POTATO CURRY

Ingredients:

Boiled Potatoes: 4, crushed with hand into smaller pieces (but not mashed)

Tomatoes: 4-5 (grind into paste)

Cumin Seeds: 1 tspGreen Chillies: 2-3

Curry Leaves: 1/2 cup

Hing (Asafoetida): 1/2 tsp

Red Chilli Powder: 2 tsp

Salt to taste

Coriander leaves

Method:

1. Heat 2 tbsp oil, add jeera. When it crackles, add hing, curry leaves, green chillies and immediately add tomato paste.

2. Also add salt and red chilli powder. Saute tomatoes until they are reduced to half the quantity, and the oil leaves the paste.

3. Now add the crushed potatoes, saute well, and add a little water to make a thick gravy.

Simmer for 5 minutes, check salt and remove from fire.

Garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve with puris or plain steamed rice.

This goes to: Dish it out-Tomato Chilli

@- Kaarasaaram & Zesty Palette

Any One Can Cook - series 29

@ Taste of Pearl City

Grand Thef Auto III ( RIP ) - Mediafire

Grand Theft Auto: 3 | Genre: Modern Action Adventure | {184MB}

Grand Theft Auto III truly incorporates everything that its creators have strived for in a "proper game" since Take-Two created the upstart game division in 1998. In it, gamers have the chance to get dirty, to play the role of an ambitious, low-life criminal. The game is riddled with a breadth of goodies starting with the Mafioso rags-to-riches story, high-quality music, telling cut-scenes, and not ending with its giant, bristling, extraordinarily complex landscape.

What makes Grand Theft Auto III so much different and so brilliant in this third iteration is that while, with its huge scale, we might find familiar gameplay elements, the whole thing, the monstrous size and scope of the game, delivers something more than just the actual value of its parts. Having taken advantage of PS2's new technology to expand and develop their vision, the makers of Grand Theft Auto III have created a complete videogame experience like few, if any, before it.

Players start off as a nameless criminal, who in the midst of a bank robbery, is double-crossed by his girlfriend, shot, and left for dead. As the "kid," "friend," or whatever your latest boss decides to refer to you as, you escape from the police through a mysterious high-level hit-and-run, and begin life again with the help of your friend 8-Ball and the Italian Mafia. From there, the game leads players through an odyssey of non-linear missions for various factions of organized crime, from the Italian to the Japanese mafia and on. The 3D world of Liberty City is on a scale that's truly epic, consisting of three large urban areas, the industrial, commercial and suburban districts, each with appropriate architecture, landscapes, and aggressive, distinctive AI.

The basic appeal of GTAIII is the ageless fascination with using firecrackers to blow up model cars, staging horrific toy-train wrecks, and lighting plastic army men on fire. It sets you down in the middle of a detailed clockwork world, presents you with a physics model and a wide variety of interesting objects to interact with, and then gives you the freedom to smash them into each other and enjoy the resulting mayhem. Within this metasandbox mode, you're also presented with a series of missions, which tell the ongoing story of your life of crime among the game's cast of unsavory characters

Minimum System Requirements:

Pentium III 450 CPU
96MB RAM
16MB Direct3D Video Card
Fully DirectX compatible Sound Card
8X CD-Rom
500MB free hard disk space
Win 98/ME/2000/XP
Direct X 8.1


Recommended System Requirements

700 mhz CPU
128MB RAM
32MB Direct3D Video Card
Fully DirectX compatible Sound Card
8X CD-Rom
500MB free hard disk space
Win 98/ME/2000/XP
Direct X 8.1
Windows NT (any version)

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STUFFED CAPSICUMS

Ingredients:

Capsicums ........ 4

Onions ..............3-4 (chopped finely)

Cabbage ......... 1/2 cup (chopped finely)

Carrot .............1 (chopped finely)

Soya mince ..... 1/4 cup

Chana dal ........ 1/4 cup

Tomato ............ 1

Green chillies ... .2-3

Ginger-garlic paste .... 1 tbsp.

Turmeric powder ..... 1/4 tsp.

Coriander powder ..... 1 tsp.

