Pineapple pachadi is a traditional south Indian accompaniment that combines sweet as well as savory taste in coconut and yoghurt base. This is often served as part of a Kerala meal (sadhya). Let's see how to make this simple and easy dish in this post. You can make it as part of Onam sadhya or...
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Fruit custard is a rich and creamy, milk based dessert with your favorite collection of fruits. It usually has a mild colour and flavour from fruits and the custard. Let's see how to make this treat perfectly with step by step images. This is basically a chilled dessert, so perfect in summer as well as...
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Ghee coffee recipe or bulletproof coffee is a popular beverage among those who follow ketogenic diet as well as paleo diet. But recently it is getting popular in India for weight loss as well. In this post, I am sharing two ways to prepare, with the potential health benefits. Perfect to prepare yourself for the...
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Ulundu murukku also known as urad dal murukku is a super light and crispy snack prepared with cooked urad dal instead of the regular flour. Murukku is a popular south Indian snack prepared at households with various methods. In this blog post, let's see how to make ulundu murukku with step by step pictures and...
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Thalagam recipe with medley of vegetables, fresh roasted ground spices and coconut. Learn how to make it with step by step images and video. This is also known as thalagam kuzhambu or thiruvathirai thalagam widely. Thalagam is made during festivals like Thiruvathirai, Pongal and during Tamil month of Aadi along with manjal pongal. You can...
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Thirupagam is a south Indian delicacy prepared with gram flour, cashew powder, ghee and sugar as main ingredients. It is popular in Thirunelveli district in Tamilnadu. This sweet can be prepared on special occasions and festivals like Deepavali or as prasadam on auspicious days like Kandha sashti. Check out my Badam halwa and 7 cup...
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Ragi dosa batter recipe, made by grinding whole ragi and no rice, in fermentation method. A nutritious south Indian breakfast, a healthy alternative to regular dosa. Make it for breakfast on a weekend or weekday morning and enjoy as a family, kickstarting the day with a healthy note. Check out my Instant version I posted...
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Kadambam rice recipe for the Navaratri season, you can prepare this as prasadam. Kadambam is a medley of flavors and textures prepared with rice, toor dal and mixed vegetables and fresh ground spice mix. A no onion no garlic recipe, perfect for this festive season. Kadambam can be enjoyed throughout the year, but mainly popular...
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Gujiya is a traditional Indian sweet/ pastry, is a crescent shaped pastry with filling made up of khoya (mawa - Milk solids) along with dry fruits and nuts. Let's see how to prepare this at home with step by step images. Gujiya is mainly prepared during festivals like Holi, Diwali etc, aslo during special occasions....
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Pumpkin paratha or kaddu paratha is a nutritious, tasty, soft flatbreads made with wheat flour, yellow pumpkin and simple ingredients. In this post, let's see how to incorporate this vegetable in fun way that will be a great choice for your or your kid's lunchbox and tiffin. You can make this anytime of the year...
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Aadi paal is a sweet drink with jaggery and coconut milk as main ingredients, prepared especially on the 1st day of Tamil month Aadi. It is very simple recipe that you can try for the festive month. Though aadi paal is typically made to mark 1st day of aadi, it can also be made to...
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Sodhi is a flavorful, rich coconut milk based dish from Tirunelveli region of Tamil Nadu. It is a mild creamy gravy with moong dal, mixed vegetables. It is also called mappillai Sodhi widely. Though you can make this throughout the year, it is specially made during festivals, family gatherings and typically served to the newly...
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Pineapple pachadi is a traditional south Indian accompaniment that combines sweet as well as savory taste in coconut and yoghurt base. This is often served as part of a Kerala meal (sadhya). Let's see how to make this simple and easy dish in this post. You can make it as part of Onam sadhya or...
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Fruit custard is a rich and creamy, milk based dessert with your favorite collection of fruits. It usually has a mild colour and flavour from fruits and the custard. Let's see how to make this treat perfectly with step by step images. This is basically a chilled dessert, so perfect in summer as well as...
