Indian Spices

Okay the reason why our food taste soooo good is because we use a lot of spices to make it tasty. We have LOADS of secret ingredients. These are some of the few I use in my cooking.

1. Ginger-Garlic Paste
This paste helps a lot in bringing out the taste of each and every one of the ingredients you put in your meal.
This mixture sparks once it hits the wok so be careful not to get hit in your eye. Stir this as soon as you put it in.

How to make it: One large ginger, peeled clean. 2 large bulbs of garlic peeled clean as well. Put BOTH of them in a blender, add 3 cups of water and well...blend.
Blend it till becomes a thick yellow paste. You may make enough to fill a normal-sixed tupperwear. This mixture can be refrigerated for one month.

2. Dried Chili Paste
This is the culprit that makes Indian food deliciously spicy. Take 3 handfuls of dried chilli and soak them in warm water. Add 1 tsp of ground turmeric. The idea is to make the chillis soft and turmeric acts as germ-killer. Dried chili may sometimes have small bugs in them so soaking them in warm water kills them off. For hygenic purposes. ^^
After the chilis have become soft, drain the chilis and put them in the blender. Add 3 cups of water and blend till they become a paste. After blending, remove the blender lid and let the paste 'breathe'. Blended chili paste makes the eyes watery. Hence, let it breathe for 2 minutes. You can make enough to fill a normal-sized tupperwear. This paste can be refrigerated for one month.

3. Before cooking chicken and fish, marinate them in 1tbspn of turmeric, fennel and cumin powder. This gives taste to the chicken and fish.

4. Always use cinnamon, cloves and star anise after heating oil. This is to bring out nutrition in the food.

5. Curry leaves are great with 'dry' foods like fried rice and noodles.

6. You can use butter as oil.

7. Coconut milk makes curries thick.

8. After eating a spicy dish, always take yoghurt afterwards.

Oyster Chicken with Turmeric Rice(sprinkled with parsley)

Having nothing to do at home while waiting for my final exam(dont you need to study?), I have taken up cooking to fill my free time. You see, it makes sense, I stay at home all day so might as well do something. Besides, I can feed my lazy-ass sister as well so it works out.

First you cook the rice. While the rice is cooking you can make preparations for the chicken dish.

Rice Recipe

Pour 2-3 cups of rice into rice cooker and wash them. After washing, cut turmeric plant(yes, the actual thing that looks like a baby yellow ginger) into first thin slices(about 10 slices) then cut those slices into quadrants. Mix them well as you want the whole rice pot to be covered in turmeric, add 4 cups of water and sprinkle parsley. Close lid and cook the rice. You get your turmeric rice. This is my own creation. Even mum likes it.

Chicken Recipe

Ingredients: Ginger-garlic paste, 4 chicken drumsticks, curry leaves, sliced cabbage/carrot, 2 medium-sized onions, 2 medium potatoes, 2 large cinnamon sticks, 3 star anise, 3 cloves, thick soy sauce ,oyster sauce, 2 cups of water, one green chili.

1. Marinate chicken in 2 tsp of fennel, 2 tsp ground turmeric, 2 tbspn chicken curry powder and salt over night. The next afternoon when you want to cook take them out and cut them into small pieces.

2. Peel a large ginger and 2 large garlics and put them into blender. Add a cup of water and blend them till they become a paste. Add more water if necessary. You can make more of these and keep them in a tupperwear because almost all Indian food use this ginger-garlic paste. That's why Indian food taste great. =)

3. Cut onion into large rings.

4. Cut potatoes into rings as well.

5. Slice the amount of cabbage or carrot that you want.

6. Slice the green chili.


Now for the real deal.

1. Heat oil in wok.

2. Add the cinnamon sticks, star anises and cloves. Stir them till they are fragrant. Make sure the cinnamon sticks are heated enough till they open.

3.  Add onion, curry leaves, sliced green chili and 2 tablespoons of ginger-garlic paste. Watch out this mixture sparks! Stir them till fragrant.

4. Add the marinated chicken and stir the mixture till the chicken is covered with the ingredients in no.3.

5. Close the wok with it's lid and leave to simmer for 5-7 minutes. You should have a nice fragrance wafting in the kitchen. Stir the mixture in intervals to prevent the chicken from overcooking.

