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February WrapUp & A Strawberry Smoothie

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2016 started with a resolution to read more books! 2015 I must have hardly read 20-25 books and I realised I was spending more time watching TV series or movies that I download on my laptop; and that many of them were trash. So I gave myself a target to read atleast 72 books this year i.e 6 books a month on an average.

February I read 3 coffee table books, 1 cookbook, 3 autobiographies/memoirs and 1 fiction; a total of eight books 😀 You can visit my Goodreads profile for more details.

  1. Food Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 Extraordinary Places to Eat Around the Globe (Journeys of a Lifetime)
    by National Geographic Society (Editor), National Geographic Traveler Magazine
  2. Silk and Cotton: Textiles from the Central Asia that Was (Review Coming Soon on the Blog)
    by Susan Meller
  3. Devoted: 38 Extraordinary Tales of Love, Loyalty, and Life With Dogs
    by Rebecca Ascher-Walsh
  4. India: The Cookbook (Read Review)
    by Pushpesh Pant
  5. When Breath Becomes Air (Read Review)
    by Paul Kalanithi
  6. In Other Words
    by Jhumpa Lahiri, Ann Goldstein
  7. When I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  8. The Forty Rules of Love
    by Elif Shafak

I also decided to resurrect my blog this year and finally got around to posting in February. The target was to do atleast 1 blog post a week, but I ended up doing 8 blogposts in February itself. Not bad eh! Apart from this as a Declutter Mission 2016 I sent out another batch of books to the orphanage library. Also Prado’s Chinese colleague who came home for an Indian meal, got me some delicious Chinese Green Tea along with some monkey silver coins for GOOD LUCK. Now time to gear up for March.

Here’s a Strawberry Smoothie recipe to kickstart the fabulous month of March 2016.

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STRAWBERRY-OATS-CHIA SMOOTHIE

PREP: 15 mins

INGREDIENTS

1 tablespoon rolled oats
1 tablespoon chia seeds
5-6 fresh strawberries
1/2 cup homemade coconut milk (How to make Coconut Milk)
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon honey

DIRECTIONS

Soak the oats and chia seeds overnight in the coconut milk.

Next day morning add the overnight oats and chia seeds with fresh strawberries, water and honey to a blender and blend for 2-3 minutes or until you have smooth paste.

Pour in a glass. Garnish with some cut strawberries.

Drink up.