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Ghee coffee recipe or bulletproof coffee is a popular beverage among those who follow ketogenic diet as well as paleo diet. But recently it is getting popular in India for weight loss as well. In this post, I am sharing two ways to prepare, with the potential health benefits. Perfect to prepare yourself for the...
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Ulundu murukku also known as urad dal murukku is a super light and crispy snack prepared with cooked urad dal instead of the regular flour. Murukku is a popular south Indian snack prepared at households with various methods. In this blog post, let's see how to make ulundu murukku with step by step pictures and...
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The post Ulundu murukku recipe | Urad dal murukku appeared first on Raks Kitchen.
Thalagam recipe with medley of vegetables, fresh roasted ground spices and coconut. Learn how to make it with step by step images and video. This is also known as thalagam kuzhambu or thiruvathirai thalagam widely. Thalagam is made during festivals like Thiruvathirai, Pongal and during Tamil month of Aadi along with manjal pongal. You can...
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Thirupagam is a south Indian delicacy prepared with gram flour, cashew powder, ghee and sugar as main ingredients. It is popular in Thirunelveli district in Tamilnadu. This sweet can be prepared on special occasions and festivals like Deepavali or as prasadam on auspicious days like Kandha sashti. Check out my Badam halwa and 7 cup...
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Ragi dosa batter recipe, made by grinding whole ragi and no rice, in fermentation method. A nutritious south Indian breakfast, a healthy alternative to regular dosa. Make it for breakfast on a weekend or weekday morning and enjoy as a family, kickstarting the day with a healthy note. Check out my Instant version I posted...
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The post Ragi Dosa Batter Recipe appeared first on Raks Kitchen.
Kadambam rice recipe for the Navaratri season, you can prepare this as prasadam. Kadambam is a medley of flavors and textures prepared with rice, toor dal and mixed vegetables and fresh ground spice mix. A no onion no garlic recipe, perfect for this festive season. Kadambam can be enjoyed throughout the year, but mainly popular...
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The post Kadambam recipe appeared first on Raks Kitchen.
Gujiya is a traditional Indian sweet/ pastry, is a crescent shaped pastry with filling made up of khoya (mawa - Milk solids) along with dry fruits and nuts. Let's see how to prepare this at home with step by step images. Gujiya is mainly prepared during festivals like Holi, Diwali etc, aslo during special occasions....
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The post Gujiya Recipe appeared first on Raks Kitchen.
Pumpkin paratha or kaddu paratha is a nutritious, tasty, soft flatbreads made with wheat flour, yellow pumpkin and simple ingredients. In this post, let's see how to incorporate this vegetable in fun way that will be a great choice for your or your kid's lunchbox and tiffin. You can make this anytime of the year...
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The post Pumpkin Paratha Recipe | Kaddu paratha appeared first on Raks Kitchen.
Aadi paal is a sweet drink with jaggery and coconut milk as main ingredients, prepared especially on the 1st day of Tamil month Aadi. It is very simple recipe that you can try for the festive month. Though aadi paal is typically made to mark 1st day of aadi, it can also be made to...
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Sodhi is a flavorful, rich coconut milk based dish from Tirunelveli region of Tamil Nadu. It is a mild creamy gravy with moong dal, mixed vegetables. It is also called mappillai Sodhi widely. Though you can make this throughout the year, it is specially made during festivals, family gatherings and typically served to the newly...
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Have you ever had the experience of getting tantalisingly close to a big opportunity in your creative career a but not quite making it? Maybe it was a pitch, or a competition, a publishing opportunity, a senior role, or a funding application. Maybe you got really positive feedback. They said you were great, your work […]
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When the Covid 19 pandemic struck in 2020, human life on earth was massively disrupted. Not only the human tragedy of millions of lives lost, but also the social and economic damage caused by the virus and our attempts to control it. As a writer and a coach for creatives, I have been particularly concerned […]
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Welcome to Episode 10 of the Creative Disruption season of The 21st Century Creative, where we are hearing stories of creatives around the world who came up with a creative response to the challenges of the pandemic. Itas been my most ambitious season yet, with creatives from 5 continents and probably the closest Iall ever […]
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Tit-for-tat attacks have breached taboo of direct strikes on each otheras territory but Tehran has no aimmediatea plans to retaliate
World leaders urged calm on Friday after Israel conducted a pre-dawn drone sortie over Iran following a cycle of tit-for-tat attacks that crossed an important red line that has for decades held the Middle East back from a major regional conflict.
