Zucchini Pancakes

Ingredients:

• Zucchini - 1 large (grated)
• Scallions - 2 strands (sliced)
• Garlic - 2 pieces (chopped)
• Green chillies - 2 (chopped)
• All purpose flour - 2 tbsp
• Parmesan cheese - 1 tsp 
• Egg - 1
• Salt 
• Pepper powder
• Cumin powder 
• Cilantro - 5 strands (chopped)

Procedure:

1. Mix all above ingredients in a bowl and keep it aside for 15 mins.
2. Heat skillet on stove and oil spray it, once it is heated pour mixture into round shape and cover it with lid and turn on other side and make sure it is well cooked on both sides
3. Serve it on a plate with butter (optional)

Poha Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 cup poha/chidva  (pressed rice)
• 1 Tbsp oil 
• 1/8 tsp asafoetida 
• 1 tsp mustard seeds 
• 1/2 cup onions - finely chopped 
• 8-10 curry leaves 
• 2-3 whole red chillies 
• 1/2 cup potatoes - diced small 
• 1/2 tsp turmeric 
• 2 tsp salt or to taste 
• 1 tsp green chillies-finely chopped 
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice 
• 1 Tbsp chopped coriander leaves 

Cooking Method:

1. Put poha in a colander and wash, not letting it soak too long in the water. Leave in the colander to drain out completely. 
2. Heat the oil and add mustard seeds, curry leaves,the turmeric powder, the asafoetida and the whole red chillies. 
3. Add onions, green chillies and fry until they are light brown, add potatoes, and turn around till they look a bit glossy. 
4. Add salt , poha and mix well by increasing flame to medium.
5. Switch off the stove sprinkle lemon juice and garnish with cilantro leaves. 

Tissue Paper Flowers

I saw tutorial about paper flowers in planet june using tissue paper of your favorite color. 

What do you need:

• Tissue paper
• Scissors
• 2 large paper clips
• Pipe cleaners (chenille stems) or floral wire
• Colored marker pen
• Optional: floral wire, floral tape, wire cutters

Sweet Potato Quesadilla Recipe

Sweet Potato, Black Bean and Kale Quesadillas Recipe:

Serving Size: 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients:

For the quesadillas:

3 medium sweet potatoes, sliced ½ inch thick

¾ teaspoon salt, divided

½ teaspoon cumin

½ teaspoon chili powder

¼ teaspoon oregano

1 to 2 chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, minced

½ tablespoon olive oil

3 cups chopped kale

3 green onions, thinly sliced

1 can black beans, drained and rinsed

8 to 10 large flour tortillas

2 to 2 ½ cups freshly grated cheddar cheese

Instructions:

Add the sliced potatoes to a large saucepan and add enough water to cover the potatoes. Add ½ teaspoon of the salt to the pot. With the heat on high, bring the water to a boil. Once it reaches a boil, reduce the heat to medium and simmer for about 15 minutes, until the potatoes are tender. Drain the potatoes and then add to a large bowl. Use a potato masher to mash the potatoes. Add the remaining ¼ teaspoon salt, cumin, chili powder, oregano and chipotle peppers. Mix until well combined.

In a medium skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. When hot, add in the kale and green onions. Cook for about 2 to 3 minutes, until the kale is bright green and tender. Add the mixture to the bowl with the mashed sweet potatoes. Next add in the black beans and mix until well combined.

Place the tortillas on a work surface. Use a spatula to smear about ⅓ to ½ cup of the filling on half of the tortilla. Top with about ¼ cup of the cheese (or to taste). Fold the empty half of the tortilla over the filling to form a semicircle. Repeat with remaining tortillas.

Wipe out the skillet you used for the kale and set over medium high heat. When hot, spray lightly with nonstick cooking spray. Place an assembled quesadilla in the pan and cook, flipping once halfway through, until both sides are browned and the cheese is melted. Cut into triangles and serve with hot sauce, greek yogurt and/or salsa.

For serving:
hot sauce, optional
greek yogurt or sour cream, optional
salsa, optional

Youtube Video Overlay issue with web page

As part of our new website redesign,there was a issue with youtube video overlay with existing content on webpage so found this article which resolves the issue by adding parametre which indicates video to be transparent mode.

http://maxmorgandesign.com/fix_youtube_iframe_overlay_and_z_index_issues/



   $(document).ready(function() {
    $("iframe").each(function(){
        var ifr_source = $(this).attr('src');
        var wmode = "wmode=transparent";
        if(ifr_source.indexOf('?') != -1) {
            var getQString = ifr_source.split('?');
            var oldString = getQString[1];
            var newString = getQString[0];
            $(this).attr('src',newString+'?'+wmode+'&'+oldString);
        }
        else $(this).attr('src',ifr_source+'?'+wmode);
    });
});

beauty masks and tips

Avocado face mask

http://www.spontaneouschick.com/2012/06/14/4-avocado-face-masks-that-work/

Fun Friday and Saturday blast

I am always happy on my Fridays  and I am more happy today since I am gonna meet my friends tonight for dinner and booze of course ;) I came home and all set to go buy my hubby called me and told he was stuck in office with important work and gonna be in home after couple of hours. I am kinda off disappointed and thought my Friday night was not as fun as I thought and started watching tv.

Finally after waiting for couple of hours my hubby came and we left to party and everyone was kinda off already in party mode and as usual my friends gave us warm welcome and had my all time fav chilli chicken and gobi fry and  unlike to have to very popular cocktail we tried new one strawberry daiquiri which was great drink. We all boozed up and happily n joyed Friday night and came back and Saturday afternoon to home all vexed and sleepy.

Google Analytics Event Tracking

Today i was implementing event tracking on my own custom email overlay and it sounds kinda off tough job to do but it turn out pretty simple.
It sucks when you have to wait 24 hrs to see your code is working or not though.
Followed below link for instructions

http://www.sitepoint.com/google-analytics-track-javascript-ajax-events/
http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/google-analytics-help-questions-answers-tips-ideas-suggestions/

Html5 Coding

Html 5 Coding Tutorials

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/04/designing-a-html-5-layout-from-scratch/
http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2009/07/16/html5-and-the-future-of-the-web/
http://orderedlist.com/resources/html-css/structural-tags-in-html5/

Html5 APIs

• Drag & Drop
• Video & Audio
• Geolocation
• Offline Web Applications
• Offline Application Caching
• O3D Beach Demo

Mobile Devices Support

• Palm Pre
• iPhone 3GS,4,4GS and 5
• Google Android Phone

Html5 Resources

• 23 Essential Html 5 Resources 
• HTML5 Demos 
• HTML5 Gallery 
• HTML5 Doctor
• HTML5  Cheat Sheet
• HTML5 Validator

PHP Snippets

How to get domain without www/subdomains using php


<?php
     $host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
     preg_match("/[^\.\/]+\.[^\.\/]+$/",$host,$matches);
     echo "domain name is :{$matches[0]}\n"};
?>