Chicken in minutes

OK, the email publishing does work. Just need to be little careful
about the line length and format of the email(has to be plain text
format).

As I perfect the art of blogging via email here is a little recipe I
perfected during my stay here in Cincinnati. It is easy and it takes five
minutes - OK fifteen - the point is - it is quick.

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Content:
1) Ingredients
2) Preparation
3) Cooking Instructions
4) Other suggestions

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Ingredients for Chicken in minutes
o Chicken two pieces
o Salt, pepper, paprika, clove, cumin and any other spice
you care for (all as per taste)
o Lemon juice (two tea spoons)
o Butter (preferred yellow) one tea spoon

PLEASE USE COMMON SENSE WHILE COOKING AND IF YOU HAVE
NEVER HANDLED PANS ON STOVE TOPS SEEK HELP.

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Preparation is easy
You will need a bowl to mix ingredients and a pressure
cooker.

Skin and clean the chicken pieces. You may leave the skin
on if you prefer it that way. Rub all the spices
vigorously on chicken. Puncture the chicken in few place
to allow the spices to sink in - no time for marinating :)
Sprinkle lemon juice on it.

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Cooking Instructions
Place the rubbed pieces of chicken in the pressure cooker
and put the butter and couple of cloves on it with few
cumin seeds. Use any other whole spice too if you like.
Close the lid and fire it up. DO NOT USE ANY OIL OR WATER.
IT IS NOT REQUIRED.

After first whistle reduce the flame to half and after two
more whistles it will be done. The chicken gets cooked in
its own juices and gets the flavor from butter and spices.

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Other Suggestions
If you have time and would like some curry use the chicken
prepared above in tomato and onion gravy. Serve with
boiled rice.

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If you like it or come up with variations send me an email! :)

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Indexed under Recipes

Push-Button Publishing (contd.)

Hmmm didn't go as smooth as expected. Post appeared (though not immediately) but it messed up the page format. I think the email should not have been in the HTML format. I went in edit mode after the post appeared on the page and removed the unnecessary HTML tags which fixed it.

But, the idea of posting via email is too tempting so I am going to try couple more times.



This time I am trying the text mode. Let us see if it works. Even the picture above is sent via email. The picture is that of my family who are missing me terribly as I travel.

Push-Button Publishing

It was easy!! The first post yesterday night was really really easy. Think of countless hours I spent on creating my own site [and then loose it all during the server update by hosting company :( ] this was a snap - a click.

I have a feeling that Email Publishing is going to be even better than Push-Button Publishing. It is guaranteed to get published – absolutely not going to be rejected :) – and it is fast. When I see all the settings, options etc. while creating the posts I get lost. Instead of working on the post I start to tweak the look and feel which, I feel, makes me less productive. And who wants to be less productive? :) If this works I will be posting using my all time favorite Outlook. I guess I can log back to Blog only to upload pictures.

BTW I just heard our friend Bandi’s car is not starting. Probably he left the lights on and now the battery is dead. :) aaaarrghh

I am starting to get so many ideas so here it is – clicking the Send button…

Blogging on the Christmas day!

This will be a Christmas I will remember and tell stories about. Temperatures are subzero and snow is all around us. Holiday Storm 2004, as named by the local TV station, arrived on Wednesday morning in Cincinnati, OH and offices were declared closed in the afternoon. The weather was expected to get worst in next few hours and it looked like the long weekend was kicking in a lot earlier than expected. Clicked a few snaps on the way back from office. I have not seen so much snow ever. In India, we pay a lot of money to go uphill and experience snow. :) The last time it snowed when I was in Atlanta, GA in 1995, and it was nothing. I should say flurries in Atlanta.

By Thursday, we were in at least a feet of snow. The cars were buried in heaps of snow and the apartment complex looked like a nicely leveled (huge) ice skating ring. We decided to take our friend Bandi's car out and go for a short drive. Little did we know then that cars don't go over the frozen pile of ice just like that. YOU GOT TO SHOVEL THE ICE FIRST. After about hour and half and with the help of few nice neighbors we finally managed to get the car down from the mound of ice (don't ask how it got up there!!). We were so tired and cold that we parked the car back (in different spot) and headed straight back in :)







Friday was much better as we enjoyed sliding downhill at the back of our apartment. Today, being Christmas, everything was closed anyway so we were holed up inside our apartment. While surfing TV and Internet simultaneously I heard about blogging on CSPAN (yes I watch CSPAN sometimes) and remembered that I had decide to give it a try. So here I am, blogging on the Christmas day! Merry Christmas to all of you.

Oh and, send me an email for links to album of snow pics.