A homemaker is a person whose prime occupation is to care for their family and home. The term homemaker is used in preference to either housewife or househusband because it is inclusive, defines the role in terms of activities, rather than relation to another, and is independent of marital status. The terms (informal) stay-at-home mom and stay-at-home dad are also used, particularly if the person views their central role as caring for children.
Being a stay-at-home mom/dad should not come as a forced option for any woman/man. It must be chosen after deliberate consideration of each individual's unique circumstances.

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Baked Macaroni And Cheese Recipe

Baked Macaroni And Cheese Recipe
Recipe Source: Adapted from Sanjeev Kapoor’s Cookery Show
Preparation: 40 mts
Serves 3-4 persons.
Ingredients:
2 cups boiled elbow macaroni
1 1/2 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 bell pepper, finely sliced
6-7 garlic flakes, crushed
1 large tomato
fistful of boiled sweet corn (optional)
salt to taste
freshly ground pepper as per taste
big pinch mustard pwd (optional)
1 tbsp grated cheese for garnish
1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley for garnish
For white sauce:
1 tbsp maida
1 tbsp butter
1 cup low fat milk (room temp)
1 tbsp grated cheese
salt and pepper to taste
1 Cook macaroni in salted rapidly boiling water until al dente, drain and keep aside.

2 Heat olive oil in a vessel, add the onions, capsicum and crushed garlic and saute till transparent. Add the chopped tomato and salt.

3 Cook for 8-10 mts, stirring once in a while. Add the boiled corn and combine.

4 While the onion-tomato base cooks, prepare the white sauce. Heat a pan, on low flame, add the butter and let it melt. Add maida and keep stirring using a hand whisk over a low flame till well blended. Slowly add the milk, stirring continuously. Next add the grated cheese. On medium heat continue to stir until you have a nice smooth consistency sauce. Once in a while, remove the vessel away from the heat for a few seconds and place it back while stirring. Season with salt and pepper. Keep aside.

5 Next add the boiled macaroni to the cooked onion-tomato base and toss for 2-3 minutes stirring well to coat. Adjust salt, season with freshly ground pepper, mustard pwd and sprinkle some grated cheese. Turn off heat.

6 Remove macaroni onto a baking dish and spoon the prepared white sauce along the edges of the dish. Garnish with grated cheese. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees C for 10 mts.
Note:
You can prepare this with fussili or farfalle also.

Photography -Make ur life colourful

Hi everyone
Photography is my hobby and a small thing i would like to share to take great pictures or you can say nice pictures. It need not be that everyone likes it the way one takes it. It is one's way of understanding things and presenting it to himself or to the world.
When you are about to take a picture just imagine what you want to take, how it should look like. Imagine the image you are going to get, it is then you get your actual image on the camera. People say we need to see all the setting aperture, focus and so on, it plays a small role in understading the way to get the output. Once you have an image in our mind automatically you will get the setting what you need to make on the camera to get the output on to the real world.
This is the first and the last rule that i have learnt from the people who take great/worst pictures what ever.
Hope this helps.