Shrimp Stew By Janani Rayen

Shrimp stew:

Ingredients:

1. Shrimp - 1/2 pound

2. Small onion - 15

3.Curry leaves

4. Green chilli - 5

5. Black pepper - 1 Tbsp

6. Fennel seeds - 3/4 Tbsp

7. Cumin seeds - 1/2 Tbsp

8. Cinnamon stick - about an inch

9. Green beans - 10

9. Carrot - 1

10. Potato - 2(small)

11. Coconut milk - 1/2 cup

12. Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

 

Method:

First grind black pepper, cumin seeds, fennel seeds and cinnamon. In a pan, pour oil and add onion, green chilli, ginger garlic paste and curry leaves. Add the vegetables and then add the above ground ingredients. Allow it to cook. When the veggies are half done, add the shrimp and coconut milk.

For Heart Patients

For Heart Vein opening: 


Lemon juice 1 cup 
Ginger juice 1 cup
Garlic juice 1 cup
Apple vinegar 1 cup


Mix all the above and boil on low heat, approximately half hour, when it becomes 3 cups, take off stove and let cool. After cooling, mix 3 cups of natural honey and keep it in bottle.
Every morning before breakfast use one Table spoon regularly. Your blockage of Vein's will open.
No need now for any Angioplasty or Bypass ...
Please pass on this to your real well wishers...
Wishing you a healthy life..
Prof. Dr. S. Vikineswary
Biotech Division
Institute of Biological Sciences
University of Malaya
50603 Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

Sweet Chili Chicken Fry: By Roy/Nalini

Sweet Chili Chicken Fry: 

Ingredients:

1. Chicken 1 kg

2. Jaggery 1 tbs

3. Minced ginger garlic 3 to 4 tbs

4. Crushed fresh red( ripe) chilli  2 tbs add more or less to your taste

5. Plain chili powder 1 tbs 

6. Vinegar 6 tbs

7. Rampae and curry leaves. few

8. Corn Flour  to coat the chicken

 

Method:

Marinate the above ingredients overnight and add corn flour 15 mts before frying and fry.

Forgiveness by Nathaniel Paiva

Dear Uncle :) ,

Hope you are in good cheers !!

I hope that this might help you :) sometimes we

may need to take some initiative to settle matters, perhaps by talking to the offender, before we can forgive. (Ephesians 4:26) In this way any misunderstanding can be cleared up, appropriate apologies made, and forgiveness extended. What about forgetting? We may never completely put out of mind what was done, but we can forget in the sense that we do not hold it against the offender or bring the matter up again at some future time. We do not gossip about it, nor do we completely avoid the offender. However, it may take some time for our relationship with the offender to mend, and we may not enjoy the same closeness as before.

Consider this illustration: Suppose you confide a deeply personal matter to a trusted friend, and you later learn that he told it to others, to your great embarrassment or hurt. You approach him to talk things over, and he is very sorry; he apologizes and asks for forgiveness. Hearing his sincere apology, your heart is moved to forgive him. Do you easily forget what happened? Likely not; you would no doubt be very cautious about telling him any secret in the future. Yet you do forgive him; you do not continually bring up the matter. You do not store up your anger, nor do you gossip about it with others. You may not feel as close to him as you did before, but you still love him as your Christian brother.—Compare Proverbs 20:19.

What, though, if despite your efforts to settle matters, the offender does not admit his wrong and apologize? Can you forgive in the sense of letting go of your anger? Forgiving others does not mean that we minimize what they have done. Anger is a heavy burden to carry; it can consume our thoughts, robbing us of peace. Waiting for an apology that never comes, we may only get more and more frustrated. In effect, we allow the offending person to control our emotions. Thus, we need to forgive others, or let go of the anger, not only for their benefit but also for our own so that we may get on with our life.

