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So here again I have come up with another easy and simple but tasty recipe! For this, you need three major ingredients, and those are: Eggs, Milk and Bread. So how do you make it? As I have already mentioned, my major ingredients for this recipe are eggs, milk, and bread. Apart from that you also need some turmeric, pepper powder, and ginger paste. You can skip using ginger if you do not like the taste or smell of it. I personally feel that ginger goes well with any recipe which contains egg in it, so I am using ginger here. Process: Take a half cup of milk, two eggs, half a teaspoon ginger paste (optional), salt according to your taste, a pinch of turmeric and pepper according to your taste. Mix all these ingredients in a bowl. Now take a flat pan (preferably non-stick pan) and put one tablespoon of oil and let it warm. Now one by one dip slices of bread in the liquid mixture so made (both sides) and put it to be cooked on the pan. Keep it for 3-4 minutes for one sid...

Upma is one of the simplest, yet healthy and filling food. its a good option for snacks as well as breakfast. So here today I will be sharing with you a little-modified upma recipe. What all you need? Rawa/Suji, one small potato (you can skip potato if you don't like), one medium sized onion, one egg, two small/one big tomato, half a tablespoon ginger paste, some peanuts. How to make it? Initially dry roast the rawa and keep it aside. Put one tablespoon of oil in the pan and then put cumin seeds/jeera, peanuts, ginger paste and mustard seeds, and also salt and turmeric according to your taste. Then one by one add the onion, potatoes, and tomatoes. Let the potatoes cook and then add the egg and stir well so that it becomes kind of scrambled egg. After all these are done, add the roasted rawa, and mix well. The last step is to add water, add the correct amount of water (rawa:water=2:1) so that it does not become too watery nor too hard. Yah the done! Serve with some chop...

This is one of my recent purchase and I have used it 4 times until now and therefore thought of writing a review for the same. I am a person who has blackheads and thereby I feel using the peel of charcoal masks helps reduce it and regular and constant use actually removes the blackheads completely. So coming to the product, I had got this WOW Activated Charcoal Peel Off Face Mask from Amazon. Link to buy:  https://www.amazon.in/stores/page/793E519C-B97B-401C-BB8A-EAEAC2B77624?store_ref=SB_A03718281SIJU0PC3VYM6&pf_rd_p=98f2ac8f-072b-41ed-b07d-7646b42eb4b7&hsa_cr_id=7563078010302&lp_slot=auto-sparkle-hsa-tetris&lp_asins=B07CYZRSXS,B074C46VYM,B074C5WHNF&lp_mat_key=activated%20charcoal%20mask&lp_query=activated%20charcoal%20mask&sb-ci-n=brandLogo&sb-ci-v=images%2FI%2F518qyBkiLlL._SX120_SY120_.jpg I am actually happy with this product mainly because : i) It is Paraben and mineral oil Free and  ii) It is mild on skin and doesn't cau...

Hello Everyone!! So this is my first blog on a comparison. Now here I have compared three Kajal-s and I wanted to share my experience with them. So the three Kajal-s which I have compared are: i) Blue Heaven Artisto Kajal ii)Stay Quirky Badass Kajal and iii)Elenblu Kajal. All of these Kajals are my recent purchase. I have actually got the Blue Heaven kajal in my November'18 ZoBag. You can check my blog on the ZoBag here: https://pcfoodfacelife.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-november-zobag-review.html For the Stay Quirky Kajal, I got it from Purplle. Link to buy:  https://www.purplle.com/product/stay-quirky-kajal-black-badass-1-0-25-g and I got the Elenblu kajal from Nykaa. Link to buy:  https://www.nykaa.com/elenblu-power-kohl-kajal/p/248361?ptype=product&productId=248361&skuId=248361 So now coming to the comparison part: Blue Heaven Stay Quirky Elenblu Weight 3.25gm 0.25gm 0.35gm Price R...

Hello Everyone! This is another recipe from my Bengali Cuisine. So the authentic name of the dish is "Piyaj koli Posto" and for the sake of convenience of my non-bong friends, it's Spring Onion with Poppy Seeds Paste. No no, you might find the name little unusual and therefore might have thought that it is a difficult recipe, but it's absolutely not so! It is just a two-ingredient recipe! Yes, you read it right, only 'TWO' ingredient recipe. So what do you actually need? 1.Spring onions/Piyaj Koli (I here have used one bundle of spring onion which is approximately 250gm) 2.Posto/Poppy seeds Paste (I have taken here five full tablespoons of posto/poppy seeds and have made a paste out of it) How to Make it? Take 2 tablespoons of mustard oil in the kadai and heat it up (the authentic taste comes with the use of mustard oil, but you if are intolerant to mustard oil, you can use any oil of your choice). Put some salt, turmeric and chili powder (a...

