Mira

HI

My daughter's thirteenth birthday is approaching and I would love it if one of you marvellous bakers would post me your best recipe for a mint chocolate cake that is also eggless as I am vegetarian.

Here's the basics of my idea.

I am looking for a recipe where the base is made of a cookie layer and the main/mid section is this fabulous mint green layer (mint flavoured of-course).

Please also post if you have a recipe for an eggless frosting that sets ups firm but not overwhelming hard.

Best recipe wins best compliments!

Cheers!

Please bear in mind that this cake should be relatively simple to make.

Many thanks once more!

In Kaliyug it is necessary to be open and honest with children. How do you bring up children to be constantly aware of the choices that they wrote into their own incarnations. How do you make them aware that the life the live are totally based on the choices they make today. That each and every thought, action and deed builds on their future or present karma. How to totally live in constant state of samadhi? I love my girls and I would just love it if when they return home that the divine would be very pleased with the choices they have made and the quality of lives they have lived. It is my most treasured desire.

What life skills are important for leading a life full of constant optimism, constant grace and constant kindness?

Two folded Question:

Mother-in-Law: My mother-in-law recently migrated here from India in the summer time and she is also mentally ill and is losing short term memory to the point where she is forgetful on things and events that happened only 3-5 minutes ago. Her long term memory is very powerful. She cannot speak English so it is quite a challenge to my three daughters. She is for the most part a very nice person but her lack of hygiene and messy ways make it sort of a challenge at times. I try very hard to be extremely tolerant but find it necessary to remind her of the rules of proper hygiene and mode of conduct when she comes to visit. My mother who lives next door to me is very spiritual and she is 83. My daugthers take to her quite well. I wish that they would extend the same feelings towards my mother-in-law but I realize that I could be at fault for this. When my mother-in-law comes to visit she often goes and visits but unnanounced and my mother really do not like it. I have told her and my husband as well has told her that if she wants to visit call before or go after noon and that she must not go without calling but she does not seem to care or remember. Her lack of hygiene and constant nose-picking can be irritating and my daughters absolutely refuses to eat anything when they visit my brother-in-law which is where she is living. My daughters are also very cautious when she comes to visit that she does not enter the kitchen. I feel that this sounds so cruel and harsh but I am very against poor hygiene

I am constantly reminding her to wash her hands. I do not allow her to come into my kitchen to cook or to do my dishes. She drinks out of glasses and just rinses them and places them back in the tray. The last time I caught her I mentioned it to her and she said it was not a big deal. I quite frankly told her that I do not absolutely tolerate that type of thing in my home and if she does drink from a glass that she put the glass in the sink or to one side and cover for later. I feel like I constantly have to baby-sit her 24/7 when she comes to visit. It is driving me nuts but I try so hard not to let it get to me.

And the energy in my home - I prayer every day at both my altars. I love God and I could not go one day without praying at my altar. I energize my home everyday and every moment with prayers and mantras. But she drains the energy field when she visits and when she leaves I feel drained and have to replenish the energy fields really quickly so as to maintain steady flow of positive chi energy.

My front entrance has a silver statue of Lord Ganesha. And there is a semi-bathroom unit nearby and I absolutely hate it when my girls leave the door open as when it is open Lord Ganesha's face would be facing the toilet. When my mother-in-law comes to visit she leaves the door wide open so Lord Ganesha's face is now looking at the toilet. I really believe in maintaining positive Chi energy and so I tell my girls always to keep the lid down and the door closed ALWAYS after their visit and to make sure that they flush each and every time! It really bugs me so much but I say nothing to my mother-in-law out of respect. I do not want to tell my husband.

Help!!

Father-in-Law

My father-in-law's spririt comes to visit everytime my mother-in-law comes to visit. My mother-in-law is mentally ill and is losing her short-memory and this is also coupled with poor hygiene habits.

We are hindu by religion and so a photo of my father-in-law with a rudraksha mala (holy beaded garland) has been placed on my altar just so he is remembered and not forgotten. He was a very spiritual person when he was alive and a very wonderful father-in-law. He is however dead for the past two years and so I am having a real problem with him coming for a visit everytime my mother-in-law comes to stay (she usually visits once a month) she is staying with my brother-in-law and his wife. When my father-in-law's spirit comes and this is usually felt in the home at night. The first time he came I started chanting my mantras and he left only to return the next night and the next one. Now the last time he came to visit I was preparing since I am now used to his routine. So as soon as I felt his entrance on the first night of my mother-in-law's visit, I swat-teamed my house on the outside and inside with devtas (gods and goddesses) and white-lighted as well and started into totally chanting my mantras and within 3-5 minutes he left. He did not come the next day but I could sense really cold energy so I guess he was upset that I did that. My daughter who is 13 felt his energy also and she is now educated on what to do and she is doing it but she is still so very little. Her cellphone went off at around the time I felt his presence and that also worked in making him leave. When my mother-in-law comes to visit she usually sleeps in my daughter's room (13 year old) and when she

Sometimes when we visit my husband's family, my sister-in-law stays on her laptop. She would not even come to greet us at the door. She would be busy typing away on her laptop checking her emails. It really bugs me but not my husband. He thinks it is normal. I think that my husband is being way too kind. What are your views.

She has a way of talking that is very loud and condescending when she does say something.

Now I need to know in detail how to make the Gughara Filling (this is for the traditional Gughara made in South Gujarat) the one with the besan noh loth only. Please help. Also someone please post the recipe for Tabra and Khar Khar Ya (one is sweet with til seeds)(the other one is made from besan noh loth). Deadline please before tomorrow morning. Many Thanks

Happy Divali and Maa Laxmi and Ganeshji Blessings to all of you.