There were tentative hopes late on Friday that the apparent strike attempt against an airbase near the city of Isfahan was sufficiently limited to fend off the threat of a bigger Iranian response and an uncontrolled spiral of violence between a nuclear power and a state with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons quickly.
Continue reading...Majority leader Chuck Schumer says approving bill was aright thinga for Democrats and Republicans to do
The US Senate voted late on Friday night to approve the reauthorization of the controversial Fisa surveillance program, narrowly preventing its midnight expiration.
The reauthorization secures what supporters call a key element of the United Statesa foreign intelligence-gathering operation.
Continue reading...Man identified by police as Max Azzarello, from Florida, dies the day after incident outside lower Manhattan courthouse
A man has died after setting himself on fire outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trumpas hush-money trial was taking place.
NBC News and other US media said early on Saturday that the man had died. NBC News quoted New York City police as saying the hospital where the man was taken had declared him dead.
Actor and wife Katherine Schwarzenegger dismantle 1950 Zimmerman house designed by architect Craig Ellwood
Chris Pratt has drawn ire from architecture aficionados after news broke that the actor and his wife, Katherine Schwarzenegger, had razed a historic, mid-century modern home to make way for a sprawling 15,000-sq-ft mansion.
Last year, the couple purchased the 1950 Zimmerman house, designed by the architect Craig Ellwood, in Los Angelesas Brentwood neighborhood for $12.5m. The residence, with landscaping by Garrett Eckbo a who has been described as the pioneer of modern landscaping a had previously been featured in Progressive Architecture magazine.
Continue reading...Vote makes Chattanooga factory first auto plant in US south to unionize via election since the 1940s
Volkswagen workers at the carmakeras Chattanooga plant in Tennessee have voted to unionize with the United Auto Workers, a historic victory for the union and the labor movementas efforts to expand to the southern United States.
The vote was the first union election to be held as part of the UAWas ambitious organizing drive aimed at unionizing 150,000 workers at non-union auto plants around the US.
Continue reading...University says it is aredesigninga commencement plans days after it decided to prevent Asna Tabassum from speaking on 10 May
The University of Southern California is aredesigninga its entire commencement plans a just days after making the controversial decision to cancel the valedictorian speech of a Muslim student a and will also cancel the keynote speech by film-maker Jon M Chu.
The Los Angeles universityas provost, Andrew Guzman, said on Monday that it took the unprecedented step of canceling valedictorian Asna Tabassumas speech at the 10 May ceremony because because the aalarming tenora of reactions to her selection as valedictorian a along with athe intensity of feelingsa surrounding Israelas military strikes in Gaza a had created asubstantial risks relating to securitya. They did not cite any specific threats.
Continue reading...US House of Representatives moves closer to passing Ukraine aid; bureaucracy delays APS500m in foreign assistance channelled through UK Ministry of Defence. What we know on day 787
Russia came under attack from Ukrainian drones Friday night and into Saturday morning, the defence ministry in Moscow said. It claimed there were 50 Ukrainian UAVs detected: 26 over the Belgorod region, 10 over Bryansk, eight over Kursk; two over the Tula region and one each over the Smolensk, Ryazan, Kaluga and Moscow regions.
Various reports suggested Ukraine mounted a wave of attacks on Russian electrical and petrochemical facilities. One of the attacks left an oil facility burning in Kardymovo a about 100km from the Ukrainian border inside Russiaas Smolensk oblast, the regionas governor said on Saturday morning.
