Avalakki Uppit

Time: 15 minutes
Servings: For 4

Things needed:

Avalakki
Mustard seeds
Urad Dal (Uddina bele)
Bengal Gram (Kadle bele)
Curry Leaves
2 onions
4 chillies
2 Tomatoes
Turmeric
Salt

Prequisites:
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Its always best to have ingredients ready before we actually start cooking. Wash the onions, green chillies, curry leaves , coriander and lemon.
1)Slice onion into long thin strands.
2)Cut the green chillies. Make sure not to slice these into very small pieces because you may end up eating them. Chillies are meant to give a spicy taste to the dish not to your tongue.
3)Coriander also need to be sliced.1 strand is more than enough. 1 strand will have many small strands in it.
4)You need to transfer Avalakki to a bowl and pour water into it. Drain excess water. Keep it aside for it to absorb the water.

Steps:
1)Pour a tsp of cooking oil to the vessel , turn on the stove. There is one thing that is very common in most of our Indian recipes, use of oil and mustard seeds.
2)After few seconds put half tsp of mustard seeds. You will observe that the seeds slowly get fried.
3)Add urad dal, bengal gram and curry leaves. After few seconds add onion pieces as well as green chillies. Wait till the sliced onion pieces get a little brownish color.

4)Now add tomatoes. Its better to slice the tomato into small pieces and then add them into the pan .
5)Add turmeric powder(half teaspoon) to give a yellowish color to the dish and also to kill any germs that would be in the vegetables, if any.
6)Add the required amount of salt. 
7)The Avalakki would be a litte wet and soft by now. So finally pour in this to the pan. Close the lid for it to be cooked completely for a while. Say, 5 to 10 minutes.

Thats it!
Enjoy your dish! :)

Excel shortcuts!

I will let you guys know some tips to save time while using excel spreadsheet.

1)Use ALT and = to give sum of the rows.
You need to keep the cursor in the highlighted cell as shown below.

Press ALT and =. The system shows up the formula '=Sum(B2:B3)'. That is the formula for calculating the sum so press 'Enter' to get the answer.

2)Use CTRL and Spacebar to get any particular column selected.

You need to keep the cursor in the highlighted cell as shown below.

Press CTRL and Spacebar to get the entire column selected.

3)Use Shift and Spacebar to get any particular row selected.

You need to keep the cursor in the highlighted cell as shown below.

Now press CTRL and Spacebar to get the entire row selected.

4)Use CTRL and ;(semicolon) to insert Date in the cell.

You need to keep the cursor in the highlighted cell as shown below.

Press CTRL and ; and then you will see the date inserted in the cell.

5)Use CTRL, Shift and ; to insert time in the cell.

You need to keep the cursor in the highlighted cell as shown below.

Press CTRL, Shift and ;.

6)Use CTRL and 0 to hide the data.

You need to keep the cursor in the highlighted cell to be hidden as shown below.

Press CTRL and 0 to hide the column.

The 'Time' column has been hidden. To unhide the same, double click on highlighted space below.

7)Use ALT 'E' and 'D' to delete the data.

You need to keep the cursor in the highlighted cell to be deleted as shown below.

Press ALT 'E' and 'D'. A dialog box appears requiring your input.

8)To navigate quickly over a big spreadsheet, use CTRL and 'Home' to navigate to the start of the spreadsheet or CTRL and 'END' to the end of the sheet.

How to Move Posts Into Pages On Blogspot

Issue: Moving posts into pages on blogspot

Solution:Blogger doesn't have the option of changing a post to a page. Nevertheless you could do it on your own!
Step 1)Go to Blogger.com. Sign into your account.
Step 2)Click on 'Edit Posts'.
Step 3)Go to the post that you would want to be seen in any page.
Step 4)Click 'Edit Html'.
Step 5)Press 'Ctrl+A' to select the content and then 'Ctrl+C' to copy the same to a notepad.
Step 6)Click on 'Close'. A pop-up would warn you of leaving without any changes being saved. Click 'Ok' .
Step 7)Now click on 'New Page'.
Step 8)Click 'HTML' and paste the content copied to notepad.
Step 9)Enter a title for the page.
Step 10)Click 'Publish'.
Step 11)Now Click 'delete' to delete the original post or to have a copy of the post , click 'Edit' and then 'Revert to Draft' to make sure that the post doesn't appear in the main page..

