How Semai Adde or Nook Adde is made
I get to go home only once a year for Christmas. This is also when I grill the poor old things at home for my blog. I hate to do this as this sort of information is passed on during casual conversation or while doing something related rather than through an interview and many times [...]
The Semai Adde/Nook Adde Press
When we were kids, we went home to Udupi from Bombay every year to spend the summer holidays with our cousins who all came to grandma’s house for vacations. For a change, we had lots of place to run around and when we played hide and seek, Ajjamma‘s (grandma’s) gadang (store room in Tulu) was [...]
Getting rid of Tata Photon’s browser start page hijack
I’ve been using the Tata Photon Plus for a while now. In spite of my rant on its TV services some time back, I’ve found its mobile broadband and customer service more or less reliable and polite relative to my long experiences and dealings with Reliance. However, one of their “features” has rubbed me the [...]
Installing the HP 1020,1022 printers on Windows 7
It is annoying when you spend your money on a good quality product expecting it to provide useful service for a long time and your purchase turns its back on you. It is worse if you took good care of it and it is still in working condition and yet you cannot use it.
Grilled Fish (Meen Kolai)
All the practical aspects for my blog posts take place out of my house, usually when I’m traveling to different places on official work, or on leave -especially my annual leave which I prefer to take all at once for Christmas. This is a blessing in disguise as I can focus all my energy on [...]
How to clean shrimp or prawns
Prawns have been one of my favorite foods. However like all bottom feeding or filter feeding creatures, (prawns, mussels, crabs, cat fish etc..) it causes allergies -serious allergies in some people. I know of friends and relatives, who would die without medical aid if they ever ate one or more of these foods, yet they [...]
Review: Nikon Monarch ATB Team RT 8 x 42 (dielectric) binoculars
The most expensive of my camping purchases finally arrived. It was a long wait while I bought the essentials and kept postponing this purchase. I didn’t plan it this way -to make this my most expensive purchase, but as the years went by, so did my paycheck and of course I wanted something which would [...]
Review: Zebra Stainless Steel Billy Can
I currently have 4 cook pots that I use when trekking. Often I use them at home too! The Vargo Ti lite mug The Snowpeak Trek 900 Titanium The Montbell #3D Titanium cooker The Zebra 12cm “Billy Can” The Zebra has been my latest acquisition, and my first stainless steel cook pot as I prefer [...]
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