Makeup essentials I admit, I am not much of a makeup person. In fact my elder sisters are always after me as I stay bland and dull with an easy to do knot in the hair and no makeup at all. Therefore I am not here to give makeup advice. I am here to tell you, especially to my kind of people what can be the basic to look neat on a date night or on an official dinner. Being married and all, I don’t need to think of date night now, bliss. But I do need to think…
Spaghetti with crab meat Just got some crab meat from market today. I am dying for some crab linguine, however as I don’t have linguine I will substitute it with some simple spaghetti. I have my version for it, I usually don’t go by rules when I cook. I cook what tastes good to me. You can get crabs in almost all super stores. Some keep washed clean crabs; some even keep just crab meats. I got one of those crab meat ones. For cooking I use my chili oil. My olive oil is infused in some real hot red…
Tea Ceremony: Masala Chai Latte ! Nothing exotic today. I had a long journey back home. I felt weak thus thought of having a strong milk tea. Then suddenly realized today is my tea ceremony day. And quickly decided to have a Masala Chai Latte for today’s session. Before I get into details let me tell you, this is the most loved tea of my household. My husband and I almost every week drink a masala latte with some homemade cookies. Our latte is made of fresh cow’s milk that we get from a farm just outside Dhaka, aren’t we…
Adibasi is a term used for all the heterogeneous set of ethnic and tribal groups considered to be the indigenous population of Bangladesh. Adibashi people live mainly in the hill tracts of Chittagong belt also they live many other plain land areas of the country. There are about approx. 40 groups of Indigenous communities in Bangladesh. They cover almost two percent of the total population. According to the government statistics the total number of Adivasi is 12,05,978 which is only 1.03 percent of the total population. The name of the indigenous communities are; Bawm, Chak, Chakma, Khyang, Khumi, Lushai, Marma,…
Have you looked at the sky today? Isn’t it the brightest of all. I see a bright blue sky with white harmless clouds passing through with nice gentle breeze. In other words it is called Early Autumn or Sharat in Bangla. We Bengali people are blessed with six different seasons unlike the western world that has only four. Our autumn is divided into two seasons, early autumn and late autumn. The first part which is early autumn is Sharat. In Bangla calendar the months Bhadra and Ashwin are together Sharat, from 15 August to 15 October. Though there are sudden…
Originated from China, Jasmine Jewel is an exquisite tea hand blended with the essence of pure Jasmine flowers. The tea isn’t bitter, rather has a sweetly taste and smells very good. As it was raining in the morning, we decided to have something that will be lucid and comfortable. So the tea expert wanted to have Jasmine Jewel. Mishael bought it from a local tea store in Santa Fe. The tea didn’t require much detailed work. The water was on 80 degree Celsius when we started the steeping process. We put two tea spoon of tea in our teapot for…
When I was a kid I always wanted to have a room of my own. As we lived in a family home together with 30 other people, having a room to oneself was a dream. However like every mother on earth as a mother now, I have decorated my son’s room with the same enthusiasm and amazement, I had when I was young. He loves cars. Any car, big and small, red or blue, Ferrari or Lamborghini, is his subject. He loves Peter Pan, Toy story and so many other beautiful things. I am living another childhood through his eyes.…
It was crazy hot, so wanted to have something cold. It had to be a tea, pre-requisite. Thus thought about an ice-tea first, and then did a twist to the drink in my own way. Green Tea Mojito. It is an inspired tea from one of my web discoveries, but I totally forgot to keep the link. I infused a green tea from KK, I like their orthodox green tea, it is soothing and refreshing as well. Kazi and Kazi Green Tea is the country’s first organic substantially produced green tea. This green tea is collected from their biggest tea…
Today it was a brilliant day with dark eastern sky covered with grey heavy clouds. We decided to start our tea ceremony amidst lots of noise by our sons. My brother Mishael, the young blooming tea connoisseur, suggested it is a great time for a Makaibari black second flush. So I went along with him and started off with boiling the water. Soon it started raining cats and dogs outside; we started our ceremony with East Makaibari black tea. While preparing the tea, the tea guys told me, this tea is originated from Darjeeling and comes from one of the…
Work station is an extremely important area, for home office doers and also for people like me, who needs to do a lot of random things, to keep busy. I love my desk. I have made it very recently. I didn’t have a proper working zone till last month. Then one morning I just got up, called one of my designer, took his advice to re-do the work space. This is perhaps one of my greatest gift I gave to myself. These days people need me-time more than ever. And to spend a quality, me-time a good work station…
