Different Types of pasta

Hello everyone 

Today I will tell you guys 3 types of delicious pasta

• White Sauce pasta is a tastydish made of pasta,butter,milk,cheese and herbs. 

• Red sauce pasta is healthy and delicious kids friendly pasta that can be made for school meal or dinner. Red sauce pasta is a dish made with pasta, tomatoes,bell peppers,onions, garlic and herbs.

• Masala pasta recipe Indian style flavorful and delicious masala pasta that will be your new favourite. This simple and quick pasta is super easy to make and it just needs 25 mins to cook.

Red sauce pasta:-

• 2 cup pasta (any)

• 2 to 3 tbsp oil (any )

• Salt (as per taste )

• 1 Onion (finely chopped )

• 2 cups tomatoes ( chopped )

• 1 cup red capsicum ( or red bell peppers)

• 1/2 to 1 tsp  red chili flakes 

• 1 tsp oregano (or mixed herbs)

• pepper ( crushed )

Instructions 

Preparation :-

•Roast onions in 1 tbsp oil for 3 mins on a high flame. Transfer to a plate to cool.

• Roast tomatoes for 3 mins. Cool this as well.

• Blend them together to a puree. Set aside.

• Take stell vasal and put water to bil then add  pasta with salt until at became soft (just cooked )

• Drain off and rinse them in a colander. Set aside 

How to make red sauce pasta :-

• Heat the same pan with more oil and fry garlic and chili flakes

• Add onions and saute until golden 

• pore the puree and add salt 

• Mix well and cook until it reaches a desired consistency. Make sure the sauce is not watery. Taste the sauce and adjust salt as per taste. Add oregano.

• Off the stove and add the pasta. Toss well until mixed.

• Garnish with herbs. Serve hot pasta in red sauce.

White sauce pasta 

Ingredients :- 

• 1 cup pasta 

• 1.25 cup milk 

• 1 tbsp flour (all purpose flour )

• 2-4 tbsps cheese ( cream cheese or a mix)

• 2 tbsp butter

• 1 tsp oil (or butter )

• 2/4 tsp pepper 

• 2 garlic cloves

• 2/4 tsp oregano 

• salt (as per taste)

• 1/2 tsp red chili flakes

Instructions :-

Cooking pasta

• Bring 4-5 cups water to a boil in a large bowl along with salt

• When the water begins to boil add pasta.

• When done, pasta should be not too soft.

• Drain off to a colander completely reserving 2-4 tbsp of water.

• If using veggies, chol them and set aside.

• You can also use frozen mix veggies

Making White Sauce :-

• Add 1-2 tsp oil to a pan and saute vegetables for 4-5 mins. Set these aside.

• Set the flame to low. Add rest of the butter to the pan and saute the garlic for a minute. Then add flour

• Saute it in butter until the raw smell goes off. The flour may turn slightly lumpy.

• Just break up the lumps and continue to saute until it on more smells raw

• Make sure the colour of the flour doesn't change.

• Pour 1/4 cup of milk. Whisk continuosly breaking up the lumps. 

• When you see the flour is well blended with milk, pour rest of the milk ans mix well

• Cook this until the sauce turns slightly thick.

• Add cheese ( as per need)

 

• Next add oregano and ground pepper. Switch off the stove.

Masala pasta 

• 1-2 cup pasta

• 2 tablespoon oil

• 1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds (jeera)

• 3 cloves garlic (chopped)

• 1/3 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 teaspoon red chili powder

• 1/2 teaspoon garam masala

• 1/2 teaspoon kasuri methi (corendier leaves)

• 2 tablespoon cream

Vegetables:-

• 1 Onion (chopped)

• 3/4 to 1 cup tomatoes (mashed)

• 2 carrots (chopped)

• 1/4 to 1/2 cup green peas

• 1/4 cup capsicum (chopped)

Instructions:-

• In a large bowl, bring 6 cups of water to boil.

• When the water begins to boil rapidly,add half teaspoon salt to pasta.

• Cook till dente on medium to high flame.

• while the pasta cooks, rinse and chop the veggies.

• Drain off the pasta to a colander when done rinse in cold water.

• Set aside. Reserve 3-4 tablespoon of pasta cooked water.

