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Continental Dessert: Banana Walnut Cake

Banana Walnut Cake Ingredients: Bananas: 4 large Walnuts: 5-6 Butter or margarine: 10 tbsps Sugar: 3/4 cup Eggs: 3 Refined flour: 2 cups Baking powder: 1 tsp Baking soda: 1/4 tsp Coffee powder: 1 tsp Vanilla essence: 1 tsp Cinnamon powder: 1 tsp Lemon juice (freshly squeezed): 1tbsp Milk: 10 tbsps Method of preparation: 1. Shell walnuts and coarsely chop them. 2. Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy. 3. In a separate bowl break the eggs one at a time and beat them well. 4. Add the beaten eggs to the butter and sugar mixture and mix well. 5. Sieve flour with baking powder and baking soda. 6. Mix walnuts, vanilla essence, coffee powder and cinnamon in a bowl. 7. Mash the bananas, add lemon juice. Mix it in the nuts mixture. 8. Add the flour miture alternating with the banana mixture to the butter, sugar and egg mixture. Add milk. Mix lightly. 9. Pour the batter in a buttered, baking dish. Bake in a preheated oven at 175 deg C/350 deg F for about 1 hour
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Three foods that can help improve your metabolism

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Mystery of Dow Hill in Darjeeling

Dow hill is situated in Kurseong which is very near to Darjeeling a reputed hill station of India. It is surely one of the top haunted place in India. This tiny township is famous for some of the best boarding schools in West Bengal. The center of supernatural activity was particularly observed in The Dow Hill Boarding School for Girls. As per some students version, the corridors of the school is haunted. The forest located nearby is also considered to be haunted. Some woodcutter who visited the forest have reported they have seen a headless boy who suddenly appears and then disappears in the forest . Local peoples version is that, there were innumerable murders took place in the forest area. 

Recipe Golden Fried Prawns

Ingredients: Jumbo prawns: 8 Vegetable oil: to deep fry Salt: to taste For the batter: Rice flour: 1 cup Desiccated coconut: 3tbsps Egg: 1 Coconut milk:1 cup Fish sauce: 1 tsp Salt: to taste Coriander leaves (chopped): 1 tbsp Method of preparation: 1. Peel and de-vain the prawns leaving the tails. Wash them and apply salt. Break the egg and separate the yolk from the white. 2. For the batter, mix the rice flour and desiccated coconut together, fish sauce and salt. 3. Whisk the egg white until stiff and fold into the batter. 4. Coat the prawns with this batter. Heat oil in a wok and deep fry the prawns in hatches of two to three till golden. Drain and remove on an absorbent paper. 5. Serve hot garnished with coriander with a dip sauce.

The Khmer cat

The Khamer cat and where do they come from? Their origin is Indo-Chinese but the breeder Jean Dudher deserves the credit for having introduced this astonishing breed to us. Less beautiful than the sacred cas of Burma, the Khmers, however, posses many of their characteristics. Of a remarkable intelligence, very gentle and calm, the Khmer is an ideal cat for an apartment dweller.  General Appearance: They give an impression of harmonious and intense strength. A lively look, a good bone structure and medium height makes this robust animal.  Head. Strong and round. Short thick nose. The whiskers will be white streaked with brown, reach 5 and half in.in length and form a beautiful plume on the rather small cheeks. Eyes. Slightly slanting, of a lively, limpid and expressive blue. In dim light they seem tinted with red. Ears. Quite long, with tufts of fur in a shell-like shape. Body. Long with a jutting breast and solid rump and loins. The withers will be rather short. Paws.

Recipe: Eggs Florentine

Ingredients: 1 package (10 ounces) chopped frozen spinach 1/4 cup butter 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 2 cups half-and-half 8 eggs, poached salt and pepper to taste Grated Parmesan cheese or shredded milk Cheddar cheese Method: 1. Cook spinach according to package instructions. 2. Prepare white sauce. In a small saucepan, melt butter. Add flour; blend well. Gradually add half-and-half, stirring constantly, until thickened and bubbly. 3. Place spinach in a lightly buttered shallow baking dish. Arrange cooked, drained eggs over the top of the spinach then pour white sauce over eggs. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and cheese. Bake eggs at 400 degree F for two to three minutes, until cheese is melted and lightly browned. 4. Serves 4.