Misc

Man with fear of flying spending month on plane

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New York, June 16: A man who says he’s afraid to fly is spending the month of June living on a plane.

Mark Malkoff, 33, a comedian and filmmaker, boarded his first flight June 1 from LaGuardia in New York, where he lives, heading to Atlanta. He plans to stay on AirTran flights until June 30. The airline offers wireless Internet service, so Malkoff is posting updates about his trip on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and on his blog, http://www.MarkOnAirTran.com.

Recipe: Chocolate Mousse

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Disgusted at your favourite star being alleged of rape? Pump up your mood by creating this pure delight in your kitchen.

Ingredients:

4 tbsp cocoa powder
2 tbsp cornflour
10 tbsp sugar
4 cups milk
1 1/2 cups cream
2 tbsp whipped cream (chilled)
3 tsp gelatine
6 cherries

Procedure:

Put 4 tbsp water in a small saucepan. Sprinkle gelatine over it. Do not stir. Keep aside.
Mix coco and cornflour in 1/2 cup milk. Boil remaining milk with sugar, for 10 minutes.

‘Definitely’ is most commonly misspelt word

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London, June 16: It’s official. The 10-letter word ‘definitely’ is the most commonly misspelt word in English.

A new study by market research company www.OnePoll. com has found that most Britons struggle to spell ‘definitely’ correctly, mixing up the second ‘I’ with an ‘A’ on a regular basis.

According to the study, the second most commonly misspelt word is ‘sacrilegious’, which leaves people confused over whether it has an ‘E’ or ‘I’ in the middle, followed by ‘indict’, which is often misspelt as ‘indite’.

Calvin Klein under fire for raunchy ‘threesome’

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New York, June 15: A raunchy Calvin Klein billboard depicting a teenage girl in a threesome has come under fire for being “borderline pornographic”.

Passers-by have expressed their fury at the massive, sexually suggestive ad on a building at Lafayette and Houston Sts in SoHo.

The endorsement shows a topless young woman on top of a bare chested lad, while engaged in a lip lock with a second shirtless male on a sofa.

A third male with unbuttoned pants and shirt can be seen lying on the floor below the pair, with suggestions of a foursome.

‘Kumkum’ a bomb trigger?

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Panaji, June 16: A Goan couple that went on a tour to Jordan, Egypt and Israel has returned with unpleasant memories of ‘humiliation’ by Israeli soldiers. They allege that the soldiers segregated the wife because they suspected the vermilion mark on her forehead to be ‘a trigger for a bomb’.

They suspected not only the ‘kumkum’ mark a symbol for married Hindu women but also her large hair bun, which she had tied in a typically Goan fashion. They made her untie it and remove the pins.

Shrirang Narvekar, a popular humour playwright, and his wife S.S. Narvekar had gone on the trip in May.

CCTV camera asks couple to stop having sex

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London, June 15: A couple were left embarrassed after a talking CCTV camera in a town centre caught them having sex, and ordered to stop.

The pair had been drinking earlier, and when they heard the booming command issued by operators, they immediately stopped and fled from the scene in Northampton.

Northampton Borough Council has talking cameras trained in three town centre streets, which issue warnings about littering, fighting, and street drinking.

While most messages are pre-recorded, there are some specific warnings that are issued by the CCTV operators themselves.

Tandoori Aloo

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Ingredients: Oven temp: 200C-400F

4 large potatoes – peeled and boiled till half cooked

For marinade
1 cup hung curd
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp kasuri methi (fenugreek seeds)
1 tsp garam masala
salt to taste
chaat masala to garnish
a greased drip tray

Method: Mix the ingredients for the marinade.

Pierce the potatoes in 3-4 places and mix into the marinade and leave thus for half an hour or so.

Place the potatoes on the drip tray and bake for about 20 minutes in a pre heated oven or about 12 minutes in an OTG or till brown.

Serve hot.

Khasta Roti

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Ingredients: 2 cups atta (whole-wheat flour)
4 tsp ghee
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup milk
1/2 tsp jeera (cumin seeds)
salt – to taste
ghee – to add while making the rotis

Method: Mix baking powder, cumin seeds, salt and four tsp ghee with the flour thoroughly. Add milk and knead to a soft dough.

Make balls of the dough and roll out like rotis and fry on a tawa, adding ghee, over a medium flame.

Serve it with butter.

