Bhapa Doi Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Bhapa Doi is a tasty Bengali sweet. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Bhapa Doi.

Preparation time : 15 minutes

Cooking time : 2 hour

Difficulty : easy

Recipe type : veg.

Serve : 5

Ingredients:

• 400 g Condensed Milk
• 1 cup Milk
• 10 Almonds (peeled and blanched)
• 15 Pistachios (peeled and blanched)
• 15 Raisins
• 1 cup Thick Yogurt (whisked)

Let’s prepare/make Bhapa Doi:

• Take adequate water in a pressure cooker and heat it.
• In a thin steel pan, take the condensed milk, milk and yogurt to it and mix well.
• Add raisins, almonds and pistachios to the milk and mix well.
• Cover the pan with cling wrap and seal it all around leaving a few slashes on top.
• Put the pan in the cooker and vapour cook it with the cover on for 45 to 50 minutes.
• Leave it from the cooker and let it cool down.
• Better to refrigerate it till set and then cut into pieces and dish up.

Begun Bhaja (Brinjal Fry) Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Begun Bhaja is a delicious and quick cocktail snack. Learn how to prepare/make Begun Bhaja Recipe.

Preparation time : 5 minutes
Cooking time : 10 minutes
Difficulty : easy
Recipe type : veg.
Serve : 2

Ingredients:

• 1 medium Brinjal (sliced into four or five)
• 1 tbsp Refined Flour
• ½ tsp Turmeric
• 1 tsp Chat Masala
• 1 tsp Salt
• Mustard Oil for frying

Let’s prepare/make Begun Bhaja:

• Mix refined flour, salt and turmeric.
• Roll brinjal slices on it.
• Put mustard oil to fry pan to heat on medium till.
• Fry brinjal slices till golden-brown.
• Scatter Chat masala over it.

Amer Mishti Achar (Sweet Mango Pickle) Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Sweet Mango Pickle is popular for the Bengal. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Amer Mishti Achar (Sweet Mango Pickle).

Preparation time : 20 minutes

Cooking time : 30 minutes

Difficulty : little bit difficult

Recipe type : veg.

Ingredients:

• 4 medium Raw Mangoes (diced and peeled)
  
• 1/2 inch piece Ginger (paste)
  
• 1/2 cup Mustard Oil
  
• 1 tbsp Red Chilli Powder
  
• 1 tsp Mustard Powder
  
• 1 cup Sugar
• Salt to taste

Let’s prepare/make Amer Mishti Achar (Sweet Mango Pickle):

• In a large bowl, take the raw mangoes and add salt and sugar to it and put it in the sun till the sugar is melted and the mangoes turn tender.
• In a pan, heat ginger paste and mustard oil, mustard powder, red chilli powder and the mango pieces with the sugar syrup and simmer in low heat till it achieves a thread like consistency.
• Remove pickle from heat and let it cool.
• Keep the pickle in an air-free container.

Amer Chutney (Mengo Chutney) Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Amer Chutney is an amazing food right from the heart of Bengal. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Amer Chutney (Mengo Chutney).

Preparation Time : 20 minutes

Cooking Time : 25 minutes

Difficulty : Little bit difficult

Recipe Type : Veg.

Ingredients:

• 4 medium Mangoes (peeled and thick slices)
• 2 tsp Oil
  
• 2 tsp Panch Phoran (Jeera, Rai, Saunf, Kalonji, Methi)
• 1½ cup Sugar
• 2 Red Chillies
• Salt to test

Let’s prepare/make Amer Chutney (Mengo Chutney):

• Heat oil and add panch phoron, red chillies and mix till it crackles into a pan.
• Add the mango slices and fry for two minutes.
• Warm water to the mango slices followed by sugar.
• Cook on medium heat till the sugar melts and the consistency turns thick.
• Now add salt and mix again.
• Dry roast the remaining panch phoron and pound it to a powder into another pan.
• Remove the Chutney from heat and let it cool.
• Scatter this powder on top and distribute.

Aalur Dam Recipe: Bengali Recipes

Aalur Dam is a delicious and spicy lunch recipe. Let’s learn how to prepare/make Aalur Dam.

Preparation Time : 10 minutes
Cooking Time : 10 minutes
Difficulty : Easy
Recipe Type : Veg.

