Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Chinese Spring Roll

Ingredients:
  • 1/4 pound barbequed pork,
  • 3 dried black mushrooms
  • 1/2 cup mung bean sprouts
  • 1/2 medium carrot
  • 2 tablespoons chopped red bell pepper
  • 2 teaspoons dark soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
  • 2 tablespoons chicken broth
  • 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
  • a few drops sesame oil, to taste
  • 2 tablespoons oil for stir-frying, or as needed
  • 12 spring roll wrappers
  • 1 lightly beaten egg, or 2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 1 tablespoon water
  • 3 cups oil for deep-frying, or as needed

Method:

Cut the barbequed pork into very thin strips. Softened in hot water for 20 to 30 minutes of soaking dried black mushrooms. Squeeze out any excess water and chop finely.

Rinse and drain mung bean sprouts. Peel carrots. Unless you slice 1 / 4 cups.

In a small bowl, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, chicken broth, combine granulated sugar and sesame oil. Set aside.

Heat a wok over medium high heat are high. Add 2 tablespoons oil. When oil is hot, barbequed pork add. -1 Minute stir fry, then add vegetables. Stir fry for a minute, then push up the side of the wok. Add the sauce in the middle. Heat briefly, then mix with pork and vegetables. Remove wok from heat and allow filling to cool.

Pre heat deep-frying to 360 degrees Fahrenheit, while the oil to prepare spring rolls.

A spring roll wrapper in front of you so that it forms a diamond shape to set. Wet your index beaten egg or cornstarch / water paste all the edges with finger use. Place about 2 tablespoons of filling near the bottom. Roll over once, tuck in sides and then continue rolling. Top Seal.

3-4 deep fry spring rolls in batches, cooking until they are golden brown and crispy (about 3 minutes). A slotted spoon remove and drain on paper towels.

Chinese Spring Roll

Ingredients:
  • 1/4 pound barbequed pork,
  • 3 dried black mushrooms
  • 1/2 cup mung bean sprouts
  • 1/2 medium carrot
  • 2 tablespoons chopped red bell pepper
  • 2 teaspoons dark soy sauce
  • 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
  • 2 tablespoons chicken broth
  • 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
  • a few drops sesame oil, to taste
  • 2 tablespoons oil for stir-frying, or as needed
  • 12 spring roll wrappers
  • 1 lightly beaten egg, or 2 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 1 tablespoon water
  • 3 cups oil for deep-frying, or as needed

Method:

Cut the barbequed pork into very thin strips. Softened in hot water for 20 to 30 minutes of soaking dried black mushrooms. Squeeze out any excess water and chop finely.

Rinse and drain mung bean sprouts. Peel carrots. Unless you slice 1 / 4 cups.

In a small bowl, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, chicken broth, combine granulated sugar and sesame oil. Set aside.

Heat a wok over medium high heat are high. Add 2 tablespoons oil. When oil is hot, barbequed pork add. -1 Minute stir fry, then add vegetables. Stir fry for a minute, then push up the side of the wok. Add the sauce in the middle. Heat briefly, then mix with pork and vegetables. Remove wok from heat and allow filling to cool.

Pre heat deep-frying to 360 degrees Fahrenheit, while the oil to prepare spring rolls.

A spring roll wrapper in front of you so that it forms a diamond shape to set. Wet your index beaten egg or cornstarch / water paste all the edges with finger use. Place about 2 tablespoons of filling near the bottom. Roll over once, tuck in sides and then continue rolling. Top Seal.

3-4 deep fry spring rolls in batches, cooking until they are golden brown and crispy (about 3 minutes). A slotted spoon remove and drain on paper towels.

Water for Elephants - win movie passes



Allen & Unwin and 20th Century Fox are offering you the chance to win one of 5 double passes to WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, starring Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson. Based on the acclaimed number-one bestseller by Sara Gruen, WATER FOR ELEPHANTS presents an epic tale of forbidden love in a magical place filled with adventure, wonder and great danger. Tickets valid for the entire theatrical season at participating cinemas. 

To be in the draw, email Jo at jor@allenandunwin.com by 5:00pm tomorrow (Friday 20th May) with the subject line BEATTIE ELEPHANTS. 

Chinese Bhel Recipe

Ingredients
  • 200 gms fried noodles
  • 1/4 cup grated carrot
  • 1/4 cup shredded cabbage
  • 1/4 cup sliced capsicum
  • 1/4 cup chopped spring onions
  • 2 tsp vinegar
  • 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • 2 tsp chilli sauce
  • salt to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper powder to taste




Method
  • In a bowl mix all ingredients well.
  • Serve immedieately or noodles will be soggy.

Chinese Bhel Recipe

Ingredients
  • 200 gms fried noodles
  • 1/4 cup grated carrot
  • 1/4 cup shredded cabbage
  • 1/4 cup sliced capsicum
  • 1/4 cup chopped spring onions
  • 2 tsp vinegar
  • 1 tbsp tomato ketchup
  • 2 tsp chilli sauce
  • salt to taste
  • freshly ground black pepper powder to taste




Method
  • In a bowl mix all ingredients well.
  • Serve immedieately or noodles will be soggy.

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Man gracefully disembarks from tumbling jeep


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Dog responds to sound of kittens


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Spider hamster


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Sleepy man with cologne and pickled sausages in pockets arrested

When Bowling Green police caught up to an alleged sleeping bandit on Saturday, in addition to drugs, they found a treasure trove of goodies in the man’s pockets - including several disposable razors, a bottle of Drakkar Noir cologne, a bottle of Adidas cologne, skin cleanser and two pickled sausages. Barking dogs alerted a man who lives in the 1200 block of Kenton Street early that evening to a man who had broken into his home and climbed into bed with the resident’s mother, according to Bowling Green Police Department records.

The home’s occupant, whose name was redacted from police records, called police when he found an unknown, “extremely drunk” man in bed with his mother. The sleeping bandit was wearing blue jeans, a grey shirt and a brown hat. He was bloodied and left blood on the back door and on the woman’s bed sheets. The resident and his mother escorted the man out of their home while he was claiming several times that he was inside “Woody’s house.” The resident called police. Officers were unable to find the man until about two hours later, when he struck again about a block down the road.



