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As soon as you open the cooker lid wash the gaskette (rubber) in cold water and keep it in the reezer. By doing this you can use the rubber for more than a year.

To remove the odor from the refrigerator, place half a lemon in the fridge.

To easily slice boiled eggs, dip the knife in water first. The slice will be smooth and no yolk will stick to the blade.

Before beating eggs, rinse the container with water. The mixture will not stick to the sides of the vessel.

While cooking dal, add two to three drops of oil and a pinch turmeric powder with water to cook it faster.

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Always use a clean pair of kitchen scissors to trim edges of bread. Much neater and less messy edges as compared to those trimmed with a knife.

* To make samosas crisper add some corn flour to the maida for dough.

If you are making potato or cauliflower curry and you do not want any change in the colour, then do not fail to add a few drops of vinegar for the natural colours to be retained even after cooking.

If you are cooking cabbage, add a small piece of ginger for a different and enhanced taste.

To make fluffy chapathis: Use warm water when kneading the dough for chapathis. Flip the chapathi over three times before you pour ghee/oil on it so that the chapathi is soft and fluffy.

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If you have added too much salt: According to the dish you are preparing, you could add a few pieces of cooked potato, breadcrumbs, cooked tomato, maida, rice flour or chilli powder to solve the problem of too much salt.

To make fluffy chapathis: Use warm water when kneading the dough for chapathis. Flip the chapathi over three times before you pour ghee/oil on it so that the chapathi is soft and fluffy.

Always soak cauliflower in warm salted water for some time to get rid of tiny insects which may be hidden deep inside the florets.

Making dosa - When you make dosa, grease the pan with an onion. It helps to get it crispy and remove from pan easily.

Hey all these tips are very essential tips, one must be aware of these tips.
In a hurry to cook dal?
Add a little oil and turmeric powder to the dal before placing it in the cooker. It will get done in 10 minutes flat.

To preserve ginger-garlic paste : Fry them in oil before grinding and store in the same oil.

Soak some fenugreek seeds in water for sometime, grind it to a smooth paste and add it to the dosa batter to get crisp dosas.

Before cutting vegetables or any meat, dip the knife in hot water and you will be amazed to see the ease while cutting.

If you are cooking cabbage add a small piece of ginger for a different and enhanced taste.

Omkara defines what adaptation of a classic means. I went into the movie hall, fully aware that the movie is based on Shakespeare’s Othello and came out completely awestruck at how Vishal Bharadwaj has managed to make the story completely his own by his creativity. Be it the sets which look like a genuine UP village or Saif Ali Khan’s tinted teeth or Konkona Sen Sharma’s costumes, everything seemed to be fit in so effortlessly.

Omkara is about Omi Bhaiya aka Omkara (Ajay Devgan) and his 2 men, Langda Tyagi (Saif Ali Khan) and Kesu (Vivek Oberoi). Omi is a chief of certain gang which supports some political party in a lawless state of UP. He becomes MLA due to a party leader he supports. Omi then tranfers his chief position to Kesu. Langda out of jealousy convinces Omi of a false affair between Omi’s love Dolly (Kreena Kapoor) and Kesu. By the time Omi realises his mistake… its very late.

One can hear strains of ‘saare jahan se achha, Hindustan hamara’, ‘mere desh ki dharti’, ‘vande mataram’ and so on from the portals of each school as hectic rehearsals go on.Just before Independence Day each school starts searching for a Chief Guest who will unfurl the tricolour and deliver a thought provoking lecture to the kids about how independence was attained and how much the leaders had to sacrifice for the freedom of the country. The children will yawn and fidget as they sit in the sun: after all they hear the same words each year from different chief guests.At the end of the function if everything goes off smoothly the teachers will heave a sigh of relief and pack up all the props for next year.