Rich Chocolate Cake

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Ingredients: Oven Temp: 300F/140C

2 cups maida
1 3/4 cup castor or powdered sugar
2/3 cup oil, butter or margarine
2/3 cup cocoa powder
1 cup water
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
3 eggs
2×9 inch or 8 inch square cake tins

Method: Line the base of the tins with butter paper or grease the bases and dust either with maida or sugar till well coated.

Sift the flour, cocoa, baking soda and powder and transfer into a mixing bowl.

Add the salt, sugar, fat, water and vanilla.

Shahi Tukre

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Ingredients: 8 bread slices
12 tbsp condensed milk
1 litre milk
1 tsp ground cardamom
1/2 tsp nutmeg
30 gm each almonds, pistas, walnut, cashew nuts and raisins

Method: Trim the edges of the bread slices and cut them into four pieces. Then deep fry to golden color. Separately, fry all the nuts and pound coarsely.

Cook the milk and condensed milk, sugar, cardamom and nutmeg on low flame.

When the mixture thickens put the fried bread slices side by side in the pan.

Let it cook till the bread absorbs all the moisture. Serve cold garnished with nuts, raisins and silver foil.

Gorilla “one of Michelle’s ancestors”: Republican

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Washington, June 15: A high-ranking South Carolina Republican activist has issued an apology after comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to a gorilla.

Rusty DePass, a former chairman of the Richland County Republican Party, made the comments in a friend’s Facebook status update line after a gorilla was reported to have escaped from Columbia’s Riverbanks Zoo.

According to FitsNews, the status line read: “I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors — probably harmless.”

Canadian woman stripped at airport to check tattoo

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Toronto, June 15: A Canadian woman was forced to strip at the Montreal airport to check a pink tattoo on her butt after her name and birth date matched that of a wanted criminal.

Sylvie Menard, 43, who is a manager with a wine company in Montreal, was returning home after holidaying in Mexico in April when the airport computer flagged her since her name and birth date matched that of a criminal sought by police, the Canadian Press reported Sunday.

Men in uniform warned on use of Orkut, Facebook

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New Delhi, June 15: They say nothing is personal in the cyber world. Everyone and anyone is vulnerable and can be hacked. Taking a cue, the Indian Army recently issued a circular asking its personnel not to post work-related information like ranks, place of posting etc on social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook.

“The circular has been issued recently in a bid to create cyber awareness among the net users in the army. It has been sent to all the units of the army across the country,” a senior army official confirmed to reporters, requesting anonymity.

Recipe: Peanut Cookie

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Make crispy, crumbly cookies by following this simple recipe. Ingredients:

• 1 Cups flour
• 1/2 Cup shortening
• 1/2 Cup peanut butter
• 1/2 Cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 Cup light brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 1/2 tsp Salt
• 1 Egg

Procedure:

• Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and keep aside.
• Now cream shortening, peanut butter and sugars. Beat in vanilla and egg.
• Add flour mixture to the above and stir to mix well.

Nan Khatai

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The traditional nan khatai is actually very simple to make. A popular cookie of the sub-continent, it can be made easily at home.

Ingredients:

• 50 gms Fine Sooji
• 85 gms Powdered Sugar
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 150 gms Maida
• 120 gms Butter
• Few almonds and cashew nuts

Procedure:

• Cream the butter and sugar till the mixture turns fluffy.
• Add vanilla followed by maida and sooji.
• Make smooth dough of this mixture.
• Roll out medium sized balls and put a cashew nut on the top of each piece.

Advice for Obama: Visit India for ‘Jai Ho’ US policy

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Washington, June 12: The head of a Washington think tank has some unusual advice for President Barack Obama: visit India and see why ‘Jai Ho’ should be the key words of the US’ long- term foreign policy.

David Rothkopf, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and president and CEO of Garten Rothkopf, a Washington DC-based international advisory firm, has been so impressed with India despite its dichotomies that he says Obama could profit more by a trip to that country than the headline-grabbing Egypt visit of last week.

Recipe: Oat cookies

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Try out this lip smacking, easy to make recipe.

Ingredients:

1 Cup oats
1 egg
1/2 tsp Salt
1 1/2 Cup brown sugar
1 tsp Vanilla essence
1 Cup chopped pecans

Procedure:

Put oats in an oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.
Beat the egg.
Add salt and sugar.
Blend well.
Mix oats, vanilla and pecans.
Pour the mixture by teaspoonfuls on cookie sheets.
Bake at 200 degrees for 30 minutes.
Store in air tight containers.

