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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Roasted Corn and Chicken Tostada


INGREDIENTS

  • 1 (7-inch) whole wheat flour tortilla or flour tortilla
  • Nonstick cooking spray
  • 1/3 cup frozen whole kernel corn
  • 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
  • 4 ounces boneless, skinless chicken breast, cut into bite-size pieces
  • 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1/4 cup salsa
  • 1/4 cup canned black beans, rinsed and drained
  • 1 cup shredded lettuce
  • 2 tablespoons shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
  • Roasted Corn and Chicken Tostada

    DIRECTIONS

    1. Lightly coat both sides of tortilla with cooking spray. Place on baking sheet. Bake at 400° F about 10 minutes or until crisp.
    2. Meanwhile, in small nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray cook corn over medium-high heat for 1 to 3 minutes or until beginning to brown, stirring frequently. Remove from skillet. Set aside.
    3. In same small skillet heat oil. Add chicken, chili powder and cumin. Cook and stir over medium-high heat for 2 to 3 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink. Stir in salsa, beans and corn. Heat through.
    4. Place tortilla on serving plate. Top with lettuce, chicken mixture, cheese and sour cream. Serve immediately.

Monday, July 18, 2011

Beautiful Diamand Long Earring


Beautiful Diamand Long Earring;.She can easily pull off a pair of diamond hoops or several carat studs. She pulls them off effortlessly and with confidence.If a round shape, for a pair of long earrings, diamond earrings to go, or a higher ring. If you have a long face, go to the prisoners, diamonds, rings made of pure gold and precious stones and fragile. delicate look great hang your face shape and the addition of diamonds and precious stones earrings .




Bridal Mehndi Designs

Bridal Mehndi Design The Mehndi night is an important pre-wedding event for an Asian bride. The bride has a motley group of friends, relatives and family for a memorable evening. When a young girl fantasizes of her prince charming, she also dreams of wearing the most stunning bridal ensemble and gorgeous mehndi design on her hands and feet. The feeling of getting married sets in on the mehndi night when the mehndi artist works on intricate designs. She asks for the groom’s initials and then deftly she embeds his name in the leitmotif. The feelings sink in, the girl who is blossoming into a woman and shall leave her maternal home as a wife.
Knowing the importance of this pre-wedding event, there are different kinds of bridal mehndi designs. The 5000 year old Indian tradition has evolved from a simple large dot of mehndi paste in the middle of the palms to elaborate mehndi designs for hands and feet. Today the designs also include glitter adding to the deep hues of the cool art work.   Auspicious mango leaves, scenes of a wedding procession, checks, creepers, peacock, fish, doli, all are woven on the live human canvas, drawing appreciation for days after it has been applied.
New brides draw inspiration from traditional Indian mehndi designs, Pakistani mehndi designs and Arabic mehndi designs that have adorned generations. While the tradition continues, its modern avatar has added glitter too. Young girls like to wear similar patterns that celebrities have done for their weddings. Expert mehndi professionals are flown overseas for many weddings.
Full Hand Bridal Mehndi Design
Full Hand Bridal Mehndi Design
Arabic Mehndi Design
Arabic Mehndi Design
Bridal Mehndi Designs 2011
Bridal Mehndi Designs 2011
Bridal Mehndi Design for Full Hands
Bridal Mehndi Design

Saturday, July 16, 2011

INDIAN FOOD

India Foodforever

Indian Food

Indian food is different from rest of the world not only in taste but also in cooking methods. It reflects a perfect blend of various cultures and ages. Just like Indian culture, food in India has also been influenced by various civilizations, which have contributed their share in its overall development and the present form.

Foods of India are better known for its spiciness.Throughout India, be it North India or South India, spices are used generously in food. But one must not forget that every single spice used in Indian dishes carries some or the other nutritional as well as medicinal properties.