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Chilli potato full recipe

Chilli potato recipe :-

Ingredients :-

• 3-4 medium patatoes

• 2 tbsp corn flour

• 1/4 tsp red chilli powder

• salt (as per taste)

• 1/3 cup oil

Ingredients of Chilli Sauce :-

• 1 tbsp oil

• 1/2 tbsp garlic

• 1 medium onion

• 3/4 cup capsicum

• 1 green chili

• 1/2 tbsp soya sauce

• 3/4 tsp red chili powder

• 1 tbsp red chili sauce

• 3/4 tsp vinegar

• Salt (as per taste )

Ingredients of Chilli potato :-

• 3-4 medium patatoes

• 2 tbsp corn flour

• 1/4 tsp red chilli powder

• salt (as per taste)

• 1/3 cup oil

How to make Chilli potato :-

• Mix red chilli sauce with red chili powder using little water.

• Heat one tbsp oil on a high in a pan.

• Fry garlic and chilli until they smell nice.

• Add onions and saute until transparent or pink.

• Next add capsicum and saute for 1-2 mins.

• Add the red chilli sauce,soya sauce, vinegar.

• Pour 3-4 tbsp water.

• To make gravy dissolve 3/4 tsp corn starch with half cup water.

• Stir and pour to the pan. Also you need to add more chilli & soya sauces to make the gravy version.

• Turn off and then add fried potatoes and toss. Add spring onion greens.

• Serve chilli potato hot or warm immediately as they lose the crispness if rested.

• Now it's ready to serve.

More delicious recipes coming soon 

Stay tuned !

Raipur City

Raipur City - Places to visit in Raipur

Raipur is largest city and capital of Chhattisgarh. There is not a great deal for visitors to see with most tourists visiting the surrounding.

Raipur is the former capital and also the largest city is Raipur in district of Chhattisgarh. 

Nava RaipurGreater Raipur is an urban agglomeration comprising the city of Raipur along with the new city of Naya Raipur and the industrial city of Bhilai-Durg. Raipur was a city of Indian state Madhya Pradesh, before Chhattisgarh was formed on 1st November 2000.

Visit the city's shopping malls :-

 Ambuja city centre, Magneto , Big Bazaar, Dmat 

 Dealers of whole Chhattisgarh are found in one place at Pandri Market 

Famous Chowpatty:-

Marine Drive Chowpatty

Katora Talab Food Court

Solar energy park

Built with a theme of renewable energy, Energy Park also called Urja Park is an energy education park. The prime objective of this Energy Park is to create awareness and encourage the habit of energy saving. Making use of renewable sources of energy (solar energy) to run most of the rides, this park is an exciting place to explore.

Gandhi udyan park

I Gandhi Udyan Park one of them. You could take a stroll in the park in the evening and be grateful for your comfortable life

MM fun city

MM Fun City is one of the best place to go in raipur where people come to take a break from hot days with family and friends.

Nandan Van zoo

Another one of the famous tourist places in Raipur is Nandan Van Zoo where you can see animals in their natural habitat.

Do visit these places in Raipur 

Stay Tuned !

Maggi Pasta

Maggi pasta 

Ingredients:-

• 1 packet Maggie 

• 1-2  cup pasta

• 1 capsicum

• 1 carrot

• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste

• 1 tbsp Schezwan Sauce

• 1 tsp salt

• 1 tsp red chilli 

• 2 cups water

• 2-3 tsp oil

Instructions:-

• In a vessel take pasta to boil for 5-8 mins.

• Now in a pan take some oil,add ginger pasta then add chopped onions and rest veggies.

• Add salt, Maggie masala,red chilli powder and Schezwan Sauce.

• Add water and Maggie.

Let it boil.

• Add the boiled pasta too. As when the water dries up.

• Garnish with cilantro and serve hot!

An introduction to stock market

Mark Twain once divided the world into two kinds of people those who have seen the famous Indian monument, the Taj Mahal, and those who haventh
The same could be said about investors

There are two kinds of investors those who know about the investment opportunities in india.

                   The BSE and NSE 

Most of the trading in the Indian stock market takes place on its two stock exchanges: the Bombay stock exchange (BSE) and the National stock exchange (NSE). 

Almost all the significant firms of India are listed on both the exchanges NSE enjoys a dominant share in spot trading with about 70% of the market.

                  Trading Mechanism

Trading at both the exchanges takes place through an open electronic limit order book in which order matching is done by the trading computer there are no market makers or specialist and the entire process is order driven, which means that market orders. As a result, buyers and sellers remain anonymous. 

