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Wishing you all very happy Sri Rama Navami. I pray that lord Rama’s blessings be there with us always and fill our lives with joy and happiness

Ramaya Ramabhadraya Ramachandraya Vedase|
Raghunathaya Nathaya Seethayahpathaye Namaha||

Sree Rama Ramethi Rameraame Manorame|
Sahasra Naama Thathulyam Raamanaa Varaanane||

Hindu Temple of Greater Chicago, Lemont is celebrating the Sri Rama Navami festival. The temple organization has sent out invitation to the devotees. It was so nice that I wanted to share with my readers. Hope u enjoy this!

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Its time to spring forward! Day light saving has started… yay more sunlight in the evenings Temperature is improving here in the windy city. For the past one week we are enjoying mid 40s… smelling spring in the air

I bought fresh yellow and red bell pepper and tried variety rice using them. It was delicious. I observed that yellow and red bell pepper are bit sweet as opposed to the green ones. Here is the tasty bell pepper rice recipe.

Ingredients:

Bell pepper (Capsicum): 2
Onion: 1
Ginger-garlic paste: 1 tsp
Pepper (powdered): 1 tsp
Salt: to taste
Curry leaves: few
Asafetida (Hing): a pinch
Cooking oil: for seasoning
Rice: 1 cup

Preparation Method:

• Cook rice and keep it aside.
• Chop onion and bell peppers.
• Heat oil and do seasoning with mustard seeds, cumin seeds, urad dal (Black gram) and curry leaves.
• Add onions and saute till they turn brownish in color.
• Now add ginger garlic paste and bell peppers.
• Fry them till bell peppers turn soft.
• Add salt, asafetida and pepper powder.
• Remove from the stove top.
• Now mix rice with this curry and enjoy spicy bell pepper rice.

Wishing you all a very happy Ugadi / Gudi padwa

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Hope everyone enjoyed celebrating the colourful Holi We had a gala time with our LO! In our sect, families with kids (below 3 yrs) celebrate this festival in a special way. We prepare malas (chains) with food items that kids would love to eat and then kids are made to wear these malas during the Holi festival. I prepared the malas with candies, raisins, puffed rice, marsh-mellows and fruit loops. With my busy boy, I couldn’t shop much, so prepared the malas from the stuff that I had at home. The malas came out so well and we adorned our dear son with all these chains. Kutty wore these malas for few minutes (without pulling it) and posed for the camera Hope Skandhu enjoyed his crafty mom’s tasty malas

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