A man who lives further down Kenton Street came home and found a man asleep on his couch. The resident exited his home and called police. BGPD officers responded to the home where they found Benjamin Williams, 37, of Marion, asleep on a couch inside the home. Williams matched the description of the man seen at the other Kenton Street home. Williams was wearing muddy pants that were wet in the front where he appeared to have urinated on himself. He also had black smears on his face and hands. Police determined that Williams had eaten the ashes out of a hooka pipe inside the residence.

Police photographed Williams while he slept. The resident showed police where a window screen had been broken. It also appeared that once Williams came inside the home, he helped himself to several cupcakes - valued at $3 - and ransacked the man’s refrigerator. Williams was confused and told police that a friend had dropped him off. When police searched Williams, they said they found two hydrocodone pills in his front right pocket and a ceramic pipe with marijuana residue in it in his left pocket. His pockets also contained cologne and sausages. Williams is lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail with a $5,000 cash bond, according to court records. He is charged with second-degree burglary, possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia-buy/possess and possession of a controlled substance.

Urinating woman arrested at school car wash

A Fairfield woman was arrested on Saturday after she got out of her car at a car wash run by elementary school children at McKinley School and urinated in front of them, police said. "She did this in view of numerous children," said Police Sgt. Sue Lussier.

Police said Amy Ficke, 43, of Villa Avenue, was intoxicated and that she was also charged with driving under the influence after officers found her in her car in McKinley School's parking lot and she failed field sobriety tests. Police responded to a tip that a woman was intoxicated in the parking lot after Ficke urinated about 15 yards from children and got back into her car.



One of the attendees at the car wash walked up to the car, smelled a strong odour of an alcoholic beverage coming from Ficke and told police that Ficke appeared to be "somewhat unconscious or passed out," police said, adding that the department received several complaints about the 12:18 p.m. incident.

Lussier said a driving under the influence arrest only requires that the suspect be in the driver's seat of a car with the keys in the ignition. Ficke was given an infraction for creating a public disturbance and was charged with driving under the influence. She was held in lieu of $250 bond and was scheduled to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court on May 24.

South Korean sex workers protest at police clampdown

Hundreds of South Korean sex workers, including prostitutes and pimps took to the streets near a red-light district in the capital Seoul to demand from the police to slowdown on their campaign against brothels and the sex trade. Some of the protesters unsuccessfully tried to set themselves on fire.



The police numbered the protesters at 400, mostly women wearing baseball caps, masks and sunglasses. About 20 protesters, clad in their underwear and covered in body and face paint, doused themselves in what is believed to be gasoline, in an apparent attempt to burn themselves.

But some of their colleagues prevented them from lighting any flames. Some of the prostitutes sat on the streets and wept. Others screamed invectives and were consoled by other protesters. The protesters were chanting, "Guarantee the right to live!" during the rally which lasted four hours.


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There were no reports of major injuries. It is illegal in South Korea to operate brothels and prostitution is banned although operations of such is well-known in the country. The police have intensified their campaign against prostitutions by deploying police cars near brothels to discourage patrons.

Kangaroo and joey die after surviving for days while impaled by arrows

For days she limped through the bush in pain, desperately trying to care for the joey in her pouch while impaled by arrows. She tried to pull the arrow from her leg with her paws. But her efforts, and the best intentions of rescuers, could not save her.

The kangaroo and her joey died after she moved just as a ranger fired, causing a tranquilliser dart to hit a vulnerable part of her body. Nikki Sutterby, from the Australian Society for Kangaroos, said it was unlikely the kangaroo and her joey, at Wyangala Dam near Cowra in New South Wales, were victims of hunters.



"The arrows aren't hunting arrows; they are target arrows," Ms Sutterby said. "Hunting arrows are meant to kill. She was in agony for four days before anyone could get close."

Michael Ansell from rescue group WIRES said he was aware of another kangaroo with an arrow in it but searchers could not find the animal. Cowra police are searching for the culprits.

Osama Bin Laden supporter defaces Ronaldinho’s website

On Friday, Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho’s website was hacked by an apparent supporter of Jar-Jar Binks and Osama bin Laden.

The hacker placed photos of the Brazilian footballer alongside images of the terrorist leader and the Star Wars character, alongside a crudely-worded message that read: “Im muslim For ever , I love Oussama ben laden.”



The hacker under the alias Terrorist MC also wrote that he will not stop the hacking and “critiqued” President Barack Obama.

The site, www.ronaldinhogaucho.com, returned to its normal state on Saturday, although at the time of posting it appears to have been hacked again. I don't recommend visiting right now, it's making growling noises, resizes your browser, then randomly moves it around the screen.

Sydney Writers Festival - work to be done by Creative NZ?



I see and hear quite a few NZ'ers amongst the audiences which is more than one can say for NZ authors on stage! The only link with NZ authorship I can see in the whole Festival are the sister-authors of Goodbye Sarajevo, one of whom lives in Auckland, but of course the book is published in the UK by Bloomsbury so hardly a NZ title.
Perhaps Creative New Zealand should be lobbying the SWF for a bit more NZ author representation, after all every literary Festival I go to in NZ has Aussie authors present.

Australian brewers tackle the final frontier with space-age beer for intergalactic tourists

Wherever man has ventured, beer has followed. Now, two Australian entrepreneurs hope that will include space. Looking ahead to a future of growing space tourism, they have developed a full-bodied brew they believe can stand up to the trials of imbibing in space, including swelling tongues that diminish the sense of taste.



"It's going to be the first beer that will be specifically designed to be drunk in zero gravity," said Jaron Mitchell, who owns the 4 Pines Brewing Company, a microbrewery. Mitchell and Jason Held, from space engineering firm Saber Astronautics Australia, have developed the Vostok 4 Pines Stout, which they aim to take where no beer has gone before. They believe they are ahead of the curve, noting that the Russians are already taking rich tourists into space and Richard Branson is building the infrastructure for his own space tourism business.

Mitchell and his partner decided that a full-bodied, flavoursome, stout-style beer would work best in space and tested their prototype brew on a zero-gravity flight over Florida. While tests showed the current recipe works for space, more experiments are planned – including the impact of alcohol on the body in low gravity , given that even flights on planes change how alcohol is absorbed.


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Finally, there is the problem of carbonation. Since the bubbles and the liquid don't separate well in zero gravity there is no real place for the gas of the carbonation to go – except in what Held called a "wet burp," with both the gas and the liquid coming out together, which he said was uncomfortable. "At the end of the day you could have a beer with no bubbles, but it doesn't taste very good because it's really just an alcoholic tea," he said. "We didn't want to do that to the astronauts."

