Stop Smoking Cigarette Cravings Right Away

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Quitting smoking is a very smart thing to do. Dealing with the cravings that will arise, however, can take that smart decision and make it go right out the window. Considering this, it’s important to stop smoking cigarette cravings as quickly as possible.

There are many techniques that are considered quite effective to help stop smoking cigarette cravings almost as quickly as they come on. The methods to help stop smoking cigarette cravings are numerous and some will work better for some than others. The simple truth is it’s important for a person to find what works for them to stop smoking cigarette cravings and keep them at bay.

Before we look at the potential methods to stop smoking cigarette cravings, let’s discuss the basic facts about the withdrawal process. The symptoms that can arise during the process of quitting include such things as irritability, loss of sleep, weight gain and even jitters. Most of these will go away very quickly. The stop smoking cigarette cravings, however, can continue on for some time.

To ease the pain that goes along with stop smoking cigarette cravings, it’s important to keep sight of the other benefits of the journey. Within a few days, most people who fight off stop smoking cigarette cravings report that most of the other symptoms go away and they begin to feel better overall. Within a few weeks, many of the negative effects of smoking go away entirely. The ability to taste and smell start to return, breathing improves, oxygen levels in the blood return to normal and so on. If the stop smoking cigarette cravings are fought off effectively, the chances for cancer and heart disease also can be reduced greatly.

Now that you know what’s at stake if the stop smoking cigarette cravings are fought off and quitting becomes successful, let’s look at ways to assist in the process. Some of the best methods to help keep stop smoking cigarette cravings in check include:

Quitting aids. Such things as nicotine gum, the patch and so on can really help keep stop smoking cigarette cravings under control. These don’t work for everyone and they can become a new crutch, but they can provide instant relief.

Relaxation techniques. Meditation, yoga, exercise and so on can really help with stop smoking cigarette cravings. These methods can be very effective and they don’t come with the side effects that other aids offer.

Hypnosis, acupuncture. These stop smoking cigarette craving aids are not necessarily orthodox, but they can be helpful.

Getting over the cravings and getting a handle on the addiction can result in a healthier lease on life. To ensure this happens, it’s important to keep stop smoking cigarette cravings under control. Fortunately, there are many methods that can help in the process.

What is the Difference Between a Dosa and a Pancake?

Do you know what is the difference between a dosa and a pancake?

“Pancakes are a type of flatbread prepared from a sweet batter that is cooked on a hot griddle or in a frying pan. They exist in several variations in many different local cuisines. Most pancakes are quick breads, although some are also made using a yeast-raised or fermented batter”. [Wikipedia]

Dosa is made out of a batter prepared with rice and lentils cooked over a frying pan with cooking oil. You can make different types of dosas such as crisp dosa, steamed dosa, carrot dosa, masala dosa, sweet dosa, etc. Dosa is an Indian dish that is usually eaten with coconut "Chutney", dal called "Sambar" and potato "curry".

Watch a musical video on making pancake and watch another video on making dosa to get an idea.

How to do you make a Pancake? How to Make Dosa with Instant Dosa Mix? You can use the same kind of mixer that is used for pancake, instead of mixing it with a ladle as shown in the Indian video.You can also add other ingredients to the dosa and make different types of dosas.You can eat dosa with the side dish you usually use with pancakes.

Rukmini’s Rare Recipes - Instant Dosa Mix

This is my mother Rukmini, who has 60 + years of experience in cooking. She has been passionate about cooking and innovating new dishes that are easy to cook, healthy to eat and delicious to taste.

Most of her preparations were specially prepared for me. I hate spending time in the kitchen and whenever I am alone at home, I do not want to cook at all. So my mother has been couriering me special recipes that I can cook in minutes. Some of her creations I can eat even without cooking.

Her main concern has always been to ensure that the recipes she creates are nutritious. Each recipe is a full meal and a balanced diet.

My mother spends a lot of time in the kitchen. She tests and tweaks her recipes till they are perfect. She is never satisfied by her own creations and every time she makes a new recipe she would say, “This has not come out well. I should have stirred it for one more minute”. All of us would be thrilled by the new taste of her creations, but she will go on perfecting it. At times we got irritated with her minute analysis of the recipes. We also used to get irritated with her desire to feed us till we almost shouted and said, “Not a morsel more, mom”.

She loves creating new recipes and feeding others. Her house is full of guests and even at this age (she is nearing 80) she takes a lot of trouble to cook exotic recipes. Any unannounced guests will always get sumptuously fed whatever the time of the day, they may visit her.

Instant Dosa is just one of the many, many recipes created by my mother. She has tested and tweaked the proportion of the contents to ensure any one can cook delicious dosas in minutes and enjoy a healthy, nutritious meal.