 So here I have come up with the bong style Chicken Curry Recipe. This is again one of the simple tasty non-veg (of course, lol) recipes and is easy to cook too. So all that you need for this are: i) Chicken (here I have taken 500gm and the quantity of the other ingredients will be with respect to 500gm of Chicken) ii) One Big Onion/Two Small Onions iii)Two-Three Tomatoes iv)Green Chili (according to taste) v) Garlic Paste (2 tablespoons) vi) Ginger Paste (1 tablespoon) vii) Some Coriander Leaves viii) Two Potatoes (you can skip this if you don't like potatoes) ix) Mustard Oil, Turmeric Powder, Chili Powder, Salt x) Five tablespoons of Curd How to make it? Wash the chicken well and marinate it with the curd, one tablespoon garlic paste (you can also add one tablespoon of ginger paste while marinating, but I prefer not to add ginger while marinating) and half a tablespoon of turmeric powder and keep it marinated for 30 minutes to 1 hour. After marination i...

So here comes the simplest recipe "Egg Poach"!! Though the recipe is the simplest of everything and has just one ingredient, I know a lot of people get little worried thinking whether they can get the perfect poach or not. It's very very simple. All you need is an Egg, some 2-3 drops of oil, and yes you are done with the ingredient list! So how to make it? Take a pan, put some 2-3 drops of oil on it and let it get warm. Break the egg from the middle, right on top of the pan. Let the egg take the shape on its own in the pan and cook for 3-4 minutes. After its cooked, shift it very gently on a flat plate. That's all, its ready! Just sprinkle salt and pepper according to your taste, and its good to be served :) Serve it when it is warm :) :) Enjoy!!

I know it is a very late post, and I do really regret writing the review about the November'18 Month Euphorbia Box at almost end of the month, but I really didn't get time to use the products in the bag, and I thought that writing the review without even using the products once is not worth it, because all the products were very new to me. So starting with the details of the box, it is a beauty subscription box, which claims that it is the most affordable beauty subscription box in India. This is the third time I have ordered this box, and I am happy with the products. The bag contains 4 products, which has both beauty and makeup products for this November edition and the bag is priced at Rs. 309 with free delivery charge all over India (for the one-month subscription price is Rs. 309, and you can subscribe for more number of months and pay less). The total value of the products inside the bag is worth around Rs. 2000 and it's really a great deal to get products worth ar...

So here comes the ZoBag, November'18 edition review. To be very honest I have been waiting for this bag very impatiently as I really liked the products of this November edition of this bag. I received the bag Exactly after 10 days of placing my order and but I think that's fine, given such amazing products you get inside it :) So here is the link from where you can buy the ZoBag:  https://www.zotezo.com/zotezo-beautybag/ You can also check out their other month's editions, and they also have a bag which is for Men. Now coming to the products inside, in total this edition has 6 items and is priced at Rs. 599+Rs. 30 (shipping). Out of the 6 items inside, 3 has a choice. So the 1st 2 options of choice are: Wow Shampoo or a Pulm Toner; 2nd 2 options are: St. D'Vencé Body Moisturiser or St. D'Vencé Body Wash; 3rd and the last two products of choice are: Blue Heaven Artisto Kajal Water Proof Smudge Proof or Blue Heaven Artisto Lip Crayon; Apart from these 3 c...

Are you the one who has prepared a large quantity of soup and is not able to finish it because you are bored with the taste? So here you go.. you can now just modify the soup to a completely new dish! Recipe number 1: It is about making soupy noodles out of the soup. So all you need to do is put the leftover soup in the pan on the stove and add little water to it so that the soup becomes little watery (you need not add water if the soup is already watery). Boil it for 2-3 minutes, then add the noodles tastemaker and little chili powder (according to your taste) to the soup and stir well. Thereafter add the dry noodles and cook the entire thing for 5-6 minutes. Yes! your soupy noodles is ready! (You can replace noodles in the above recipe with pasta and in that case, do not add water, and then you get pasta made!) Recipe number 2: Get some broccoli, carrot, some baby corn/sweetcorn, capsicum and some bell pepper (you can also skip one or two of this list of items if th...

So today is another review day! And today I'm gonna talk about the product which has been with me for the longest time ever☺ Yah, as you all must have understood by the caption, today I will be sharing my review about Jovees Honey and Apple Conditioning Shampoo. I have been using this shampoo for the longest time ever! For the last FOUR years, I'm using it. Not that I'm saying this is the best shampoo ever in the market and blah blah, but it surely suits my hair the best out of all the shampoos that I had used before coming across this one. So the shampoo actually looks like this: The shampoo had a different packaging when I just started using it and is now in this form. So you can understand I have seen all phases of this shampoo. LOL!! I actually have very dry and rough hair and was looking for some shampoo which will keep it soft and not make it even drier after hair wash. This exactly serves the purpose. It is transparent and has a very mild and nice f...