Baked Oondhiya Recipe

Ingredients
  • For The Green Chutney
  • 3/4 cup chopped coriander (dhania)
  • 4 green chillies
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
For The Garlic Chutney
  • 10 garlic (lehsun) cloves (lehsun)
  • 2 tsp chilli powder
For The Sweet and Sour Sauce
  • 3/4 cup jaggery (gur)
  • 1/2 cup tamarind (imli)
  • 1/2 tsp chilli powder
  • salt to taste
Other Ingredients
  • 750 gms surti papdi (fresh vaal)
  • 500 gms purple yam (kand)
  • 250 gms potatoes
  • 250 gms sweet potato (shakarkand)
  • 2 to 3 brinjal (baingan / eggplant)
  • 1 tsp carom seeds (ajwain)
  • 1 tsp ginger - green chilli paste
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 to 2 tbsp oil
  • lettuce leaves
  • salt to taste
  • green chutney , garlic chutney , sweet and sour sauce , sev and oil (optional) to serve
Method:

The green sauce

Mix all ingredients in a liquidiser.
Keep aside.

For garlic sauce

Mix all ingredients in a liquidiser.
Keep aside.

Sweet and sour sauce

Mix all ingredients except coriander in a liquidiser. If too thick, add enough water to get the right consistency. Keep aside.

To proceed

papadi string. Do not separate into two parts.
Kand Peel and cut into large pieces.
Cut potatoes and sweet potatoes without peeling.
Make slits on eggplant.
Mix all vegetables. Apply ajwain, chilli, ginger paste, soda bi-carb and salt. Mix well and apply oil all over.
A small earthen pot (matka), the bottom put some leaves of lettuce. Fill it with all the vegetables and cover with remaining lettuce leaves.
200 degrees for 1 hour (400 degrees F) at a soil cover with lid and bake in a hot oven matka.
Alternatively, instead of cooking in a matka, 200 degrees for 1 hour (400 degrees F) on the alluminium foil vegetables (without lettuce leaves) of the mixture and bake in a hot oven wrap.
Green sauce and garlic and sweet and sour sauce, oil and Serve with apple ....

Baked Oondhiya Recipe

Ingredients
  • For The Green Chutney
  • 3/4 cup chopped coriander (dhania)
  • 4 green chillies
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
For The Garlic Chutney
  • 10 garlic (lehsun) cloves (lehsun)
  • 2 tsp chilli powder
For The Sweet and Sour Sauce
  • 3/4 cup jaggery (gur)
  • 1/2 cup tamarind (imli)
  • 1/2 tsp chilli powder
  • salt to taste
Other Ingredients
  • 750 gms surti papdi (fresh vaal)
  • 500 gms purple yam (kand)
  • 250 gms potatoes
  • 250 gms sweet potato (shakarkand)
  • 2 to 3 brinjal (baingan / eggplant)
  • 1 tsp carom seeds (ajwain)
  • 1 tsp ginger - green chilli paste
  • 1/4 tsp baking soda
  • 1 to 2 tbsp oil
  • lettuce leaves
  • salt to taste
  • green chutney , garlic chutney , sweet and sour sauce , sev and oil (optional) to serve
Method:

The green sauce

Mix all ingredients in a liquidiser.
Keep aside.

For garlic sauce

Mix all ingredients in a liquidiser.
Keep aside.

Sweet and sour sauce

Mix all ingredients except coriander in a liquidiser. If too thick, add enough water to get the right consistency. Keep aside.

To proceed

papadi string. Do not separate into two parts.
Kand Peel and cut into large pieces.
Cut potatoes and sweet potatoes without peeling.
Make slits on eggplant.
Mix all vegetables. Apply ajwain, chilli, ginger paste, soda bi-carb and salt. Mix well and apply oil all over.
A small earthen pot (matka), the bottom put some leaves of lettuce. Fill it with all the vegetables and cover with remaining lettuce leaves.
200 degrees for 1 hour (400 degrees F) at a soil cover with lid and bake in a hot oven matka.
Alternatively, instead of cooking in a matka, 200 degrees for 1 hour (400 degrees F) on the alluminium foil vegetables (without lettuce leaves) of the mixture and bake in a hot oven wrap.
Green sauce and garlic and sweet and sour sauce, oil and Serve with apple ....

Son made mother, 84, live in shed so he could rent out her room

A man was charged with abusing and neglecting his mother after deputies found the malnourished, sick woman living in a tool shed behind his property. Deputies arrested Pastro Jang-Sung Park, 54, on Sunday after they discovered his mother, Sei Hee Park, 84, living in dangerous conditions in a shed behind a multi-unit building in Dania, Florida, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office complaint affidavit.

Pastro Park was charged with abuse of the elderly or disabled with bodily injury. At a court hearing on Monday, Broward County Judge John "Jay" Hurley set bond at $5,000 and ordered him to have no contact with his mother. According to the affidavit, deputies responded on Sunday evening to a call about a landlord-tenant dispute involving Pastro Park.



The tenant told deputies that an elderly woman was living in the shed, apparently without food, water, air conditioning or toiletries, and that she needed medical attention. The deputies found Sei Park lying on a bed in the shed, "With injury to her head, worm burrowing into her neck, malnutritioned and dehydrated," the affidavit said.

Pastro Park later told investigators he put his mother in the shed so he could rent out her room. Rescuers took Sei Park to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood. At Monday's bond hearing, Pastro Park told Hurley he emigrated from Korea in 1997. He said he holds a part-time security position and works as a tutor at Broward College.

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Mother runs over daughter after fight outside Walmart

A mother in Sandusky, Ohio is facing charges, accused of running over her 19-year-old daughter in a Walmart parking lot.



Perkins police say Michelle Touma, 41, was fighting with her daughter Emily before the incident. Surveillance video shows the girl getting out of the car and hitting the hood. Then her mother pulls forward, clipping the teen.

Officers say Touma claims she was going to drive by with her window down and smack her daughter in the head in retaliation for striking the vehicle. Instead, Michelle knocks Emily to the ground, runs over the girl's foot, then gets out of the car.


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Local mothers said children need discipline, but not that kind. "That's outrageous. That's your child. No matter what they did or said you shouldn't react like that," said one mother. The teenager was treated for her injury and released. Michelle Toumahas been charged with aggravated vehicular assault and domestic violence.

