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Juice extracted from raw grated bitter gourd can be mixed with a helping of honey and Salt, and add some plain water. Drink this extract to rid of small home ailments and give A general feeling of goodwill.
Collect clean scrapings of bitter gourd. Tie in a thin clean muslin cloth and use as a facial and body loofah to scrub out dead cells.
Salads can be made very very decorative, by using normally discarded skins of apples, peas, cucumbers, etc.
Never discard nutritious skins of apples, when peeling. Eat them or add them to a chopped salad, raitha.
To get a light and better taste as a variation, dry roast ingredients like rice, dal, on low till aroma exudes. Then proceed as per recipe.
For a tasty nutty sandwich fillingin a hurry, mix together prepared green chutney, some tomato ketchup, mayonnaise, chopped onion and tomato, and a few crushed peanuts or walnuts.Butter slices apply mixture thickly inside, and your sandwich is ready. You cak refrigerate this mixture without onions and tomatoes, for almost a week.
When ginger, garlic, etc. are crushed in a mixie, it gets tedious try to remove all of it, from under the blade, etc. Once crushed and removed, run a little water in the mixie, and pour into the batter, The mixie will get cleaned as well as ingredients will be used economically. In case of fritters, use the cornwater itself.
Always handle messy mixtures like that of fudges, chocolates, etc. with hand dusted with cornflour, it will be much easier to handle.
Making a note of what you are going to make a few minutes before going to bed. That will save a lot of searching and fumbling and thinking and swearing, to begin the next day with.
Make many variations of basic recipes like chutney parathas, by adding ajwain/veggies/mint,etc. One may use red coconut chutney too. Just make sure, no chutney is running, but very stiff.
If one doesn't have an oven, then place a dosa griddle on gas, place a stand (metal) on it, put a metal mesh over stand and keep the dish over this, eg. stuffed potatoes. Cover with an inverted vessel, and allow to brown on slow fire. Or use a gas tandoor instead.
Open and clean the spring and insides of your gas lighter, every month, to make it last doubly longer. Just clean insides with a soft clean cloth and twig or skewer.
One may make pancake and other batter much ahead of time, but take care to add soda bicarb only before making. This way the pancakes will still turn out crisp and light.
Once a month soak all your plastic equipment like cutting board, tea strainers, colanders, etc. in a weak solution (50ml. to a 15 litre bucket of water) of domestic bleach and water for 1 or 2 hours. Then wash with a mild detergent and scrubber to be rid of accumulated dirt, food particles, etc.
