Monday, February 3, 2014

Thought for the Day

“If you tell a lie big enough
and keep repeating it,
people will eventually come to believe it.”

~ Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels, a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945, one of Adolf Hitler’s closest associates and most devout followers…

Sunday, February 2, 2014

Cook Now

Hello everybody! Hope you had a great start in this year 2008 Smile

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Here is the way I made aloo paratha today..And I know all of you know very well to make this one,yet for my future reference and those who don't know before…, I am posting this one!

For me Aloo paratha means it has to be thin and soft, with the stuffing blended well with the dough. This

is the way I learnt from my friend (Sangeeta) and I always make this way. For all stuffed parathas, the key

is to have the dough and stuffing in same consistency. If the dough is very tight and tough, the stuffing

will ooze out. And even if the stuffing is gooey or watery, the paratha will become sticky and hard to roll.

Aloo Paratha recipe

Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook time: 5 mins per paratha | Makes: 6

Ingredients

Wheat flour	1 cup
Oil (optional)	1 tsp- 1 tblsp
Salt & warm water/milk	As needed

Knead dough to a non-sticky consistency similar to how we prepare for chapattis and keep for some

15 - 30 minutes.

For stuffing

Boiled and mashed potatoes	3 large
Coriander leaves	2-3 tblsp
Green chilies	4-5 nos.
Ajwain/Omam	1/2 tsp
Salt	as needed

Method

Make equal sized balls out of the dough and the stuffing.

Roll the dough ball to a thick,palm sized circle.

Keep the stuffing in the middle and cover it from all sides towards the middle and press to a patty.

Dust the platform with flour and roll as thin as possible so that the dough covers the stuffing as a thin layer. refer the video for help.

Heat tawa and cook the parathas both sides in medium low flame,add oil as needed,till golden brown spots appear. If needed, press the parathas gently with the spatula to ensure even cooking.

Smear with butter or ghee both sides if desired. Serve with pickle or Dahi. Want something different?

Try the below recipe as side dish.
aloo-paratha-recipe-1

Video: How to roll stuffed paratha

Tip : Roll and cook side by side the parathas. Do not roll and keep as it may become sticky or soggy.

This is very simple to make and it can be a good side dish for aloo,methi parathas! Also I would

recommend this chutney because,the garlic in this chutney nullifies/neutralizes the gastric properties

of aloo,so good for health chutney Winking smile

. This is a treat for garlic flavour loving people and perfect for all

sort of parathas/stuffed and plain. Try this,you will be amazed!

Aloo Paratha Side dish Tomato garlic recipe

Ingredients

Tomato	2 big (ripe)
Garlic	10 – 12 flakes
Salt	as needed
Sesame oil	1/8 Cup + 2 tblsp

Method

Chop the tomatoes roughly, peel and Crush the garlic little.Grind the tomatoes in a mixer to a
smooth paste without adding water.and then add this to the ground tomato and again run 2-3
times (use Juice/inch option),taking care to not to grind it smooth..Garlic should be visible as
little little bits.

Heat the gingelly oil(nallennai),preferably in a flat broad pan...really really hot,till it fumes.Add
the ground mixture and stir well. Let it boil only for a minute and by this time the colour would
have changed and the oil should have separated.

Put off the stove and transfer to the serving bowl!

Notes

Don't substitute sesame oil with any other oil..
Don’t reduce the oil amount,be generous,sesame oil is only good for your health.
It also suppress the garlic flavour’s raw smell and makes it smell balanced .
Don’t let boil more than a minute. You can find the correct time,as when the chutney’s colour changes as it boils.

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chutney for aloo paratha,tomato garlic chutney for parathas

I also tried a Korma form Lavanyaa's cookery corner..Even though I dint get her korma colour...I think

I will get it right next time! It was very nice...! Here's a picture of that one to share with you all!

source - http://www.rakskitchen.net/2008/01/aloo-paratha-with-tomato-garlic-chutney.html

Saturday, November 30, 2013

Thought for the day

“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be
his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations
whose words of thanks will not be heard.”

~ Gaylord Nelson

Gaylord Anton Nelson (June 4, 1916 – July 3, 2005) was an American politician from Wisconsin who served as a United States Senator and governor. A Democrat, he was the founder of Earth Day, which launched a new wave of environmental activism…

Source-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson

Friday, October 25, 2013

Cook Kaju Katli - Cashew Barfi (Indian Diwali Dessert Recipe)

Kaju katli recipe

Prep Time: 10 mins | Cook time: 20 mins | Makes: 14 pieces

Ingredients

Cashew nuts	1 cup(levelled)
Sugar	1/2 cup(heaped)
Water	1/4 cup
Milk	1 tblsp
Ghee	Just for greasing

Method

Powder the cashews in a dry mixer. You have to be careful here, just grind it in a stretch, don’t stop in between and grind. You will be sure able to see the powder in the transparent lid, so keep grinding until you get fine powder.This will not take much time. Also never grind the cashew which is cold,taken from the fridge,grind it when it is in room temperature. When I ground 1 cup of cashews, I got more than a cup of cashew powder, but I used 1 cup,heaped(like a mountain) cashew powder. There was some 2 tblsp left for me.