Russian undertakers 'pay bribes' for tips on the seriously ill

Paramedics working in league with undertakers are among abuses reported by Russian prosecutors in a report on emergency healthcare violations. The chief prosecutor's office said abuses of the free ambulance service existed across the country and it called for tighter monitoring.

In one city, undertakers turned up instead of an ambulance at the home of a seriously ill patient. All Russian citizens are entitled to free emergency healthcare regardless of their circumstances.



The chief prosecutor's office found that in "a number of cities", paramedics had taken payments from undertakers for tipping them off about dead or seriously ill patients, thereby violating citizens' right to privacy.

A criminal investigation is under way in Yekaterinburg, the city where undertakers turned up to offer their services in place of an ambulance.

Thief steals £3,000 bicycle from man as he chatted to three police officers

A cyclist had his £3000 mountain bike stolen as he stood chatting to three police officers. Kevin Jager, 47, from Durham, was paying his first ever visit to Manchester when the bike was taken from under their noses. He had been working as a security marshal in the elite women’s race in the Great Manchester Run on Sunday.

After seeing the runners home, Kevin stood near the finish line on Deansgate chatting to three police officers as they waited for the end of the men’s race. While Kevin’s back was turned, a thief swiped his high-tech S-Works bike which was resting against a wall just a few feet away.



Kevin said: “The police officers and I were all looking towards the finish line and waiting to see Haile Gebrselassie win. I took my eye off the bike for a matter of moments. The first thing I knew about the theft was when one of the police officers handed me my gloves which had been resting on the bike saddle but had fallen on the floor.

“I think the officers were amazed that someone would have the audacity to steal something from under their noses.” Supt Jim Liggett said: “It was audacious of the offender to steal the bike when the victim himself was not very far away. However, there were thousands of people near the finishing line at the time and it can become easy to lose sight of property or people.”

513 Mexican migrants found in two US-bound trailer trucks

Police in Mexico's southern Chiapas state have found 513 migrants inside two trailer trucks bound for the US, and said they had been transported in dangerously crowded conditions. Some of the immigrants were suffering from dehydration after travelling for hours clinging to cargo ropes strung inside the containers to keep them upright and to allow more migrants to be more crammed in on the floor.



The trucks had air holes punched in the tops of the containers, but migrants interviewed at the state prosecutors' office said they lacked air and water. The trucks were bound for the central city of Puebla, where the migrants said they had been told they would be loaded onto a second set of vehicles for the trip to the US border.


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None of the migrants would say whether any drug gangs had been involved in the mass smuggling scheme broken up early on Tuesday when Chiapas state police discovered the migrants while using x-ray equipment on the trucks at a checkpoint in the outskirts of city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez.



The migrants said the smugglers were charging them about $7,000 (£4,303) apiece to get them into the US. The immigration institute said in a statement that 410 of the migrants were from Guatemala, 47 from El Salvador, 32 from Ecuador, 12 from India, six from Nepal, three from China and one each from Japan, the Dominican Republic and Honduras. There were 32 women and four children among them.

Man tries to board train with pony

A man has been captured on CCTV trying to board a train accompanied by a pony. Shocked staff watched as the man tried to get on the train at Wrexham General station with the white pony in tow



After a conductor refused him entry, the man returned to the ticket booth where he tried to buy two tickets - for himself and the animal. An Arriva Trains Wales (ATW) spokeswoman said "Horses and ponies, which may pose a risk to the general public, are not permitted to travel".

The man tried to travel on Saturday's 1902 BST service to Holyhead on Anglesey with his four-legged companion. The ATW spokeswoman added: "Arriva Trains Wales allows dogs and small animals to travel onboard trains.



"All animals, except dogs, must be conveyed within a fully enclosed basket or pet carrier with dimensions not exceeding 85 x 60 x 60cm." She said the man later left the station with the animal, adding: "I'm not aware that anything like this has happened before."

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Wallaby spotted in Dorset garden

Residents of a Lyme Regis street had an unexpected and rather unusual early morning visitor. More common to countries such as Australia and New Zealand, a wallaby happily jumped around and grazed in a garden in Blue Waters Drive. Resident Jan Cooper was astonished to see the creature while sitting down for her morning coffee on Tuesday.

Mrs Cooper rushed to tell her husband Robin and neighbours Graham and Wendy Davies, but made sure she took some photographs in case they didn’t believe her. She said: “I was sitting down having a coffee and looked out into my garden and saw a most beautiful fox. I texted my husband to tell him and the next minute I looked out there was this wallaby/kangaroo.


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“I texted him and said ‘you’ll never guess what, there’s a kangaroo in the garden as well’. He didn’t believe me, and why would he? I went next door and said ‘there’s a kangaroo in my garden’.” Mr and Mrs Davies thought it was a joke when Mrs Cooper rang their doorbell. Mrs Davies said: “We didn’t believe her because we just got back from being on holiday with a boat load of Australians.

“It was very happy jumping around and grazing. We didn’t have anything big enough to catch it with, so we were trying to get it into a cellar that leads from the garden.” The RSPCA was also contacted, but the wallaby, which was about three feet tall when upright, disappeared soon after.

Gajar Halwa Recipe

Ingredients
  • 2 cups grated carrot
  • 2 cups low fat milk
  • 6 tbsp skimmed milk powder
  • 3 gms sugarite or 4 tsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom (elaichi) powder

Method

Milk and pressure cook for two whistles with the carrot mixture.
3 to 4 minutes for the milk powder, SugaRite / Add sugar and cardamom powder and cook while stirring constantly.
Serve hot.

Gajar Halwa Recipe

Ingredients
  • 2 cups grated carrot
  • 2 cups low fat milk
  • 6 tbsp skimmed milk powder
  • 3 gms sugarite or 4 tsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom (elaichi) powder

Method

Milk and pressure cook for two whistles with the carrot mixture.
3 to 4 minutes for the milk powder, SugaRite / Add sugar and cardamom powder and cook while stirring constantly.
Serve hot.