6. After letting it simmer for 5-7 minutes your chicken should be partially cooked. Add the 2 cups of water and mix them well.

7. Add 2 tablespoons of thick soy sauce and 1 tablespoon of oyster sauce. Mix them well.

8. Add the potatoes and cabbages now. Mix them well for 2 minutes. Sprinkle very little salt and stir again.

9. You should close the wok with it's lid and let the now gravy-like chicken to simmer. At intervals, lift the lid and stir the mixture. Do this from time to time for 20 - 30 minutes.

10. At the end you should get a thick gravy chicken paste.

It should look something like this:

That black chili(sometimes called pepper) is just additional. It's very spicy but I love it.

Try it and you will love it. I know I did.

10 Things You Can Learn from Historical Romance Novels.

1. The most beautiful woman will always fall for:
a) the rogue
b) the penniless rogue(the kind that don't care about money)
c) the rogue who only needed her money
d) the rogue who married her because his parents said so
e) the rogue who needed the title she could give him
REALITY: Men always marry a woman only if he can get something from her in return(her money, her virginity, her influences or the joint tax rate) and I daresay in almost all cases he's not thinking about your heart or the love you could give him.

2. Even if your husband left you for his mistress straight after the marriage was consummated, you will still accept him because you remembered how good your first and only sex was.
REALITY: His mistress probably pilfered every penny in his pocket and now needed a wife to strengthen his influences in the Office. Taking on another mistress who happened to be a rich widow could be a solution but he needed to cut down on money. So, he went for the next best thing: his wife. Also, someone needs to wash the dishes. For free.

3. You would elope with him if he was 'devastatingly handsome'. Doesn't matter if he had no money, was barren, had STD or was -God Forbid- just pretending to love her just to have 'some fun'.
REALITY: He probably made a wager with his scoundrel friends that he could snag and ruin the most sought-after debutante of the season.

4. Men are so gay they pledge their love for the woman every 3 seconds.
REALITY: Need I explain this? This is never gonna happen. Not now, not in a million years. Once men said 'I Love You' to a woman he expects her to remember it. Saying it once was already cheesy enough.
'Darling, tell me you love me."
'Damn woman! How many times am I supposed to say this to you???' is a more likely answer.

5. When your pig of a husband left you for war leaving you with his monster parents you managed to have some sense of the reality of marriage. About a month of melancholy you finally get the courage to leave them and be independent, consequently taking on a lover who treats WAAAYYY better than your hub(and is sincere) you go back to your husband the second he asks you to because his kissed you a few times and your moist lady parts couldn't handle his virile being.
REALITY: During this era, if a woman refused her husbands wishes(especially his conjugal rights, she can be convicted of treachery and a paperwork will be issued to 'honor her husband's marital bed'.) So, you see, she actually didn't have a choice but the impact was made lighter by throwing in some romantic flare.

6. The heroine will be a prim and proper lady but have no troubles at all having sex in the carriage. The coachman was most likely holding the reins in one hand and jerking off in the other.
REALITY: All virgins are secretly insatiable porn stars, according to these books.

7. Referring to number six, the prim and proper debutante goes to the church everytime she has 'impure thoughts of a man' but have no trouble making out in the opera boxes, toilets and the drawing room of her house.
REALITY: Who don't like the thrill of being caught doing the boogie?

8. She makes the ultimate sacrifice by keeping her matrimonial vows whilst her husband is all but 'Okay, cool."
REALITY: She suffered permanent head damage and is now fancies herself the righteous wife. Any woman in her right mind would have cut off his balls with a chainsaw the minute he ill-treat her. SLOWLY.

