Today is friendship day! GOD is so wise that he never created FRIENDS with price tags!
Wondering who is Asin’s best friend these days? Well, it is Arpita, Salman Khan’s sister. When we spoke to her, she was all excited about attending Arpita’s 21st birthday party.
New Delhi, August 02: Balvinder Singh and Bhinder Kaur may someday tell their children a story — about how an ugly court battle for divorce turned into courtship all over again.
After a 12-year-long legal fight and separation, Singh proposed once again. And the Supreme Court, eager to salvage a marriage in a day and age when divorces are becoming increasingly common, didn’t dispose.
The estranged couple experienced this ‘literal’ change of heart during a recent hearing in the apex court.
Ingredients
Boneless chicken – 2lb
Garam masala – 3 tsp
Ginger-garlic paste – 2-3 tsp
Chilli powder – 3 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
Vinegar – 3-4 tsp
Red food colour – 3 tsp
Pepper powder – 2 tsp
Salt – according to taste
Oil – 4 tsp
Cream or malai – 1/2 – cup
Cashew nut powder – 1/2 cup
Method
Marinate chicken with the above ingredients except for cream and cashew powder for atleast a min of 8 hrs or preferably overnight.
Put the pan on fire, add oil.
When the oil reaches its smoking point then add the chicken pieces.
Ingredients
1/4 kg fresh prawns – boiled
2 medium sized potatoes – boiled, peeled and mashed
50 gm Cheese – grated
3/4 tsp pepper powder
3/4 mustard
1 tbsp home made butter
1 tbsp chilli sauce or tabasco sauce
1 tsp soya sauce
1 cup cheese sauce
1/2 tsp salt
For Garnishing
1 tomato – sliced
1 onion – sliced
1 small bunch green coriander – chopped
Method
Mix prawns with cheese sauce.
Add pepper, mustard, salt and chilli or tabasco sauce.
With a light hand, mix in the mashed potatoes.
Grease a baking dish with butter and pour all the mixture in it.
Ingredients
For the pudding
16 slices of white plain sweet bread, crust sliced off
3 small eggs
2 1/2 cups of whole milk
2 cups sugar
2 tablespoons raisins
2 tablespoons walnuts, chopped
2 tablespoons cashewnuts, chopped
1 tsp vanilla essence
Candied cherries, for garnish
For custard topping
2 tablespoon custard powder, dissolved in some warm milk
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
Method
For the pudding
Blend the sugar, milk, essence and eggs in the blender to get a smooth liquid.
Ingredients
500 gm Minced Meet
100 gm Raw Papaya
20 gm Coconut
3 tbsp Poppy Seeds
3 full tbsp Ginger-garlic paste
1 tbsp garam masala powder
2 tbsp Besan
Red chilli powder
Salt to taste
Oil for shallow frying
Method
Grind the papaya, but don’t peel off the papaya.
Mix grounded papaya, ginger-garlic paste and salt with minced meet and set aside for 5 hrs or whole night and its done when you feel it soft.
Cut and fry the onions.
Make a paste of coconut and poppy seeds.
Saute the besan without oil on tawa or frying pan.
Ingredients
100 gms cornflex
100 gms sweet curds
1 tbsp red chilly powder
1 tbsp cummin seed powder
2 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1 onion thinly cut
1 tomato finely cut
2 tbsp tamarind chutney
Few coriander leaves
Salt
Method
Add to the curds red chilly pwd, cummin seed powder, ginger garlic paste and salt.
Take the cornflex in a bowl and add to it chopped onions and tomatoes.
Now add the mixed curds to the cornflex and mix it well.
Sprinkle some red chilly pwd and cummin seed powder on top.Add some tamarind chutney to it.
Ingredients
1/4 kg potatoes – boiled, peeled and mashed while hot
1 tbsp groundnuts – roasted, skinned and crushed
4 tbsp sago – soaked in water for 1/2 hour
100 gm Cheese – grated
1 or 2 green chillies – chopped
1/2 small bunch green coriander – chopped
Fat for shallow frying
Method
Squeeze the water out from sago.
Mix all the ingredients well.
Shape into thin round tikkis and shallow fry on a tawa till crisp and brown.
