What is your favorite lamb recipe? Chops? Shoulder? Leg? Steaks? Grilled? Baked? Marinated? Rubbed? Most of us run out of ways to prepare lamb before our mint jelly is finished. If young mutton ranks high on your list of preferences, you’ll be interested to know the Royal Cooks for the Mughal Empire in India were able to create a different preparation of lamb for each day of the year. That’s well over three hundred dishes—far more than today’s cooks would be able, or inclined, to create. Although other meat showed up in the Mughal cuisine, lamb was their meat of choice for both religious and geographical reasons. As Muslims they didn’t eat pork. Large quantities of beef were unavailable in the predominantly Hindu country (India) they ruled. Fish and other seafood were unfamiliar and not easily available in their landlocked empire. These wealthy Mughals, builders of the memorable Taj Mahal, lived a life of luxury, drama, and complexity—an opulence which was reflected in their food. Any ingredient they wanted could be summoned to their table. Gold and silver foil garnished tops of food. Fifty different dishes would be prepared for a banquet. Multitudes of spices were daily ground for their meals. A favorite Mughal lamb appetizer was muzbi. Its preparation began with a lamb breast. A marinade of garlic, onion, ginger, green chili, turmeric, red chili and garam masala was ground together then mixed with yogurt. Fatty cubes were cut from the marinated breast and dipped into a thin paste of crushed almonds, poppy seeds, and sesame seeds. Then the muzbi was quickly sizzled on hot stones. Several pieces would be served to each person on plates garnished with sliced onion, green chutney, and a wedge of lime. You might not want—nor have the facilities—to prepare a whole fattened sheep and platter it on its back with its legs in the air, but the Mughal cooks did. First they liberally slashed the animal and filled each incision with spices. Then it was roasted on a spit. After the meat was cooked, the carcass was stuffed with flavored rice, whole roasted chickens, and hard-boiled eggs. The entire concoction was baked in a cauldron with butter, water, vegetables, rice, and more spices. The graphic shape wasn’t always attractive, but the taste was a tantalizing combination of strong lamb, bland chicken and eggs combined with the snappy combination of spices, vegetables and rice. Large feasts required several of these plattered animals. Mughal kitchens are gone but many of their recipes, some of them adaptations, are still favorites in many parts of the world. The preparations below use lamb without the complexity and over-the-top - richness so frequently found in Mughal food. One is biryani which is a rice and lamb combination. Spices such as cumin, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, peppercorns, cardamom, mace, nutmeg, and saffron are used in various combinations. Biryani is garnished with small sheets of edible silver leaf. Another, ground lamb meatballs filled with hard-cooked eggs, is a visually stunning dish we can thank the Mughals for. When Nargesi Kofta is sliced, the egg in the middle is sunnily exposed, reminiscent of the narcissus reflected in its name. A third is kababs, seasoned ground lamb shaped into elongated “sausages” around skewers. They are grilled or broiled and served with a sprinkle of masala and perhaps a sauce made from pistachios, almonds, cardamom and cream. Lamb can be prepared with a variety of masalas, each changing the flavor of the finished product. Masala is a combination of spices, herbs and others seasonings ground or pounded together and is used as the base for Indian curry sauces. They are fresh daily, and adjusted to the current ingredients. Coconut, coriander, hot chilies, ginger root, garlic, and onions are enjoyed in addition to the powdered ingredients. Complex lamb dishes involving extended preparations, significant staff and unusually large platters are limited to royalty and the very wealthy. For the rest of us, cookbooks provide a wide range of ingredients and methods that present lamb as a worthy entrйe. A basic, home-style lamb curry for today’s cooks is accomplished by creating a sauce and cooking it with the meat. Sautй 2 chopped onions, four cloves of garlic, ј” chopped fresh ginger, 1 Ѕ t coriander powder, a pinch of turmeric, Ѕ t cumin powder, ј t garam masala, 1 t chili powder. Add a cup of water and cook for 10 minutes. Add two chopped tomatoes and cook another five minutes. Now the curry sauce is ready for the 10 ounces of lamb cubes and 2 Ѕ cups of water. Cook until done and serve sprinkled with chopped coriander leaves.
