abstract painting

 

An abstract painting painted on paper with acrylic color for one of the most important  person who had a great impact on our life and both me and my husband love them very much . It was for their 25 anniversary celebration . The theme was decided by my husband he was the instructor for the painting . 

Garlic bread rolls

I just love to eat fresh bread even the plain ones . And the freshly made pav in bakery's in India are just hmmm , but the same taste i never found in USA so for pav bhaji and vada pav i used to bring the dinner rolls so once i tried making  pav at home and it came out very well in first attemp only , so from that time i an trying to make variety of breads one of them is garlic bread rolls. I did it few weeks back for somebody asked me the recipie of sttufed dinner rolls the dough is same only diffrence is stuffing .You can try out it with various stuffing 

step by step recipe for making garlic bread rolls:

1.Mix sugar and yeast in warm water. allow to sit at room temperature for 10-12 mins.The yeast solution bubbled and frothy after 10 mins. Add the flours, salt, oil to the bowl of yeast mixture. Knead  into a smooth, soft and springy dough.Rub oil on the whole dough and keep covered for up to 1:30 to 2 hours until doubled in size 

 

2.Beat the butter and oil with a spoon till light and fluffy. add all the spices, herbs and mix well.

3.Lightly punch the dough before making the rolls on a work surface, divide the dough into two parts.Take one part of the dough and on a lightly dusted work surface, roll to a round or rectangle till the width reaches to 1/2 inch.Spread the garlic butter evenly on the dough.

4. Roll the dough till the end, and cut it into equal size.

5.Grease a pan with butter spray or oil , place the rolls with the cut edges facing upwards in the pan. Brush their tops with remaining garlic butter. cover and let the rolls double up for 30-40 minutes.

6. Bake in a pre heated oven for 30-35 minutes at 180 degrees C till the tops are golden and the bread rolls sounds hollow when tapped.  serve the garlic bread rolls warm with tea or coffee.

for the dough:

• 1 and ½ cup all purpose flour / maida
• 1 tsp dry active yeast
• 150-160 ml water - approx ⅔ cup water (check notes)
• ½ tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp oil
• ½ tsp salt

for the garlic spread

• 2 tbsp dairy butter
• ½ to ⅔ tbsp minced or chopped garlic or finely crushed garlic
• ¼ tsp dry oregano
• 2 pinch carom seeds/ajwain 
• ½ tbsp sunflower oil or olive oil
• salt and pepper as required

Instructions

1. mix the ½ tbsp sugar and yeast in warm water. allow to sit at room temperature for 10-12 mins.
2. after the yeast solution bubbled and frothy, add the flours, salt and oil to the bowl of yeast mixture.
3. mix well and knead to a smooth and soft dough.
4. rub oil on the whole dough and keep covered for up to 1:30 to 2 hours until leavened.
5. beat the butter with a spoon till light and fluffy. add all the spices & herbs along with salt. mix well.
6. check the seasoning in the garlic spread and add more of the herbs, spices or salt if required.
7. lightly punch the dough before making the rolls on a work surface.
8. divided the dough into two parts.
9. take one part of the dough and on a lightly dusted flour, roll to a round or rectangle till you get ½ inch width in the rolled dough
10. spread the garlic butter evenly on the dough.
11. roll the dough till the end.
12. make a similar roll with the other part of the dough.
13. now both the rolls are ready to be sliced.
14. first give a cut from the center and then equally cut the two parts. so you have now 4 equal slices of the rolled dough.
15. grease a pan in which all the 8 rolls will fit. place the rolls in the pan and brush their tops with remaining garlic butter. cover and let the rolls double up for 35-40 minutes.
16. you can also sprinkle some sesame seeds on top of the rolls.
17. bake in a pre heated oven for 30-35 minutes at 180 degrees C till the tops are golden.
18. serve the garlic bread rolls with tea or coffee.

Notes

1:Here i have added ⅔ cup water. however depending on the quality of flour, you may have    to add less or more. So add accordingly.

2:The seasoning is optional you can add whatever seasoning you like .  

3:Baking time may differ according to oven, so keep an eye on rolls after 25 mins. 

Radha Krishna murals

                A long time back mural . It was my first big mural . The base is wooden and all the work done  on it is m seal . And colored it with fevcryil golden, bronze and silver color , the the parts colored in bronze are my favorite . 

 

Ganpati 2013

     It is eco friendly krishna theme landscaping  for 2013 Ganpati festival 

                                All the animal are just photo prints .

        It is a place where krishna is playing flute and all the animals come to listen to his sweet flute                    

 Most of the things in this project are made from natural things like paper, dried flowers, cloth and stone.

 The top umbrella is made with gliter paper , ribbon and cane basket .

The tree was an orchid pot i used a paper towel roll to make the bark and added just some more branches to it. The clouds are made from tissue paper and all the technical help was made by my husband

               

Madhubani painting

As  I love the tribal art one of those which I have tried is madhubani  . I want to learn all the tribal art which are about to vanish . So this is my small try to let most people around me to know it . As it is my first painting I feel it is not perfect what I wanted   As I have not taken any formal training for it but still happy with it. 

It is also known as mithali painting the place from where it is orignate

While paintin this the thing which was in my mind was my pregnancy phase with Arjun so many mood swing I had an seeing his dad working hard to handle my mood swing Arjun must be laughing in the same way as the baby fish is doing

Warli peacock

As per my name peacock is always my inspiration that's why while creating this blog I didn't even think any other name for my blog and the much suited name I got for it morphank creation. I ever imagine god is so creative so many beautiful thing he have made in this world and one of my fav is peacock. We had been to one of the temple in West Virginia such a relaxing place and lots of peacock.  Which inspired me to do this warli peacock.   

Coffee painting - shree ganesha

I just love coffee special filter coffee which we get in South Indian hotels even my husband make it like out of the world. And the one with vanilla ice cream on top yes cold coffee but all these years never thought that could use coffee for colouring propose and we get so many shades of it only we need is coffee powder and water to create a wonderful creation . My first attemp of coffee painting 

Usually many people use 3d liner to give  more effect to the painting but as it is my first coffee painting wanted to keep it simple and used only pure coffee and water

Warli table mat

I am a big fan of all tribal art one of the most fav one is warli until no I have tried it on many surface but my first tail was on hand made paper which are now table mats for my dinning table

 

Table mat and coaster  simply used red and black sharpie permanent marker

morphank creations : wall art made from waste tissue roll

morphank creations :
wall art made from waste tissue roll : wall art made from waste tissue roll

morphank creations : Stuffed dinner rolls

morphank creations : Stuffed dinner rolls: Veg stuffed  rose dinner rolls  very easy to make