Crispy Bhendi (Kara Kara bendakaya)

Thanks to the creator of this wonderful recipe... It made my day, my husband loved the taste and craved for more. I am sure all of you who have kids , you will turn into a super mom with this dish and all the men feeling it so hard to cook, this will be your short way out... You cam make this dish with Egg plant as well.

Ingredients:
Bhendi/Okra/Lady's Finger (Simply Bendakaya in Telugu ) - 250 gms
Chilli Powder - 1 tbsp
Dry Mango Powder(Amchur) - 1 tsp
Fennel Powder(Saunf Powder) - 1 tbsp
Salt
Oil

Procedure:
1. Wash and pat dry the Bhendi leaving now water on them
2. With a Knife slice them diagonally (salad style) into thin slices.In case you are using Egg plant cut into thin discs for easy frying.
3. Heat oil in a deep frying pan, and allow oil to heat uniformly
4. Drop the Bhendi and fry until they float , which is a sign of crispiness, don't leave until they change to brown color as this makes them taste bitter.
5. Take out once fried onto a paper towel, and add salt
6. Add the chilli powder , dry mango powder and Fennel powder and Toss
7. Serve with Hot Rice or as a Side dish to your meal

Try this when you have a large group of friends or Family coming over and you need to surprise them with some sort of a snacky crispy vegetable. Easy to fry along with those papads or fingers just before the dinner.

To make it more simple try making the same with the frozen Bhendi or Okra from the frozen vegetable section of your grocery stores.

AP2US list...

Things to Pack o US --- my version , my necessities....

Items	Quantity	Comments
Towels	2 or 3	few cotton for every day use . Do not get any turkey towels  (they are cheap here)
Handkerchiefs	5 or 6	not required
Single bed sheet	2
Double Bed Sheet	1
Pillow Covers		Get Full size covers
Thermal Undergarments and one shawl	1	get them as they are costly here
Undergarments	14 or 15	Plan on getting more as you don’t get the right ones here and are expensive.
Jewelry Sets, Bindi, kajal and eye liner		please get more shringar/eyetex or the thilakam u will not get any stickers here. Get extra
Slippers/Sandals	1	get extra pair
Regular Slippers	1	get socks
patha saree		for waste cloths
Sanitary Napkins		Get what u use
Medicines
Nasal Inhaler [Vicks]
Soothing Balm [Amurtanjan, etc]
Pain Relief Spray		for fast pain relief
Antiseptic lotion [Dettol]
Band Aids	Box
Painkiller Tablets
Burn Ointment [Burnol]
Tablets for cold/cough/fever/ allergy
kids tonics and medicines
Stitching Kit	1	Extra threads- Black, white and any common
Empty CDS/DVDS		very costly here
Prayer /Pooja		get deepam, vatthulu, pooja things like sandal,karpuram,etc
Scissors		One small and one big
Tooth Brush		Get Extra
Tooth Paste		Get atleast 4 or 5
Comb		Get Extra
Nail cutter		Don't Forget this, very important get extra one
Talcum Powder		Optional
Shampoo		do not get shampoo
Bathing soap		Get them
Knife		get 2 one for veggies and one for meat
Safety pin bunch		Get Extra
Pressure cooker or Pan
All steel utensils to feel comfortable		Two/three plates, spoons , ginnelu to make rasam or pulusu one vessel for milk and kadai, steel glasses and tiffin plates(2 0r 3)
Peeler		1
Roti karra
chillula garita		oil tho veyinchevati kosam
pattakara
Tea strainer/ tea vadagattukunedi/tea filter		get extra
spare safety valve
Spare Gaskets		Spare Gaskets
Scotch Brite scrub		get extra
Vim Dish wash
Tiffin box for kids school		Extra tiffin box good if microwave safe
Turmeric Powder [Haldi]		if you have mixie it is ok
Mustard seeds [Raee]
Red Chilli Powder
Masala
Dhane Powder/Dhaniya Powder
Jeera [Cumin seeds]
Asafetida[Hing]
Sambar powder home made		2 packets if buying from store
Rava/Suji/Poha		This is very helpful in beginning
Elaichi		optional
Clove
Papad		optional
Pickles		If you bring, make sure that the  packing is good and leak proof
All Garam Masala
Ghee
Vaamu

My likings....

Appreciate "HER"

This Post from Face Book , really touched me... not that it implies to me... it is the thin line between what is expected of you and what you really are.... in fact this implies to women who are not working as well...

Tomorrow you may get a working woman, but you should marry her with these factsas well...

Here is a girl, who is as much educated as you are ;
Who is earning almost as much as you do ;

One, who has dreams and aspirations just as
you have because she is as human as you are ;

One, who has never entered the kitchen in her life just like you or your
Sister haven't, as she was busy in studies and competing in a system
that gives no special concession to girls for their culinary achievements.

