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Thanks dear friends for helping me to re-live those moments with my
Tulip dragon Fly. Nice to know that you enjoyed it. Special thanks for
your personal mails.
Decided to give u my thanks by way of a recipe. (oh,yes yet another
one from me.)
A friend of mine asked me the other day, why can"t you give us a
recipe with our national vegetable potato(:P) So here comes a Potato
cury, the Indian way.
It is a mild cury, can go with bread, as a topping for pasta,
chappati, even as a sandwich.
what we need?
potatoes=4
Salt = as per taste.
Onion(sliced)=1 big and I small.
Garlic=2 Cloves.(crushed) you can use paste too.
Ginger(grated)= 2cm piece. (according to your taste).
Turmeric= 1tsp
vegetable oil= 2tsp.
1 tsp mustard seeds.
Green chilli=1 (chopped) with or with out seed-as per your taste.
Black pepper powder =half tsp.
ground cumin powder=1tsp
Optionals:
Garam masala=1/4 tsp
Mint/ curry leaves or any other similar fresh greens= finely chopped one tsp.
Double cream=4 tsp.
or
ococonut powder=3tsp. (Add to 1/2 glass of hot water and stir well)
Method:
1. Cut the potatos and cook in boiling salted water for 6-8 minutes,
until just
tender, then drain and set aside.
2.Heat oil in a large saucepan, add mustard seeds and fry til they begin to pop.
3.Add onion and fry til soft but not brown with bit salt. (may take 2 to 3mnts).
4.Add cuminseed powder, greenchilli,ginger,garlic,black pepper and stir well.
If you have garam masala add that to when this things done.
5.Add potatos stir well.
6.Cook, covered, for around 3-5 minutes, stirring occasionally, until
potatoes are very tender and coated with spices.
7.Now add your double cream or coconut milk and stir for 1 now turned
the gass off, add the greens, cover it with a lid and let it be there
for couple of more mnts.
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Yes the yummy mild Potato curry is ready for you.
it's now to act, it's now to save our earth, we have only one earth.
This shoot was at Desaru, Tanjung Balau. About 120km from Johor Bahru City, south Malaysia. The river stream is directing to the sea, can see the sea level now is different with pass years, it's because of global warming. Let's do it together, save our earth!
Thanks for your appreciations on my food-shots and easy recipes. Like the previous ones I hope you will like this too.
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Tomato - 4 nos
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
Chilly powder - 3/4 tsp
Salt - As reqd
Water - 3/4 cup
Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
or
Coconut powder= 2 tsp
Shallots - 2 nos
Coconut oil - 2 tsp
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 10 leaves
1)Place tomatoes in a vessel along with turmeric powder, chilly
powder, salt and water.
2)Boil it on a low flame til the tomatoes get mashed well.
3)Grind together coconut and small onions along with water.
If you are using coconut powder grind shallots and then add coconut powder.
4)Add it to the tomato gravy.
5)Allow it to boil for few more miniutes.
6)Heat oil in a small pan.
7)Splutter mustard seeds.
8)Add curry leaves and saute for a while.
9)Pour it into the tomato gravy and mix well.
10) Tomato Curry is ready.
Serve Tomato Curry with chapathy or rice.
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You can even make a tomato rice with this.
Left over rice (cooked ofcourse) = 1 small bowl.
Ghee or butter= 50 gm.
Tomato curry=1 Glass.
1.Heat butter in a vessel.
2.Add left over rice and stir for 2 minute.
3.Add the curry. Mix well and stir for another few more minutes.
Your tomoto rice is ready.
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In Portland, Maine, a march to support science as the best way to obtain reliable information about us and our universe was held on a chilly and misty morning.
About a thousand people marched up Congress Street from City Hall to Congress Square Park on Saturday morning to express their support for science and scientific research.
One of more than 600 simultaneous events held around the globe to support the March for Science in Washington, the Portland gathering featured speeches, an array of signs – many of them humorous – and a lot of scientists. It was one of six such rallies in Maine, the others slated for Gouldsboro, Orono, Sanford, Machias and Unity. [Portland Press Herald website}
Saint David's Day (Welsh: Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant) is the feast day of Saint David, the patron saint of Wales, and falls on 1 March each year. The date of 1 March was chosen in remembrance of the death of Saint David on that day in 589, and has been celebrated by followers since then.[citation needed] The date was declared a national day of celebration within Wales in the 18th century.