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Safety tips important in careing for babies part 2
What You Should NOT do ---------------------- 1. Never shake the baby, it can cause damage to the brain. 2. Don't leave any small articles near the baby . 3. Sharp pointed articles like pen, pencil, ect should not be kept away from babies. 4. Avoid entry of water in to the ear while giving a bath. 5. Food should not be given forcibly when the baby is crying or coughing continuously. 6. Do Not overfeed the baby. 7. Articles like mosquito repellents, moth balls, ink, gum, medicines, ect should be kept away. 8. Avoid tight clothing. 9. Should not be placed near the edge of the bed. 10. Should not give the baby to strangers and avoid close contact with others. 11. All electrical instruments should be kept away, and bed should not be arranged near electrical sockets and wires. 12. Kitchen is a dangerous place for children. Don't leave them alone in the kitchen. 13. Water level in the bath tub should be minimum and don't go for any other works(to attent phone call or calling bell ect) when the baby is in the tub. 14. Avoid smoking inside the house. 15. Should not allow pet animals to be in very close contact with the baby.(anti rabies injections should be given to pets and cut their nails properly) 16. When the child starts walking should not be kept alone on the upstairs and should not allow them to climb the steps. 17. Strong light should be avoided in the room. 18. When you are travelling don't give the food articles given by co passengers. 19. Baby should not be allowed to crawl on the soil. 20. If you are sick, or someone else is sick, keep away from the baby. 21. Dont take the baby to hospital wards, crowded market places, and polluted dusty areas. 22. Table lamps should not be kept near the kids, this will attract insects at night and cause problems. 23. Other medicine should not be given to the children. 24. Medicine which has passed the expiery date should not be used.
Diversity in chicago schools
On the last day of the 2006-2007 Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts announced a decision that will inevitably stir up diversity issues within schools across the nation, and the Chicago Schools. It will most certainly change the way most school systems, including those within the Chicago Schools, run their magnet programs. And it will affect how they decide which students to steer towards, and to accept into, each program. The decision decried racial balancing in schools where race is used for magnet programs. Many of the magnets within the Chicago Schools use race as a factor in accepting students into their programs. There is one group of magnets in the Chicago Schools that selects students based completely on racially weighted lotteries. The students’ applications are sorted according to race, and then drawn in lotteries. This is meant to achieve racial diversity. Acceptance into other magnet programs is based on grades, test scores, academic achievement, and extracurricular involvement. Race is used as a minimal determining factor. Some administrators in the Chicago Schools fear that this threatens the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education; the decision in which segregation based on color was denounced. Patrick Rock, the attorney for Chicago Schools, stated that the decision will only affect Chicago Schools if and when a federal justice agrees to release them from a desegregation consent decree which dates all the way back to 1980. He stated that at some point in the future the Chicago Schools may ask to have the decree dissolved but states ”‘the question is when”. Rock also said that the Supreme Court ruling only affects how the Chicago Schools run their programs after the decree is dissolved. That may not be until the fall of 2008. This is when the application process will begin for the 2009 school year. In the meantime Chicago Schools’ magnets will continue to use the same criteria for admittance into the programs. Administrators say that Chicago Schools use race as a determining factor to keep schools racially diverse. Not as a means to segregation. The Supreme Court ruling does not disallow the Chicago Schools from using race. It simply states that a valid and compelling reason must be given for doing so. In the Chicago Schools these reasons often include ensuring racial diversity in the many areas where it doesn’t exist. Rock doesn’t feel that the Chicago Schools will eliminate magnet programs in order to avoid litigation, however, there are those on the Supreme Court who feel that many school systems nationwide may begin to dissolve their magnet programs to avoid litigation and its ensuing costs. The Chicago Schools may choose to use race as a way to determine where to build schools to ensure this diversity, how to fund schools in certain areas, and which programs to steer students towards - based more on their talents and achievements and not solely to fill a certain percentage of racial mix.