All orders in the trading system need to be placed through brokers, many of which provide an online trading facility to retail customers. Institutional investor can also take advantage of the direct market access (DMA) option in which they use trading terminals provided by brokers for placing orders directly into the stock market trading system

        Settlement and Trading Hours

Equity spot markets follow a T+2 rolling settlement. This means that any trade taking place on Monday gets settled by Wednesday. All trading on stock exchanges takes place between 9:55am to 3:30pm, Indian standard time (+5.5 hours GMT), Monday through Friday. Delivery of shares must be made in dematerialized form, and each exchange has its own clearing house, which assumes all settlement risk by serving as a central counterparty.

                  Market Indexes 

The two prominent Indian market Indexes are Sensex and Nifty. Sensex in the oldest market index for equities; it includes shares of 30 firms listed on the BSE, which represent about 45% of the index's free-float market capitalization. 

               

                Market Regulation

The overall responsibility of development, regulation, and supervision of the stock market rests with the securities and exchange board of India (SEBI), 

                  The Bottom Line

Emerging market like India, are fast becoming engines for future growth. Currently, only a very low percentage of the house hold savings of India are invested in the domestic stock market, but with GDP growing at 7%-8% annually and a stable financial market, we might see more money joining the race. Maybe it's the right time for outside investors to seriously think about joining the India bandwagon. 

Note:-Invest money by professional advice or guidence. 

 An introduction to stock market part-2                          coming soon 

An introduction to stock market part~2

     Understanding the Stock Market

While today it is possible to purchase almost everything online, there is usually a designated market for every commodity. 

Such dedicated markets serve as a platform where numerous buyers and sellers meet, interact and transact. Since the number of market participants in huge, one is assured of a fair price. If the number of tree sellers is large in a common market place.

The buyers will be spoiled for choice with low or optimum-pricing making it is fair market with price transparency. Even while shopping online, buyers compare prices offered by different sellers on the same shopping portal or across different portals to get the best deals, forcing the various online sellers to offer the best price.

A stock market is a similar designated market for trading various kinds of securities in a controlled, secure and managed the environment. Since the stock market brings together hundreds of thousands of market participants who wish to buy and sell shares.While earlier stock market used to issue and deal in paper-based physical share certificates, the modern day computer-aided stock markets operate electronically.

                  Investor protection

Along with wealthy and institutional investors, a very large number of small investors are also served by the stock market for their small amout of investments. These investors may have limited financial knowledge, and may not be fully aware of the pitfalls of investing in stocks and other listed instruments. The stock exchange must implement necessary measures.

For instance, a stock exchange may categorize stocks in various segments depending on their risk profiles and allow limited or no trading by common investors in high-risk stocks. 

Stockbroker,also know as registered representative in the U.S., are the licensed professionals who buy and sell securities on behalf of investors. The brokers act as intermediaries between the stock exchange and the investors by buying and selling stock on the investors by buying and selling stocks on the investors behalf.

       How Stock Exchange Make Money 

Stock exchange operate as for-profit institutes and charge a fee for their services. The primary source of income for these stock exchanges are the revenues from the transaction fees that are charged for each trade carried out on its platform. Additionally, exchanges earn revenue from the listing fee charged to companies.

The exchange also earns from selling market data generated on its platform like real-time data, historical data, summary data and reference data which is vital for equity research and other uses. Many exchanges will also sell technology products, like a trading terminal and dedicated network connection to the exchange, to the interested parties for a suitable fee.

      Significance of The Stock Market

The stock market is one of the most vital comments of a free-market economy.

It allows companies to raise money by offering stock shares and corporate bonds. It lets common investors participate in the financial achievements of the companies, make profits through capital gains and earn money through dividends, although losses are also possible. While institutional investors and professional money managers do enjoy some privileges.

the stock market attempts to offer a level playing field to common individuals.

The stock market works as a platform through which savings and investments of individuals are channelized into the productive investment proposals. It the long term, it helps in capital formation & economic growth for the country.