If he does not admit his wrong and apologize he did not do his duty as a Christian and everyone is accountable to God for our actions. You did it by forgiving him ( letting go of your anger or resentment).

please also remember that

forgiving others for personal offenses, regardless of the number of times involved, is a Christian requirement. (Lu 17:3, 4; Eph 4:32; Col 3:13) God’s forgiveness is not extended toward those who refuse to forgive others. (Mt 6:14, 15)

Romans 12:17-19

Return evil for evil to no one. Provide fine things in the sight of all men. If possible, as far as it depends upon YOU, be peaceable with all men. Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but yield place to the wrath; for it is written: “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.

I hope this helped you out Uncle :)

With love,

Nathaniel ( Nicky Boy :P)

Forgiveness By Nishan Fernando

Hi Uncle,

At last it's really nice to hear a PRACTICAL issue :).. Well uncle I do not have the age or the experience in life to advice you or in that sense any of the people mentioned above J. But I do strongly believe that if God can use a donkey to change a person’s life (Numbers 22:28) he can use me a lil more than that..lol J..

Well Uncle in Practical sense it’s really hard to forgive a person who has done such things to us, and it's even hard when they don't realize it and continue to do it. But if we are "Christ's people (1 Peter 2:9), we have to be Christ like people". Forgiving and forgetting the hurt. Definitely it's never an easy task L.. It is hard. Even I'm struggling to forgive some of my friends who have hurt me so much, the very friends who once were my Best Friends L.. It's hard. But the only thing I could do and am doing is praying for them and asking God to give me the courage and the heart to forgive them J. But in all of this, the only thing that we need to do keep in our mind is that we are Christians (I don't like calling it a religion, it's a relationship with Jesus our Lord) and our maturity as Christians. We never can be like Jesus but we have to strive towards being like him J.. If God could forgive us "ALL" (the worst sinners), forgiving “A” person who have hurt us won’t be that hard JJ..

Take it in Prayer. And remember "The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant" (Mathew 18:21-35) JJ..We all struggle in this part of our life but if we are "Christ's people (1 Peter 2:9), we have to be Christ like people" J

God Bless You,

- Nishan

Beef / Muton Shukka By Roy/Nalini

Ingredients:

 

1.      Mutton 1kg

2.      Ginger Garlic paste 2 tbs each

3.      Salt to taste

4.      Pepper 1 tbl

5.      Vinegar 6 tbl

6.      Curry Leaves 2 springs

7.      Rambai  4 ins

8.      Cinnamon 1 pc

9.      Cardamom 6 nos

10.  Cloves 4 nos

 

11 Star Anise 2 nos

12.  Nutmeg 1/4 tsp

13.  Red chilli powder 3 tbs or to your taste

14.  Tomato  medium 4 nos

15.  Onion for flavor 15 shallots

 

Method:

       1.      First boil mutton with ginger garlic paste, salt, pepper powder, vinegar.

2.      In a pan pour oil and add cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, star anise rambai and curry leaves and onions.

