Elite Recipe: Fromarge Pasta

Elite Recipe is a carefully selected delictable recipe once every month by The Elite Window. It is an offshoot from Tongue Tinglers.

You will need-

1 cup Salsa (See the previous June 2008 Salsa Recipe by clicking on the link from the right)
200-250 gms (1 serving) Penne Pasta
Oregano
Salt to taste
Soy Sauce
Cheese (3 cubes)
Milk 1 cup
Flour 1 cup

For Pasta-

Boil Penne pasta in slightly salted water. Add a spoon cooking oil before itself to prevent it from sticking. After boiling for 5-8 minutes, remove Penne by straining the water out. Take a Kadai (or a pan) add a spoon of olive/cooking oil and add the salsa mix. Add a sprinkle of Soy sauce (not too much) and saute well. Simmer. Now in a seperate pan, add the milk and slowly boil. Add two tablespoons flour (See to it that you dont add too much- just enough to make the milk viscous). Grate the cubes of cheese into the milk saucepan. Do not neglect the other simmering Kadai/pan. Saute the milk saucepan well and pour the viscous mix onto the kadai/pan containing the salsa mix. Mix well and then add to the bowl containing the penne pasta. Mix again and then pour into serving dish with a sprig of lettuce and serve. If required, one can make the dish more interesting by adding edible, minced bottle mushrooms along with the salsa mix. Sprinkle the Oregano on top of the serving in the end.

This dish is to be taken while hot.

Your Chef,
Aditya C.R
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The Elite Window: The Changed Window!

Ok, now I know this is ridiculous but Elite Window has changed its looks and this time- for good (at least for now).

The new Elite Window features a completely new makeover in terms of Font colours and the logo again! The Elite Window is still green (See the Go Green post) as well as starry with a glittering background and cool header; and new font colours have been added (as I pointed out earlier). What's more, Elite Window has got a classy "PC-made" logo with a superb Blackladder 'E' and 'W' amidst checkered red and white windows giving it a modern look. There are new sections added towards the sides (observe the new left hand banner) too. There is the new ADi Tube for video updates, a slideshow of new photos every month, a flash news section to keep you updated on the latest news, the fav links section remains, there is a poll where you all must vote as it is your right to do so! Also there are the google ads you should click on to keep TEW running!!! Please click as I get 20 cents for every valuable click on each ad! Look out for a brand new season this July for The Window, you and me.

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"Shut up when it comes to shutting up"
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Options: What (How) to Blog?

Hi!

Incidently, I heard that many of you have not created a blog, so, a wonderful opportunity for those of you who have not- The Elite Window will accept your articles confined to the topics I mentioned in the first post, and it will be minimally edited and posted on the blog with your name!!! Send in you articles to aditya.cr@gmail.com and get your voices heard. They say that practice makes it perfect- you can do so here. The first 3 articles recieved will be posted this month on the blog. This process will repeat every month. Consider this for the month of July. Send your entries quick!!!

Aditya C.R
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Gadget Gossip: Hewlett Packard Pavilion Desktop

Hi!

Ok, this time Gadget Gossip has something nice to offer- A HP desktop m9390IN PC review.

We shall take a look at its config.

CONFIGURATION OF M9390IN HP PAVILION DESKTOP

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz Processor
Light Scribe DVD writer with Blu-Ray Disc reader (Max 20x DVD ROM Speed)
4 GB RAM
Intel G33 Express Chipset
W19" TFT Screen
1 Terabyte Hard Drive (1024 GB) @ 7200 rpm
nVidia GeForce 9600GS Graphics card with 512 MB dedicated memory
1 Touch Backup Button
HP Pocket Media Drive
1 Firewall, 2 X USB 2.0 ports
Integrated Bluetooth 2.0
Wireless Internet Wi-Fi inbuilt
Audio and Mike connection (5 channel compatible)
S-Video port
wireless mouse and keyboard
TV Tuner Card
Windows Vista Home Premium
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Norton Internet Security (60 day trial)
3-3-3 Years Warranty
HP 800VA UPS

All for a substantial price of 86750 INR (Inclusive of taxes and levies). What more would one want?

Cool na? I am off to buy it!!!! For more queries contact my email ID.
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Will keep you posted on the Iphone* too- Vodafone and Airtel have started pre-registration online. (I chose Vodafone, its the best). Visit Vodafone IN and Airtel IN for more details or simply send IPHONE to 56789 for Vodafone and IPHONE to 54321 for Airtel. Also visit Apple India for the Technical Specifications.

*Tentative release is July 11th 2008. The release date may be delayed as 3G network is yet to come to India. As reported by Mr. A. Raja, Minister for Telecommunications, the auction of frequencies for 3G will commence in June-July 2008. Establishment of 3G networks will further take time.

Aditya CR
"Patience is a virtue"
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Living in the Present: Guru Gyan #1

Ok hi, (again)

Sorry for the long hold up (from June 16th) I had to do an advanced course in the Ashram- which reminds me if anyone wants to do the YES+ course in Chennai contact me at aditya.cr@gmail.com for more details (I will not reveal mobile nos on blog- go check my orkut profile). I came back by IndiGo Airlines yesterday and tomorrow is my college so will post a crux of the course in here (for now of course). Guruji (Sri Sri) has an answer to whatever question you throw at him- that's the fun part- and his quick and humorous wit is the funny part!! Here is the tidbit of one Satsang session in the evening-

WA (wise answer) #1
Girl: Guruji, I love you!
Guruji: You have no choice!!!