Recipe: Chilli Paneer

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Try out the delightful Chilli Paneer recipe.

Ingredients:

• 600 gm Paneer (Prepare small Paneer balls)
• 5 tbsp Corn Flour
• Green chilli (10 medium sizes)
• 2 tbsp Tomato Sauce
• 1 tbsp Chilli Sauce
• 2 tbsp Soya Sauce
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying
• 1 Green Capsicum (chopped)
• 4 Onions

Procedure:

• Mix Paneer balls with corn flour fry it in a kadai till it become brown.
• In a separate kadai, fry onions till brown.
• Cut green chilli into small pieces and add it to fried onion.

Dhokla

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Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Moong Dal

• 2 Tsp Gram Flour

• 2 Green Chilies

• 2 Tbsp Chopped Cabbage

• 2 Tbsp Chopped Carrots

• 2 Tsp Fruit Salt

• 1 Tbsp Fresh Curds

• A Pinch Asafetida

• Salt to Taste

Method:

• Soak moong dal for two hours and drain the water.

• Add little water and green chilies.

• Grind the mixture in a mixer.

• Add gram flour, asafetida, curds and salt.

• Add fruit salt and mix properly.

• Sprinkle with chopped cabbage.

• Steam cook for about 10 minutes.

Shami Kabab

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Ingredients:
• ½ Kg Minced Meat
• 2 Tbsp Channa Dal
• 1 Tsp Cumin And Coriander Powder
• 1 Tsp Garam Masala
• 6 Garlic Flakes
• 2 Pieces Cinnamon
• 3 Cloves
• 1 Piece Ginger
• 2 Cardamoms
• 6 Pepper Seeds
• 2 Tsp Chili Powder
• 1 Bunch Coriander Leaves
• 1 Egg
• Lemon
• 2 Onions
• Oil for Frying
• Salt to Taste

Method:
• Wash and soak channa dal in water for 30 minutes.
• Wash and drain the minced meat.
• Mix the chana dal, whole spices, a cup of water and salt to taste. Cook well.

Chicken Roll Recipe

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Ingredients:

• 1 Cup Cooked Chicken

• 2 Tomatoes

• 2 Onions

• 2 Eggs

• 1 Tsp Ginger Garlic Paste

• 1 Tsp Garam Masala

• Few Tortillas

• 2 Tsp Oil

• Salt to Taste

• Chili Powder

Method:

• Wash, clean, cut and cook chicken.

• Cut onion and tomato separately.

• Sauté chopped onions in heated oil.

• Add ginger garlic paste and fry.

• Add tomato and chicken.

• Fry well and add the chili powder, salt to taste and garam masala.

• Sauté well and remove from flame.

Strawberry Watermelon Punch

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Ingredients:

• 1 Pint Strawberries

• 4 Cup Fresh Watermelon Juice

• ½ Tsp Pureed Ginger

• ½ Cup Sugar

Method:

• Wash and stem berries in cold water.

• Force through a food mill to separate seeds from the puree.

• Extract the fruit puree using nylon sieve.

• Combine all the Ingredients: in a jug, stir well and refrigerate for few hours.

Chicken Malai Kebabs Recipe

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Ingredients:

• ½ Kg Chicken Boneless

• ½ Cup Fresh Cream

• 1 Tsp Red Chili Paste

• 1 Tbsp Lemon Juice

• 1 Tbsp Ginger Garlic Paste

• 1 Tsp Garam Masala

• 1 Tsp Red Chili Powder

• 1 Tsp Cumin Powder

• 1 Tbsp Oil

• Salt to Taste

Method:

• Wash and clean chicken.

• Cut it into 1 inch pieces and make slits on all sides.

• Mix all Ingredients: along with chopped chicken pieces.

• Allow it to marinate over night.

• Refrigerate it after marinating for one hour.

Chicken Fry Recipe

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Ingredients:

Chicken – 1 kg
Chilly powder – 2 tbsp
Coriander powder – 2 tbsp
Turmeric powder – 1 tsp
Garam masala – 1 tbsp
Grinded Ginger – 1 tsp
Grinded Garlic – 1 tsp
Salt, Oil – As required
White part of egg – 3 eggs

Procedure:

1. Slice Chicken in big pieces and make cuts on them.

2. Mix Chilly powder, Coriander powder, Turmeric powder, Garam masala, Grinded Ginger, Garlic and marinate for 45 minutes.

3. Heat the Oil in a Kadai.

4. Dip Chicken pieces in egg white and deep fry.