Indian cottage cheese

So .. this was something that i wanted to do for quite some time and i just got time to do it. Paneer or mostly called as indian cottage cheese is something like tofu . it does not taste like cheese at all (=.=)' weirdly enough .. haha

it is made from milk and there is many way to cook it and one of way to cook is with the spinach puree.


Here is the recipe to do it.

For the paneer

8 cups of Milk
1/2 cup lemon juice
1/2 cup hot water

Bring the milk to boil and turn off the heat.Then pour the mixture of lemon juice and hot water together. Keep stirring the milk, until the milk separates; the solid curds will separate from the watery whey. Pour it into a muslin cloth and rinse thru running tap water as it will take the lemon sourness. Wrap the muslin cloth on itself in order to squeeze out moisture from the curds. The more you squeeze, the firmer the resulting paneer. Leave it under a heavy saucepan for an hour or till it is firm.

For the spinach puree

Few bunch of spinach leaves
Few stalk of green chillies (up to your level of spiciness)
1 tablespoon garam masala
ginger paste
garlic paste
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon fennel seed
1 tablespoon cashew nut powder
salt pepper

In a pan, stir fry the spinach with salt and pepper.Then, blend it into puree using a food processor. Then fry the ginger, garlic , cumin and fennel seed in oil. Add the puree together with garam masala and cashew nut powder. Cook it for 10 to 15 minutes and then add the paneer. cook for another 5 minute. Whola.. u have a palak paneer.

For your information, i roughly did all the measurement. So try to adjust according to your individual taste.

*peace out*

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Here other pictures that i would like to share.. Actually nowadays i am lazy to post anything so i just post these pictures. But hey, they say that a picture says thousand words/ meanings ait? so here you go ..

Breakfast.. lunch and Dinner. Hahaha

Guess what is this ?

So, that's all for now.

- Peace out -

HPV Vaccine

I read this article from my friend's blog (seila), so i thought of sharing the same thing, so let spread the word and create the awareness.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is a vaccine that prevents infection with certain species of human papillomavirus associated with the development of cervical cancer, genital warts, and some less common cancers (e.g., anal, vulvar, vaginal, penile). Two HPV vaccines are currently on the market: Gardasil and Cervarix. Both vaccines protect against two of the HPV types that can contribute to the development of cervical cancer, and some other genital cancers; Gardasil also protects against two of the HPV types that cause genital warts.

The vaccine, Gardasil®,is given in three shots over six-months. The vaccine is routinely recommended for 11 and 12 year old girls. It is also recommended for girls and women age 13 through 26 who have not yet been vaccinated or completed the vaccine series.

More info: http://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/STDFact-HPV-vaccine-young-women.htm

- peace out -

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Here is some collections of my favorite images...

My waste stuff

As i promised in my previous post; to post a creative book made of waste papers and recycled newspaper. The art is bit crappy as i was rushing to do it. hehe not a excuse.. lol ~

So here is some of the pics. Mostly i used newspaper. Some of leftover color papers. The ring is the one that i used put together all my lecture notes (miss being a student.. )

Uuuu.. i used love shape as it is the easiest to do (you can see above pic).. and its global too. lol ~

*peace out*

Heatwave

Think of yummy drinks, ice creams and ice cold lemon tea during this fantastic weather. LOL !! Seriously, feel like dying (x________x) in this warm and super hot weather. I wonder how people are surviving with less water and food in Africa and India. Needless to say, we are suffering from this heat wave because of our generous contribution towards global warming.

Iced Lemon Tea

Not only its warm and all, now I have mouth ulcer which is killing me like hell. So, as usual when I get any sick I will do whatever it takes to cure it. I found few remedies for mouth ulcer, one of it that works for me was the holy basil leaves (check my previous post for detail on holy basil). Chew the leaves and drink it with water. Do these for at least 5 to 6 times per day.

Another thing you can do is to try drink cooling type drinks. For example ice lemon tea, young coconut, pudding and yogurt drinks. Basic 8 glass water per day is very important rule to follow. For this heat season, I share mango sorbet recipe which turns out to be yummy one (You do not need ice cream maker for this).

Mango Sorbet

• 3 ripe mangoes
• 200gm icing sugar
• 1 ½ lemon (juice only)

Method:
Slice the mangoes into chunks then add in the icing sugar, lemon juice and mangoes to food processor. Blend to puree. Freeze it for 2 hours. And then take it out, toss into the food processor again and blend it again. Make sure this time it is really blended. And freeze it overnight. Whola.. enjoy the mango sorbet.

