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Vegetable Kuruma



You will need
1. Mixed vegetables (comprising of carrot, beans, potatoes, cauliflower etc.)- 2 cups
2. Salt - to taste, 3. Green chillies (slit) - 6, 4. Big onions (sliced) - 2, 5. Cumin seeds ¼ tsp, 6. Poppy seeds-¼ tsp, 7. Ginger- 1" piece, 8. Pepper -¼ tsp, 9. Garlic - 4 cloves
10.Turmeric Powder- ¼ tsp, 11. Cardamom -3, 12. Cinnamon-1" piece, 13. Cloves-4,14. Oil ¼ cup, 15. Coconut milk- ¾ cup from ½ a coconut, 16. Coconut grated- 3 dsp,17. Curd- ¼ cup, 18. Lime juice-1 tsp

Method
1. Cook the vegetables with salt and keep aside.
2. Grind ingredients from 4 10 and keep aside.
3. Saute onions, green chillies and the spices in oil.
4. Add the ground ingredients and saute.
5. Add the vegetables and the coconut milk.
6. Grind the grated coconut and mix it with the curd and add it to the above.
7. Slimmer for a few minutes.
8. When done, add the lime juice.

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Vatteappam




Ingredients
1. 8¼ dsp sugar
2. ½ cup warm water
3. ½ tsp yeast
4. ½ cup semolina
5. 1½ cups water
6. ¼ kg fine rice flour
7. 1 cup coconut, grated and ground to a paste
8. ¾ cup coconut milk
9. Salt to taste
10. A few raisins

Method
1. Dissolve 1 tsp sugar in warm water and sprinkle yeast in it. Allow it to froth.
2. Cook semolina with water to make a gruel. Allow it cool.
3. Combine the flour, yeast and gruel to make a dough. Set aside to rise for 6 hours.
4. Add the ground coconut paste and dilute the dough with the coconut milk. Add salt and allow it to rise for six hours.
5. Pour into a 8” diametre greased mould. Place some raisins on top and steam in a pressure cooker without placing the weight. Cook for fifteen minutes. Cut into wedges and serve.
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Banana Chips




You will need:
1. ½ kg banana, not too mature
2. Coconut oil for frying
3. Salt to taste

Method:
1. Pare the bananas, wash and dry well.
2. Spice into thin, round sections of even thickness.
3. Deep fry the slices in hot oil till crisp.
4. Sprinkle a little salt water in the oil. Stir again so that the salt is evenly absorbed by the chips. When the spluttering subsides, remove the chips from the oil, place in a strainer and let the oil drain away.
5. When cool, store in airtight containers to keep fresh and crisp.
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Duck curry




You will need:
1. 1 kg duck
2. 2 dsp coriander powder
3. 2 tsp chilli powder
4. ¼ tsp turmeric powder
5. 2” cinnamon
6. 6 cloves
7. 4 cardamom pods
8. 1 tsp aniseed
9. 4 potatoes
10. ¼ cup refined vegetable oil
11. ½ cup onion, sliced long and thin
12. 2 tsp ginger, sliced long and thin
13. 8 garlic cloves
14. 6 green chillies, slit
15. 2 dsp vinegar
16. Salt to taste
17. 3 cups thin coconut milk
18. 1 cup thick coconut milk

For the Seasoning
1. 1 dsp refined vegetable oil
2. 1 tsp ghee
3. 1 tsp mustard seeds
4. 2 dsp button onions, sliced
5. A few curry leaves

Method:
1. Wash and clean the duck.
2. Cut the duck into 8 to 10 pieces.
3. Grind into a paste ingredients 2 to 8.
4. Peel and quarter the potatoes.
5. Heat the oil, add the sliced onion, ginger, garlic and green chillies and fry well to a golden brown.
6. Add the ground paste and saute.
7. Add meat, vinegar and salt.
8. Stir for 5 minutes to blend all the ingredients.
9. Stir in the thin coconut milk, cover the pan with a well-fitting lid and cook the duck.
10. When the duck is done, add the quartered potatoes.
11. After the duck and potatoes are cooked, add the thick coconut milk and remove from fire.
12. Heat the oil an ghee.
13. Splutter the mustard seeds and gently fry the sliced button onions and curry leaves.
14. Add this seasoning to the curry.
15. Serve hot.
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Washington: Beware, emails or Facebook posts or pictures can resurface months after they are deleted - in the wrong hands or at the wrong time, according to researchers.

"If you care about privacy, the Internet today is a very scary place," said University of Washington (UW) computer scientist Tadayoshi Kohno. "If people understood the implications of where and how their email is stored, they might be more careful or not use it as often."

For instance, a lost cell phone can expose personal photos or text messages. A legal investigation can subpoena the entire contents of a home or work computer, uncovering incriminating, inconvenient or just embarrassing details from the past.

The team of UW computer scientists developed a prototype system called Vanish that can place a time limit on text uploaded to any web service through a web browser. After a set time text written using Vanish will, in essence, self-destruct.

Study co-authors include Roxana Geambasu, Tadayoshi Kohno, Hank Levy and Amit Levy, all with UW's department of computer science and engineering.

"When you send out a sensitive email to a few friends you have no idea where that email is going to end up," Geambasu said.

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Many people believe that pressing the "delete" button will make their data go away. "The reality is that many web services archive data indefinitely, well after you've pressed delete," Geambasu said.

Simply encrypting the data can be risky in the long term, the researchers say. The data can be exposed years later, for example, by legal actions that force an individual or company to reveal the encryption key.

"In today's world, private information is scattered all over the Internet, and we can't control the lifetime of that data," said Levy.

"And as we transition to a future based on cloud computing, where enormous, anonymous data centres run the vast majority of our applications and store nearly all of our data, we will lose even more control."

Researchers compare using Vanish to writing a message in the sand at low tide, where it can be read for only a few hours before the tide comes in and permanently washes it away.

Erasing the data doesn't require any special action by the sender, the recipient or any third party service.

A paper about the project went public on Tuesday and will be presented at the Usenix Security Symposium Aug 10-14 in Montreal, Canada.
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A talking car that will avoid crashes!

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New York: Talking cars aren't science fiction anymore - thanks to scientists who have developed a set of algorithms that will allow robotic cars of the future to communicate with each other to help avoid collisions.

An international team, led by Indian-origin scientists Dr Bhibhya Sharma and Dr Utesh Chand of the University of the South Pacific, has developed the mathematical equations which would also instruct robotic cars how to change lanes safely.

According to Dr Sharma, the series of mathematical equations would instruct robotic cars when and how to merge lanes, which could lead to less accidents and ease traffic congestions. "Flocking is a biologically inspired technique and a strategy commonly used in robotics. One of the advantages of flocking is that robots can work together and achieve what would take individuals far longer," he said.

In fact, according to the scientists, each car will be controlled by a centralised brain guided by a series of algorithms. The brains will talk to each other and instruct the cars to merge lanes and move in formation together.

The team demonstrated the technique using computer simulation and is currently trialling it in two wheel robots.
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