LETZ COOK/CRAFT/MAKE

Every year for halloween I decorate the house with scary stuff and buy a lot of candy for the neighbourhood kids. Its so much fun to look at all their costumes and their smiles, after getting candy. Even though most moms wont agree with me, I enjoy giving them candy. While waiting for the kids to knock, we carve pumpkins and I roast the seeds for healthy snacking later. Showcasing our carving talents Pumpkin seeds are healthy as they are filled with fiber, zinc and omega 3 fatty acids. They also help lower cholesterol levels. Remember to wash and strain the pumpkin seeds, as this will help remove the fibrous pumpkin flesh. Also eating the pumpkin seeds with the skin on increases its nutritional value. Pumpkin seeds washed and cleaned, ready to be munched on Ingredients: Cleaned pumpkin seeds Chilli powder - as needed Salt - as needed Garam masala - as needed Lime juice - a few teaspoons Method: Sprinkle the seeds liberally with salt and chilli powder as per taste. Also add a pinch of

Last week during my usual blog hoping I came across this recipe and I liked it. It has chocolate in it and thats more than enough reason for me to fall in love with it. The recipe was pretty simple and easy to prepare. Since it does not use butter I think its healthy too. I wasnt sure how it would turn out and was worried if it would turn out hard, more like a browny as it does not use both butter and flour. On the contrary it was very very moist and fruity. After the first bite, I thought that it needed more sugar but after a few bites I fell in love with it. It tastes light, moist, fresh, fruity and yummy. For those of you who like your cakes real sweet you can add a ganache frosting or serve it with a creme anglais sauce. Coming to the reason for this cake, it was my Birthday on Sunday. I wanted to bake my own birthday cake and my husband offered to help. So we decided to bake it together. I followed the recipe as it is from here . Since I do not have a food processor, we cooked the

It's finally here. The roundup for the Green Blog Project - Summer 2007 event . This was started by Inji pennu of myinjimanga . I read about the Green Blog Project - Summer 2006 event , when I had just started blogging in Aug 2006 and I decided to participate. When I saw the roundup, I was excited to see so many other fellow bloggers growing vegetables and fruits at home and going the organic way. Then Mandira of ahar hosted the Green Blog Project- Winter/Spring 2007 event . Even though it gets pretty cold in Colorado and most veggies dont survive, I decided to grow some herbs indoors and participate. I was surprised to see so many entries at the roundup and realized that there a lot of winter gardeners out there. Both these events were very encouraging and I got good tips and ideas to try new plants this year. So when Inji pennu asked me if I would host this year's event I was more than happy to do so. Sorry for the delay in posting the roundup. I had 4 of my wisdom teeth ex