*peace out*

Bye Bye ~

Last month, I pronounced death of my 160GB external HD as it suffered from few unknown injuries. Due to the injuries, the disk was unreadable thus cannot be detected as well. I mourn for the whole day. It’s just a one year old baby = (. I was really really sad. I don’t mind the HD but the content of it. I had a whole lot of collection which I haven burn yet (or backup). My software collections, Johnny’s collection, TV series collection, some pictures (most valuable thing ~) and also my complete resume too. What a fool am I !! wuuaaaaa that's why they say you can’t cry over a split milk.

REST IN PEACE

American Idol Finale.

So another round of my favorite reality star did not manage to win. First it was Allison from ANTM and now Adam Lambert. Though I still think he deserves to win but Kris Allen is just fine. The last song “No Boundaries” really suited his voice (except for high notes!!).

Pictures courtesy of americanidol.com

Anyway, the finale was really awesome, with great performances by all of the stars and the top 12 was great too. I have to say, my favorite was Black Eyed Peas and KISS with Adam Lambert performances. And for the part I hated most is definitely Tatiana, she is so annoying. But was it hoax or real for the finale show (the part she grabs mike from Ryan and started to sing). But most of the audience had their shocked face on. Whatever is it…I hate her. Ha-ha.

Plus, one the moment i liked was the kara vs bikini girl moment.. that was fun.lol. somehow kara show her where she stands.. and also bikini does not help you to achieve all.. hahah

Hope Adam Lambert will release his single soon… can’t wait

Garbage enzyme

I have posted earlier about making our world a better place (GOING GREEN). Well I really meant it about it. Looking back, our earth is badly hurt and we can see by all the warm climates, diseases and polluted airs.

I kept to my promises; I did my small part by trying the garbage enzyme. Not only that, I manage to brainwash my aunties to do it too. Also, I shared with them about the environmental issues and what we can do to save it. I am really serious about these things. It’s scary if you really think of our future.

So here is it, prove of the garbage enzyme. It has to be kept for 3 month before we can really use it. I’ve kept mine for two months. I update about it once I have really used it. See, you do not really need to do something big, start from something small and evolve from that. You can make a difference. Trust me.

Simple thing we can do:-

1. Recycle your papers. I used my lecture notes to print other stuff on the back of the paper. I used some the used paper to create a small notebook (will update in my next blog).


2. Use old newspapers to clean your window, it is really clean. I tried it! But you might want to use gloves (do use the plastic one (reduce plastics), use the knitted type.) because the ink might absorb to your fingernails.


3. Try to clean your fans regularly. The dust makes it to use more power to spin. If you clean it you get a breezy air. At the same time, reduce the power consumption.


4. “STAND BY” mode you pc’s or lappie whenever you are not using it. Less power consumption.

Really hope we can make difference and save the earth.

-green out-

So unfair ANTM!!

Oh my god !!! ALIEN TEYONA won antm cycle 12..horrible. I think Tyra should really pick one she likes and make her top model, she don need a show cause at the end she pick who she likes. Allison deserve better. She improved alot. Whatever!

Finale

I am big fan of all the TV SERIES (Actually crazy of TV SERIES). So, this week is the finale of ANTM cycle 12 and also Next week will be American idol (AI) finale.

I haven’t watched the finale of ANTM. Hope Allison wins it because plainly I do not like aminat and teyona. Both of them look like aliens. Well, I was not feeling well this couple of days, so I did not get chance to surf net and download. I’m doing it right now actually. Oh I avoided all the spoilers so far. Hehe

As for AI, I got to know the final two even before the show aired and all thanks to the local news for being a spoiler!! Why do they have to announce it? Damn, was really angry about it but got over it after I watched the show. Gokey was out and he ends it with a breath-taking song. Though I was rooting for Gokey and Lambert to be in Final but Kris was not bad at all esp. Heartless for Kanye West. Anyway, moving on.. so the final two would be Adam Lambert and Kris Allen. Can’t wait to tune it and my vote definitely goes for Adam Lambert. He is brilliant. I just love all the performances he made so far. Since the audition till now he is brilliant and I just love him!!

Picture courtesy of Adam Lambert Facebook group

P/s: really hope Kara won’t be the judge for next season. She is simply annoying and her comment does not make sense.

-peace out-

Salad Crave

All of sudden, it was salad for breakfast, salad for lunch and salad for dinner. All I was eating was salad salad salad and more salad. Hahaha I must be pretty crazy. Well, no harm to eat more vegetables right? The best part is that I did not really follow the salad recipe. I simply chucked whatever I had in fridge and guess what it taste just good (for me lah). Just to share the recipe if you guys want to try to.