9. On his physical appearances, here are some ridiculous facts.
a) He is always tall. Like 6" to 6"5 tall.
REALITY: Men from this era are usually no taller than 5"6.
b) He is always muscular because despite being a nobleman he enjoys hard labor. Like a slave.
REALITY: Men from this era never lift a finger to work. There's always someone to do things for him. His toileting, his dressing, his paperworks. I'm surprised they didn't have servants for feeding the lords. Perhaps some of them have. Anyway, there were more fat people than thin people those days. Looking our generation now, do you think it's some sort of compensation?
c) His smile always melt a woman into butter.
REALITY: He has some helluva an ugly set of teeth.
d) He's always a good singer.
REALITY: Seriously, what the fcuk?
e) In rare cases, he can cook and embroider.
REALITY: Leave a man in the kitchen it would look like a planet from another world. Leave a needle in a man's hand and he'll poke his eyes out. Trust me I have seen.
f) Despite him being a high-class himbo, he's ironically very educated and philosophical.
REALITY: Between the time he used to woo women into spreading their legs and gallivanting off to pubs with his best buddies, he managed to catch up on some reading. Superman is NOTHING compared to this guy it seems.

10) On her ridiculous appearance, wait till you hear this:
a) She is most of the time, a blonde.
REALITY: Living up to the myth about blondes being stupid, men wants blondes purely because she is stupid enough to believe his shit. Because a woman with intelligence will always beat the crap out of him and it's too much for men to handle. Needless to say an easy way out would be to marry a bimbo. She's happy to snag the hottest bachelor in town, he's happy to have double the green he usually has in his bank account. All's well that ends well.
b) She comes from a wealthy family.
REALITY: Of course, nothing is more attractive to a man than a woman who can put some green in your account.
c) She is almost always the most beautiful woman.
REALITY: This is very depressing for women out there who are less than average. It's like saying only beautiful women find true love in the end and live happily ever after. Ladies, only men with rare intelligence will look for women beyond her beauty.
d) Sometimes, she is this strong woman with an iron will but with the slightest hint of flirtation she becomes a desperate ninny.
REALITY: This a man's fantasy for the most part. They feel 'like a man' when they managed to bring down the toughest of the women to their knees. In truth, any unwanted sexual advances made unto this kind of women will usually result in severe damages on the men(think a kick in the balls).

Golden Days Indian Actresses

This pics are a tribute to South Indian actresses from the 1940's to 1950's. This is a respect to Indian actresses who actually had REAL acting talents and meaningful roles for their works unlike contemporary Indian actresses whose acting credibility are highly questionable. SALUTE TO THESE WOMEN. I still prefer these vintage actresses from the likes of Asin, Tamanna and whatever else crap Kollywood nowadays introduce as 'actresses'.

Padmini. The highest paid, most beautiful, most sought after and most popular South Indian actress of all time. She has passed away about 4 years ago. A true legend.

Anjali Devi. Known for her good humor and carefree-ness.

Madhubala. She was considered the Marilyn Monroe of Indian cinema.

Next to Padmini, Saroja Devi was the second-most popular character. She is well known for her girl-next-door roles. 

Vyjayanthimala was famous for her baby-doll beauty.

Savitri was known for her suave roles.

Appreciation for my Birthday Wishers

I have arranged the pictures from the first person to the recent person who wished me in Facebook. If there's more, I will post it as well as a token of appreciation.
Love you guys lots...=(^0^)=

My Very First Cross-Stitch

This is my very first cross-stitch...I designed it myself and it took about 1 month to finish it.
I know it's not much to look at but it is my best and proudest invention.

Next on my list is a 3-foot long Peony.Yes I am still talking about cross-stitch.

Teen Celebs Part 3

Good people of Earth, it pains to me say that I have brought grave news from the entertainment world. It is a creature of pure horror that hails from Canada and it goes by the name of Justin Bieber.


















This.

It is creature no different than others where it has absolutely no talent in singing and coincidently sounds no older than a 5 year old. Just like the rest of the filth that came with it.

How it managed to put airheaded bimbo’s to go completely berserk for it is beyond me.

I am without a doubt not it’s fan nor do I hate it. It gives me great pleasure to know that I am one of those very few fortunate human beings that still have some sense left in me.

The music it generates is of absolutely no significance whatsoever.
One will wonder what it sings that that 3-4 minutes songs of it’s.

It also gives me a great pleasure to know that in a few years time, this horrible creature from doom will wear out it’s stardom, fame and popularity and will soon only do cameo appearances for pittance of a salary.

Think of: Jesse McCartney, Aaron Carter, Sanjaya Malakar, and boybands from the 90’s.

It’s pretty much the same story.

Let us all wait patiently for that glorious day so we can finally point fingers to this abomination and go ‘BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!’

Amen.