The usual preparation of the dosa batter takes hours and you need to spend two days in soaking the grains, grinding it to a paste and allowing it to ferment. My mother found a way to cut short the process so that a person like me can prepare the batter under a minute and get the dosa ready in two more minutes.

The crucial difference between all ready mix products available in shops and Instant Dosa Mix is:

“This ready mix was not made to be sold. It was prepared by a mother for her daughter”.

Why am I announcing the sale of the mix, you might ask…

I want to thank my mom for all that she has done for me.

Well, by the time we are to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday, I want as many people as possible to have tasted at least one of her creations and recognize her talent.

The packet, in fact, includes three of her creations. You will get free “chutney powder” and “curry powder”. People who have tasted her chutney powder and curry powder keep sending me emails for days on end saying they have never tasted anything like that before.

Annabelle Nelson from Arizona says, “…It was easy to mix and cook, and the chutney with the coconut was outstanding. Excellent, nutritious and easy…”

Try her instant dosa mix once and you will never forget the experience.

I know the courier charges are deep. But in a San Francisco restaurunt, I have waited in line to get a place to eat their dosa… and it cost me $30.

Here for 1 lb of dosa mix, which can get you nearly 30 dosas, we are charging only $5.50. $65.50 is the shipping and handling charge for international orders. Even with a steep courier charge the amount is only $71.00. I would have had to spend $900 for 30 dosas in US.

The whole purpose of announcing this Instant Dosa Mix sale is not to make a lot of profit but to spread the word about Rukmini’s Rare Recipes. Try it once and you won’t regret it.

Thanksgiving Turkey and Food For Thought

I am glad I am not a Turkey on this thanksgiving day. I thank the super power for that more than anything else.

You can read more about my thoughts on food at Unleash Energy.

Variety in vegetarian recipes is crucial. Otherwise you will get bored eating the same type of food.

Many Indian recipes are easy to cook, healthy to eat and delicious to taste. One such recipe is Instant Dosa.

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Get Your Supplies Together to Make Dosa

What are the things you need to make dosa, Indian pancake?

Check out the kitchenware required to make dosa.

All you need to make dosa is

- a flat pan (preferably non-stick, if you are new to making dosa),

- a ladle,

- a spatula,

- a tea spoon

- instant dosa mix,

- cooking oil and

- water.

You might already have an omelette pan, a spatula and a ladle at home. You can use them to make dosa.

If you do not have these things you can easily get them in online shops or regular brick and mortar shops.

Before you start making dosa get these supplies together.

Instant Dosa Mix

Water

1:2 is the ratio of water to instant dosa mix powder - that is one part powder and two parts water.

Cooking Oil

You need two tea spoons of cooking oil per dosa. You can also make dosa with less oil or without oil.

flat pan

Ladle

spatula

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How do you say Dosa is a Healthy, Nutritious Meal?

Our body needs carbohydrates, proteins, calcium, fats, vitamins, mineral salts, fibre.

Dosa has all this.

Carbohydrates are the source of energy. Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen are essential to keep us energetic and active. Food items such as potato, rice, spaghetti, yams, bread and cereals contain carbohydrates. These are the food items rich in starch.

Dosa has rice - starch - carbohydrates.

Proteins are turned into amino acids by our digestive system before they enter our blood. Proteins contain Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen and Sulphur. Proteins are absolutely necessary for the growth of our body and for repairing injured cells.

Dosa has lentils - proteins

Fat is also a source of energy. Just like proteins fats too contain Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen. Just by avoiding fat we cannot avoid putting on weight. Carbohydrates and proteins can also turn into fat. So it is necessary eat the right amount of energy containing food. How much energy we can take in? Naturally it depends on how much we can use through physical day-to-day activities and exercise.

To make dosa you use cooking oil. That gives you fat. And you can make it, according to your preference. Make it almost fat free or add more oil to make the dosa crispy, the choice is yours.

Mineral salts such as iron, calcium, sodium and iodine are necessary for different purposes. Iron is necessary for making hemoglobin. Decrease of hemoglobin leads to symptoms of anemia. Especially for pregnant women it is crucial to avoid problems of anemia. Calcium is essential for our bones, teeth and muscles. Nerve cells need sodium and our thyroid glands require iodine.

Dosa has calcium, iron and magnesium.

Fiber is important for good digestion, clear skin and healthy bowel movements.

Dosa has dietary fiber.

You can make different types of dosa. For example, carrot dosa gives you A. If you need more carbohydrates you can make masala dosa. Masala dosa has potatoes and that gives you more starch and more carbohydrates.