Ingredients:

• 500 gm small Potatoes (peeled and well boiled)
• 2 inch Ginger (chopped)
• 3 Tomatoes (chopped)
• 1 tsp Coriander Powder
• 1 tsp Turmeric Powder
• ½ tsp Cumin Powder
• 2 Green Cardamoms
• 2 Dry Red Chilli
• 2 Bay Leaves
• 4 tbsp Mustard Oil
• Asafoetida (single pinch)
• Salt to test
  

Let’s prepare/make Aalur Dam:

• Heat up the oil in a pan for 2½ minutes.
• Fry the potatoes for one minute.
• Mix up all the spices and fry up for 2 minutes.
• Add onion and tomato and fry up for 4 minutes on low fire.

Suggestions: Serve hot with chapatti, puris and launch.

Cox's Bazar- the world’s longest natural sandy sea beach

Cox's Bazar Map from Series U542, U.S. Army Map Service, 1955

Cox’s Bazar, the world’s longest natural sandy sea beach (125 km), which is really increadible length. This beach is most visited tourist destinations in Bangladesh. Cox’s Bazar is well known fishing port and a district headquarter. It is a district in the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh. The town is located 150 kilometres south of Chittagong. The spot is getting a most attractive international tourist destination in Asia. The beach is also referred to as Panowa and Palongkee which means "yellow flower."

The Cox’s Bazar achieved its name from British-Indian officer Hiram Cox in the 18th century. He did quite a lot of social works there as the administrator of Palongkee settlement. He died in 1799. He had in the hearts of the people by his social works. To honor Cox’s role in social work a market was established here and named after him as “Cox’s Bazaar” (”Cox’s Market”) with time it turn as Cox’s Bazar.

Cox’s Bazar area is only 6.85 km with 27 mahallas and 9 wards and has a population of 51,918. Near the Cox’s Bazar city there are several places to visit which places are really attractive for the tourists and the places are Laboni Beach, Himchari, Enani Beach, Sonadia Island, Maheshkhali, Teknaf, and Saint Martin Island etc. The places are really enjoyable and exciting spot for the viewers.

Bangladesh is located in the monsoon area. The weather condition is always good for healthy life and is very seasonal changes area. That’s why most of the time there stays heavy rainfall, high temperature excessive humidity because of the Bay of Bengal. The weather is controlled by the beautiful sea Bay of Bengal. The Bay of Bengal in Cox’s Bazar is a small port and health resort.

The most amazing scenery of Cox’s Bazar is the sunset scenery. It is really very enjoyable bathing, sunbathing and swimming in the sea, you should not miss. You’ll get a lot of small shopping mall here, Barmiz shoes, you can get very nice handmade clothes, dress and various types of showpieces. You’ll also get a variety of sea food, which is absolutely delicious. The traditional pickle and dry fish of Cox’s Bazar are really famous around the world.

Cox’s Bazar is really a great place to visit for the tourists and is visited by a large number of tourists from America, Britain, Nepal, India, Korea, Japan, Pakistan and many more countries each year. If you visit the Cox’s Bazar you’ll get lots of first class hotels, don’t worry about accommodation. It’s really very nice place to spend holiday.

World’s largest solar plant will be build in Abu Dhabi

Masdar CEO Sultan al-Jaber said, "We are moving on the right path to make Abu Dhabi the main source and the international capital of renewable energy and sustainable development".

The plant "will offset 170 thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide annually."

The state-owned firm told, "Consortium of Total and Abengoa Solar as a partner to own, build and operate Shams 1, the world's largest determined solar power plant and the first time for the Middle East."

Masdar told, Construction of the plant, which will cover up an area of 1 square mile (2.5 square kilometers) and cover a 100 megawatt capacity, will begin at the end of 2010 and be completed in about two years.

"We are expecting the cost of this project to be around 600 million dollars (504.2 million euros)," said Mohammed al-Zaabi the project manager.

"Shams is the first major step for Abu Dhabi to accomplish its seven percent target" for renewable energy use by 2020, Zaabi said. "Shams two and three it will be followed by this project."

Due to air conditioner use, Zaabi said, building solar power principle, as sunlight is strongest at the same time.

This is the first time in the United Arab Emirates where provide significant (power) capacity that does not rely on fossil fuel.

Zaabi told, “Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants use mirrors to heat liquid a type of oil, in the case of Shams 1 to then heat water to run a steam generator and produce electricity.”