North Indian Food

Daal Kachori
Food in the north India, to begin with, Kashmiri cuisines reflect strong Central Asian influences. InKashmir, mostly all the dishes are prepared around the main course of rice found abundantly in the beautiful valley. Another delicious item cooked here is the 'Saag' that is prepared with a green leafy vegetable known as the 'Hak'.

But on the other hand states like the Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh show high consumption of chapatis as staple food. Again, these chapatis are prepared with a variety of flours such as wheat, rice, maida, besan etc. Besides chapatis other closely related breads baked in these regions include Tandoori, Rumaali and Naan etc. However in the northern region impact of Mughlai food is quite obvious.

West Indian Food

In western India, the desert cuisine is famous for its unique taste and varieties of food.Rajasthan and Gujarat are the states that represent the desseert flavor of Indian food. Here an immense variety of dals and achars (pickles/preserves) is used that simply substitutes the relative lack of fresh vegetables in these areas.

In the states like Maharashtra, the food is usually a mix of both north as well as south cooking styles. Here people use both the rice and the wheat with same interest. Along the coastline ofMumbai a wide variety of fishes is available. Some of the delicious preparations include dishes like the Bombay Prawn and Pomfret.

In Goa, that is further down towards south, one can notice Portuguese influence in the cooking style as well as in the dishes. Some of the major dishes of this regiun are the sweet and sour Vindalooduck baffadsorpotel and egg molie etc. 

East Indian Food

Indian Biryani
In the eastern India, the Bengali and Assamese styles of cooking are noticeable. The staple food of Bengalis is the yummy combination of rice and fish. Usually the Bengalis love eating varieties of fishes. A special way of preparing the delicacy known as 'Hilsa' is by wrapping it in the pumpkin leaf and then cooking it. Another unusual ingredient that is commonly used in the Bengali cooking is the 'Bamboo Shoot'. Various sweets prepared in this region, by using milk include the 'Roshogollas', 'Sandesh', 'Cham-cham' and many more. 

South Indian Food

In the southern India, the states make great use of spices, fishes and coconuts, as most of them have coastal kitchens. In the foods of Tamil Nadu use of tamarind is frequently made in order to impart sourness to the dishes. It simply distinguishes the Tamil Food from other cuisines. 

The cooking style of Andhra Pradesh is supposed to make excessive use of chilies, which is obviously to improve the taste of the dishes. 

In Kerala, some of the delicious dishes are thelamb stew and appams, Malabar fried prawns, Idlis, Dosas, fish molie and rice puttu. Another famous item of this region is the sweetened coconut milk. Yet another dish is Puttu, which is glutinous rice powder steamed like a pudding in a bamboo shoot. 

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings


Many people think that the tradition artwork will die in the time of digital life. Actually, the digital art is just another trend of the art development through the history. Unlike the digital computer arts, the traditional pencils and colors give you a physical sense of the artwork that you can touch and walk around. The sculpture is one of the traditional arts’ examples that cannot be replaced with a digital version or digital sculpture.
Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings
The black and white artwork using the pencils and the charcoal is one of the challenging forms or art that uses only the gray colors to visualize the scene and ideas based on the light and shadows. This type of art requires amazing control of the pencil. This allows the artist to create different gray degrees as you can see in our today’s collection.
The collections below includes amazing black and white artwork using pencil and charcoal with different hard and soft styles. If you like this type of art, do not forget to check the following collections too:

House on Liberty Street

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Krasiczyn

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

lightthought 287 Drawing

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Village

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Scribblism Inkscape I

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Love

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

The Visitor

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Gag

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

misinformed

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

The Remnant

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

THE EYE

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Requiem II

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Pollution at Dawn

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

A Lucky Cookie

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

The Dot Croc

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Crying Inside

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Horse Final

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Frozen

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Tesla

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Wolf Fight

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Alessandra Ambrosio

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Stripped drawing completed

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

.:NEED:.

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Light Scratch

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings

Dolly

Truly Inspired Traditional Black and White Drawings