Serve hot
Ingredients
6 slices bread
5 medium sized potatoes
1 small onion
1 small bunch coriander leaves
6 pods garlic
4 green chillies
1/2 tsp garam masala (optional)
1 tsp chilli powder (less or more depending on taste)
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying
Method
Hold the bread slices together and cut the rough edges.
Boil potatoes ( the best is to pressure cook them since this will be the fastest)
Meanwhile, chop onions, green chillies, coriander, garlic and green chillies finely. Keep aside.
Abu Dhabi, August 01: A foot-long baby crocodile wriggled out of a passenger’s hand luggage and caused panic on a flight departing from the United Arab Emirates, an official at Cairo airport said today.
A crew member on the EgyptAir flight from Abu Dhabi rounded up the wayward reptile and calmed passengers.
The airport security official says the animal was seized and given to the Cairo Zoo. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
Transporting exotic animals in and out of the Egypt is illegal, and none of the passengers on Friday’s flight claimed ownership of the baby crocodile.
Rakhi is incomplete without some traditional sweets like rava laddu. Try out this easy to make recipe.
Ingredients:
• 31/2 Cups Rava
• 11/2 Cups Sugar
• 2 Cups grated coconut
• 2 tbsp Cardamom powder
• 4 tbsp Ghee
Procedure:
• Heat ghee and fry rava till it turns brown.
• Mix coconut and elaichi powder and fry it for few more minutes.
• Prepare sugar syrup.
• Add rava mixture in sugar syrup.
• Keep it for cooling.
• Stir till the mixture turns thick.
• Shape into round balls when the mixture is still hot.
Rakhi celebrations are incomplete without the traditional Gulab Jamuns. This time make the yummy sweet at home!
Ingredients:
• 1 cup All Purpose Flour
• 2 tsp Soda Powder
• 100 gms Ghee
• 3/4 Liter Milk
• 6 Cardamoms (crushed)
• 1 tbsp Sugar
• 1 tsp Rose Essence
• 2 Pinch Saffron
For Syrup:
• 3 cups Sugar
• 3 cups Water
Procedure:
• Boil the milk till it reduces to half a cup.
• Cool and add soda powder and 1tbsp sugar.
• Mix properly and make it smooth.
The best thing about shakkarpara is that they can be stored for long periods and are handy whenever the palate craves for some sweet offering.
Ingredients:
• 11/2 cups Wheat Flour
• 1/4 cup Milk
• 1/3 cup Sugar
• 2 tbsp Ghee
• A pinch Salt
• Ghee or Oil for deep frying
Procedure:
• Sieve flour and salt together in a bowl.
• Add sugar, milk and ghee in a pan; mix well.
• Bring it to a boil till the sugar is dissolved.
• Now let it cool completely.
• Make stiff dough by adding this sugar syrup to the flour mixture.
Washington, July 31: A baby girl who was cut from her mother’s womb has been found alive, police said today.
The girl, whose mother’s body was found on Monday in a cupboard at her Worcester, Massachusetts, apartment, appeared to be in “fairly good health” at a New Hampshire hospital, Worcester Police Sgt. Kerry Hazelhurst said.
Two people have been arrested over the mother’s death.
New York, July 29: New York has been rated the best US city for singles, bumping Atlanta out of the top spot.
The Big Apple also edged past Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Washington, DC, which rounded out the top five cities in the Forbes.com survey.
Atlanta fell to No 6, followed by San Francisco, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Philadelphia.
Try this unique burfee made from sweet curd, fresh fruits and a dash of chocolate this Rakhi. Ingredients:
• 1 cup Pineapple
• 2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
• 1 bowl Black Grapes
• 12 Almonds
• 12 Cashew nuts
• 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1/2 kg Curd
• 2 Apples
Procedure:
• Squeeze out water from the curd by hanging it in a cloth for 1 hour.
• Now, add cocoa powder and sugar and beat well.
• Peel off the apples and pineapples and grate them.
• Now, mix the grated fruits into the curd paste; refrigerate.
• Garnish it with almonds and cashew nuts.
Try this rich, delicious and aromatic dish this Rakhi.
