Tomato Gojju

Time: 15 minutes
Servings: For 4


Things needed:
Oil
Mustard seeds
Curry leaves
Urad dal
Channa Dal
Onion
3 tomatoes
Coriander powder
turmeric powder
Chilly powder
ginger garic paste
Salt

Pre-requisites:
Tomatoes must be thoroughly washed and cut into small pieces. If ground version is required then put these cut tomatoes into a mixer grinder.

Steps:
1)Heat oil. Add mustard seeds to it. 
2)When mustard seeds start to flutter , add curry leaves, channa dal and urad dal.
3)Add the nicely slit green chilies and onions then gradually tomatoes after onions become little brownish.
4)Stir the mixture and add ginger garlic paste. 
5)Close the lid for few minutes.
6)Add salt, turmeric, dhanya, and chilly powders.
7)Check the tomato gojju's consistency. Make sure its thick. Turn off stove. Transfer to a blender and grind till it becomes smooth.

Now the dish is ready. Serve as a side dish for chapatis or dosas!

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ONIONS!

Things needed:
Onion(1)
Oil(Olive, coconut or Bio oil)

Procedure:
1)Cut an onion into two halves.
2)Pour few drops of oil of your choice. I prefer olive oil.
3)Rub softly all over your face avoiding areas near eyes.
4)Wait for 20 minutes and then rinse your facial skin with cold water.
5)Repeat everyday till your face clears up. It could take few weeks.
6)Drink lot of water.

Best to do this procedure 20 minutes before taking bath.

Once you try it, let me know about your views on it!

Take care!

Tomato Pajji

Time: 5 minutes 
Servings: For 4

Things needed:
Tomato(1 or 2)
Curd
Garlic 
Green chillies(2 if using 2 tomatoes else one is enough)
Salt Sugar(optional)

Steps: 1)Slice a tomato into medium sized pieces and put them into the mixer. 2)Pour curd as required. 3)Add little garlic, green chillies and salt to taste. 4)Grind the mixture. 5)You could add little of sugar to make the dish taste better.

That's it!

Enjoy your just prepared dish along with rice! :)

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:
Want to try a easy breakfast recipe? Read on..!
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.