The home business and anti virus software
If you own or are thinking of starting a home business, the odds are that you already have a great Internet connection. With the introduction of cable and broadband Internet connections, surfing the web and conducting business online has become second nature to a lot of people. But the security of the Internet is not always the best, and an anti-virus software program can help your home business stop a lot of problems before they even start. There are a few reasons why it is a good idea to protect your home business computer with a good anti-virus software program. If you store any client data or financial records on your home business computer, it is very important that all of this information stays secure and intactputer viruses, worms, trojans, and hackers all pose a significant threat anytime your home business computer is connected to the Internet. Whenever you are online or connected to the Internet, your computer is like an open doorway for anyone and anything who wants to enter if it does not have protection, like locks on an actual doorputer anti-virus software acts as the locks on the door, not allowing any hackers through, and stopping any malware before it can spread throughouut your system and files. Internet security and confidential client information are concerns that all businesses, including home businesses, must take very seriously. Clients will not deal with a business if they feel that their private information will not stay private. Hackers have tried for years to steal private information, and they can be very successful at times. Identity theft and financial information theft have become almost common place in today's world, and it is important that you keep your client information and financial information safe and secure. Malware can be very damaging to your home business computer and your home business. Files and important information can end up corrupted and unusable, and some viruses and other computer threats can spread through e-mail, using your computer to infect the computers of family members, friends, business associates, and anyone else unlucky enough to be in your address book. Anti-virus software programs will help protect your home business and your business reputation by protecting your computer against all malware that could infect it. Clients have the reassurance that your home business is secure and that their private information will stay that way. Copyright © 2007 Joel Teo. All rights reserved.
Christmas gift ideas give joy in a simple idea
What is a simple small act of giving during Christmas that does not cost much can leave behind memories that can last a lifetime to a loved one. I remembered many years back, when I was a small kid of 10 years, one of my aunt who was a devout christian and who celebrated Christmas gave me a christmas present. It was a big sized book that I could read, on the story of a pirate on the high seas. It gave tremendous joy to me, a small kid at that time. It wouldn't have cost her more than $10 for it, but her act that day gave me tremendous joy that lasted until this day - a simple act of giving that touched my heart, and which remains cherished. Though this aunt is now living in another foreign land, thousands of miles apart, and there has not been any communication between us for over twenty over years, yet there is this unwavering bond of love that somewhere in this world, there is someone who cared many, many years back, and whom I would desire to want to look her up and visit if there is an opportunity. Indeed, time and distance has not diminished the very memories of her beautiful act of giving that day. I used to wonder why it is said that it is more blessed to give than to receive. I always felt that receiving something from someone else and keeping it in my pockets was more blessed than to give away. But then when I think of this little piece of history and personal experience, and recalled the tremendous amount of joy in my heart when I received that story book as a gift, I could remember how my aunt's face also lit up, and glowed, and she seemed to be to be almost like the wonderful fairy who takes care of everyone on earth, and I am sure she felt blessed, and happy. Indeed, it is when we give away from ourselves and give to others, such as our loved ones and those in need that we can be blessed in return. A gift is a gift..because we give without expectation of anything in return, but the laws of nature and of this universe dictate that when we give out of love, this love is translated into an energy that cannot be explained, and which will touch lives, and change perceptions, and make the world a better place to live in. So this Christmas season, pause and think of how we can sow love and give gifts and presents of love to others. Our gifts may not be expensive, but yet they can touch a life when we give off our hearts, and away from ourselves and when we give out of goodwill and love. Indeed, it is more blessed to give than to receive.
Your power of real concentration
Did you ever stop to think what an important part your thoughts, I mean real concentrated thoughts, play in your life? The ability to concentrate all your attention is so important, no matter what task or job you have to get done… as nothing great or significant can be accomplished without proper effort and concentration. And almost all of us have some sort of difficulty in the concentration of our attention. Workers in business and industry, students in high school and college, and even professors in universities, complain of the same difficulty. It is said that the power to concentrate all your attention is vital as it stands at the very centre of most (if not all) mental activity. No matter from what angle we view the mind, its excellence always seems to depend upon the power to concentrate all our attention. Concentration may be defined as being that state of mind in which the entire energies of the individual, physical as well as mental, are focused upon the thing they are doing or thinking. All actions and all thoughts NOT connected with what they are doing or thinking are kept out of the mind… If we examine a growing child, one of the first things we will see is the power they have in them to "pay attention or to