Russian officials said Ukrainian drones also attacked an electrical substation in Bryansk oblast, about 50km inside Russia. Unconfirmed videos and pictures online showed a large fire. In line with Moscowas usual information tactics, the ministry claimed all the drones were shot down, while local officials said any damage was only done by falling debris from the intercepted UAVs. There was no independent confirmation.
Ukraine said it shot down a Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bomber from a distance of 308km (180 miles) after it took part in a long-range airstrike that killed eight people including two children in Dnipro. aI can only say the plane was hit at a distance of 308km, quite far away,a said Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraineas military spy agency, the GUR.
An intelligence source told Reuters the plane was hit with a modified S-200 Soviet-era long-range surface-to-air missile system. Unconfirmed social media footage showed a warplane with its tail on fire spiralling towards the ground. The Russian defence ministry confirmed the crash in Russiaas southern Stavropol region but claimed it appeared to have been caused by a technical malfunction. Four aircrew ejected with one dead, two rescued and another missing, the Russian regional governor said.
Ukraineas president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, visited the site of the strike in Dnipro and again called on Ukraineas allies to rush in more air defences. Zelenskiy said Russian missiles also struck the Black Sea port of Pivdennyi in the southern Odesa region on Friday afternoon, destroying grain storage facilities and the food inside.
In the US, the House of Representatives has pushed ahead through procedural hurdles towards passing a foreign aid package that includes $61bn for Ukraine, Joanna Walters writes. The House is expected to vote on Saturday on the legislation. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic party leader in the Senate, has told senators to be prepared to return this weekend if the package passes the House and goes back to the Senate. If passed by the Senate, it must be signed into law by president Joe Biden a after which the US would ship arms to Ukraine aright awaya, the White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, told reporters on Friday.
More than half of an international APS900m military fund for Ukraine run by the British Ministry of Defence has not been used because of bureaucratic delays in handing out contracts, Daniel Boffey reports. Critics claim slow provision of weapons to the frontline by the International Fund for Ukraine, with just APS404m spent and ministers admitting some of the equipment is not expected to reach Ukraine until spring next year.
The fund was set up in August 2022 and was designed to be aflexiblea and alow-bureaucracya. Delays are said by MoD officials to have been caused by a need to assess each of the huge number of defence companies that have tendered for contracts. An MoD spokesperson said: aThousands of responses have been received from industry to International Fund for Ukraine requirements, each of which have had to be individually reviewed. We make no excuses for having made sure this was done properly and in a way that most effectively helps Ukraine.a
Continue reading...More than 11,000 people told to leave their homes after Mount Ruang erupted at least three times since Friday afternoon
More than 2,100 people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesiaas Sulawesi island were evacuated on Friday due to the dangers of ash, falling rocks, hot volcanic clouds and the possibility of a tsunami.
Indonesiaas volcanology centre recorded at least three eruptions since Friday afternoon, with the maximum height of the eruption column reaching 1,200 metres (3,900 ft).
Continue reading...Nick Bostromas Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was adeath by bureaucracya
Oxford University this week shut down an academic institute run by one of Elon Muskas favorite philosophers. The Future of Humanity Institute, dedicated to the long-termism movement and other Silicon Valley-endorsed ideas such as effective altruism, closed this week after 19 years of operation. Musk had donated APS1m to the FIH in 2015 through a sister organization to research the threat of artificial intelligence. He had also boosted the ideas of its leader for nearly a decade on X, formerly Twitter.
The center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence.
Continue reading...Local people say archipelagoas outdated industry made life unaffordable and prompts environmental emergencies
Thousands of people will join protests across the Canary islands on Saturday to call for an urgent rethink of the Spanish archipelagoas tourism industry and a freeze on tourist numbers, arguing that the current, decades-old model has made life unaffordable and environmentally unsustainable for local people.
The protests a which will take place under the banner aCanarias tiene un lAmitea (The Canaries have a limit) a are being backed by environmental groups including Greenpeace, WWF, Ecologists in Action, Friends of the Earth and SEO/Birdlife.
