Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.
This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
Introduce Yourself (Example Post)
This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.
You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.
Why do this?
- Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
- Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.
The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.
To help you get started, here are a few questions:
- Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
- What topics do you think you’ll write about?
- Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
- If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?
You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.
Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.
When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.
Crispy Veg
A quick and easy snack. your favorite veggies deep fried and served with chutney.
Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup vegetables – cut thinly
- 2 Tbsp maida
- 4 Tbsp soojee
- 1 tsp salt or to taste
- 1/2 tsp chilli powder or to taste
- 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste
- Water, as required
- Oil to deep fry
How to Make:
- Wipe the vegetables dry with a cloth.
- Mix the soojee, salt, chilli powder, ginger-garlic paste and add enough water to make into a pouring consistency – when you drop it from a spoon it should pour in a continuous line.
- Dust the vegetables lightly, with maida, shaking off any excess.
- Heat the oil, dip vegetables into the batter and place into the hot oil.
- Turn, fry for a few seconds and remove from oil and keep aside on an absorbent paper.
- Just before serving, fry once again over high heat, drain on absorbent paper and serve hot with a chutney.
Hakka Noodles
Hakka Noodles belongs to the Indo-Chinese cuisine; an immensely popular and widespread cuisine in India tho’ it bears no resemblance to actual traditional Hakka or to any Chinese dishes. Noodles here are quickly stir fried with a spicy “Indian Chinese” flavored sauce and crunchy vegetables.
Being a favorite kind of cuisine in our home, we cook and appreciate a lot of Indian Chinese and I will be posting the recipes over time. For now it is the Hakka Noodles: a simple stir fried noodles with a whole lot of flavors.
Recipe
Ingredients needed:
- Noodles
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Oil
- 1 tsp Garlic paste
- 1 tsp Ginger paste
- 1/2 Cup Beans
- 1/2 Cup Cabbage, chopped
- 1/2 Cup Carrot, chopped
- 1/2 Cup Spring onion, chopped
- 1/2 Cup Capsicum, chopped
- 2 Tbsp Soy sauce
- 2 Tbsp Green chilli sauce
- 1 Tbsp Tomato sauce
How To Make:
1.Boil the noodles in a pan till it starts to simmer.
2.Add salt and some oil to the boiling noodles.
3.When the noodles start to e a little sticky, drain the excess water and wash them in cold water.
4.In another pan, heat about 3 teaspoon of oil.
5.Put ginger paste followed by garlic paste. Saute them well till golden brown.
6.Now add all the vegetables to the pan.
7.Saute them well and add soy sauce, green chilli sauce and tomato sauce .
8.Mix them well and now add the boiled noodles to them.
9.Mix them thoroughly with the vegetables.
10.Serve hot.