Jeera powder ............. 1 tsp.

Amchoor powder ...... 1/4 tsp.

Salt .... to taste

Oil

Coriander leaves .... for garnishing.

Method:



1. Soak the soya mince in hot water for 1 hr and squeeze out the water.

2. Boil the chana dal adding a little salt.



3. In a saucepan pour little oil. Add the ginger garlic paste, saute and add carrot, cabbage, soya and chana dal. Stir fry adding salt and the dry masala powders.



4. Remove the stuffing mixture and let it cool. Now add a little oil in the pan and saute the onion. Add salt, green chillies and chopped tomato. Add the dry masalas.



5. Scoop out the seeds from the capsicums and stuff them with the prepared mixture.Pour a little oil in a pan and simmer the stuffed capsicums till cooked. Add the onion mixture.



6. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and serve.

(In this Recipe I have tried out a different filling from the usual aloo filling we generally have with the capsicums. For variation you also can try out the paneer bhurji filling.)

This goes to:

LGSS- Capsicum

@- Show And Tell - The Mad Scientist's Kitchen

PEACH AND STRAWBERRY CAKE

Ingredients:

Peaches ........... 1 tin

Strawberries (fresh)... 600 gms

Sugar .................... 1/2 cup

Chantilly cream

For the cake:

Butter ........10 tbsp.

Eggs ............ 3

Sugar .......... 1/2 cup

White flour .... 1cup

Baking powder ..... 1 tsp.

Milk ...................... 3-4 tbsp.

Vanilla essence...... a few drops



Method:

1. To make strawberry crush blend 500 gms. strawberries and cook in a pan with half cup sugar.

2. Sift the flour and baking powder.

3. Beat the softened butter and sugar until light and creamy.

4. Now fold in the eggs, one at a time, adding the sifted flour after each addition and stir in the milk and the essence.Beat until the flour is mixed well.

5. Grease an oven-proof dish and place the peaches and pour the cake mixture on top.(Save the liquid from the can for moistening the cake later)

6. Bake it in the pre-heated oven for 40-45 mins until done. (You can check the cake by inserting a knife.)

7. Let the cake cool and remove the upper crust of the cake with a knife.

8. Mix a little sugar and few drops of vanilla essence in half the liquid from the can (about one cup)and pour it on the cake with a spoon.

9. Spread the strawberry crush and decorate the cake with chantilly cream and the remaining strawberries.



(For variation you can use any other fruits )

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Berries- Strawberry-Dessert

@ Anu'z Healthy Kitchen

what I've been reading...

Yes, well...the best laid plans and all that. I was meant to give you a list of what I'd read each month but it appears I haven't done that since the March list I published in early April. Oops.
So, this is a biggie...all the books that I've read since then in one fell swoop. The ones I can remember that is...perhaps there have been a few others :)

In order:

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - fiction

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua - non fiction

Shiver by Nikki Gemmel - Australian fiction

Season of Second Chances by Diane Meier - fiction

Stealing Picasso by Anson Cameron - Australian fiction

Odd Socks by Ilsa Evans - fluff

The Other Half Lives by Sophie Hannan - psychological thriller

Affection by Ian Townsend - fictionalised account of real people set in Townsville during an outbreak of the bubonic plague in 1900

Lessons in Letting Go by Corinne Grant - Australian memoir

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks (my favourite author) - historical fiction

The Children's Book by A.S. Byatt - historical fiction

The Last Magician by Janette Turner Hospital - Australian fiction

The Memoir Book by Patti Miller - Australian non fiction

Writing your Life by Patti Miller - Australian non fiction

(Patti was the brilliant teacher and wonderful writer who nurtured our writing experiences in Bali)

Good Harbor by Anita Diamant - fiction

Last Chance Cafe by Liz Bryzki - Australian fiction

The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas - Australian fiction and winner of many prizes

As I work on trying to establish my own writing life I am more and more grateful for all the authors who've been in my life and thrilled me with their words for decades. I had no idea how hard it was! Or how rewarding. Reading and writing. Don't hang out for the 'rithmetic though...that's not about to happen :)