Continue reading...Israel launched a limited attack on Iranian soil on Friday morning, in the latest tit-for-tat between the two countries
Israel launched an attack on Iranian soil on Friday, in a tit-for-tat battle between the two foes, days after Iran launched an unprecedented strike on Israel with a barrage of drones and missiles, most of which were shot down. The Iranian strike was a response to an Israeli airstrike on the Iranian embassy compound in Damascus on 1 April.
The strikes have brought a long shadow war between the two sides into the open and also come against the backdrop of Iranas support for the Palestinian militant group Hamas, whose assault on Israel on 7 October triggered the invasion of Gaza.
Continue reading...Moas staff evacuate 80% of critically wounded soldiers from regionas battlefield, where medics say morale is falling
It is around midnight in Donbas, eastern Ukraine, and the first emergency ambulance of the night is charging 75mph down a single carriageway road from the frontline. Inside, under the care of two watchful medics, is Ihor, an unconscious soldier wounded from the battle of Chasiv Yar, with shrapnel, perhaps from a mine, in his abdomen.
The medicsa task is to complete the last leg of evacuation from the battlefield, which involves Ihor and tonightas most serious casualties being taken to a hospital in the safe central city of Dnipro. Four ambulances are following on a bumpy high-speed run that takes three hours down roads largely deserted because of the 9pm curfew, the full single beds creaking and bouncing as they go.
Continue reading...As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the border
Every night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhtar put a small group of people in the back of his Toyota Land Cruiser and drove them under the cover of darkness from his home in the Sudanese city of Geneina across the border and into Chad.
The operation was an extraordinary act of bravery and selflessness: Mukhtar is an Arab, and the people he was smuggling to safety were members of the darker skinned Masalit community who were being targeted in a vicious wave of ethnic violence perpetrated by Arab militias.
Continue reading...I used to think open relationships were a recipe for heartbreak a or just a bit tacky. Then we began to experiment. Could seeing other people be the secret to a happy home life?
I settled back into the train seat and pulled a notebook out of my bag: something extraordinary had happened, and I needed to process it by writing it down. Speeding along the south coast, past Arundel Castle and on towards Bristol, I made notes about the night Iad spent near Brighton with a man Iad known for years, but seen again in a whole new context. About how delighted I felt, how hot, how incredibly free.
My body, which had been pregnant in the Covid pandemic, given birth and then dragged itself through several house moves with a baby and a three-year-old, seemed to be renewed, on fire. My mind was blown, and my lips were bruised. I bought a beer and ate crisps. I texted friends, caught eyes with strangers: I wanted to talk to everyone about how I was feeling. Most of all, I wanted to tell my husband.
Continue reading...How do I know what soil I have? Do bulbs come back? And how did people garden before Google? As the growing season gears up, our experts are here with a barrowful of advice
Few domestic gardens need work every weekend a whisper it, but theyare quite good at looking after themselves. Broadly speaking: new growth on twiggy, brown (or woody) stems is a fair sign to prune old growth back to encourage the new growth into a neater, fuller shape; a shift to spring and summer signals a need to feed plants; if your plants are romping away, your weeds probably will be too a pulling them out while theyare small is easier a and planting or sowing things late is better than not at all. Mulch whenever you think about it. Alice Vincent
Tourists have been descending on Achill ever since Heinrich BAPll wrote effusively about its inhabitantsa customs and idiosyncrasies
In 1954, the German writer Heinrich BAPll landed in Ireland for the first time, headed west and kept going till he reached the Atlantic Ocean. He was seeking a refuge from the brash materialism of postwar Germany, and found it on Achill Island, where waves crashed against cliffs, sheep foraged in fields and villagers went about their business of fishing, farming and storytelling.
The following year he returned with his family and began to observe and chronicle the customs, idiosyncrasies, sorrows and joys of its inhabitants. So began a literary love affair between Germany and a windswept corner of County Mayo that endures 70 years after the Nobel laureateas first visit.
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