So here I am today to review two varieties of KHADI Herbal Hair Conditioner, one is Khadi Shikakai and Honey Hair conditioner and the other is Khadi Green Tea and Aloevera Hair conditioner. The first thing I want to share is I am absolutely in love with these hair conditioners. I am the one who has dry and rough hair, and for me, I felt these conditioners are just perfect! So why I'm in love with these? I have tried like so many conditioners on my hair, some of it turned out to leave my hair too sticky, some didn't do its job at all and left my hair brittle and rough, and to be very honest, I was tired to figure out which one will suit me the best. Then suddenly I came across these Khadi conditioners. The first time I used them only I felt the difference, it nourished my hair, made it soft and smooth, like the way a conditioner should exactly be. Moreover, it is not at all costly. I believe for all the variety of conditioner that Khadi has, its priced at or...

Malpua is a very common and popular sweet dish in Bengal. It is available in almost every other sweet shop in West Bengal and is also quite tasty to munch on. I am here sharing the recipe to prepare the same at home, with very few ingredients and in a very plain and simple way. Ingredients: i. Suji/Rawa, ii.Maida, iii. Saunf/Fennel seed, iv. Milk and  v. Sugar How to make it? In a bowl take an equal amount of suji/rawa (the fine one) and maida and mix well. Put some saunf/fennel seeds to the mix (for the flavor) and add milk to the whole mix so as to form a semi-liquid paste kind of consistency. Keep the paste so made, aside for minimum 15-20 minutes.  When the paste is so done, make the sugar syrup for the malpua.  For the syrup, take sugar (as per your taste) and water and boil it. Boil the sugar and water until it turns light brownish in colour (remember, the syrup should not be a very sticky one, and it should b...

Baby corns are a very good source of protein and also is tasty at the same time. It also helps in improving our digestive system. I am sharing one of my most favorite baby corn recipe with you all. Ingredients: i. Baby Corns, ii. Cornflour, iii. Chili Powder, iv. Tomato sauce and Soya sauce, v. Spring onions and vi. Garlic Process: Wash the baby corns nicely and cut them into half if they are big in size, else keep it as a whole. Take the cornflour in a flat plate with some salt (as per your taste) and chili powder mixed with it. Roll individual baby corns over the layer of cornflour so as to form a thin layer of cornflour over the corns. Deep fry these coated baby corns and keep it aside in a bowl. In another pan, take some drops of oil and stir fry some finely chopped garlic. After that, add tomato sauce and soya sauce (quantity of soya sauce added should be half as that of tomato sauce), and some water and cook the mixture for some time. After good 5-7 min...

Durga Puja is one of the biggest festival celebrated by the Bengalies. I am a Bengali by birth and I have recently shifted to Aurangabad, Maharashtra (you can check out the places that I have explored here in Aurangabad in my previous blog:  https://pcfoodfacelife.blogspot.com/2018/08/blog-post.html ). So this 2018 Durga puja I had spent in Aurangabad, and that's when I discovered that there is a Bengali Association in Aurangabad (there might be more, but I am talking about the one I am aware of right now). As I came to know, this Bengali Association celebrates all the Bengali festivals in the authentic Bengali way, and so was the Durga Puja. The Durga Puja of this particular Bengali association is hosted in the "Sagar Lawns and Function Hall" which is near the Prozone Mall in the Chilkalthana Area ( https://www.google.co.in/maps/contrib/104235049707915129776/place/ChIJE7FM7_Gi2zsRYC0D6NRB0Ag/@19.5396149,74.1340508,9z/data=!4m6!1m5!8m4!1e1!2s104235049707915129776!...

Here's a tasty snack recipe to munch on in those lazy evenings. I will also come up with some veg options very soon, but today's recipe is about egg pakoda. It is very easy and requires very few ingredients. So what all is required to make it? i. Gram flour/Besan ii. Eggs iii. Chili powder iv. Garlic paste v. Coriander leaves (for garnishing) Process: Boil the egg (hard boil) and cut it into half so that both the half have the yoke in more or less equal proportion. In a bowl put the gram flour/besan, salt (according to your taste), chili powder (according to your taste), and a little bit of garlic paste (for the flavor of it). Add water to this mixture in the amount as required to make a semi-liquid paste. Dip the half sliced eggs in this batter and coat it nicely (you can do some thin scratches in the white part of the egg to get the coating on properly, as it being a slippery side, the coating does not tend to stay). Deep fry this coated eggs until it turns bro...