Diabetic Cream Cheese Salad Recipe

Ingredients:
  • 1/3 oz. env. Sugar free Jell-O (lime)
  • 1 c. crushed pineapple in own juice
  • 3 oz. lite cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1/2 c. evaporated skim milk, chilled

Method:

Mix Jell O according to package directions.
Drain juice from pineapple and add water 1 / 2 cup liquid to make.
Refrigerate until syrupy O Add juice mixture to cool.
Beat evaporated skim milk, make sure the bowl and beaters and milk are made well chilled.
Set whipped milk aside.
Jell-O, beat the cream cheese. Fold in the whipped milk and drained
Pineapple and cool in mold or glass dish.
It is 9 ½ cup servings.

Diabetic Cream Cheese Salad Recipe

Ingredients:
  • 1/3 oz. env. Sugar free Jell-O (lime)
  • 1 c. crushed pineapple in own juice
  • 3 oz. lite cream cheese, room temperature
  • 1/2 c. evaporated skim milk, chilled

Method:

Mix Jell O according to package directions.
Drain juice from pineapple and add water 1 / 2 cup liquid to make.
Refrigerate until syrupy O Add juice mixture to cool.
Beat evaporated skim milk, make sure the bowl and beaters and milk are made well chilled.
Set whipped milk aside.
Jell-O, beat the cream cheese. Fold in the whipped milk and drained
Pineapple and cool in mold or glass dish.
It is 9 ½ cup servings.

Cream Puffs Recipe

Ingredients:
  • ½ margarine
  • 1 c. boiling water
  • 1 c. flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 4 eggs
Method:

Melt margarine in 1 cup boiling water.
Sift flour and salt together.
Add boiling liquid all at once and stir until mixture leaves sides of pan
Compact ball.
Cool 1 minute.
Put in mixing bowl and add eggs - one at a time, beating well after
Each addition. Drop by rounded tablespoon on ungreased cookie
Letter. Bake 400 degrees for 10 minutes at 450 degrees and re-
About 25 minutes. Cool and fill with favorite filling. Suggested
Filling: 1 tub Cool Whip, 1 / 2 package instant vanilla pudding, stir in.

Cream Puffs Recipe

Ingredients:
  • ½ margarine
  • 1 c. boiling water
  • 1 c. flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 4 eggs
Method:

Melt margarine in 1 cup boiling water.
Sift flour and salt together.
Add boiling liquid all at once and stir until mixture leaves sides of pan
Compact ball.
Cool 1 minute.
Put in mixing bowl and add eggs - one at a time, beating well after
Each addition. Drop by rounded tablespoon on ungreased cookie
Letter. Bake 400 degrees for 10 minutes at 450 degrees and re-
About 25 minutes. Cool and fill with favorite filling. Suggested
Filling: 1 tub Cool Whip, 1 / 2 package instant vanilla pudding, stir in.

Sydney Writers Festival


Attended two sessions this morning and now to another two sessions this afternoon. And then a fifth at 6.00pm. Not sure when I will have time to write them up!

The big topic of conversation here is Carmen Callil's dramatic resignation as a judge of the Man Booker International Prize, haven't spoken to anyone here yet (and remember she is an Aussie!) who approves of her action.
Those of us who have been of book judging & literary award panels know well that you rarely, if ever get unanimous decisions.

Farmers owners eye Whitcoulls buy

by Karyn Scherer and Kelly Gregor

Thursday May 19, 2011
Anne and David Norman were estimated to be worth a collective $400 million in 2010. Photo / Sarah Ivey
Anne and David Norman were estimated to be worth a collective $400 million in 2010. Photo / Sarah Ivey

The rich-list Norman family behind retailer Farmers and jewellery store Pascoes are strongly tipped to buy Whitcoulls.
There has been speculation about who will buy the book chain and industry insiders claim "word on the street" is the Normans are set to seal the deal.
Anne and David Norman were estimated to be worth a collective $400 million in 2010, according to the National Business Review Rich List.
Anne Norman declined to comment when the Business Herald called their Remuera home last night.
A publishing industry source, who did not want to be named, said the Normans' bid could be positive for the industry because the couple had a good record with their other businesses.
"But we're all waiting to see what their plans are, and if they plan to close any stores."
The Normans are media shy, giving what is believed to be their first interview to the Herald in September 2009.
They have a strong history in retail and revived the Farmers brand after buying it in 2003.

Full story at The New Zealand Herald.

Writer takes a stroll down memory lane

Linda Morris, Sydney Morning Herald, May 19, 2011

Photo - James Brickwood - SMH

ON AN autumn day, under a clear sky, the British author Howard Jacobson made a ''pilgrimage of the heart'' to the quiet laneways of McMahons Point.
It was here, 45 years ago, the newly married replacement for Germaine Greer in the English department of the University of Sydney rented a flat overlooking Lavender Bay.
From the small balcony he marked student essays and gazed at the ferries criss-crossing the harbour, the bridge and the grinning face of Luna Park.


''I watched the Sydney Opera House [being] built and saw this innocent, sweet, country town poised on transformation into a world city with a world consciousness.''
Jacobson, who once described himself as a ''besotted outsider'', has revisited Australia many times since. He wrote Redback, a novel he would rather forget, and a more affectionate travelogue of his antipodean experiences, In the Land of Oz, which is soon to be reissued.

But never before has Jacobson returned to Sydney such a star of the international literary establishment, a Booker Prize warm in his pocket. At the age of 68, Jacobson cracked the coveted prize with The Finkler Question, an exploration of love, loss and Jewish identity. His book is generally regarded as the first genuinely serious comic novel to win in the prize's 62-year history.

''I am read now in unimaginable numbers,'' Jacobson said. ''Finkler became the number one bestseller in Pakistan, the number one bestselling book in India, and it's sold hundreds of thousands of copies. Serious novelists like me sell tens of thousands of copies if we are doing well.''

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/writer-takes-a-stroll-down-memory-lane-20110518-1et4m.html#ixzz1MkOrudL6

Howard Jacobson talks to the writer and Man Booker International judge Rick Gekoski about The Finkler Question at the Sydney Writers' Festival tonight, 6 o'clock, at the City Recital Hall, Angel Place.
The Bookman will be there.

Cheezburger of the Day

Man Booker International Prize resigns in protest


Philip Roth has won the £60,000 Man Booker International Prize. Angry about the choice, Booker judge Carmen Callil resigned in protest.
It was the fourth time the bi-annual prize has been awarded–previous winners included Ismail Kadare, Chinua Achebe, and Alice Munro. Roth (pictured via Nancy Crampton) had this comment: “One of the particular pleasures I’ve had as a writer is to have my work read internationally despite all the heartaches of translation that that entails. I hope the prize will bring me to the attention of readers around the world who are not familiar with my work. This is a great honour and I’m delighted to receive it.”

