Cereal mixture (chevda)

This quick and easy snack can be made in 5 min! Very healthy and tasty! Let me know how it comes out!

Ingredients:

• 3 cups cereal (Special K strawberry is what I used)
• 1/4 cup pottu kadalai (roasted bengal gram or split besan)
• 1/4 cup roasted groundnut
• 1/2 cup raisins (optional)
• 1/4 cup slided almonds
• 2 tbsp Amchur powder (mango powder) - according to your taste
• 1 tbsp turmeric powder
• 1 to 2 tbsp chili powder
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp Asafoetida
• A few curry leaves
• 1 tbsp ghee

In a big pan, add the ghee and roast pottu kadalai, ground nuts, sliced almonds, curry leaves for 2 -3 minutes. Then add the cereal, raisins and roast for 2 -3 mins. In the meanwhile, add the spices according to your taste. Ensure that the spices have mixed well with the rest of the ingredients. Switch off the stove and let it cool. Offer it to the Lord and then enjoy!

Our calendar of weeks and months

There are a lot of things that we follow or used to follow but these have just vanished in these modern times...but I like to get answers to why those were followed because I honestly believe that there IS a reason behind our everyday practices.

Read this on an article by Sri Sri Ravishankar (AOL Founder) and found this to be very interesting!

Question: Why are there 7 days in a week and 12 months in a year throughout the globe?

Sri Sri Ravishankar: It started in the Vedic time in India. The zero, seven days, and twelve months were first given here in India. Then Egypt copied it from India and from there it went all over the world.

In India, there are seven major planets. Though we name nine planets, two of them are shadow planets of the moon that don't exist. So for each planet one day was given. For the shadow planets they allotted one and half hours of time every day instead of allotting them one whole day, so it fit very well with the cosmic calendar. (That is how we have Rahu Kaala and Gulik Kaala.)
They formed the connection between the microcosm and the macrocosm. And they said the Earth completes one circle around the Sun in twelve months and then they divided it. This was done some thirty to forty thousand years ago, or may be even more. Nobody knows.