Q #1
Spectator: Guruji, do you believe in aliens?
Guruji: As long as you do not think that I am one myself!!

Q #2
Spectator: Guruji how will you wipe the bad karmas that you have unknowingly accumalated from your previous births?
Guruji: Sudarshan Kriya.

Q #3

Spectator: I have done nothing in my life worthy of smiling, what can I do?
Guruji: Why not? You have come here (ashram) havn't you. That should be enough to bring the smile. See, do not wait to acheive something for the smile to come, keep smiling at first and then you'll acheive something- the smile will remain too.

GG (Guru Gyan)

(Everybody is making noise in the Vishalakshi Mandap during Satsang on Sunday evening (after Guruji had talked in Kannada to the locals- I was there and I understood everything!)

Sssssssssshhhhhh.... said Guruji and the whole Mandap was reverberating with man made echoes of "sssshhhh". Then Guruji started speaking when the jam packed hall was fairly quiet)

See there is a significance behind the sound "ssshhhh", everybody becomes peaceful. Similarly, when we get a surprise or we appreciate a masterpiece, we say the sound "Wah". (The whole hall repeats both the words obediently in random fashion). Then when you join the too sounds you get a commonly uttered name which is Shiva, his essence, signifying the admirable peace and silence which comes by when uttered in a hymn repeatedly for 108 times (by the way 108 because it is the only number which is a product of 27 and 4 as told by Bau) in "Om Namah Shivaya chanting".

See how knowledgeble Guruji is!

Jai Gurudev!
"Do the course with no remorse."
Aditya CR
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The New Elite Window!

The new Elite Window features a completely new makeover in terms of Font colours and the logo itself! This time around, The Elite Window goes green- the web page remaining black (See the Go Green post) and new font colours have been added (as I pointed out earlier). What's more, Elite Window has got a classy "PC-made" logo with a superb Blackladder 'E' and 'W' amidst a splash of citrus colours.

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Go Green: Blackle.com

As posted on Blackle:

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

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Try and do keep web pages black- you'll save energy in a deficient world. Be conservative! Support Blackle- Blackle Support Link

My blog background stays black.

Aditya CR
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Personal Portfolio: My erratic schedule.

The number of alliterations (Like Simple Software, Personal Portfolio) I use are becoming annoying, yes? Ignore.

Ok, sorry for the 4 day gap, had to do college admissions stuff- Loyola college, Chennai. Nothing else, going to college seems to be the only thing left to do- of course there is AOL (for more info check Living in the Present) advanced course. I am going to Bangalore tomorrow- Ashram. Will blog of course, i have Tata Indicom wireless... laptop too (duh).

Running out of things to say when it comes to me!!!

TC
Aditya CR
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Simple Software: Firefox 3

Hi,

the long gap in posting will be discussed later, first the interesting software that has hit the globe- Mozilla Corporation has really gone overboard in outdoing themselves with the newest version of the second most popular browser in the world- Mozilla Firefox. With the 3rd Generation version coming out with more than 50,000 new corrections, add-ons, features and more, it is going to also create history if you download it on download day June 17th (tomorrow) by pledging to do so on Spread Firefox.com. This will help Mozilla get the title from Guinness for the most software downloads in 24 hours. So you can pledge online at the given link and help the 18.44% of browser market share Mozilla has currently, grow into a better figure.

Aditya CR
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Music to the Ears: The Call by Regina Spektor

Ok, this is an update to the post before the last one, just to show the superb relation between her song and the Narnian Movie. Here is the video of the last five minutes of the movie-

It is such a good movie- you musn't miss it! Check the previous post Silver Screens: A Box Office Clash! by clicking the link on the right hand side of the page to get more details on the same! Also don't hesitate to check out Stars On The Ground: Regina Spektor, for the lyrics.

Also to listen to the whole song click Listen to "The Call". You'll also be able to download from the same link.

Chao,

Aditya C.R

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Maami's Kitchen: Medu Vadai

Ingredients:

916 gms (4 Azha) Urad Dhall (Ulthamparuppu)

3 Chillis

Salt to taste

1/2 litre Oil (preferably corn oil)

Curry Leaves (Karvapillai)

1 cup Coconut bits

Method:

Soak the Urad dhall for 25-30 min in water. Add the soaked dhall along with the water into a mixie grinder (or go to the local miller and get it grinded). (Keep adding exact amounts of water, just enough to keep the batter from getting dry, when you're doing it yourself). When the batter is ready, add the required amount of salt (after taking the required amount of batter seperately, but if you want to use the whole batter, you'll get approx. 20 vadais depending on the size of each vadai). Add the chopped chillies, curry leaves and the coconut bits and mix thorughly. Pre-heat the oil in a kadai. Test the oil's heat by adding a pinch of batter in it and seeing if it gets cooked. If it is hot enough, take a blob of batter on your oil-greased hands and make a hole in the center. Slowly slide the batter on your hand into the oil (avoid getting hurt by crackling oil) and fry till golden brown. Serve hot with sambar, sauce or chutney. (Recipe for homemade sambar will be upcoming shortly).

Your Chef,

Aditya C.R

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