AFVOA Newletters of Year 2003

Page 67 of 170 We are giving below a few tips which we do hope will be of some use to the community. • Watermelons can be sliced thin, to expose high seed areas, from which seeds can easily be dropped down with a fruit fork or knife tip. Or cleverly handling a mixer for a few seconds can separate seeds from fruit, like watermelon, custard apple, etc. The mixture when sieved will separate the seeds from the pulp. • Do not throw away decorative wrappings and boxes you get during birthdays and other festive occasions. Use the good ones to pack your preparations creatively and attractively, by just renewing part of the gift wrapper adding a few ribbons or flowers. (Remember however to ensure that the earlier card/writings are totally obliterated. • Dried peels of almonds, can be powdered fine, sieved and mixed with gramflour to use as a scrub. Mix 1 cup gramflour to 1 tbsp. Almond peel powder. Store in airtight container. For one bath, take on heaped tbsp. Mixture with 1 tsp. Curds or cream, scrub over body, instead of soap. • Take a teaspoonful of sesame seeds, just pop into mouth, chew on them, consume. This helps significant reduction in hair fall. But do not expect overnight results. • A good and fast way to skin charred or grilled veggies is to place them inside a closed polythene bag for a few minutes, then remove and rub skin off easily. • Chop apples, pears, etc. into a bowl of chilled salted water, drain, pat on clean kitchen towel, to keep them from discolouring for a longer period. • Though salads taste best fresh and crunchy, one may prepare dressing ahead of time, and chop nondiscolouring or wasting ingredients, like oranges, sweet limes, veggies, etc. hours ahead and finish off in a jiffy at the time required. • Chill whole those fruit which discolour, and then cut when required in recipe, so they are chilled yet not discolour. • If fruit like peaches, apples, pear, pomegranate, etc. turn out to be sour, do not throw them away. Dice, add chaat masala, sugar, salt, pepper and toss, adding cucumber, coriander, if desired. Will transform into a tingling, and interestingly refreshing salad. • Place some camphor in your toolbox, to keep the tools from rusting. (From the Net) Who is the co-founder of Sun Microsystems? Vinod Khosla Who is the creator of Pentium chip (needs no introduction as 90% of the today’s computers run on it)? Vinod Dahm Who is the third richest man on the world? A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is AZIM PREMJI, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th position now. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail (Hotmail is world’s No. 1 web based email program)? Sabeer Bhatia