The New Yorker dove into the history behind the angry judge: “Callil is a founder of Virago Press, a British imprint which is the largest publisher devoted to women’s writing in the world. In 1996, it published, Leaving a Doll’s House, a memoir by Roth’s ex-wife Claire Bloom, which told all about their marriage and then some in scathing tones (here’s a review at the Times).”

Over at the Philip Roth Society, a blog post listed the gambling odds for different contenders for the prize. Roth was the 7/2 favorite.

More:
Story at Globe & Mail.
The New York Times

Footnote:
I am attending a session at the Sydney Writers Festival today called The Final Judgement in which the Chair of the judging panel, Dr.Rick Gekoski, will be talking about the judging process. I'll report later.

Philip Roth Wins Man Booker International - Now how about a Nobel

Daily Beast


AP Photo
CS - Philip Roth
Now how about that Nobel? Philip Roth won the fourth International Man Booker Prize on Wednesday, beating out 12 other authors. The prize, meant to honor a writer's body of work as opposed to any individual book, comes with a $100,000 purse. "One of the particular pleasures I've had as a writer is to have my work read internationally despite all the heartaches of translation that entails,” Roth said in a video message.
He will be honored in London on June 28.

Read it at The Telegraph 



When Anything Can Be A “Book,” Anything Is A Book–At Least 3.1 Million In 2010 Alone

PublishersLunch

It’s time for the reporting of annual publishing statistics and as usual, the most profound numbers for us are the unreported ones. The bigger and more technologically-fueled book publishing gets, the less we actually know about the universe in which we all work. It all comes back to the metadata mess, in which many newer players do not use standard identifiers at all for their books, and even traditional players have not agreed on a single practice.

The “known universe” clearly continues to expand, and we infer that the darker “unknown universe” is doing the same. Today, Bowker’s Books In Print reports their preliminary estimates of print books published in 2010. The big number is the continuing explosion of public-domain reprints and self-published works that exist primarily as files promoted on the web in case someone wants to pay to print one. These “nontraditional” books published with ISBNs last year grew to 2.776 million works, well up from 1.033 million such titles in 2009.

Though we’ve been told that traditional publishers are cutting their lists, the statistics show continuing growth there as well. Bowker projects 316,480 new traditional titles in 2010, up from 302,410 in 2009. Note that the final 2009 numbers are substantially revised, upward. This time last year, Bowker estimated 271,851 traditional books for 2009, so the “final” number was over 11 percent higher than the preliminary tally. Bowker says they see the “significant change…as an anomaly…because of the significant number of print on demand titles from traditional publishers after last year’s initial release.” Similarly, the preliminary 2009 estimate for non-traditional books was roughly 750,000.

Fiction remained the largest category in traditional publishing, with 47,392 titles, followed by juveniles (at 32,638), sociology/economics, science, and religion. Major increases were shown in computers (51%), science (37%) and technology (35%).

Self-publishers monitored by Bowker are growing at over 10 percent. CreateSpace led the field, with about 34,000 titles. Lulu was in second place with 11,000, followed by Xlibris at 10,700 and AuthorHouse with 8,500 (or about 64,000 titles as group). Last year the top 5 self-publishers, also including PublishAmerica, accounted for 57,500 titles. Remember that self-publishers who do not use ISBNs for all (Blurb) or some (Lulu) of their books are not included in these totals.

Also still not included at all are ebooks, whether self- or independently-published, or digital-only works from traditional publishers. We know that means the published counts are “missing” works in the six-figures, but we don’t know anything more than that. As an example, Barnes & Noble’s PubIt launched in October 2010 and already has 90,000 titles or more. 

Bowker’s Kelly Gallagher says that they are “working on addressing the ‘e’ book quantification challenge and hope to share perspectives in the coming year.” He notes that “even while making tremendous strides to collect ‘e’ data, Bowker faces this challenge due to: 

1. Lack of consistent application of identification standards; 
2. Proprietary numbering schemes [such as Amazon's ASIN]; and 
3. Deliberation on other metadata aspects not previously considered for print–such as how to determine the pub date for an e-book.” 

Gorging Yourself Into A Vet Trip

So I got back from my retreat weekend and our Maximum Leader and I resumed our normal relationship. She demanded food and I gave it to her in measured amounts, portions that she usually inhales. Only this time, she didn't finish what little I gave her. This is a bad sign in cats. I took her to the vet yesterday to make sure everything was OK. It was.


My wife had decided to free feed her over the weekend and it seemed to work out well for everyone involved with one slight twist. Apparently, our Maximum Leader gorged herself to the point where the trigger for demanding more food was there, but she wasn't actually hungry. The spirit was willing, as it were, but the body was weak.

:-)

Grilled Panini with Apples and Cheddar Recipe

Ingredients:
  • 8 slices whole grain bread
  • 1/2 cup low-fat honey mustard
  • 2 apples, sliced thin
  • 8 ounces low-fat Cheddar cheese, sliced thin

Meyhod :

Preheat a panini press over medium heat. If you do not have a panini press, then a non-stick skillet or can use a George Foreman grill.
Light honey mustard evenly over each piece of bread. Layer apple slices and 4 slices of bread, 1 / 2 apple and 2 ounces of cheese for a sandwich about using more cheese. Top with remaining bread slices.
Panini press lightly coat with cooking spray. 3 to 5 minutes or until cheese has melted and toasted bread grill each sandwich.
Remove from pan and allow to cool slightly before serving

Grilled Panini with Apples and Cheddar Recipe

Ingredients:
  • 8 slices whole grain bread
  • 1/2 cup low-fat honey mustard
  • 2 apples, sliced thin
  • 8 ounces low-fat Cheddar cheese, sliced thin

Meyhod :

Preheat a panini press over medium heat. If you do not have a panini press, then a non-stick skillet or can use a George Foreman grill.
Light honey mustard evenly over each piece of bread. Layer apple slices and 4 slices of bread, 1 / 2 apple and 2 ounces of cheese for a sandwich about using more cheese. Top with remaining bread slices.
Panini press lightly coat with cooking spray. 3 to 5 minutes or until cheese has melted and toasted bread grill each sandwich.
Remove from pan and allow to cool slightly before serving

