odzer’s old blog

If you are ever hungry and you have some left over rice from the previous day try making fried rice, its incredibly simple and you do not need many ingredients. I used ham and eggs in this version, if you have some spring onions it is good but otherwise just use some normal onion and [...]

placenta |pləˈsentə|noun ( pl. -tae |-tē| or -tas ) a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord. However I have found that there are other uses for the humble placenta, its the perfect thing to wash your hair with. Do not believe me just [...]

We have these wonderful “E-Sampark” centres all over the city where you can among other things get a bus pass, pay your electric and water bill, file a right to information request, pay your mobile or landline bills, buy stamp papers or revenue stamps, get a birth or a death certificate and if you happen [...]

I am recovering from a really bad nervous breakdown. I own these two floors of a house here and I do not know what I was thinking when I decided to renovate the top floor. So from the past one and half months I have been having people walking all over the place trying to [...]

I can imagine that many of you might think that I have disappeared for good and I am sure that you are right in thinking that but for me I simply had no energy to write a blog after a sudden change in my schedule due to a number of factors most of them being [...]

Some days ago i have made a pasta dish. I was looking forward to using Penne but when I looked in my supplies I discovered I had only some spirali pasta. Oh well its not as if you can not use one or the other. So the thing about Pasta is that it is my [...]

On the 13th we voted in Chandigarh, Usually for me its just a two minute walk to the polling station. On the way I stopped to have a chat with the father of a friend who was sitting at a political party’s tent. Inside the polling station I was surprised to see a line [...]

Some days ago I tried to make a cheese cake, this was result of the fact that I was given a free packet of Ricotta by a local store. Actually between me and a friend we had two packets but due to some curious incident we ended up with one. I was a bit wary [...]

Vikram has asked me to do the Book Tag. I must say that I am not reading as much as i used to do once upon a time. However I have liked reading the books that I did and I am likely to go back to reading if my routine allows. So here it goes [...]

The idea of making one’s own bread is always appealing. One of the reasons I love baking is that it makes the house smell good. So I decided one evening that the next day I would want my own bread. So I let the dough rise the whole night after introducing a yeast culture. The [...]