Saturday, March 22, 2008
Spring Breezes
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
New Year Dishes
Sabzi Polo Mahi: The New Year's day traditional meal is called Sabzi Polo Mahi, which is rice with green herbs served with fish. The traditional seasoning for Sabzi Polo are parsley, coriander, chives, dill and fenugreek.
Reshteh Polo: rice cooked with noodles which is said to symbolically help one succeed in life.
Dolme Barg : A traditional dish of Azeri people, cooked just before the new year. It includes some vegetables, meat and cotyledon which have been cooked and embedded in vine leaf and cooked again. It is considered useful in reaching to wishes.
Kookoo sabzi : Herbs and vegetable souffle, traditionally served for dinner at New Year. A light and fluffy omelet style made from parsley, dill, coriander, spinach, spring onion ends, and chives, mixed with eggs and walnut.
10,000 B.C.
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe. . . It was Very nice movie if I get a chance I would like to watch it again.
The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
Wednesday, March 05, 2008
Feast of Love
How to Be Happy
More than 100 years ago, author Robert Louis Stevenson offered the following tips for maintaining a positive attitude. They still apply today.
1- Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things.
2- Make the best of your circumstances. No one has everything, and everyone has something of sorrow intermingled with gladness of life. The trick is to make the laughter outweigh the tears.
3- Don't take yourself too seriously. Don't think that somehow you should be protected from misfortune that befalls other people.
4- You can't please everybody. Don't let criticism worry you.
5- Don't let your neighbor set your standards. Be yourself.
6- Do the things you enjoy doing but stay out of debt.
7- Never borrow trouble. Imaginary things are harder to bear than real ones.
8- Since hate poisons the soul, do not cherish jealousy, enmity, grudges. Avoid people who make you unhappy.
9- Have many interests. If you can't travel, read about new places.
10- Don't hold postmortems. Don't spend your time brooding over sorrows or mistakes. Don't be one who never gets over things.
11- Do what you can for those less fortunate than yourself.
12- Keep busy at something. A busy person never has time to be unhappy.
Robert Louis Stevenson