            Examples of Stock Markets 

The first stock market in the world was the London stock exchange. It was started in a coffeehouse, where traders used to meet to exchange shares, in 1773. The first stock exchange in United States of America was started in Philadelphia in 1790. The buttonwood agreement, so named because it was signed under a buttonwood tree, marked the beginnings of New York's wall street in 1792. The agreement, was signed by 24 traders and was the first American organization of its kind to trade in securities. The traders renamed their venture as New York stock exchange board in 1817.

                           Key points

• Stock market are vital comments of a free-market economy because they enable democratized access to trading and exchange of capital for investors of all kinds .

• They perform several functions in market, including efficient price discovery and efficient dealing.

• In US, the stock market is regulated by the SEC and local regulatory bodies.

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Blog topic~ Put & Call 

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Black Forest Cake Part-2

Black Forest Cake Part-2

Everything is mentioned in this blog

Instructions and making of the frosting

Instructions :- 

• Grease and line two 6 inch cake pan or one 8 inch pan.

• Preheat the oven to 170C for at least 15 min

• Sieve together flour,salt,cocoa and baking soda to a mixing bowl.

• Mix up the sugar and make a well in the center.

• Pour oil, vinegar, vanilla and milk and water. Mix well.

• Pour the batter to the cake pans and knock to the kitchen counter a few times.

• Bake the cake for - 20 min if using two 6inch pans.

• Cool the cake pan on a wire rack for 8 to 10 min.

To make chocolate shavings :-

• Keep the chocolate at room temperature for a while until it is easy to handle.

• Shave the chocolate bar using a fruits peeler. Keep it in the fridge until used.

Preparing frosting :-

• Pour the whipping cream to the chilled bowl and begin to whip until it became slightly thick.

• Then add the powdered sugar and vanilla. Whip until stiff peaks.

• Fit a pipping nozzle inside a piping bag.

• Transfer half cup of whipped cream to the bag.

 Decoration of cake :-

• Begin to spread some frosting over it

• Spread chopped cherries over the cream 

• Finish up icing on the top portion and side as well

• refrigerate the cream and the came for 40- 45 min if cream start melting.

• Cover the side of the cake with the chocolate shavings.

• Make some small stars on top.

• Place some cherries on stars.

• Refrigerate the cake until needed.

Black Forest Cake

Black forest cake 

Ingredients and time taken

This recipe can be make in the following ingredients

Total time 

Prep time :- 40 min

Cook time:-25 min

Decoration:-15 min

Total time :- 1hour 5 min

Ingredients:-

• 1-2 cup flour

• 1/2 cup cocoa 

• 1tsp baking soda

• 1/4 tsp salt

• 1-2 cup sugar 

• 1-2 cup milk

• 2/4 cup oil

• 1 tbsp vanilla extract

• 1 tbsp vinegar

Additional ingredients :-

• 1/2 - 3/4 cup chopped cherries

• 2-3 tbsp sugar

• 4-5 tbsp water

For Frosting :-

• 1/2 cup whipping cream

• 3 tbsp powdered Sugar

Ingredients for decoration:-

• 5-10 cherries 

• 1 chocolate bar

Instructions to make this cake will be in part 2 

Part -2 will be published on 2 October

Digital Marketing part-2

Content Marketing:

Content marketing is the hottest skill that’s in huge demand. Content marketing is not just writing a blog post or article and publishing it online.

According to Seth Godin, content marketing is the only marketing that remains. It has gained more traction as more and more businesses are starting to realize the importance of it. And it is mainly because the ads are becoming inefficient by each day.

How can Blogging Help You Master Content Marketing?

The three important phases of content marketing are — planning, creation, and promotion.

You sitting down to put together the blogging calendar for a month is more or less equal to content marketing planning phase. With each blog post idea, you have a goal — what you want to achieve through that particular blog post and a plan — how you’re going to achieve the goal aka what to write in the post. If you’re not doing this activity, there is a good chance your posts will not be helping you to achieve your bigger goals.

When you start writing the blog post, you do a bit of research on the topic or idea, then create an outline first and then you set off to write the blog post, edit it and publish it. It is equal to the content creation phase. researching, outlining, writing, editing and publishing are the core steps of the content creation process. With each blog post you write, you’ll be able to refine each of the steps and in time, you’ll be mastering it.

Blogging doesn’t stop with publishing what you’ve written. Getting visitors to read, share and promote is the next important step. Most of the bloggers neglect this step or fail at this and that results in the premature death of their blog.