Salad O Salad

• 1 medium sized Cucumber
• Few Salad leaves (the round type)
• 1 or 2 Tomatoes
• 3 slices of Chicken Ham
• 2 slices of Wholemeal Bread
• Salt & pepper for taste
• Olive oil (up to you if you like it)

Dice those tomatoes and cucumber. In non-stick pan, add bit of butter or oil, stir fry the
shredded chicken ham. For the wholemeal bread, toast it and cut it into cubes (or any way

you want it). Add all into a bowl mix with olive oil, pepper and salt. Wholah, you have you’re

salad for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Oh for the olive oil, I did not add as I m not a big fan of olive oil. But it taste just fine for me without olive oil.

I am not done with salads yet, after few days I got face slapped (this is what we say in Tamil for being ‘muak’ of the food) by meaty foods, so I decided to be a VEGAN again which reminded me of my friends used to scold me for being vegan all the time. Sorry guys!!

Back to salad’s story, so even though I was vegan I didn’t get over my salad cravings. One fine afternoon, my mom decided not to cook, so I decided to cook (give her break lah). And when I was digging the fridge… Guess what? I found all ingredients for salad AGAIN. So I thought of making myself a Vegetarian Salad for lunch. If you wondering what happen to my mum, she backed out she chooses rice over the salad. Here is the picture of it.

For this recipe I used cherry tomatoes (yum yum) and vegetarian chicken which is made of soya. The process is same as the above.

I really regret I did not choose to be chef (so I can do more salads).

-peace out-

Saturday Night Fever!

My title may sound fun but the truth is I had a bad cold fever last Saturday. Sneezing, running nose and killer sore throat is more to annoying kind of sick rather than painful. I am the type who does not like to go consult a doctor. I will try to cure all by myself and be the doctor. Well I did. I got this influence from my grandma. Whenever we (my brother and I) are sick or hurt ourselves by doing some stunts, she’ll run to a small bush in front her house and grab some leaves and start to do medicine from it. I have got to say it really works actually. It was some of the home remedies that her mother taught her and people from those days used before panadols (bad for health actually) and antibiotics were created to fight the virus. They say that you can’t cure flu and it will go away on its own but you can do something to reduce it though. Here are some successful homes remedies that made me fever free.



I will definitely start with helpful home remedies for annoying sore throats because sore throats always shows the early sign of getting fever. You can use cinnamon (I use this method) to cure it.

• What you have to do is take a teaspoon of cinnamon powder , pinch of pepper, one table spoon of honey and glass of water. Boiled it together and drink it. Actually the drink taste pretty good. This is for an early stage of sore throat.




• Let say that remedy did not really helped you then you can try the second remedy for sore throat which is add all together lime juice, pinch of pepper and tablespoon of honey.

• I have never tried this but some other elders say that holy basil leaves (Indians call it ‘thulasi’) helps to relieve annoying sore throat. Boil water and few of the leaves and you can either drink it or gargle with it. Below is the picture of holy basil:-

Then there is cold fever and cough left, as for this you can use few methods as well. As for cough, I do not like to drink cough medicine because it makes you drowsy so usually I will rather cough than drinking ‘drug’ (ha-ha).

• A very good way of healing cough is by boiling water with aniseed (some call starseed;below is the pic) and pour it in a teabag. And drink it while it’s hot. It taste just like cough syrup but the only thing is that it does not make you drowsy (or being drugged =P) and you feel relieved.

• One of the oldest methods of healing flu is by drinking garlic soup. But usually my mum will just make an empty porridge with only few garlic cloves which also quite good. I read in an article saying that, garlic contains antiseptic which help to fight the virus. Ginger also another good remedy for flu as it act as brother for garlic.

As for me, whenever I get flu I will just try to eat more oranges which mean more vitamins C and it really helped. Be caution, not all can take oranges when they are having flu as for some people it might make the flu even worse. But as for me it’s all clear and quite good.
This is just some of the home remedies that I know and I used. There is a lot more available out there. Applying home remedies is better than taking pills (as in for me). I am not sure about others but you can give it a try no harm (unless you have any allergic to any of those spices)

-Peace out-

TV sequences!