Vegetable Frankie Recipe

Ingredients
  • For the puris
  • 250 gms (9 oz.) plain flour (maida)
  • 2 white bread slices
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp ghee (optional)
  • ghee for deep frying
For the potato rolls
  • 6 to 7 potatoes, boiled and mashed
  • 1/2 cup boiled and mashed green peas
  • 1/3 cup grated processed cheese
  • 3 chopped green chillies
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • salt to taste
  • 1/3 cup plain flour (maida) mixed with 3/4 cup water and a pinch of salt
  • bread crumbs
  • oil for deep-frying
  • To be mixed into masala water
  • 2 tsp dried mango powder (amchur)
  • 1 tsp chilli powder
  • 1/2 tsp garam masala
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup water
To be mixed into onion masala mixture
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 1 tsp chilli powder
  • 1 tsp dried mango powder (amchur)
  • 1/2 tsp salt
Method

Sieve flour.
Soak bread slices in water for a few minutes. Squeeze out the water well and crumble.
Add the crumbled bread, salt and melted butter (if you like soft frankies) make a dough by adding flour and water.
Thick puris and deep fry very lightly in butter, roll out. Alternatively, roll out into thin puris and a pan for a few seconds on both sides (griddle) cook each Puri.

Roll the potatoes

Potatoes, green peas, cheese grated, pepper, garam masala, lemon juice and salt the size of puris and size mix in the long roll.
Flour, water and salt mixture to make a batter.
Dip rolls in the batter, roll in bread crumbs and deep fry in oil.

To proceed

On a small frying pan, cook for a few minutes on both sides each Puri. Like you, a little melted butter and lightly fry use.
Each Puri, a little spice apply water, sprinkle a little onion masala mixture and chillies in vinegar.
Put a roll potatoes in the center fold, and serve immediately.

Vegetable Frankie Recipe

Ingredients
  • For the puris
  • 250 gms (9 oz.) plain flour (maida)
  • 2 white bread slices
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp ghee (optional)
  • ghee for deep frying
For the potato rolls
  • 6 to 7 potatoes, boiled and mashed
  • 1/2 cup boiled and mashed green peas
  • 1/3 cup grated processed cheese
  • 3 chopped green chillies
  • 1 tsp garam masala
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
  • salt to taste
  • 1/3 cup plain flour (maida) mixed with 3/4 cup water and a pinch of salt
  • bread crumbs
  • oil for deep-frying
  • To be mixed into masala water
  • 2 tsp dried mango powder (amchur)
  • 1 tsp chilli powder
  • 1/2 tsp garam masala
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup water
To be mixed into onion masala mixture
  • 2 onions, chopped
  • 1 tsp chilli powder
  • 1 tsp dried mango powder (amchur)
  • 1/2 tsp salt
Method

Sieve flour.
Soak bread slices in water for a few minutes. Squeeze out the water well and crumble.
Add the crumbled bread, salt and melted butter (if you like soft frankies) make a dough by adding flour and water.
Thick puris and deep fry very lightly in butter, roll out. Alternatively, roll out into thin puris and a pan for a few seconds on both sides (griddle) cook each Puri.

Roll the potatoes

Potatoes, green peas, cheese grated, pepper, garam masala, lemon juice and salt the size of puris and size mix in the long roll.
Flour, water and salt mixture to make a batter.
Dip rolls in the batter, roll in bread crumbs and deep fry in oil.

To proceed

On a small frying pan, cook for a few minutes on both sides each Puri. Like you, a little melted butter and lightly fry use.
Each Puri, a little spice apply water, sprinkle a little onion masala mixture and chillies in vinegar.
Put a roll potatoes in the center fold, and serve immediately.

Wisdom Wednesday - Good Morning Girls is back!!


I am super excited that our Good Morning Girls group has started back up this week! We are going to be studying The Ministry of Motherhood by Sally Clarkson and also Bible verses that go along with her book. This week we have just been studying the following Bible verses.

Psalm 127: 1 - "Unless the LORD builds the house, They labor in vain who build it; Unless the LORD guards the city, The watchman stays awake in vain."


John 15:4-5 "Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me. 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing."


Matthew 6:33 - "But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you."

What I enjoyed about these verses is that they talk about why we are doing this group in the first place; to seek God and abide in Him. When we do that, the work that we are putting into our families and children is not in vain. God blesses our efforts and protects us and guides us.

Matthew 6:33 particularly spoke to me this week. Sometimes I think I personally mix up my NEEDS with my WANTS. God knows the end from the beginning and sometimes what I WANT is not what I NEED at that time. If God does not answer right away or answers no, I need to put my TRUST in HIM and not WORRY about the situation.

I encourage you to spend your time with God this week. Put Him first in your day. All the work and effort you put into your life and family will bear fruit with Him in charge of your life!

Fully Rely on God,



This post is linked to Women Living Well Wednesday

paneer kofta Recipe

Ingredients
  • 250 grams Cheese
  • 2 potatoes (boiled find)
  • 1 green pepper (finely chopped)
  • 1 inch long piece of ginger (Kddwkass-out)
  • Salt to taste (a quarter teaspoon)
  • 3 Table spoon Arrowroot
  • Kofte oil to fry
  • 3-4 tomatoes
  • 2 green peppers
  • 1-inch long piece ginger
  • 12-14 Cashew
  • 1-2 Table spoon Oil
  • A quarter teaspoon cumin
  • A quarter teaspoon turmeric powder
  • Dhniaan powder 1 teaspoon
  • 1 / 6 teaspoon Kaashmirie chilli powder
  • Half a small bowl, cream or sour cream
  • Less than a quarter teaspoon garam masala
  • 1 Table spoon (finely chopped) Green Dhniaan



Method

Kddwkass take the cheese. Peeling potatoes by hand, finely break it.

Cheese, potatoes, green pepper, ginger, arrowroot, and mixed salt dough take Ghuth hand, Limestone par Toadie, get round as mixing sewage sludge (circles and 2 -3 cashew Kisamis These pieces can fill in). 15/12 flour will become shells.