Boil sugar with water and keep stirring. Keep little water in a small bowl and just pour few drops in the water to check the consistency. If you pour few drops, it should lay a fine thread that doesn’t gets dissolved in water immediately when you touch.

At this stage,low the flame add the powdered cashew and keep stirring.Say for 3-4 minutes in low flame and your mixture gets thick and starts boiling, switch off the flame. Smear ur hands with water and test by rolling a small pinch of the mixture in between ur fingers. You should be able to form a non sticky ball. This is the correct consistency.

Keep stirring in the pan itself with the ladle and the mixture turns more like a dough.When the mixture is still warm,take it to another clean platform/countertop and keep kneading. Mine was a bit dry, so I sprinkled some milk and kept kneading.The dough was grainy till then, but after kneading the dough really became smooth. I used gloves for kneading,so if you want u can use little ghee while kneading.

Roll the dough into thin layer and cut it diagonally to make pieces.You can first draw lines lightly with the knife tip and then cut into diamonds to get perfect shapes.

Notes:

I used milk only as my mixture was dry while kneading. If its fine then no need to add milk while kneading.
If you add milk while kneading,shelf life is less,so keep refrigerated.
Use less water to make sugar syrup to get the consistency quickly. While making sugar syrup,keep the flame in medium if you are nearing the consistency.
If you add cashew powder before the sugar syrup reaches the consistency, then the dough will be sticky. So the sugar syrup consistency is important.
While powdering,if you grind for more time,the powder sticks and gives a coarse looking powder. But that’s ok,it will be smoothed when you are kneading. But note that coarse look on result of over grinding – is different from the real coarse powder. So don’t get confused.
Till the end your mixture will not be that smooth,but when you knead the mixture turns to a smooth dough. So don’t panic like me ;)

Your Kaju Katli is ready now to enjoy! Just melts in our mouth!! My kid call this ‘Diamond sweet'.
Cashew-burfi-recipe

source - http://www.rakskitchen.net/2011/08/kaju-katli-diwali-sweet-recipes.html

10 inventors who didn't get mega-rich from their inventions

More from the Monitor

Doug Engelbart, who has died aged 88, never really made any money from inventing the mouse. Here are 10 others who didn't get to be billionaires.

1. LEDs

When Nick Holonyak Jr invented the first practically useful LED in 1962 he predicted it would one day replace Edison's lightbulb. Holonyak's colleagues have said he should be given the Nobel Prize but he humbly says: "It's ridiculous to think that somebody owes you something. We're lucky to be alive, when it comes down to it."

2. Post-It Notes

3M sell billions of Post-It Notes each year but its inventors describe themselves as "comfortably off" not wealthy. They were the co-creation ofDr Spencer Silver, who in 1968 developed an adhesive that had a "removability characteristic", and his colleague Art Fry hit on the idea of a bookmark that would stay in place in his hymnbook.

3. AK-47

The Kalashnikov rifle, or AK-47, was invented by Soviet Army soldierMikhail Kalashnikov while recovering in hospital from injuries sustained in World War II. Kalashnikov claimed his creation was for the benefit of his country.

4. Sapphire stylus

Marie Killick invented a sapphire stylus for a record player but could not license it and despite years of litigation never made any money. In 1958 she won a lawsuit against Pye but went bankrupt the following year.

5. Hovercraft

Sir Christopher Cockerell used a vacuum cleaner and tin cans to test his theories as he developed the hovercraft, which first crossed between Calais and Dover in 1959. Cockerell was knighted but fought for years to get a lump sum from the National Research Development Corporation.

6. Tetris

Russian computer programmer Alexey Pajitnov's game Tetris was developed alongside colleagues at a Russian government-funded research centre in 1985. He only started getting royalties 10 years later when he formed The Tetris Company.

7. The Wind-Up Radio

Inventor Trevor Baylis recently said he can no longer afford to live in his home in Twickenham, London, because despite millions of sales around the globe, the company he went into business with were able to tweak his design and he lost control over the product and profits.

"Most of us don't do it for the money but for the buzz," says Baylis. "I know that at least I've left my mark with the radio, the wind-up torch and other things I've invented."