You see I m currently jobless (not proud it but I will get one eventually) so most of the time I m free unless end of month I busy preparing some documents, other than that I free. So, how I fill my free time? TV series will be the answer. Even when I was in studying, well I got to say UTP’s download is heaven (goshh I miss it!!!) I downloaded TV series, movies and songs like crazy. B the W, few weeks back I went to UTP again to download (ha-ha).
So if you curious which TV series I m in, well here is the list (since I m free I’ll write some review too..lol):-

• America’s Next Top Model

This would be one of my over-the-top favorite shows. I’m a fan of the show since season 1 and sad to say that all my favorite’s never actually won. But if I have to pick favorite winner will be Naima (cycle 4), CariDee (cycle 7) and Jaslene (cycle 8) only. For this cycle,London was my favorite and now she is out. So for favorite non-winner will be Joanie (the best), Sam, Chantal, Anya, Katarzyna (second the best), Janet. Currently season 12 is airing, got to say is the same old thing but the girls are not so interesting. I like Jessica but she got booted out second. Celia & Fo has great picture. The rest so-so la except for Sandra & Thalia (serve you right biatch). Allison with her big scary eyes and her freak attitude (is funny though ... lol). I don’t care who wins this cycle, the girls do not really excite me.

• Privileged

Well, I don’t know why they are on break now. The last episode was 18 and they stopped and I really hope they would not stop it forever as same as lipstick jungle (which I also watch and it’s gone forever after two seasons only.) I like the both of the show though lots of people not really tuning to see it. I want to see (badly) how WILL will react to Megan’s new ‘one night stand’ (which I think will be in the show quite some time) partner (ha-ha).

• Heroes

The hunting is still on. I do not where season 3 will end to but I m just watching somehow. They discovering lot’s of new powers. I try not reading the spoiler. Lol!

• Supernatural

Interesting as ever (mostly because of Dean). Well nothing spooky about it but I’m kind of interested with Sam’s power mystery and the angel hunk deal with dean. I will just tune in. If they kill Dean again then I’ll kill the show.

• How I met your Mother

The best comedy show I have seen, Barney is simply the best. Seriously, I love him. The show would just die without him! But I do not know until which season where Ted will finally meet his wife and mother of his kid. LOL. I m predicting it will Robin (ke-ke) though he refer her as aunt robin to his kids.

• Chuck

This show is the same producer as The O.C but he did much better in chuck. This is show is funny and interesting though chuck is annoying but you should watch his spy skills. And season 2 is kind of getting interesting as he finally found his dad and also found ORION (the guy who created intersect at the first place).

• Dollhouse

This is a new show that I m tuning in. Nice one. It is about this girl who is brought to a dollhouse where they delete all her memories and program here to whoever the client (they prefer call them engagement) wants. Well there is some kind of cops who trying find out about this house. Will see where the show is going.

• Ugly Betty

Season 3 is a so-so one. Bit boring and I do not know when the hell she going transform at least a bit. I used grumble when I was watching the Spanish version la soy Betty la fea. But I think US version is even worst and taking forever for her to change. Guess just have to wait.

• Gossip Girl

Yes, I m still watching it to pass my time even though is super frustrating to watch all the spoil brats drinking champagne when they claim themselves as ‘high school’ and happily sleeping with each other.

• 90210

Same goes as GG but slightly better cause of Silver (bit lively). The rest I just hate esp. annie, she is just overreacting. If you wondering why I m still tuning in. Obviously is because of Liam (Matt Lanter), Naomi’s new crush. Haha~

Samantha Who, Criminal Minds, CSI, Lipstick Jungle, Grey’s Anatomy, Brothers&Sisters, House are some of other TV series that I watch. I thought joining the critics for the show, too bad I do not have a qualified degree. =P

-peace out-

Going Green ~

28th March 2009 was the remark of our responsibility to save our tiny part of the world by switching off lights in our homes for an hour. Well, I did my part for half an hour (not going to lie) but at least I did something. I had to switch it on back as my mum was shouting (ha-ha) fearing of thieves nowadays (can’t really blame her it’s getting worse near my residence area). But what I see is that most the people do not really care about it and it’s sad. You do not have to do something big or drastic but just start small and simple things by switching off the lights. Or you can do big just as what like what Leonardo D’caprio (etc buying Hybrid cars and doing documentary) did if you have all the ka-ching and fame. I really admire him for that. I used to not bother or care about it but the environmental changes and all the weird sickness had really wake me up from a deep hell.

Think how much we contribute to global warming without realizing (or by ignoring it). Ok let’s do some simple test:

• How often do you clean your fan?
• How many times have you done gardening?
• Have you ever planted a tree in a year?
• How many plastic do you use a day?
• How many times have you recycled your garbage?
• How long does you a/c will be on?