Yes, pimples are a matter of concern for whoever gets it. Almost everyone out there gets pimple sometime or the other. Here I am to help you with some simple hacks which will help you reduce the number of pimples and also eventually get rid of them. Drinking water: Drinking eight glasses of water a day is mandatory! Water helps to promote metabolism and also thereby helps flush out the toxins from our body. For people with pimple issues, drink one big glass of lukewarm water, with half a lemon juice squeezed into it in the empty stomach in the morning. This is a great booster to flash out toxins, and thereby helps in reducing the chances of pimples. Seasonal fruits and vegetables: I have already shared in my previous blog ( https://pcfoodfacelife.blogspot.com/2018/11/hair-fall-remedies.html ) that what you eat gets reflected on your skin and health. Seasonal fruits and vegetables are a must to get a clear and glowing skin. Avoid eating oily food and fast foods, as th...

There are a number of face wash and scrubbers available in the market. Some of them are quite expensive and some are also within a suitable range. But if you are the one like me, who is fed up by spending bucks and bucks over these and ultimately getting no benefits out of it, here I am to share with you to some natural and homemade DIYs for both face wash and scrubber which I have opted to. These DIY face wash and scrubs do their respective job really well, and also doesn't do any harm to your skin at the same time. Ingredients required for DIY face wash: i. Besan/Gram flour ii. Multani Mitti/Fuller's earth iii. Neem Powder (for people with acne/pimple issue) iv. Charcoal powder How to make it? Mix equal amount of Besan/Gram flour and  Multani Mitti/Fuller's earth. Mix it well. To the mixture add Neem powder in half the quantity as that of Multani mitti/Besan if you have an ache/pimple prone skin (you can skip this if you have a normal skin). Add Charcoal powder...

In my blog "Hair fall remedies" ( https://pcfoodfacelife.blogspot.com/2018/11/hair-fall-remedies.html ) I have discussed the importance of oiling hair. So, here I am to share with you a natural and homemade hair oil, which is to be made with very basic and readily available ingredients, which might be either available in your kitchen itself or in stores nearby. So what all you need to prepare the oil? Ingredients:   i. Coconut Oil, ii. Castor Oil, iii. Mustard Oil, iv. Neem Leaves/Dried Neem Leaf Powder, v. Curry Leaves, vi. Hibiscus Flower/Dried hibiscus powder, vii. Amla/Indian gooseberry/Dried Amla Powder and viii.Methi Seeds/Fenugreek Seeds How to prepare the oil? In a pan, take 500ml of coconut oil, 100ml Castor Oil, 100ml Mustard oil mix it well, and put it at low flame. After it gets little warmed up, add 7-8 strands of neem leaf (or 3-4 tablespoon of dried neem leaf powder), 5-6 strands of curry leaves, 5-6 hibiscus flower (or 1-2 tablespoon...

These days we have very busy and tight schedules, which makes it really difficult to invest a lot of time on cooking and preparing something that will be tasty and also healthy at the same time. Thus keeping these things in mind, I have figured out some tasty, yet healthy food preps which might not serve as a whole meal, but can be well categorized as healthy snacks. Disclaimer: the names of the dishes might not be the authentic names, as I have modified them according to my taste and named them accordingly :) I have options for both vegetarians and non-vegetarians, so hope you enjoy reading these. Please do try these and let me know in the comment section below how was it for you :) 1. Egg Pan Cake All you need is: Egg, Milk, Maida, Onions, Carrot, Capsicum. Take like 150 gms of maida, add one whole egg to it and mix well. Mix the required amount of milk to the mixture to get a semi-liquid like consistency. To this mixture add finely chopped onions, carrot, and capsicum...

I know, you all must be like, what yaar! another fake promise from these bloggers!  But trust me, I am not going to tell you that You know, do this for these number of days and your hair fall will completely stop!   and stuff like that. I am gonna give you some simple tips and tricks which I follow, and which I have seen REDUCES the amount of hair fall. I would not say it completely stops hair fall. Because it is completely natural to lose around 50-100 strands of hair a day, as that's how our hair regenerates itself. But yes, when this number goes above 150, that's a matter of concern! Now, what all should you follow to take care of your hair? First, you have to remember one thing, homemade beauty remedies work much better than using chemicals or going for expensive chemical hair treatment. I agree that when you opt for home remedies, they really take a long time to give you the desired result, but trust me, they work well in the long run. So, th...

If you are the one who is planning to move out of your home and planning to stay alone, be it for the sake of work or for studies, or any other reason, I am here to guide you what all are the essentials that you need to have to prepare your own self to stay alone and happy! I am also one of them who had never before stayed alone. I had always been either at home or in a hostel, where you are surrounded by either your family or friends. Its been only sometime that I had to move out of my own state and start living alone. So let me first share the pros and cons of staying alone. Pros of staying alone: There are a number of advantages of staying alone, but the most important thing is that it makes you independent. It makes you self-sufficient, as no matter what, you have to get everything done by yourself and also face everything whatever comes in your way. It makes you strong and also gives you the self-confidence that yes you can be an all-rounder! Cons: I would not say these...