Ingredients 1 onion: diced fine 3 cloves garlic: diced fine 2 tomatoes: diced fine 1/2 tsp cumin seeds 1 small piece cinnamon (optional) 1 tsp cumin powder 1 tsp coriander powder Chili powder to taste 2 cans black beans Method Heat oil, once hot add the cumin seeds. When then begin to sputter, add the cinnamon stick… [Read more…]
April 21, 2011
Tried out a new recipe today, modified from this version here: http://fastindianrecipes.com/lauki-ki-sabzi/2009/06/05/. Came out well, and that’s not just my word Ingredients: 1 Lauki (bottle gourd), cut into long, thin strips. I sliced the Lauki (Bottle Gourd) lengthwise into 6 pieces and then cut them into long thin strips. 1/2 tsp Jira (cumin) seeds 1/4… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
Ingredients 1 cup split moong dal 1 onion: julienned 1 tsp cumin seeds 3 red chillies 1/2 tsp turmeric 1/2 tsp cumin powder Method Boil the moong dal until it’s fully cooked, add salt to taste. A cup of dal, probably needs about 2 – 3 cups of water. In a pan, add some oil.… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
Ingredients 1/2 tsp. ginger: finely chopped 3 potatoes: peeled, parboiled and cut into 1/2 inch cubes 1 tomato: chopped 1/2 onion chopped 1/2 cup spinach 1 tsp mustard seeds 3 green chillies (optional) 3 tbsp kasoori methi (dried fenugreek leaves) Chilli powder: to taste 1 tsp cilantro Method Peel, parboil and cut potatoes into 1/2… [Read more…]
March 28, 2011
Ingredients 1 cauliflower: washed & small florets 2 tbsp olive oil 2 tsp Penzey’s rogan josh masala (see alternative if you don’t have this) 1 tsp chilli powder Cilantro leaves (optional) Method Preheat over to 400F Mix oil, masala, chilli powder, salt in a big bowl Toss cauliflower florets in the mix Put on a… [Read more…]
November 10, 2010
Finally blogging after a very long time. I am in the process of redesigning/reproductizing our error screens and went in search of some ideas and wow, did I find several! Plus I didn’t even have to work very hard to find some pretty darn cool collections! Here’s a short list: http://www.webanddesigners.com/30-error-404-page-designs http://dzineblog.com/2009/11/50-cool-examples-of-custom-error-404-pages.html http://patterntap.com/tap/collection/404-pages http://www.bspcn.com/2007/09/13/collection-of-awesome-404-pages/ Enjoy!… [Read more…]
June 17, 2010
I recently read two interesting articles about drop caps in CSS. Brilliant, it actually works on IE and FF (except IE 6.0!). See the articles bookmarked in the resources section for other cool selectors, like p:first-child:first-line The HTML <p> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Mauris tristique lobortis orci ac lacinia. Fusce eu… [Read more…]
May 2, 2010
Tashi was put to sleep at 2:30 pm. She was at home and we were by her side. She got to eat her favorite pepperoni pizza and we hoped that that was the most delicious send off we could give our little gourmand, the loving Tashi. Sadly, it was the best decision we could make… [Read more…]
May 2, 2010
In the past week I’ve delved into Cufon and found that it meets all my design needs. Cufon is an JavaScript font replacement technique. Being able to use any font in a website design does add a certain oomph and the flexibility is quite excellent! I’ve used other font replacement techniques in the past, but… [Read more…]
April 15, 2010
The purpose of this post was to have a library of CSS resources for controlling styling of lists. In a recent site I designed, I used several lists for the layout and design – and the flexibility they offer is wonderful! The numbered elements in the screen-capture indicate a list that has been styled using… [Read more…]
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