is made using tear drops and tight coil.

Step 3: Princess frock(second stage) is made using tight tear drops and tight coils.

Step 4: Princess bag is made of S - Scrolls.

Step 5: Bird is made of open scrolls, triangle, shaped tear drop and tear drop with an eye to stick.

Step 6: Shoe is made of tear drops and open scrolls.

Step 7: Final Poster is ready.

 

Paper Quilling

Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of different colored paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs.

The paper is rolled, looped, curled, twisted and otherwise manipulated to create shapes which make up designs to decorate greetings cards, pictures, boxes, eggs, and to make models, jewelry, mobiles covers etc.

Quilling starts with rolling a strip of paper into a coil and then pinching the coil into shapes that can be glued together.

The main tools used for Quilling are:

1) Quilling Tool

2) Strips of color paper

3) Crimping Tool

4) Glue

Basic Shapes of Quilling:

- Tight Rolled Coil

- Loose Rooled Coil

- Eccentric Coil

- Tear Drop

- Tight Tear Drop

- Shaped Tear Drop

- Half Circle

- Marquise

- Shaped Marquise

- Square

- Rectangle

- Triangle

- Diamond

- Loose Scroll

- S Scroll

- Arrow