Cross-party support resulted in the National Assembly for Wales voting unanimously to make St. David's Day a public holiday in 2000, a stance supported by the Wales TUC.[1] A poll conducted for Saint David's Day in 2006 found that 87% of people in Wales wanted it to be a bank holiday, with 65% prepared to sacrifice a different bank holiday to ensure this.[2] A petition in 2007 to make St. David's Day a bank holiday was rejected by office of the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair.
Importance of the day:
Dewi Sant – St. David was born towards the end of the fifth century. He was a scion of the royal house of Ceredigion, and founded a Celtic monastic community at Glyn Rhosin (The Vale of Roses) on the western headland of Sir Benfro, at the spot where St David's Cathedral stands today. David's fame as a teacher and ascetic spread throughout the Celtic world. His foundation at Glyn Rhosin became an important Christian shrine, and the most important centre in Wales. The date of Dewi Sant's death is recorded as 1 March, but the year is uncertain – possibly 588. As his tearful monks prepared for his death St David uttered these words: 'Brothers be ye constant. The yoke which with single mind ye have taken, bear ye to the end; and whatsoever ye have seen with me and heard, keep and fulfil'.
For centuries the first of March has been a national festival. St David was recognised as a national patron saint at the height of Welsh resistance to the Normans. St David's day was celebrated by the diaspora from an early period: the 17th century diarist Samuel Pepys noted how Welsh celebrations in London for St David's day would spark wider countercelebrations amongst their English neighbours: life-sized effigies of Welshmen were symbolically lynched, and by the 18th century the custom had arisen of confectioners producing 'Taffies' – gingerbread figures baked in the shape of a Welshman riding a goat - on St David's Day
In 2003 in the United States, St. David's Day was recognised officially as the national day of the Welsh, and on 1 March the Empire State Building was floodlit in the national colours, red, green and white. It is invariably celebrated by Welsh societies throughout the world with dinners, parties, recitals and concerts.
To celebrate this day, people wear a symbol of either a leek, or daffodil. The leek arises from an occasion when a troop of Welsh were able to distinguish each other from a troop of English enemy dressed in similar fashion by wearing leeks. An alternative emblem developed in recent years is the daffodil.
In the poem Armes Prydain, composed in the early to mid-tenth century AD, the anonymous author prophesises that the Cymry (the Welsh people) will unite and join an alliance of fellow-Celts to repel the Anglo-Saxons, under the banner of St David: A lluman glân Dewi a ddyrchafant (And they will raise the pure banner of Dewi).
About the Cathedral above:
St Davids Cathedral (Welsh: Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi) is situated in St Davids in the county of Pembrokeshire (Wales)
Information from wiki pages.
(18" x 24" Giclée print available)
Home to millions of species, including humans. The planet formed 4.54 billion years ago, and life appeared on its surface within a billion years. Since then, Earth's biosphere has significantly altered the atmosphere and other abiotic conditions on the planet, enabling the proliferation of aerobic organisms as well as the formation of the ozone layer which, together with Earth's magnetic field, blocks harmful radiation, permitting life on land. The physical properties of the Earth, as well as its geological history and orbit, allowed life to persist during this period. The world is expected to continue supporting life for another 1.5 billion years, after which the rising luminosity of the Sun will eliminate the biosphere.
We are asking everyone to send a letter, email and/or fax (where it is supplied) to tell the World governments that you will no longer ignore Tropical Rainforest destruction and that action needs to be taken now to end this catastrophic crime against the Earth, for the sake of our future.
For years, since their inception in 1944, the World Bank has funded projects across the Earth, without regard to environmental protection. For example:
In 1981 the Bank lent Brazil US$445 million for the Northwest Brazil Integrated Development Programme to build 1500km of roads in the region of Rondonia which borders Bolivia. This allowed loggers and farmers to invade the forests and clear them for cultivation.