Experts recommend that if you spend 40% of your time in writing the blog post, then you need to spend 60% of your time in promoting it. When it comes to promotion, you have plenty of options - social media marketing & advertising, search engine optimization & marketing, email marketing etc. We’ll discuss them when we approach those skills. Here you learn the promotion phase of the content marketing.

It’s how blogging helps you to master content marketing.

Search Engine Optimization: Search Engine Optimization, popularly known as SEO is the most sought after and the most difficult skill to master. Google is tweaking its ranking algorithm 200 times a year which keeps the practitioners on their toes as the tactics that worked before could become useless at the instant Google pushes an update.

When you write your blog post, you would’ve done keyword research to pick the right keyword to focus and competitor research to know what kind of content your competitors have published. Those two steps are the starting of a good SEO process.

While writing the blog post, you’ll be using the ‘target keyword’ in the right areas to improve the ranking possibilities of that article. Also, you’ll be using it in the URL and anchor texts. It is the ‘on page optimization’ part of SEO.

Once publishing the post, you’ll be reaching out to influencers to promote your blog. You’ll use social channels to promote it. You’ll also consider tactics like using PR coverage or commenting or posting the blog post link in the communities or using social bookmarking etc. Those steps are part of the ‘link building’ component of the SEO.

So, while focusing on writing and promoting your blog post, you’re mastering the crucial components of SEO.

Search Engine Marketing:

If you really want to excel at blogging, you cannot just rely on the organic traffic. As it might take a while to receive the organic traffic to your new blog posts, you can leverage Google Adwords and Bing Ads to gain instant traction. Since you’ll be focusing on research or awareness keywords for ads, it won’t be costing you much. Also, you don’t have to focus only on Adwords or Bing Ads, you can try and test second tier and third tier players like 7Search, AOL search etc.

And, if you chose to use this tactic, you’ll be learning to create ad campaigns, writing adverts, measuring and optimizing the ads which mean, you’ll be mastering search engine marketing aka PPC advertising.

Social Media Marketing:

Social is an essential component to succeed in blogging and in earlier times blogging is considered as a social media activity because your blog posts can evoke comments, likes, and shares from the readers. To leverage social media to drive interactions, you need to learn the right time to post on social medias and to craft social media posts that get likes and shares. When you do it, you’ll be learning and mastering social media marketing.

Social Media Advertising:

It’s a known factor that Facebook doesn’t want to you get much of free likes and shares and the organic reach for the posts are diminishing by the day. Running successful social media ads have become a crucial component to succeed as a blogger. Many bloggers have failed to recognize this change and adapt to it and it has cost them, robbing many of their readers and the shares from them. This opens up the path to learn and master social media advertising.

Email Marketing:

List building and blogging go hand in hand and any successful blogger (or the ones who want to become a successful blogger) will focus on it. Also, as part of monetizing the blog, bloggers use email to support their revenue generation plans. Keeping the readers updated with the latest blog posts through weekly newsletters, engaging readers with email only contents and promoting products and services through emails are few of the email tactics commonly used by the bloggers. And those tactics are the most important components of email marketing. When you build, manage and engage your email list, you are also en route to mastering email marketing.

Marketing Automation:

Most savvy bloggers automate their marketing. When a new blog post is published, it is automatically posted on their social media profiles, submitted to ping servers and added to the sitemap. Also, they segment and show relevant content and ads to their readers based on the source of the visit. With email automation, they can tag, segment and promote relevant content and offers. All these are part of the marketing automation skill set and blogging can help you learn it effectively.

Analytics:

You need to know about your blog readers - where do they come from, what do they consume, where do they leave, how much time they spend and what actions they take and analytics tools like Google helps you with it. Mastering such analytics tools is important for a blogger to improve his game by publishing more blog posts in the topics that get more readership, likes, and shares. Every good blogger will be a pro analytics user.

Integrated Digital Marketing:

By now, you would’ve realized that becoming a successful blogger is not luck-dependent. it depends on how well you’re using the marketing channels and tactics together to achieve the best results. Using two or more marketing channels and tactics to achieve results is termed as integrated digital marketing. And, if you’re truly focusing on driving the best results to your blog, you’ll be automatically mastering the integrated digital marketing skill.I guess now, how you can become a digital marketing expert through blogging is clear.

If you’re serious about blogging and do everything it takes to make it a successful one, you’ll eventually end up becoming a digital marketing expert.