Friday, December 2, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
cooking
Ginger and garlic paste
is used in non vegetarian dishes, and also in curries like kurma, and in vegetable rice or Biriyani. Try using grated ginger and garlic, because it blends well, and gives better flavour!
You can make vadais with cabbage! here's how to do that.
50 gms of fried gram
3 red chillies, one sliced onion
ginger garlic paste 1 tsp
cloves 2, and a piece of cinnamon, 1 tsp of fennel seeds (somp)
oil for frying and salt
Saute the cabbage.
Roast the red chillies onions chilli-garlic paste. somp, cinnamon and clove. Add and saut the cabbage and grind together with salt, to make a vadai batter,
Make very small portions, and flatten it into small cutlets.
Pour Oil into a shallow pan, and shallow fry the vadais, on medium fire.
Can be served as a snack, or a side dish with sambar or curd rice.
Breakfast, the most important meal of the day
Green gram porridge
is used in non vegetarian dishes, and also in curries like kurma, and in vegetable rice or Biriyani. Try using grated ginger and garlic, because it blends well, and gives better flavour!
Recipe
Cabbage cutlet
250 gms of shredded cabbage
50 gms of fried gram
3 red chillies, one sliced onion
ginger garlic paste 1 tsp
cloves 2, and a piece of cinnamon, 1 tsp of fennel seeds (somp)
oil for frying and salt
Saute the cabbage.
Roast the red chillies onions chilli-garlic paste. somp, cinnamon and clove. Add and saut the cabbage and grind together with salt, to make a vadai batter,
Make very small portions, and flatten it into small cutlets.
Pour Oil into a shallow pan, and shallow fry the vadais, on medium fire.
Can be served as a snack, or a side dish with sambar or curd rice.
Breakfast, the most important meal of the day
Green gram porridge
Friday, October 8, 2010
Friday, September 17, 2010
Curry Leaves
Use curry leaves in cooking to enhance flavour of vegetarian and non- vegetarian recipes.
Fried meat, chicken taste and smell better if you add curry leaves while frying them.
To get the best out of curry leaves use only powdered curry leaves, paste, or extract.
When eaten directly curry leaves are not easily digestable.
To make curry leaves powder
Wash and aerate the leaves. When dry, heat in microwave till crisp, powder and store in air tight containers.
Can also be roasted with a little bit of urad dhal in a heavy bottom pan, and powdered.
While cooking vegetables heat coconut oil, dip a bunch of curry leaves for a few seconds and remove.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Vastu
Fundamental concepts
There are many principles in Vaastu Shastra. To mention a few which involve certain mathematical calculations, Maana is used for proportional relationships in a building and Aayaadi specifies conditions for maximum wellbeing and benefits for the residents of a building. Below are some of the basic theories in vaastu sastra.
Five elements
According to vastu sastra, the world comprises five basic elements known as the pancha maha bhoota. Out of the eight planets, ours has life because of the presence and balance of these five elements. The five elements are as follows.
EARTH (Bhumi) - Earth, the third planet in order from the sun, is a big magnet with North and South poles as centers of attractions. Its magnetic field and gravitational force has considerable effects on everything on the Earth, living and non-living.
WATER (Jala) - This is represented by rain, river, sea and is in the form of liquid, solid (ice) and gas (steam, cloud). It forms part of every plant and animal. Our blood is nothing but water with haemoglobin and oxygen.
AIR (Vayu) - As a life supporting element, air is a very powerful life source. Human physical comfort values are directly and sensitively dependent on correct humidity, air flow, temperature of air, air pressure, air composition and its content.
FIRE (Agni) - Represents light and heat which account for day, night, the seasons, energy, enthusiasm, passion and vigour.
SPACE (Akasha) - The akasha provides shelter to all the above elements. It is also considered the primary conductor of all energy sources within the universal context - physical energies such as sound and light, social energies such as psychological and emotional, and cognitive energies such as intellect and intuition.
There is an invisible and constant relation between all the five elements. Thus, the person can improve their conditions by properly designing their buildings by understanding the effectiveness of these five natural forces. Vaastu sastra combines all the five elements of nature and balances them with the person and the material. It takes advantage of the benefits bestowed by the five elements of nature to create a congenial living and working environment thereby facilitating spiritual well-being and paving the way for enhanced health, wealth, prosperity and happiness.
There are many principles in Vaastu Shastra. To mention a few which involve certain mathematical calculations, Maana is used for proportional relationships in a building and Aayaadi specifies conditions for maximum wellbeing and benefits for the residents of a building. Below are some of the basic theories in vaastu sastra.
Five elements
According to vastu sastra, the world comprises five basic elements known as the pancha maha bhoota. Out of the eight planets, ours has life because of the presence and balance of these five elements. The five elements are as follows.
EARTH (Bhumi) - Earth, the third planet in order from the sun, is a big magnet with North and South poles as centers of attractions. Its magnetic field and gravitational force has considerable effects on everything on the Earth, living and non-living.
WATER (Jala) - This is represented by rain, river, sea and is in the form of liquid, solid (ice) and gas (steam, cloud). It forms part of every plant and animal. Our blood is nothing but water with haemoglobin and oxygen.
AIR (Vayu) - As a life supporting element, air is a very powerful life source. Human physical comfort values are directly and sensitively dependent on correct humidity, air flow, temperature of air, air pressure, air composition and its content.
FIRE (Agni) - Represents light and heat which account for day, night, the seasons, energy, enthusiasm, passion and vigour.
SPACE (Akasha) - The akasha provides shelter to all the above elements. It is also considered the primary conductor of all energy sources within the universal context - physical energies such as sound and light, social energies such as psychological and emotional, and cognitive energies such as intellect and intuition.
There is an invisible and constant relation between all the five elements. Thus, the person can improve their conditions by properly designing their buildings by understanding the effectiveness of these five natural forces. Vaastu sastra combines all the five elements of nature and balances them with the person and the material. It takes advantage of the benefits bestowed by the five elements of nature to create a congenial living and working environment thereby facilitating spiritual well-being and paving the way for enhanced health, wealth, prosperity and happiness.
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