Dosa can be a good nutritious healthy meal for young and old including children.

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How to develop Love into Mature Love

Pay the game of marriage well and you will see that your ordinary love matures into heavenly bliss.

Marriages are made in heaven – so is the belief of those married couples that have lived up to it for long! We wonder how couples who live together for 20, 30 or 50 years have been able to succeed while one in every two marriages are failing these days. How did the winners make it through while losers seem to be lost forever?

Like John Berger said, “All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.” Success of your marriage lays in your attitude towards your partner and the value you uphold for the institution of marriage. Let us take some closer look into a few good qualities that help a marriage survive for a long time.

‘To err is human’ – do you agree with this adage? We have been taught to accept human beings even if they make mistakes. Successful couples have adhered to this saying. There are differences between any two people because we all come from different environments. Our personalities are built upon our environments and experiences. So, all successful couples have used acceptance as the key factor in marital success.

Turn around your differences - ‘Turn poisons into honey’ – says Osho, the great one in one of his books. In a marriage you can turn your differences into poison or honey. What is the difference? Whereas, poison kills instantly, honey prolongs your life. Poison is bitter and honey is sweeter. If only you can turn your differences in life from bitterness into sweetness, you will never think of the word ‘divorce’ in your life. Your marriage is sweet and bound to live long!

Resolve your conflicts – if you could love a person deeply, unreasonable conflicts will not arise. What makes or mars your marriage depends on how you handle your conflicts. In fact, relationship experts say that conflicts tend to bring a couple closer. “The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together” – says Robert C. Dodds. So think together and resolve conflicts.

Try being a bit more understanding – understanding couples are able to see things from each other’s perspective. Try to tune into his/her feelings. When you think along the same lines, you will understand whatever your partner is saying or feeling. When you start to perceive things from his standpoint, you will also understand why he is acting in a certain way or saying certain things.

Be a little sweeter – “A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person” says Mignon McLaughlin. To love someone you need to be sweet to him. Whenever you carry negative emotions such as anger, instead of shouting and fighting explain to him sweetly with feelings of love. Life as such is full of struggles and if you want to make it livable, you have to act sweeter and tackle your husband with more love. Ask the older women and they will tell you how they had handled their husbands in times of trouble!

Marriage is a best way to grow up together. You learn so many good qualities through marriage. Marriage teaches you acceptance, communication, tolerance, trust, sharing, bonding and more than anything, unconditional love. Tom Mullen says “Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love, and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.” So now you know the secrets of a happy marriage. Go, work on yours. Good luck.

Should I Smear The Pan With a Little Oil Before Making Dosa?

I have been receiving some questions about making dosa.

One of the questions is about the use of cooking oil - when to use it and how much to use it.

You can smear the pan with a little bit of cooking oil before you make the dosa. It is not absolutely necessary, if you are using a non-stick pan.

But if you are making dosa for the first time, you may find it easier to fold and flip the dosa by smearing the pan first with a little oil.

If you want a crisp dosa, as you might have tasted in restaurants, you need to use two tea spoons of oil. You need to cook the dosa on low medium flame. The longer it takes to cook, the crispier it will be. Two tea spoons of oil around the dosa makes it very crisp.

If you want the dosa fat free, you can steam the dosa by covering it with a lid while cooking. You can use less oil this way. You can also make the dosa completely without oil.

For this take a piece of tissue paper folded into a wad. Dip it in water and squeeze out the wad. Smear the pan with that water. Make dosa with dosa batter. Cover the dosa with a lid. Steam cook it for a minute. Fold and flip. You must have a non-stick pan for this type of dosa. This dosa will not be crisp. It will be soft and tasty.

In the video you can see that no oil is being smeared before the dosa is made. Two tea spoons of oil is added around the dosa, after the circular shape is made on the pan. If you have not seen it yet, watch the video and learn how to make dosa.

Watch Video In Tamil - Making Dosa

Indian Dosa Made With Instant Dosa Mix

This video is in Tamil. If you do not know Tamil, check the previous post. You can watch the video with Hariprasad Chaurasia’s exotic flute.

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Watch Video - Learn to Make Dosa

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Make Dosa In Minutes with Instant Dosa Mix

Enjoy Hariprasad Chaurasia’s flute and the making of dosa.Here are the instructions:

- Take the required quantity of the mix.
- Add two parts water.

- Use a ladle of the type shown in the video.

- Make a circular shape on a flat pan.

- Cook over medium heat.

- Add two tea spoons of cooking oil.

- Fold and flip.

- Serve with a side dish.

The usual side dish for dosa is “chutney” but you can also eat it with sauce, ketchup, pickles, curry powder, etc.

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