Kitchen+cookery Tips

A pinch of salt added to any sweet while preparation increases the taste of the sweet.

A small piece of lemon added to the water inside the pressurecooker keeps your cooker clean and prevents it innerside from turning black.

If your dosa batter is sour,add little milk to your dosa batter and then try to make dosas so that u never get the sour taste.

Add little rava(sooji) and a teaspoon of cournflour to the atta when u are preparing puris so that u get crisp and bulged puris.

To get rid of kerosene smell from the hands,wash them with gramflour or curd.

Place some camphor and neem leaves tied in a muslin cloth in the corners of ur cupboards and almerah to keep insects away.

Add a pinch of baking powder and little hot oil to the pakora batter to get soft and crisp pakoras.

Do u know that acup of Green Tea can take u away from Cancer ,heart attack,diabetes.

Medicinal Benefits of green tea:

A research student of an American University,Subalakshmi from Tamilnadu has found out from her research that if u drink green tea,the anti oxidants present in it can destroy cancer cells.

But the cancer patients should have atleast 25 cups of green tea a day,which is not possible in day to day life.

So her research team worked hard to separate the anti oxidants from Green tea to form medicines that can prevent cancer,cardiac diseases and diabetes.

Do u know that the effect of anti oxidants present in the green tea is 100 times more than VitaminC and 25 times more tha Vitamin E??????????????

It can also destroy the cancer cells in the mouth, control high blood pressure,decrease bloodsugar and high cholesterol levels.

So please have atleast a cup of green tea a day.

Preparation of green tea:

Mix non-fermented dried green tea in hot water,filter and have it as such.

Don't boil for long ,don't mix milk or sugar.

If you need sweet taste add honey or jaggery .

You can also add lemon,ginger,or mint and have it.

ADVICE TO PARENTS:

DON'T MAKE IT A HABIT TO GIVE SOFTDRINKS TO CHILDREN INSTEAD MAKE THE CHILDREN HAVE A CUP OF GREEN TEA DAILY AND ALSO TELL THEM THE BENEFITS OF GREEN TEA SO THAT YOUR CHILDREN CAN BE AWAY FROM CANCER,DIABETES.....

GREEN TEA CAN ALSO PREVENT OBESITY WHICH HAS BECOME MAJOR DISEASE THESE DAYS.

WE THANK THE EFFORTS OF SUBALAKSHMI&HER TEAM

What should Indians invest in?

Many people look at investment options as : Gold, Real Estate, Stocks. All these likely to give hefty returns in a bull market and stocks are can also depreciate fast if you bought them during bull phase and sold during bear phase.

The investors should ask a fundamental question of what rate of return they should expect from the investment.

While investing in Real Estate (Land or houses), one should ask what would drive prices in the area to go up? Is the area going to see any economic development? If so, in howmany months or years? What is the current price and likely appreciation in the future. If there is no major economic activity, the likelihood of appreiciation is less in the said area.

Please ensure that the land or house you are investing in does not have encumbrances and there is a good access way to the site.

Employee Rentention

Employee Rentention

Employers must realise that howmuch ever they invest in a business, the success of the organisation depends on how the managers/ employees deliver. Some CEOs tend to overlook this point. They are willing to spend more on suppliers etc but turn miserly when they come to rewarding the employees who deliver goods in terms of increasing sales, reducing costs or increasing profits of the organisation.

Employers must also realise the petty politics many organisations have in its culture, to pull down performers and non performers hog limelight by forming coteries, "networking well" with their bosses....

The employers must judge the performance and set reward system based on what a person contributed to the company and not perceptions - which are nothing but illusion management of mediocres over the bosses.

The increment system in many organisations is very conservative - "please all" kind. A performer who doubles profits does not normally get double salary in the form of bonus etc, but will be given a small token bonus and the non performer does not get denied the increment / hike either - It is a more socialist structure which frustrates performers and encourages mediocracy. For the organisation to improve on performance, the targets and KRAs and rewards need to be fixed at the beginning of the year and need to be rewarded after the year is over.

There are some CEOs who, after the year is over try to avoid paying the incentives hoping to save some money for the company by not paying the employee who delivered.

The performance evaluation in many organisations is also unlinked with the performance parameters of the company and the metrics of the appraisal is obsolete.

You reward performance and company performance improves. You reward chamchagiri (buttering the boss) and there will soon be a butter dairy in the company.