Ingredients:
• 3/4 Cup rice
• 1/2 tsp Saffron strands
• 4 tbsp Hot milk
• 4 tsp ghee
• 2/3 Cup cold milk
• 3 Cardamom seeds
• 1 Inch stick cinnamon
• 4 tbsp Sugar
• 2 tbsp Cream
• 30 gm Chopped walnuts
• 1/2 Cup raisins
Procedure:
• Soak saffron strands in hot milk.
• Boil rice for 5 minutes, then drain.
• Melt butter in a pan.
• Fry the boiled rice, cardamom seeds and cinnamon stick for 3 minutes.
• Mix cold milk and sugar, stir gently.
Rakhi is incomplete without some traditional sweets like the good old besan burfi. Try out this simple recipe at home.
Ingredients:
• 1 Cup besan
• 1 Cup ghee
• 1 Cup milk powder
• 1-1/2 Cup sugar
• 2 Cup Water
• 1 tsp Pista
Procedure:
• Melt ghee and fry besan in it till it starts giving a nice aroma.
• Transfer the mixture in another vessel and add milk powder.
• Make thick sugar syrup by combining water and sugar in a pot and heating them over low flame.
• Drop the fried besan mixture in the prepared sugar syrup and stir it.
London, July 27: With her movie career going nowhere, Hollywood starlet Lindsay Lohan is now planning to try her hands on in creating her own range of sweets.
The ‘Mean Girls’ star, who is more in news for her public spats with lesbian lover Samantha Ronson than her work, is reportedly desperate to team up with Sugar Factory, a firm which manufactures “couture lollipops”, for a range of confectionery, Femalefirst reported.
“Lindsay wants to either be the face for a new line of advertisements or design her own range,” a source close to the actress said.
Tokyo, July 27: Japanese scientists have made a robot in an elaborate wedding dress walk down the runway at an Osaka fashion show, a development seen as a major advance in humanoid technology.
Developed by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, the “pretty woman” in an elaborate wedding dress took part in the fashion show earlier this week.
Though encumbered by the dress, HRP-4C female robot easily navigated the ten metre runway at the fashion show.
Ingredients:
• 2 large Bananas (peeled and sliced)
• 2 large Oranges (peeled)
• 1/2 tsp Black Pepper (freshly ground)
• 1/2 tsp Red Chili Powder
• 140 ml Plain Yogurt
• 2 tsp Sugar
• 1 tsp Salt
Procedure:
• Mix sugar, pepper, chili powder, salt and curd together.
• Add the bananas, oranges to the above-made curd and mix together.
• Serve cold.
–Agencies
Bhubaneswar, July 25: The snake that had sneaked into the Orissa assembly Thursday was Saturday recovered from near the seat of the leader of opposition in the house.
“The snake was found coiled under a chair. An employee raised an alarm when the assembly session was over,” said Suvendu Mallick, a snake catcher, who recovered the reptile.
The assembly was forced to suspend its proceedings Thursday after the snake was spotted by the staff inside the house.
Snake catchers, security personnel and forest officials went into frantic search throughout the day to recover the reptile.
The typical chicken pakora is always a contender in the list of rainy season favourites.
Ingredients:
200 gms chicken breasts
1 tsp green chilly paste
2 tsp ginger paste
2 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1 cup hung curd
Oil for deep frying
Procedure:
Rub all the spices and curd on the chicken well and marinate for six hours. Deep fry on low flame till golden brown and crisp. Serve hot with tomato sauce.
Ingredients:
1 kg Almonds
600 gms Sugar
1/4 cup Boiled Milk
Procedure:
Soak almonds in water overnight.
Peel them and keep aside.
Add little milk and grind it finely.
Mix ground badam and sugar in a large skillet.
Cook this mixture, stirring constantly.
Make a thick paste.
Cook and spread on a plate to which oil has been already applied.
Now cutinto diamond shaped pieces.
Serve immediately or store in air tight containers.
–Agencies
London, July 24: Scientists are looking for women willing to eat chocolate every day for an year — all in the name of medical science.
Researchers at the University of East Anglia and a hospital in Norwich, eastern England are trying to find out whether chocolate can cut the risk of heart disease and need 40 women to step forward and help.
Most of the women will have to eat two bars of “super-strength chocolate specially formulated by Belgian chocolatiers” daily for one year and undergo several tests to measure how healthy their hearts are.