The World Bank loaned millions of dollars to CIB for logging in Pokola in Congo. CIB began to illegally log highly valued trees in the Ndoki national park. The same has happened to other forests in Guinea and Ivory Coast.
The Bank loaned $500 million to Indonesia to move several million people from the island of Java to the islands of Sumatra and New Guinea. Over 4% of the forest was felled to make way for the 'new' people and their farming methods - however countless more acres have fallen as the people move to new lands due to poor nutrients in the soil which have suffered monsoon erosion.
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Thanks dear friends for your encouragement for my food-shots
Thanks for all your comments and mails. Some one asked me for a simple stir fry recipe( the Indian way). This is how my mom make stir fry. This is my version of stir fry with plantain. Hope you will enjoy this as my previous recipe shots. If you like it let me know.
Raw banana/plantain= 2.(or pottatto)
Green chilli=2
Chilli poweder=1/2t.spoon.
salt to taste.
Turmeric = 1/2 t.spoon.
Oil= 2 Table spoon.
0nion – 1 big onion
Mustard seeds – 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves – 1 tsp
1.Take water in a vessel and put some salt and turmeric in this.
2.Cut the raw banana into small cubes and put it in water for half an hour.
(If you are using pottatto"s then no need to follow this step) and drain this.
4.Heat oil in a wide pan,add mustard seeds and
when it start crackle, , add curry leaves and onion after few miniutes
(put the gas to simmer)
5.Add red chilly powder and sauté well.
6. put the banana into this and mix well with the banana cubes
Keep on stirring for some time you can add very little water.
7.Keep a lid on top of it and let it be there till the bananans
cooked. It won"t take too long.
8. After some time you can stir it again and make sure it is dry.
Now your stir fry is ready.
P.S: This is the way my amma( mom) prepares this dish.It is a dry
dish. 'Mezhukku' means 'oil' in Malayalam and 'Puratti' means 'smear'.
Please visit my foodshot set if you like to see more of this kind
Plantain is the common name for herbaceous plants of the genus Musa.
This fruit is generally used for cooking as a curry and making chips.
It is belived North Americans first introduced the fruit as banana
plantain.The word "banana" is sometimes used to describe other
plantain varieties, and names may reflect local uses or
characteristics of varieties: cooking plantain, banana plantain, beer
banana, bocadillo plantain, etc.( Courtesy Wiki)
August 13, 2022
Walking the pups and I get to pass this adorable handmade sign. Save the Earth. I agree little one.
Me admiring artworks done with recycled material @Earth Week 2015 @Keppel Club.
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Artificial underwater scene made from recycled material @Earth Week 2015 @Keppel Club.
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Me admiring artworks done with recycled material @Earth Week 2015 @Keppel Club.
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Me with a remote controlled flying Shark @Earth Week 2015 @Keppel Club.
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Me admiring artwork done with recycled material @Earth Week 2015 @Keppel Club.
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A beautiful "coral reef" made from recycled material @Earth Week 2015 @Keppel Club.
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Me with a flying Whale @Earth Week 2015 @Keppel Club.
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Please pray for the ones who left us,pray for them who are with you..say a prayer be with them.71
Tamasoma jyotirgamaya..(Hindu prayer). From darkness lead me to light.
This is is Shanthi Mantra from The Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upanishad which is one of the older, "primary" (mukhya) Upanishads.
The full Mantra and the meaning in English
"Aum Asato mā sad gamaya
Tamaso mā jyotir gamaya
Mṛtyormā amṛtam gamaya
Aum śānti śānti śāntiḥ " (Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 1.3.28)
meaning of which is
"From ignorance, lead me to truth;
From darkness, lead me to light;
From death, lead me to immortality
Aum peace, peace, peace "
Picture taken from kottayam, kerala,India.
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It is a wet,windy and fogy day for me..been out for a short walk..a
walk through mist and this is what I got.
Desmond, Manager of Keppel Club & me @Earth Week 2015 @Keppel Club.
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I believe this is Red Osier Dogwood some of the many berries that Downy Woodpeckers love to snack on!