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Friday, May 9, 2008

Recipe: Lamb Fry (Sukka Mutton)

I had this really wonderful Lamb fry when I went to a friend's place, I had to get the recipe and try it. Thanks Anitha!
Here is the recipe. Its a time consuming one..

1) Saute these in oil: Clove, Cinnamon, cardamom, jeera, sonf, little whole pepper, half chopped onion
2) Then grind the above.
3) Mix the above paste with mutton, add salt, chili powder, turmeric powder, a pinch of garam masala and pressure cook. Add some oil to the cooker so the paste does not stick to the bottom.
4) Saute these in oil: jeera, sonf, curry leaves, 1 green chili, chopped onion, half tomato.. then add the pressure cooked stuff and cook with open lid.. cook in low flame for a long time.. you will get the dry mutton fry

Update: A more eloborate version is found here. I have not tried that one yet.

Friday, January 4, 2008

Lights out :-(

How ever strong the signal was with the new WHR-G125, being placed in the corner office, it still would not reach bedrooms at the other end of the house. So plan was to augment it with another router acting as a repeater.
As luck would have it, one fine day as I plugged in my router in the wall socket after an upgrade, it just died. No lights, no signs of life. If there are issues with firmware, atleast the power LED lights up. So I suspect the power adapter got fried. Luckily I was able to dig out a universal adapter, set it to the power requirements of the Buffalo (3v) and fired it up. This time around power LED and the lights for all the ports come and stay on. Not a good sign either :-(
I am wondering if the universal adapter does not have enough juice to bring the router fully to life. Supplied adapter supplied 3.3v at 1.2A, while the uiversal one is set to 3v and is only rated at 500mA.
So think it is time for another router, and it is urgent, since we are fully cut-off from the Interwebs. This time around I am specifically looking for routers that are supported by one of popular alternative firmwares, Tomato, DD-WRT, or OpenWRT, almost in that order :-)