Put oil in a frying pan is hot. Dalie mixture into the pan one by one goals. Take 4-5 Kofte floor at a time. (A Kofte Kofte take a little off, you put them together so they create with other Chupak its size will not spoil.) Inhan brown bike to the floor. After Brown, Kofte keep plate removed. Kofte all down to take a similar design. Kofte're all set.

paneer kofta Recipe

Ingredients
  • 250 grams Cheese
  • 2 potatoes (boiled find)
  • 1 green pepper (finely chopped)
  • 1 inch long piece of ginger (Kddwkass-out)
  • Salt to taste (a quarter teaspoon)
  • 3 Table spoon Arrowroot
  • Kofte oil to fry
  • 3-4 tomatoes
  • 2 green peppers
  • 1-inch long piece ginger
  • 12-14 Cashew
  • 1-2 Table spoon Oil
  • A quarter teaspoon cumin
  • A quarter teaspoon turmeric powder
  • Dhniaan powder 1 teaspoon
  • 1 / 6 teaspoon Kaashmirie chilli powder
  • Half a small bowl, cream or sour cream
  • Less than a quarter teaspoon garam masala
  • 1 Table spoon (finely chopped) Green Dhniaan



Method

Kddwkass take the cheese. Peeling potatoes by hand, finely break it.

Cheese, potatoes, green pepper, ginger, arrowroot, and mixed salt dough take Ghuth hand, Limestone par Toadie, get round as mixing sewage sludge (circles and 2 -3 cashew Kisamis These pieces can fill in). 15/12 flour will become shells.

Put oil in a frying pan is hot. Dalie mixture into the pan one by one goals. Take 4-5 Kofte floor at a time. (A Kofte Kofte take a little off, you put them together so they create with other Chupak its size will not spoil.) Inhan brown bike to the floor. After Brown, Kofte keep plate removed. Kofte all down to take a similar design. Kofte're all set.

Kesari Rajbhog Ice-Cream Recipe

Ingredients

  • Chenna (from cow's milk) 250 g
  • Refined flour (Maida) 1 tsp
  • Semolina (Rava) 1 tsp
  • Pistachios 12-15
  • Almonds 6-8
  • Khoya (grated) 3 tbsp
  • Green cardamom powder 1 / 2 tsp
  • OSE syrup 2 tsp
  • Sugar 5.4 cup
  • Saffron (kesar) 1 / 2 tsp



COOKING DIRECTIONS :

  • Take fresh chenna, knead well until smooth.
  • Add refined flour and semolina and knead it gently.
  • Divided into 12-14 equal portions.
  • Soak pistachio nuts and almonds in a cup of boiling water for five minutes.
  • Drain, cool, peel and chop coarsely.
  • Combine the grated khoya with green cardamom powder and rose syrup. Knead dough.
  • Mix in coarsely chopped nuts ristachio and almonds, divided into 12-14 equal portions.
  • Stuff a portion of khoya in each section chenna making marble-size balls.
  • Combine sugar with three-quarters gallons of water.
  • Bring to boil and make thin sugar syrup.
  • Remove the foam, if any, and went through a muslin cloth.
  • Bring sugar syrup to a boil in a wide mouth pot and add five minutes on high heat.
  • Sprinkle about quarter cup of warm water and continue cooking on high heat for five minutes, or until almost doubled in size.
  • Remove and keep sufficient amounts of saffron-infused sugar syrup.
  • Refrigerator and serve chilled.

Kesari Rajbhog Ice-Cream Recipe

Ingredients

  • Chenna (from cow's milk) 250 g
  • Refined flour (Maida) 1 tsp
  • Semolina (Rava) 1 tsp
  • Pistachios 12-15
  • Almonds 6-8
  • Khoya (grated) 3 tbsp
  • Green cardamom powder 1 / 2 tsp
  • OSE syrup 2 tsp
  • Sugar 5.4 cup
  • Saffron (kesar) 1 / 2 tsp



COOKING DIRECTIONS :

  • Take fresh chenna, knead well until smooth.
  • Add refined flour and semolina and knead it gently.
  • Divided into 12-14 equal portions.
  • Soak pistachio nuts and almonds in a cup of boiling water for five minutes.
  • Drain, cool, peel and chop coarsely.
  • Combine the grated khoya with green cardamom powder and rose syrup. Knead dough.
  • Mix in coarsely chopped nuts ristachio and almonds, divided into 12-14 equal portions.
  • Stuff a portion of khoya in each section chenna making marble-size balls.
  • Combine sugar with three-quarters gallons of water.
  • Bring to boil and make thin sugar syrup.
  • Remove the foam, if any, and went through a muslin cloth.
  • Bring sugar syrup to a boil in a wide mouth pot and add five minutes on high heat.
  • Sprinkle about quarter cup of warm water and continue cooking on high heat for five minutes, or until almost doubled in size.
  • Remove and keep sufficient amounts of saffron-infused sugar syrup.
  • Refrigerator and serve chilled.

Masoor Dal Chutney Recipe

Ingredients:
  • ½ Cup Masoor Dal / Red Lentils
  • 6 – 8 Red Chilies
  • 1 tsp Oil
  • 3 – 2” pieces of Tamarind
  • ½ Cup Fresh grated Coconut
  • A Bengal dal size Hing / Asafoetida
  • ½ tsp Methi / Fenugreek Seeds
  • Salt to taste

For the seasoning:
  • 1tbsp Oil
  • ½ tsp Mustard Seeds
  • Few Curry Leaves
  • A pinch of Turmeric Powder


Method

Fry lentil dal, red chillies and asafoetida in oil. All content with this piece together. Remove the bowl. Heat oil and add mustard seeds and when they splutter add turmeric powder and curry leaves. Pour seasoning over chutney and mix well. Dosa, idli or Serve with plain rice.

Masoor Dal Chutney Recipe

Ingredients:
  • ½ Cup Masoor Dal / Red Lentils
  • 6 – 8 Red Chilies
  • 1 tsp Oil
  • 3 – 2” pieces of Tamarind
  • ½ Cup Fresh grated Coconut
  • A Bengal dal size Hing / Asafoetida
  • ½ tsp Methi / Fenugreek Seeds
  • Salt to taste

For the seasoning:
  • 1tbsp Oil
  • ½ tsp Mustard Seeds
  • Few Curry Leaves
  • A pinch of Turmeric Powder


Method

Fry lentil dal, red chillies and asafoetida in oil. All content with this piece together. Remove the bowl. Heat oil and add mustard seeds and when they splutter add turmeric powder and curry leaves. Pour seasoning over chutney and mix well. Dosa, idli or Serve with plain rice.