Honestly, it’s not like I’m doing all these above things. But I did most of it. I clean my fans often and I do not on a/c. Fans blade that covered in dirt and dust require more power to spin. I rarely do gardening but I do plant tree if I have more space and will go up against if someone wants to cut down a tree. You can see greedy contractors eating up the entire hill to build houses. I think it would good if they replant each and every tree that they have chopped down.
What I am really trying to convey here is that, we can start from doing small and simple things in saving our world. It still counts. People do not seem to understand this. Like the other day, when I was explaining to “some people” on energy saving and turning off the light. They did not even bother about it. Why can’t people understand that by doing this is actually not for others sake but it is for themselves? Anyway we still have some time left to make a difference. I will do my part and I hope other will to. Below is some interesting tactics that I do and maybe you can try it as well.

Do you know that the sprays that we used to clean windows contain chemicals which are washed down to drain and pollute our water? Well there is a way you can undo this by using the old newspapers to wipe the mirror and windows. Newspaper ink absorbs dirt and shines glass without harming the environment.

I do not know if you have realized toilet-cleaners use this brown color multi-purpose cleaner to wash bathrooms. As for me, I have seen cleaners from my university hostel used to use this to clean. The multi-purpose cleaner is not a chemical product instead it is all-natural, environment-friendly, non-toxic and best of it is made from kitchen scrap. I actually discovered this from an article published in The Star and way to go, it is good.

Well, it is called Garbage Enzyme and guess what you can do it on your own. Here are the tips (all thanks to the article):-

• Use ratio of 1:3:10 of sugar, vegetable/fruits dregs (residue) and water.
• For example: -
  1 kg of sugar,
  3 kg of vegetable/fruits dregs and
  10 liters water.
• For sugar component, use jaggery (gula merah) or molasses.
• For fresh-smelling enzymes add oranges or lemon peels or pandan leaves.
• Fruits wastes are better than vegetables.
• Use an air-tight plastic container to allow for expansion. Do not use glass or metal containers.
• Place the container in a cool, dry and well-ventilated area. Avoid direct sunlight.
• Open the container daily in the first month to release gasses.
• If you have not gathered enough kitchen waste, you may fill the container gradually.
• The 3 month fermentation process starts with the last batch of kitchen waste. Push the floating garbage downward every once in awhile.
• The enzyme liquid should be in dark brown color. If it is blackish, add the same amount of sugar to start the fermentation process again.
• Ignore any white, black or brown layer that forms on the surface of the mixture. This is just yeast. If the container is not airtight, maggot and flies may appear. (not nice)
• After 3 months, filter the fermented liquid through an old t-shirts or sieve. Use the residues in your new batch of enzymes or as fertilizer.
• Here the best part, the enzyme never expire and must be diluted with water before using it. What a cheap and effective way!

This garbage enzyme sure does good things as it can help your plant to bloom, remove all the dirt from floor, kitchen toilets and the enzyme can help you to clean drainage pipes which will reduce smelliness ,flies and dirty b**** cockroaches. (Hate ‘em a lot esp. the flying ones.) And best of all, we are not contributing chemical to our rivers. See you can contribute something at the same time benefits you.

IT’S TIME TO ACT. DO SOMETHING FOR YOURSELF AND FOR OUR COMING GENERATIONS.

-Green out-

New year and still jobless

This my first post for year 2009. Well i hope all the best or good things will happen this year. first of all, to get a job. Come on i need money ($____$) ~

All this while, I thought I had a good opportunity of getting jobs since I was in good university, my result was not that bad. But its really really tough out there to get a job. My brother graduated few months back and while he was jobless at that time I was keep insisting him to get a job n I used to complain to my mom saying that he is just wasting time and not looking for any job but I was wrong . now I really understand how he felt. I mean I did learn dis in corporate ethics. Kantian theory, put ur self into other people shoe. We really need to use this theory in our daily life. Well I guess I need to move on.

I want to get a good job since my family is really having high hope n it is pressure for me but I have my own goal too which is to get a good job. I do have to say I m looking for company that is well known . I noe I noe .. u all thinking I m some kind bitchy snob but trust me lotsa situation that happened to me putting me into this position. Sometimes I jus hate to be in this game but it just that some peoples tongue are way toooooo delicate they just do not realize what the f*** they are pouring out of their mouth. For the record, whatever I have achieved it is because of my own bloody hardwork. I din use any shit magic to make it all happen. Just like my mother alwiz say believe in GOD . He is the powerful one. I just believed in GOD which brings me to this stake.

These few days was disaster for me I was really really down. Just everytime I hear any of my friends already have a job I feel insecure and sad. I m happy for them but it just that I can’t help feel that way too. Come on I m human right. i have feelings too eventhough usually get ignored . hahha ~

-peace out-