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Happy Teachers' Day "A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination and instill a love of learning". Brad Henry          My love for the English language, Geography and Biology is all because of the wonderful, encouraging and inspiring teachers I have had during my school days. Teachers can either make a child hate or love a subject according to how they treat their pupils. My fear for numbers probably started when I was in the 7th standard and we had a horrible teacher. If you did not understand how to tackle a formula or understand any of the geometry or algebra, she would just shout out stating that she is just wasting her time with brainless kids. Yes she was like a witch for all who hated maths and was a fairy to all who were her pets.    Till today, I try and stay away from numbers and physics. There are some teachers, students remember all their lives either for the good things or bad things. Overall I have been lucky to get wonderful t...

  no one will ever guess     I prefer making easy desserts and ones which are cold, mainly because of the hot weather in Mombasa. This dessert recipe was given to me by my sister in law Arti K and its been my all time favourite. I make it quite often when I have guests over and they all think that the brown layer is made of cake. But it isn't. Over the years I have made changes to the original recipe by adding more chocolate, less cream, a variety of fruits etc.  The original recipe required stale brown bread, but I use fresh as the stale brown bread makes the layers a bit too dry. It is a bit difficult making this trifle in India if you don't get fresh cream as the Amul cream does not become fluffy on whipping it. Try and get some fresh cream which sometimes is available in the bigger stores.  BROWN BREAD TRIFLE 8 servings 3 cups of brown bread crumbs ¼ cup sugar ½ cup drinking chocolate powder 1½ to 2 cups fresh cream 2 cups chopped fresh fruit  1 cu...