Tuesday 12 June, 2007

Mysore pak

Ingredients:

Besan 1 cup
Sugar 1cup
Ghee 2 cups
Elaichi

Method:

  • Roast besan in a tava till brown.
  • Prepare the sugar syrup( teega pakam) for one cup of sugar add 1/2 cup of water and then make the sugar syrup.
  • When its ready, keep it in medium heat and start adding one tablespoon of besan to every table spoon of ghee.
  • Stir in the SAME direction.
  • Once the besan starts leaving out ghee pour it in a plate rubbed with ghee and make into pieces.
  • Let it dry for 4-5hrs. Mysore pak is ready.

LOW FAT KULFI WITH STRAWBERRY SAUCE

Kulfi is a frozen dessert, which all of us relish but often tend to avoid because of its high calorific value. Here is a simple yummy low fat kulfi that doesn't take forever to prepare and provides substantial amounts of calcium without the fat. Enhance its appeal and vitamin C levels by serving it with a strawberry sauce.

Preparation Time : 10 mins.Cooking Time : 40 mins.
Serves 6

Ingredients :

1 litre low fat milk
1 teaspoon cornflour
6 teaspoons sugar
a few saffron strands
1/4 teaspoon cardamom (elaichi) powder

To be mixed together for the strawberry sauce
1/2 cup strawberry
crushed 4 teaspoons powdered sugar

Method :

1. In a small bowl, soak the saffron in a little warm milk and keep aside.
2. Dissolve the cornflour in 1 tablespoon of milk and keep aside.
3. Put the milk in a broad non-stick pan and bring to a boil. Simmer over a medium flame stirring continuously till the milk reduces to little more than half the original quantity (approx. 600 ml.).
4. Add the cornflour solution and sugar and bring to a boil. Simmer for 5 to 7 minutes.
5. Cool completely. Add the saffron mixture and cardamom powder and mix well.
6. Pour into shallow freezer proof containers and freeze till slushy (aprox. 3 to 4 hours).
7. Remove and blend in liquidiser to break all the ice crystals till the mixture is smooth and creamy.
8. Pour into 6 kulfi moulds and freeze overnight until it sets.
9. To unmould, allow the moulds to remain outside the refrigerator for 5 minutes and then unmould by inserting a wooden skewer stick or a fork in the centre of the kulfi and pulling it out.
10. Serve topped with the strawberry sauce.

Friday 1 June, 2007

Indian Movie Logics!!!

It can happen only in Indian Movies

Baghban :
Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini are separated right after Holi remember Amitabh singing Holi khele Raghubeera?) . They are said to be separated for six months, ie from March to September. Within that six-month period, they celebrate Valentine's Day, which falls on February 14, and karva chauth, which is usually observed in October. There is no way these two occasions could come between March and September!

Lagaan :
Lagaan was shot in the late 19th century. At the time, an over in cricket used to consist of 8 balls. But in this movie, an over has 6 balls. Maybe modern cricket learnt from the movie.

Amar Akbar Anthony :
Three men donate blood at the same time to the same person.

Awwal Number :
Dev Anand is an omnipotent genius -- former cricketer,captain, army chief, commissioner, you name it. And Aamir Khan carries a huge transistor in his pocket while batting!

Khalnayak :
The police tracks the villain from an MS Word Document screen! something that office team will be interested in)

Pyar To Hona Hi Tha :
Kajol gets off the train to use the public toilet at the railway station and the train chugs off without her. Poor girl,little did she know that every train compartment has four toilets inside.

Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi :
Akshay Kumar boards a Jet Airways flight to America. Well, well, some promotion for our Indian Jet Airways. Since when did they start flying international?

Raja Hindustani :
Navneet Nishan has short hair before marriage. After tying the knot, she acquires waist-length hair overnight. What a hair-raising experience!

Raja :
Dilip Tahil empties a can of petrol over Madhuri Dixit. Minutes later, Sanjay Kapoor takes the same can and pours it over Dilip Tahil. That's what I call an autofill!

Guddu :
Manisha Koirala and Shah Rukh Khan are seen hanging on a parachute during a song. But when the song ends, they land on a glider. What a switch above sea level!

Tere Mere Sapne :
Priya Gill is doing her BA. But at the bus stop, she is carrying an electrical technology thesis by B L Theraja. What an electrifying interest !

Natural way of Selection in Employment

  1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room.
  2. Put your new hires in the room and close the door.
  3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours.
  4. Then analyze the situation:
  • If they are counting the bricks, put them in the accounting department.
  • If they are recounting them, put them in auditing.
  • If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering.
  • If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in planning.
  • If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in operations.
  • If they are sleeping, put them in security.
  • If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in information technology.
  • If they are sitting idle, put them in human resources.
  • If they say they have tried different combinations, they are looking for more, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in sales.
  • If they have already left for the day, put them in marketing.
  • If they are staring out of the window, put them in strategic planning.
  • If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in top management.

New Funky Definitions

School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.

Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich.

Nurse: A person who wakes u up to give you sleeping pills.

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.

Divorce: Future tense of Marriage.

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds ofeither"

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.

Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.

Father: A banker provided by nature.

Criminal: A guy no different from the rest....except that he got caught.

Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.

Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.

Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more than you actually do.

Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Experience: The name men give to their mistakes.

Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.

Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead