Archive for January, 2007

Personalized Baby Gifts

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

The Nest Baby Shop provides a wide range of baby products. These products range from bibs, blankets, and clothing to toys, and there is also something for the mums and dads too, for the mums and dads there products such as diaper bags, books, frames and many other goods. The products which are available are of high quality and are something different from what you may get from shops, each product is unique in its own way. The Nest Baby Shop also provide personalized baby gifts, for more than 200 of their products, and this includes clothes as well as accessories. This personalization is free of cost so you get two gifts for the price of one, you get your product and your personalization.

Butter Chicken

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Serves  4

Preperation Time  1 Hour

Contents
Chicken

Ingredients
1 Tandoori Chicken - cut into 8 pieces
1 onion - grated
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp garlic paste
3/4 cup tomato puree
1/2 tsp chilli powder
2-3 green chillies - finely chopped
100 gms butter
salt to taste
200 gms cream
a few green coriander leaves - finely chopped

Recipe
1. Melt butter in frying pan. Add the grated onions & fry until golden brown.

2. Add the ginger & garlic pastes. Fry for a minute & add the tomato puree.

3. Add the chopped green chillies, coriander leaves, salt and the chilli powder. Fry for 2-3 minutes.

4. Turn heat to low & add the cream stirring constantly. Do not let it boil. Cook for a minute & turn off the heat.

5. Arrange tandoori chicken pieces in an ovenproof dish. Pour the sauce on it.

6. Heat in a preheated oven at 180C/350F fro 20 minutes Serve hot.

Amritsari Machchi

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

Serves  6

Preperation Time  30 Minutes

Contents
Sea Fish

Ingredients
1 Kg … Singhara fish (2′ chunks), deboned and skinned
3 tbs … Malt vinegar
2 tbs … Ginger Paste
2 tbs … Garlic Paste
1/2 tbs … Red Chillies (fresh), ground to a paste
1 tsp … Ajwain (carom seeds)
1 tsp … Haldi (tumeric powder)
2 tbs … Chilli powder
2 tbs … Zeera (cumin) powder
1/2 cup … Eggs, whisked
2 tbs … Besan (gramflour)
2 tbs … Maida (flour)
Salt to Taste
Oil for frying
Chaat masala to sprinkle on top

Recipe
Wash the fish pieces and pat dry. Dissolve a little salt in vinegar and marinate fish for 20 minutes. Remove fish from vinegar, press gently between two paper napkins to remove moisture.

In a bowl, mix eggs, ginger, garlic and chilli pastes alongwith ajwain, haldi, chilli powder, zeera powder, besan, maida, salt and coriander. Evenly coat fish pieces with this mixture and leave to marinate for 30 minutes.

Heat oil in Kadhai, fry fish pieces until crisp and golden brown.

Drain excess oil, sprinkle chaat masala and serve hot, garnished with lemon wedges.

Los angeles tummy tuck

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

In los angeles tummy tuck has become a popular surgery to be carried out. More and more people are going for this surgery, especially after seeing TV programs, which shows people having them done. And one popular place, which has a lot of customers, is Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, in the middle of Rodeo Drive it attracts a lot of people. Its serves are no less than what you get from a shop like Armani or Gucci. Although being on location where all the expensive branded shops are the surgery offers reasonable rates.

The surgery provides its high class service and looks after your needs, as well as paying attentions to you individually before and after the surgery.

Keema Potli

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Serves  6

Preperation Time  30 Minutes

Contents
Lamb

Ingredients
1 cup of flour (maida)
2 tblspns of semolina (rawa)
Salt to taste
¼ cup of ghee
3 green chillies
2 tblspns of oil to fry
1 tspn of cumin seeds
400 gms of minced mutton (keema)

Recipe
Knead together maida, rawa (suji), salt and ghee with warm water to make a stiff dough. Keep covered for 30 minutes. Divide the dough into 20 balls.

Chop green chillies finely. Keep aside. Heat two tblspns of oil in a kadai and add cumin seeds. When they start crackling, add keema and sauté till half cooked. Add a little water if required.

Add chopped ginger, green chillies, red chilli powder, coriander and cumin powders and salt and mix well. Cover and cook on low heat for 15 minutes. Add yogurt and cook on high flame for ten minutes, stirring continuously. Cook till the keema is fully cooked and completely dry.

Sprinkle garam masala and coriander leaves and mix well. Cool. Divide into twenty portions.

Roll the dough balls into small puris (three inch diameter). Place the keema portions in the centre. Apply a little water on the areas a little away from the edges and shape like a potli or modak. Seal by pressing them.

Deep fry in medium hot oil till golden brown. Serve with a chutney of your preference.

Kashmiri Dum Aloo

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Serves  4

Preperation Time  30 Minutes

Contents
Potato

Ingredients
18-20 small-sized potatoes
Oil to deep fry
5-6 dried Kashmiri chillies
2 cups of yogurt
½ tspn of cardamom powder
1 tspn of dry ginger powder
2 tblspns of fennel powder
¼ cup of mustard oil
A generous pinch of clove powder
A pinch of asafoetida
Salt to taste
½ tspn of roasted cumin powder
½ tspn of garam masala powder

Recipe
Peel and prick the potatoes all over with the help of a fork. Keep in salted water for fifteen minutes. Heat oil in a kadai and fry the potatoes on medium flame till golden brown. Make a paste of dried kashmiri red chillies.

Whisk the yogurt with Kashmiri red chilli paste, cardamom powder, dry ginger powder and fennel powder.

Heat mustard oil in a pan. Add clove powder and asafoetida. Add half a cup of water and salt and bring to a boil.

Stir in the yogurt mixture and bring it to a boil. Add fried potatoes and cook till the potatoes absorb the gravy and oil floats on top.

Serve hot, garnished with freshly roasted cumin powder and garam masala powder.

Chef’s Tip: The process of pricking the potatoes makes them very light, if not, that means the pricking has not been proper or sufficient. Therefore it is a good idea to fry one potato and check. The size of the potato is also important, it should be a small size but should not be very small.

Valentines Day

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

If you don’t want to be late getting your valentines gift or even forgetting to buy a gift, don’t delay and buy it today and that too from the comfort of your own home or office. Yes that’s right an online site that gives you an opportunity to order your Valentines Day Gifts, and not just ordinary gifts, these gifts are unique as they are gift baskets. There is a wide range to choose from and if there isn’t something that you like you can make a request for a personalized gift basket, just to make your gift extra special and out of this world. There are gifts available for both men and women and they do not only deal with Valentines gifts but other occasion too, so you will be shopping on there all year round.

Meat Pickle

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Ingredients:

1 kg meat pieces (approx 1″)
1 cup vinegar
2-1/2 cups mustard oil
1 tbsp fenugreek seed powder
5 tbsp red chilli powder
1/2 tbsp turmeric powder
1 tbsp cummin seed powder
2 tbsp mustard seed powder
1/2 tsp asafoetida
3 tsp salt

Method:

  1. Heat oil in a pan
  2. Fry meat pieces till golden brown

  3. Drain and keep aside
  4. Put in the same oil all the spices one by one and fry for 5 minutes

  5. Add the meat pieces again and simmer for 10 minutes

  6. Remove the pan from the fire
  7. Let it cool
  8. Put the pickle in the sterlised jar

  9. Add vinegar to it and mix it lightly

  10. Cover the lid and store in a cool place

  11. Consume meat pickle after a day of preparing

Pickles are good accompaniment to meals especially with rice and Indian breads. Proper care should be taken while storing the pickle to last it for longer period.

Chicken Cutlet

Sunday, January 28th, 2007

Ingredients:

oil - 2 tbsp
onion - ½ cup, minced
garlic - 2 tsp, minced
ginger - 1 tsp, minced
chili powder - ½ tsp
turmeric powder - ½ tsp
chicken mince - 500 gm
garam masala powder - 1 tsp
coriander leaves - 1 tbsp, chopped
mint leaves - 1 tbsp, chopped
bread - 2 slices
egg and bread crumbs to coat
oil to deep fry
salt to taste

Method:

  1. Heat the oil in a kadai. Fry onion, garlic and ginger till fragrant.
  2. Add chili and turmeric powder, chicken mince and Salt.
  3. Fry for 2-3 minutes. Cover and cook on low flame till the chicken is tender.
  4. Add garam masala, coriander and mint leaves. Stir till the excess moisture is dried.
  5. Break the bread into very tiny pieces and add to the chicken mixture.
  6. Stir well and let the mixture cool.
  7. Shape the mixture into cutlets, coat with egg and bread crumbs.
  8. Deep fry in hot oil till golden brown.
  9. Drain on kitchen paper and serve hot. .

Flower Delivery

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

Flowershop.com is a family owned business, which has been running for 35 years, they have a successful site, which allows people to order flowers, and they provide a service of flower delivery as well. Their selection of flowers is endless. The site gives you a choice to choose the right flowers, you are able to choose from the type of occasion, the type of flowers or the price. If you think that you want more than flowers then that too is available. Flowershop.com gives you a alternative idea to flowers, you can choose from gift selections such as balloons & bears, chocolate, chocolate covered berries, corporate gifts, fairytale brownies, fresh fruit baskets, gift baskets, gourmet nuts and dates and many more.