Is Your Air Conditioning System Ready for Summer?

Your A/C system should be serviced every spring. Annual servicing includes cleaning the system, checking for any problems or potential problems and adjusting the A/C system for peak performance. Go ahead and take a look at your A/C system to see if it may need a little cleaning.

Benefits include:

• Increased dependability
• Repair potential problems quickly and inexpensively
• lowers your energy cost
• Prolongs life span of the A/C system
• Helps protect the environment
• Drastically reduces the chance of a breakdown
• Insures the A/C system is safe and offers healthy operation

Following are a few tips on reducing your cooling needs:

• Close all windows and doors during daytime hours. Keep the blinds and curtains closed (especially the west and east windows)
• Only use the A/C system when you are in the house
• Don't set your thermostat too low. Usually 78 degrees is found to be comfortable

STAY COOL MY FRIENDS!

Spinach Broccoli Cream Soup | Soup Recipes

I am trying to include Spinach to my diet atleast twice or thrice a week. But I get bored with the regular Spinach with dhal curry. So I am trying many ways to include spinach which is interesting too. Spinach chapathi, Spinach basil pesto, Spinach chutney are few of the many ways I try them. The recent addition to the list is this Spinach Broccoli cream soup.


Ingredients:
Serves -2
Fresh baby

Beetroot Curry

Many find it hard to cut beetroot. I usually pressure cook whole beetroot and then peel the skin and chop into fine pieces. It makes the cutting part easy. You can also grate beetroot after peeling the skin. That's what I have done here.

Ingredients:

3 medium sized beetroot

2 tsp oil

1/2 tsp mustard seeds

1/2 tsp urud dal

2-3 red chillies

Salt

A pinch of hing

1/4 cup grated coconut

A few curry leaves (optional)

Method:

Pressure cook whole beets in water for 3 whistles.

Cool it. Peel the skin and chop into small pieces.

Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds, urud dal, curry leaves, red chillies and hing. 

When mustard seeds crackle, add the beets. 

Add salt and fry for 5 minutes.

Add coconut and mix well.

Serve with rice and sambar.