8. Karaoke machines

Japanese businessman Daisuke Inoue made money from playing drums in a backing band which let bar goers take the mic and have a go at singing. One time when he couldn't make a gig he put the backing music on tape instead and later made 11 Karaoke (empty orchestra) machines which he leased out. He didn't patent his invention and barely made a yen.

9. MP3

The MP3 quickly became the standard for transferring music over the internet. German PhD student Karlheinz Brandenburg started work on the project in the 1980s but because there was no money to distribute the software it was marketed as shareware.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee earned billions, but only in kudos

10. World Wide Web

And finally, no-one would have stumbled across this list save for Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who created the web to help scientists working at the European research lab at Cern. He says the secret of the rapid success of his invention was the fact he made it freely available.

Not all inventors are driven to make money but some want to make a contribution to the "common good", says Dr Tilly Blyth, Keeper of Engineering and Technology at the Science Museum.

"We tend to focus on the commercial development but in fact its often public and government research that has got it to that stage," Dr Blyth says. "If you look at the iPhone you think it's a great invention from Steve Jobs and Apple but look at the vital components like the screen, the chip and the processor and their origins were all in government-funded research."

"A lot of the real cutting-edge research comes from the pure and blue sky thinking done in public research facilities for the good of humanity rather than to make money."

source- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23179103

SOA - SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE

SOA SUPPORT IN J2EE

Platform overview
J2EE or Java EE-Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition
Java EE is the industry standard for developing portable, robust, scalable and secure server-side Java applications. (Sun Microsystems)
Types of Platform
Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE)
Java 2 Platform Micro Edition (J2ME)
Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

Relevant layers of the J2EE platform

J2EE specifications

Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition Specification

Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC)

Web Services for J2EE

Architecture components – Used to build J2EE web application

Java Server Pages (JSPs)

Struts

Java Servlets

Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)

Runtime Environments

Provides additional runtime layers & API

Support two types of Component container with JAX-RPC

EJB container

Designed to host EJB components

Provides a series of enterprise-level services

Web container

 Extension to a Web server

 Used to host Java Web applications consisting of JSP or Java servlet components.

 Provide runtime services for processing of JSP requests and servlet instances.

Programming Languages

J2EE Standard Java language can be used to build Web services.

E.g.. Rational Application developer from IBM, JDeveloper from Oracle

J2EE Programming languages are

APIs

service providers

Service Requestors

Service agents

Platform extensions

APIs

Some of the relevant APIs to building SOA are

Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)

Process XML document content using a number of available parsers.

Support Document Object Model (DOM) and Simple API for XML (SAX)

transform and validate XML documents using XSLT stylesheets and XSD schemas

Packages includes

javax.xml.parsers

org.w3c.dom & org.xml.sax

javax.xml.transform

Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC)

Friday, April 19, 2013

Nokia Lumia 720 Price in India: Windows Phone 8 Smartphone Priced at Rs.18999; On Sale Now on Nokia India

The official Nokia store has listed the new Lumia 720 smartphone in India, and a discount is already provided.

Available in black, cyan, red, white and yellow, the Lumia 720 was originally priced at Rs. 22,199, but the smartphone is now 14 percent off, an equivalent of Rs. 3,200.

The Lumia 720 is now priced at Rs. 18,999, which converts to $350.79 when converted to the U.S. dollar.

The price is higher than what was seen in eBay in India, which was taking pre-orders for Rs. 16,399.

The Lumia 720, along with the Lumia 520, made its debut in India on March 20 during an event. Nokia India did give a release date for both devices for April.

"The [Windows Phone 8] momentum is building and Nokia is charging ahead with the Lumia series," said Nokia's Director of Smart Devices for India, Middle East, and Africa Vipul Malhotra. "The launch of Nokia Lumia 720 and Nokia Lumia 520 reflects our commitment to build a winning ecosystem that will enrich people's mobile experience and help them connect with each other at newer price points. The two new smart devices will further invigorate brand Nokia with amongst the new generation of smartphone purchasers."

The Lumia 720 first made its global debut during the first day of the 2013 Mobile World Congress in February.

The Lumia 720's features include a 4.3-inch screen with 800x400 pixels. The rear-facing camera has 6.1 megapixels with 2,848x2,144 pixels while the rear-facing camera has 1.3 megapixels. In terms of memory, the internal storage of the Windows Phone 8 smartphone is 8GB with 512MB of RAM. The device has a battery capacity of 2,000mAh providing up to 520 hours of standby time and 13 hours and 20 minutes for talk time under a 3G network.

Source-http://www.latinospost.com/articles/16866/20130417/nokia-lumia-720-price-india-windows-phone-8-smartphone-priced.htm