One, who has lived and loved her parents & brothers & sisters, almost as much as you do for 20-25 years of her life ;

One, who has bravely agreed to leave behind all that, her home, people who love her, to adopt your home, your family, your ways and even your family ,name

One, who is somehow expected to be a master-chef from day #1, while you sleep oblivious to her predicament in her new circumstances, environment and that kitchen

One, who is expected to make the tea, first thing in the morning and cook food at the end of the day, even if she is as tired as you are, maybe more,
and yet never ever expected to complain ;
to be a servant, a cook, a mother,a wife, even if she doesn't want to ; and is learning just like you are as to what you want from her ; and is clumsy and sloppy at times and knows that you won't like it if she is too demanding, or if she learns faster than you.

One, who has her own set of friends, and that includes boys and even men at her workplace too, those, who she knows from school days and yet is willing to put all that on the back-burners to avoid your irrational jealousy, unnecessary competition and your inherent insecurities.

Yes, she can drink and dance just as well as you can, but won't, simply
Because you won't like it, even though you say otherwise.

One, who can be late from work once in a while when deadlines, just like yours, are to be met ;

One, who is doing her level best and wants to make this most important relationship in her entire life a grand success, if you just help her some
and trust her.

One, who just wants one thing from you, as you are the only one she knows in your entire house - your unstinted support, your sensitivities and most importantly - your understanding, or love, if you may call it.

But not many guys understand this......

Please appreciate "HER"

I hope you will do.... :)

♥ ....♥

Miss Miss Miss

Troubling though... I missed all my goals set including the Driving test.

No interest days are rolling out , office is demanding more efforts. I am not at peace with anything about me.
My thinking, My weight , Hobbies and my goals.

Really looking forward for a nice night's sleep, with a cuddling hug... sweet dreams and fresh Morning...!!

c ya ...

Kavitha

My New Goal...

These Days... I am getting a little bored, right I donno if I have time or I lack interest in doing things. Sometimes chopping a mere onion feels like I have to saw a tree trunk, Cooking is starting to make me feel tired rather than relaxed.

It struck to me that I should set some goal for me achieve it , extract the required motivation from it and go for the next, while concentrating on the weight loss and diet I am following, I wanted to get my driving license as soon as possible. Decided to give the Test this Saturday and will start learning to drive, so that I can give my drive test before January. yes 2012 is going to be my lucky year to start driving....

Commenced preparation .... ;)

NASA: "Super - Earth"

Really.... 


TOI WASHINGTON: In another step toward finding Earth-like planets that may hold life,NASA said on Monday the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system.

French astronomers earlier this year confirmed the first rocky exoplanet to meet key requirements for sustaining life. But Kepler-22b, initially glimpsed in 2009, is the first the US space agency has been able to confirm.

Confirmation means that astronomers have seen it crossing in front of its star three times. But it doesn't mean that astronomers know whether life actually exists there, simply that the conditions are right.

Such planets have the right distance from their star to support water, plus a suitable temperature and atmosphere to support life.

"We have now got good planet confirmation with Kepler-22b," said Bill Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA Ames Research Center.

"We are certain that it is in the habitable zone and if it has a surface, it ought to have a nice temperature," he told reporters.

Spinning around its star some 600 light years away,
Kepler-22b is 2.4 times the size of the Earth, putting it in class known as "super-Earths," 
and orbits its Sun-like star every 290 days.

Its near-surface temperature is presumed to be about 72 degrees Fahrenheit (22 Celsius). Scientists do not know, however, whether the planet is rocky, gaseous or liquid.

The planet's first "transit," or star crossover, was captured shortly after NASA launched its Kepler spacecraft in March 2009.

NASA also announced that Kepler has uncovered 1,094 more potential planets, twice the number it previously had been tracking, according to research being presented at a conference inCalifornia this week.

Kepler is NASA's first mission in search of Earth-like planets orbiting suns similar to ours, and cost the US space agency about $600 million.

It is equipped with the largest camera ever sent into space -- a 95-megapixel array of charge-coupled devices -- and is expected to continue sending information back to Earth until at least November 2012.

Kepler is searching for planets as small as Earth, including those orbiting stars in a warm, habitable zone where liquid water could exist on the surface of the planet.

The latest confirmed exoplanet that could support life brings to three the total number confirmed by global astronomers.

In addition to French astronomers' confirmed finding of Gliese 581d in May, Swiss astronomers reported in August that another planet, HD 85512 b, about 36 light years away seemed to be in the habitable zone of its star.

However, those two planets are "orbiting stars smaller and cooler than our Sun," NASA said in a statement, noting that Kepler-22b "is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our Sun."

"The Europeans have also been very active, actively working on confirming our candidates," said Natalie Batalha, Kepler deputy science team lead at San Jose State University.

"They have already confirmed two that are published and they have got another batch that are on the preprint servers so those will be, I'm sure, in the published literature soon," she added.

"So we are just thrilled about this. We need all telescopes observing these candidates so we can confirm as many as possible."

A total of 48 exoplanets and exomoons are potential habitable candidates, among a total of 2,326 possibilities that Kepler has identified so far.

The top rankers are listed in an online catalog that indexes bodies outside our solar system, available online at http://phl.upr.edu.


Date: 12/06/2011