Abengoa Solar CEO Santiago Seage told, compared to other types of solar power plants, "the fact that it is less intermittent, which is the main advantage of CSP."

Seage said, Abengoa Solar has already constructed four CSP plants in Spain, North Africa, and the United States and is constructing others in Spain.

The plant will be situated in Madinat Zayed, about 120 kilometers southwest of Abu Dhabi.

Sound ID 510 Bluetooth Headset use comfortably and make customization

Sound ID 510 Bluetooth headset containing iPhone application and comfort features, this device is incredibly customizable headset with audio quality that's consistent with other headsets.

The response of the 0.28-ounce unit's touch-sensitive volume control is particularly smooth. You can make volume adjustment by slide a finger up or down the outside of the unit while a call is in progress. It comes with multiple earpieces, along with an earhook in case all else fails.

To separate your voice from other ambient sounds and handle noise cancellation, it contains three tiny microphones in it. In general, audio quality is clear and crisp.

It has a simple, on/off switch, easy and monotonous. The unit supports A2DP and it also supports Bluetooth 2.1+EDR A2DP when a planned free firmware update becomes available for download.

The Sound ID 510 should last for 135 hours of standby time per charge and 5.5 hours of talk time of its lithium polymer battery.

Morph phone concept- NOKIA

I guess that Greenpeace report, slamming Nokia for the razor-sharp drop-off in environment friendly practices. Within a week of the report make public Nokia Evolve 3110, to some extent updated version of 3110 classic, with a “green” outlook.

Since then the headship of green initiatives was taken up by Nokia research division.

First somebody has got Nokia Eco Sensor concept, then Nokia Remade environmental phone. We’re receiving some nice-looking pictures of potential future phone designs. Today here is treated with one more attention-grabbing “green” phone concept – Nokia Morph.

The most important initiative behind Nokia Morph concept phone is utilized of nanotechnology based flexible materials, clear electronics and self-cleaning surfaces. These materials should make possible Nokia to produce a mobile device that “…may be flexible and stretchable, allowing the user to convert their mobile device into completely different shapes”.

You see in the picture different shaped devices, is really the same one mobile handset, which transforms itself into the solid shape according to the user wishes.

The concept was developed by Nokia research center in collaboration of Cambridge University and is on show at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

HTC EVO 4G is really Big, gorgeous, and Blazingly

Sprint's HTC EVO 4G is its size: this smartphone is big. And so is its display, which measures a monstrous 4.3 inches. But pick up the EVO 4G and you'll be blown away by its swiftness. This is one lightning fast phone even if you can't experience the phone in all its 4G brilliance. HTC EVO 4G the fastest data speeds of any U.S. wireless device available today. 4G is still a latest technology and the network isn't so far available in many places.

Measuring 4.8 by 2.6 by 0.5 inches, the EVO 4G is bigger than any other smartphone. The EVO 4G weighs 6 ounces, which is obviously heavier. The transaction for that size is the giant 4.3-inch screen, which offers plenty of real estate for viewing Web pages and typing with the on-screen keyboard. It's as well dazzling and crystal clear, boasting a high resolution (800-by-480 pixels).

HTC EVO 4G features two cameras: an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a forward-facing 1.3 mega pixel camera. Front facing camera be able to be used for video conferencing, at the same time as the back camera can captures still photos and video clips. The camera can capture video clips at a resolution of up to 720p with snappish images and strong audio.

The EVO 4G offers one touch right of entry to Amazon's MP3 store for DRM free music downloads. It also features an FM radio, but you'll have to buy a headset with an antenna to take benefit of that feature. Video features include a YouTube and multiplicity of Sprint services, and including Sprint TV, which offers a mix of live channels and content that has been specially packaged for viewing on your mobile phone.

You can pay a premium for all that speed, though. Sprint is offering the HTC EVO 4G for $199.99 when you’ll sign two-year service conformity. That's an extremely levelheaded price for such sort of full-featured phone.

I mentioned about premium, well, you'll be paying it every month. Sprint needs a PDA/Smart Device service plan with the HTC EVO 4G, such while the carrier's $69.99-per-month all Data plan. Other than Sprint also requires a $10 per month Premium Data add on for its 4G service, and that add on plan is needed even you live in an area with 4G coverage or not.

The EVO 4G's features is exclusive, especially if you--like most people--live in an area without 4G service. The HTC EVO 4G is one of the most impressive smartphones available today.