A New Chapter... Exactly A Month To Go!

I've been toying with the idea of properly starting a blog and actually maintaining it. I'm about to start a new chapter of my life(as is evident from the title of this entry) soon. And why not maintain a blog, I thought, it could be my legacy. I guess I'm not going to be writing anything very much useful right now. But if I don't start now, I know I'm going to just give it up.

So, here is my first entry about nothing. I can already see that there are going to be many more of these in the days to come.

By the way, I managed to watch 2 whole horror movies today (The Taking of Deborah Logan & Stephen King's IT). I've decided to finish watching all the horror films that I own before I move away. Because watching them when I live alone is definitely a terrible idea. Every creak, every gust of wind, every little insect sound will make me think of the movie I've just watched. Like yesterday, for instance, I had just finished watching Sinister (which was not very frightening and quite entertaining actually. Plus, you know, Ethan Hawke), when the door of this cupboard of mine, which has all my soft toys in it, suddenly, but very gently, opened. Now, logically, I know this was probably because I'd moved it earlier and I wasn't afraid, but I can't help it, I HAD to think of invisible beings doing shit. My brother is pretty freaked out with dolls and stuff. So I thought of that too. There's this one doll that my brother dumped in my cupboard because it creeped him out too much - we have fondly named this strange doll (it has the body of a baby and the ears of a rabbit; the face is of an indeterminate being) Creepu. I'm just putting this down to an overactive imagination. But still, I LOVE watching horror flicks; I guess I love the thrill. Although, if it's Asian horror, I WILL watch it with all lights on, even during the day.

So, a tiny thing like this makes me write an entire paragraph. I can only imagine how much more I'd write if I were living alone.

That being said, this is the end of my entry about nothing for the day. I will be back tomorrow with more of nothing! Ta!

My first Diet Cake!

 Good Morning :)

Now I love to eat. Really I do. I can eat anything and everything, anytime. Not surprisingly, me puts on a lot of weight. The moment I take a few moments off eating and realize that I'm gaining weight, I start TRYING to diet. Till date, never stuck to a single diet, never lost any weight.

As I said before, I love eating. People seem to find a lot of faults in the food they eat. They leave it halfway through. I've not done such a thing as far as I remember. For me, food isn't something I'm allowed to waste. I was taught that from childhood. Guess that's one of the reasons I'm very "healthy" now. There used to be a time when I used to be just right (although I still saw me as fat even then). I don't even remember when I started to put on weight. I used to be hot. Now I'm just not.

So anyway, I swore this time, I'm going to take a practical approach to diet. No fad diets. Maybe, just maybe, this time it'll work.

They say that your stomach can only take food that'll fit in the palm of your hand without stretching. So it makes sense to eat a little less than that. So now before eating my lunch or dinner I try to judge if this is what'll fit in my tummy or not. And the usual avoiding sweet stuff and fried and shit. Its so difficult!! I love McDonald's and KFC and MOD and all these unhealthy food places. Just thinking about it makes me go drool drool.. Had to indulge myself too so I said once a week, a McGrill can't hurt right?

Also cakes..mmm what about a good, heavy, sinful chocolate cake won't turn a good woman on? So I decided  to do myself a favor and try to make a less calorific cake for me. I managed to get rid of the butter in my first cake!!! Yaay! And in the cake I attempted yesterday, I got rid of the chocolate, sugar, eggs, maida as well!!! Replaced it with wheat flour and added bananas and raisins as the sweeteners. Yaay Yaay!! Ok so it turned out heavy and slightly chewy. But haha at least I managed to make my diet cake :D
I'm going to try improving it obviously but for now, I'm floating a little as I always do after a successful attempt at baking(successful=not burning stuff). Oh and yeah, tried out this strange icing made of maida. Very surprisingly tasty..I'll stick to this icing, it really is tasty. Thought it would suck, but it so didn't!!! Yaay Yaay Yaay!!!

I didn't have a lot of hope from this cake. Still I gave it to my guinea pigs. Guinea Piggy No.1 liked it, but thought it was too dense. But guinea piggy No.1 always says stuff like that to me but to others she says nice things about my stuff o_O.
Guinea Piggy No.2 tasted it without brushing her teeth but she liked it. But she also likes everything in the world. Probably doesn't have the heart to criticize it. Just like me :) Me don't criticize other people's food either :)
Guinea Piggies Nos.3&4 surprisingly liked it! One is a Shudh Shakahari so I thought she might like it. She bloody loved it! The other one suggested I sell it to diet crazy people ;) Oh btw, Piggy No.2's pops liked it too. So maybe it can't be as bad as I thought. Next time, a better flavor though. Maybe strawberries or figs or something.

So well anyway, my point here was, how about when I open my own bakery, I start this whole separate line of Healthy Diet Bakes for people like me who love to eat but should really really stop for Heaven's sake?? So that they can eat it all guilt free. This time's diet really seems to be going the right way. You know, when I was like 5 or 6, the doctor actually told my folks to fatten me up. Man I never forgot those words. I want that doctor to tell my folks to fatten me up once more. It'll be like David's harp playing for me..sweet sweet music ;)

I'm going to have a tough time substituting chocolate though :(  India mein itna aasan nahi hai usko substitue milna. But trying, I'm guessing won't kill me. Soo much R&D left to do on this topic!! Shall write about more healthy bakes. If you want the recipe edray, let me know?

Going back to work now. Ta. :D