3.      Put the meat without water and start frying

4.      Slowly pour water when it becomes crusty at the bottom,

5.      Keep frying and then add tomato and chilly powder.

6.    Continue to sautee until it gets darkish red colour and you are done enjoy

Nayana 4 th Generation By Portia Aunty

My dearest Nayana
Congratulations! I am very happy and proud of you darling. I hope you know who I am? I conveyed the message to your grand-aunt Matilda (my mum) she was very happy and told me to convey her love, blessings and good wishes.
Please excuse the delay in sending you my best wishes, my son Nathaniel has come home for good after 8 years of boarding school in India. It is not easy to make him fit into the family after such a long period. Whenever he came for his vacation during the 8 years - he came as a visitor and was treated like one, but now the rules and regulations have changed - he is one in the family and has got to do his part of the work.
Now back to you - when your dad and mum wrote to us about your achievement it did not come as a surprise to me, cos this 'mathematical brains' runs in your paternal family. My mum has told me that your paternal grand-dad was very good in Arithmetic. I like to write about your grand-dad’s family - because you and the rest of the younger generation should know about your ancestors.
Your paternal great grandfather the Late Ignatius Fernando lost his parents at a very tender age and was brought up by his married sister and brother-in-law. He attended St. Joseph's Grandpass (government school). He was a very brilliant student and a Mathematical Whiz kid. One brother (Bro. Francis – F.S.C.) noticed it and spoke to the brothers at St. Benedict's College (Private school) and put him there once he completed his 5th grade. He did very well in his new school and was noticed by all the brothers at St. Benedict’s College. Unfortunately his brother-in-law couldn't afford to educate him beyond the 8th Std. So once he passed his exams in the 3rd Form (8th Std. those days is equal to our 12th grades now; then the education standard was very high), he was very keen in getting a government job and went for an interview at the Telecommunication, but due to some defect in his ear he didn't get the job and joined the State Bank of India. Since he is one of the first Baratha men who worked at a Bank - the family was known as 'Bankers family'. With his first salary from the bank he presented Bro. Francis – F.S.C. material for a cassock (the robe priests and brothers wear), he even had Bro. Francis’s picture framed and hanged it in his house – Aren’t we happy to be a part of this soul who showed gratitude to the people who cared for him? His children (your paternal grand-father and the rest) used to make fun of Bro. Francis’ order (F.S.C. – Father of Several Children).
I am also told that he had a very good command in English and wrote beautiful essays, and treasured all his books. He always read the Illustrated Weekly of India and loved to do the crossword puzzles that come in it. He shared all his life’s stories with his daughter Matilda (my mum) who had patience to listen to him, and was also interested in knowing about her dad’s past. He never went to bed without completing his accounts for the day. In 1924 he gave in marriage his niece (the daughter of his sister and brother-in-law who brought him up), and on the 11th Feb. 1925 he married his wife in India. Even though there were many educated Baratha girls in Colombo he went all the way to India to get married to a girl from his village. He never knew or saw the bride before. Likewise when your dad went to India to get married to your mum – Grand-aunt Matilda (my mum) said that Roy is like his grand-dad marrying a girl in India whom he has not met or seen. When his brother-in-law (who had no sons) died, the dead man’s relatives and his God-son came forward to bury him; but Galpotha Papa (that is how he is known among his grandchildren) has not allowed anyone to do it saying “He brought me up as his own son and it is my duty and responsibility to give him a grand burial”. Don’t we get goose skin to hear such things about this wonderful person? A man with principles and gratitude. Children, please remember – money was not easily earned those days like it is done now. He worked hard and also saved wisely.
My mum – she inherited all the good qualities of her dad. She too is a genius in Arithmetic (in Tamil they used to call her ‘kanakulla pulli’), like her dad she too has a good memory and remembers birthdays and anniversaries and knows all the relationship and explains in detail. Even at this age (75) she writes daily accounts. When I was a kid I remember she won’t go to bed if her accounts don’t tally, she’ll be cracking her brains as to where the money went or for what she spent. Those days groceries were not done like today (all at once in a supermarket). The vendors come home to us. The baker, oil cart, vegetable cart, fish vendor, coconut cart, bithara aachi (the woman who brings eggs from her farm) the keera kaari (the woman who brings greens), the kadalai man (the man who sells grams) and many more.
Children I am talking about ‘Girl Power’ so boys don’t get offended. If in the 2nd Generation it was my mum, then I must admit that in the 3rd Generation it was Jacqueline aunty (Kanaga akka), she was extremely good and did many exams and passed out very well even after having four children. Nayana, I am very proud of you, because in the 4th generation you are the mathematical genius.
My dear children, I hope I have not bored you with the long Epistle of your ancestors. I thought you should know it and made use of this opportunity.
Let me end my mail with greetings and good wishes to your proud and happy parents Roy and Nalini and sister Mirjana.

Take care and keep in touch

Love and God bless

Portia (aunty)