notice things". When we examine the ability of normal adults we do so by means of tests that require close concentration of attention, and we regard anyone who is able to maintain close focused and concentrated attention for long periods of time as a person of strong mind or will. So real concentration may be broken down into just 2 parts: 1. The voluntary focusing of all our power and attention in the selecting of certain objects to be attended to. 2. And the ignoring of other objects which act as distractions. But even in spite of our most careful provisions, there will still be distractions which cannot be eliminated. For example, you cannot stop the noise of planes flying over or cars driving past while you are trying to work, plan or study. And you cannot build a fence around the thoughts and focus of your mind so as to keep out unwanted and irrelevant ideas… the best thing you can do is to accept the inevitable that the presence of some distractions will always exist, and to realise that in order to concentrate and pay attention properly, it is necessary to form the habit of ignoring these distractions. You can simply start out by making a strong determined effort to ignore all distractions… practise ignoring them, and try your best not to let a slip occur. Also at the same time, try to develop interest in the object you are concentrating all your attention on, because we tend to pay more attention to those things in which we are most interested. It’s easy for any one to say, “concentrate"… but you need to know exactly how to concentrate. Remember that to concentrate is merely the act of applying your entire body and mind, to the task or action in hand. Every effort of the mind, whether it’s to… • Perceive something • Recollect something • Associate something • Imagine something • Even to judge something Must all involve some concentration of the faculties of the mind upon that particular action, task or act, whatever it may be! As you start to develop a firm interest in your field of work or study, and as you develop the habit of ignoring distractions - you will be able to concentrate your powers of attention with less and less effort. Another important fact to note is that as you develop the power to select objects for the concentration of all your attention, you also develop (at the same time) other mind power processes − you will improve the ability to memorize and recall much more, to fine tune and manage better your time and effort. And also the power to control your future thoughts and actions... In short “developing your power to concentrate and focus all your attention means developing power in all the mental processes”. With that being said, we want to finish by giving you, The 2 TOP Keys Of Concentration For every one of us, concentration will always mean, 1. Selecting and focusing on what is most important to us, and disregarding what is not… and also knowing which tasks and jobs have top priority. 2. You must identify for yourself what is most important and essential to you - and try to filter out everything else. These are the two main steps towards developing strong concentration… recognising the essential… and leaving out the non-essential.
A look at the history of the electric guitar
Electric Guitars The Electric guitar hasn’t been around nearly as long as the Acoustic and Classical guitars. In fact, the Electric guitar was created just 70 years ago (the 1930s) by Adolph Rickenbacker. Since that time, the Electric guitar has greatly evolved to the where it is today. In this article, we’ll go over the history of the Electric guitar. The History Guitars, or similar instruments, have been around for thousands of years. The Electric guitar was first manufactured in the 1930s by Rickenbacker. Original Electric guitars used tungsten pickups. Pickups basically convert the vibration of the strings into electrical current, which is then fed into the amplifier to produce the sound. The very earliest Electric guitars featured smaller soundholes in the body. These guitars are known as semi-hollow body Electric guitars and still are somewhat popular today, mainly due to the fact that they are flexible guitars. However, with the use of pickups, it was possible to create guitars without soundholes (like the Acoustic and Classical guitars have) that still had the ability to be heard, if plugged into amplifiers. These guitars are called solid body Electric guitars. The Electric guitar’s popularity began to increase during the Big Band era of the ‘30s and 40s. Due to the loudness of the brass sections in jazz orchestras, it was necessary to have guitars that could be heard above the sections. Electric guitars, with the ability to be plugged into amplifiers, filled this void. The Electric guitar that is most prevalent today is the solid body Electric guitar. The solid body guitar was created by musician and inventor Les Paul in 1941. It is a guitar made of solid wood with no soundholes. The original solid body guitar created by Paul was very plain—it was a simple rectangular block of wood connected to a neck with six steel strings. Les Paul’s original solid body guitar shape has, of course, changed from the original rectangular shape to the more rounded shape Les Paul guitars have today. During the 1950s, Gibson introduced Les Paul’s invention to the world. The Gibson Les Paul, as it was and still is called, quickly became a very popular Electric guitar. It has remained the most popular guitar for 50 years. Around the same period of time, another inventor named Leo Fender came up with a solid body Electric guitar of his own. In the late 1940s, Fender introduced the Fender Broadcaster Electric guitar. The Broadcaster, which was renamed the Stratocaster, was officially introduced to the public in 1954. The Strat, as it is now known, was a very different guitar in comparison to the Les Paul. It had a different shape, different hardware and was significantly lighter. Fender’s Stratocaster Electric guitar is the second most popular guitar in the world, second to only the Les Paul. Over the years, other companies, such as Ibanez, Jackson, Paul Reed Smith, ESP and Yamaha have all produced solid body Electric guitars of their own. However, most Electric guitars still feature the familiar shape of a Les Paul or Strat guitar.