That's it!

Placing ads in the post

Issue:
How to place ads in the post?

Solution:
1)Click HTML section of the post.

2)Enter this code:
<div style="width:50%;margin: 0px auto">
<add your adsense code here--->
</div>

3)Now, add your ad code in the highlighted space.

4)Now click 'Preview' and check if the ad is appearing in the post.

6)Click 'Save Template'. 

This code must be added wherever you require the ad to appear in the post.

Blogger Problem: Undefined Date Issue

Issue:
Date not getting displayed in the webpage.

Solution:

1)Go to Blogger->Blogger Design.

 2)Click on Settings.

3)The following options appear.

4)Click on Timestamp format.

5)Select format: Tuesday, October 06, 2016.

5)Click 'Save'.

6)Go to Template.

7)The below code must be in the template for the time to be displayed in the website.

<script type='text/javascript'>

var timestamp = &quot;<data:post.timestamp/>&quot;;

if (timestamp != &#39;&#39;) {

  var timesplit = timestamp.split(&quot;,&quot;);

  var date_yyyy = timesplit[2];

  var timesplit = timesplit[1].split(&quot; &quot;);

  var date_dd = timesplit[2];

  var date_mmm = timesplit[1].substring(0, 3);

}

</script>

8)Click 'Save Template'.

9)Click 'View Blog' to view the page.

10)Date will get displayed!

Saucy Chicken Recipe!

Time: 15 to 20 minutes
Servings: 4

Things needed:

Boneless Chicken
Sauce
Flour

Step 1: Toss the chicken pieces with flour until its slightly dusted.
Step 2: Pour around 2 tablespoons of oil into a pan. Heat in high flame.
Step 3: Once oil becomes hot(you will see smoke), add all the chicken pieces into the pan. Let one layer of the chicken fry nicely for 5 minutes or until it turns brown. Meanwhile you should sprinkle salt and pepper.
Step 4: Later toss the chicken to the other side and fry until it gets a brownish color.
Step 5: Turn off the stove, let the pan cool for a moment. Next, add oil and in medium flame add pepper and garlic. After 2 minutes, add ketchup.
Step 6: You will see small bubbles after sometime. Slowly color of the ketchup becomes dark. Now put back the chicken into this pan to coat the pieces with this sauce.

That's it! Done!

Enjoy your dish!

How to Prepare Lemon Rice

Time: 15 minutes
Servings: For 4

Things needed:

Mustard seeds(half teaspoon)
Groundnut seeds(handfull)
Turmeric powder(half teaspoon)
Onion (just 1)
Green Chillies(4)
Curry leaves(2 strands, I mean you should have around 10 to 12 leaves)
Coriander
Rice
Lemon(1)

Pre-requisites:
Its always best to have ingredients ready before we actually start cooking. Wash the onion, green chillies, curry leaves , coriander and lemon.
1)Slice onion into long thin strands.
2)Cut the green chillies. Make sure not to slice these into very small pieces because you may end up eating them. Chillies are meant to give a spicy taste to the dish not to your tongue.
3)Coriander also need to be sliced.1 strand is more than enough. 1 strand will have many small strands in it.
4)You need to keep rice ready.


Steps:
1)Pour a tsp of cooking oil to the vessel , turn on the stove. There is one thing that is very common in most of our Indian recipes, use of oil and mustard seeds.
2)After few seconds put half tsp of mustard seeds. You will observe that the seeds slowly get fried. 
3)Add curry leaves, onion pieces, green chillies and groundnut seeds and let them get a little brownish color.
4)Now add turmeric powder(half teaspoon) to give a yellowish color to the dish.
6)Turn off the flame. Add lemon juice. Please make sure that stove is not on when adding lemon juice.
7)Warm rice needs to mixed in this bowl and then coriander needs to be put over this dish.

That's it! Enjoy the lemon rice!

Tips:
Stay a little away from the cooking spot when adding anything wet while oil is in the pan.