Creating new ODBC connection on 64-bit Vista/ODBC driver for 64-bit Vista

If u are trying to make a odbc connection to say MS Access or Excel, so that it can be used by a programming language (like java), on a 64-bit OS. Then the things u need to do are:
1.)Go to Control Panel
2.)Go to Administrative Tools
3.)Right click on Data Sources and go to its properties
4.)In properties change the following and click 'OK'
Target field to:
%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe
From:
%SystemRoot%\System32\odbcad32.exe
Start In to:
%SystemRoot%\SysWOW64
From:
%SystemRoot%\System32
5.)Having done the above go to Data Sources and in that go to System DSN.
6.)In System DSN click on Add and select the driver u want and click 'Finish'.
eg. Driver *.mdb(for Access 2003), *.accdb(for Access 2007), *.xls(for Excel) and so on.

7.)Having done this Select the file u want by going to 'Select' and choosing the file u want to use

in ur program and give the Data Source Name(DSN) the same as name the name of ur

file.This will do the job.

Note: The DSN need not be the same as the name of the file. But what ever u give the DSN ,makes ure u use that in ur program to get Connection.

Roti

Roti is generally served with a side dish, which is generally a curry or raitha.


Ingredients:
1.)Wheat flour - 2 cups
2.)water - 1 cup
3.)salt - pinch
4.) oil - 1/2 tbsp

Procedure:
Take wheat flour and salt and mix well. Now add water little by little and knead to a soft dough.(amount of water that goes to the dough depends on the wheat flour, so always little by little).The dough should be soft, with a little sticky consistency. Now oil ur hands and try to knead the dough. Add a little oil to the dough and knead well. If the dough is too sticky, add a little flour. The dough should be in a consistency , where u can roll out the dough with the rolling pin. Not divide the dough into 6 balls and roll each of then into 6 inch diameter circle.Fry the rolled out dough with little oil or ghee.
Roti is ready to be served. This goes well with any curry

Tips

1.)Is the dish gets too spicy because of addition of chili powder, spiciness of the dish can be reduced to a considerable extent by adding coriander powder to it.

2.)If the dish is too salty, add coconut powder or coconut milk to reduce the salty flavor. Sometimes adding something sour like lime juice, tamarind juice and tomatoes helps too.

Tomato curry

This is a very simple curry. It goes well with plain rice, rotis and kichidi. This is one more 'jhatpat' recipe, which take very less preparation time.


Ingredients:
1.)Tomatoes - 4( chopped)
2.)green chillies - 4(slit lengthwise)
3.)onions - 1 medium(chopped)
4.)mustard seeds - 1tsp
5.)cumin seeds - 1tsp
6.)Urad dal /minnapappu - 2 tsps
7.)red chili powder - 1/2 to 1 tsp
8.)turmeric - pinch
9.)coriander powder - 1/2 tsp
10.)oil - 1tbsp
11.)curry leaves - 5
12.)salt - to taste

Procedure:
Take oil in a pan, when it hot add mustard, cumin, urad dal. When they start spluttering add the curry leaves, onions and green chillies. Fry till the onions are translucent. Now add turmeric powder and ginger garlic pates and fry till the raw flavor is gone. Now add tomatoes and cook them. when they are almost done add salt, chili powder(add chili powder to taste.Some tomatoes are more sour compared to other, hence will need more chili powder to get rid of sour flavor.) and coriander powder and mix well. Cook for another 5 to 10 mins and tomato curry is ready to be served.

Kichidi

Kichidi is one more thing that I fall back to when i have absolutely no patience to cook. I guess i learnt this from my mom :))


Ingredients:

1.)Basmati rice -1 and 1/2 cups

2.)Moong dal/Pesarapapu - 3/4 cup

3.)green chillies - 4(slit vertically)

4.)onion - 1 small(chopped length wise)
5.)Cloves - 3
6.)cinnamon - 1/2 inch
7.)tomato - 1 (optional)
8.)turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
9.)ginger garlic paste - 1tsp
10.)oil - 1tbsp
11.)salt - to taste

Procedure:
Wash the dal(lentil) and soak for 15 to 30 mins(first start the cooking process by washing and soaking the dal). Take oil in a pan. When it is hot add cloves and cinnamon. Once it starts giving an aroma, add onions and green chillies. When the onions get translucent add turmeric and fry till the raw aroma of turmeric is gone. Now add ginger garlic paste and fry well till the raw flavor is gone. At this point, add the tomatoes(optional) and salt, and cook for 5 mins. Now to the above mixture add dal and rice and stir until all the grains are properly coated. Fry for 5 mins(this prevents the rice from getting mushy). The next step is to cook the above mixture in cooker(electric), with 4 and 1/2 cups of water. Kichidi is ready to be served. This goes best with the tomato curry, curd and pickle(Indian).

Gajar/carrot Halwa

Gajar halwa is one of the famous desserts of India. there is almost no one that does not like this dessert. This also happens to be my husband's favorite desserts. Actually it is his recipe that i will be sharing today.

Ingredients:
1.)Carrot - 3 cups grated (aprrox 3 large carrots)
2.)Sugar - 1 cup (can be adjusted according to taste)
3.)milk - 3 cups
4.)ghee - 1tbsp
5.)cardamon - 4
6)raisins - 10
7.)cashews - 10

Procedure:
Melt ghee in a pan , and add grated carrots to it. Fry in ghee till they get cooked. Add cardamon and stir for a couple of mins, till the carrots starts getting the cardamon flavor. Next add sugar and stir with the carrots. Let the sugar dissolve and evenly coat the carrots. Add sugar little by little. Amount of sugar can vary by taste. Once the carrots are cooked and sugar is evenly coated, add milk and stir well. On medium heat let the milk thicken up in the carrot mixture. Keep stirring regularly, to avoid the carrot mixture from getting burnt or sticking to the bottom of the pan. Once all the milk thickens up, take another pan add 1tsp of ghee and add raisins and cashew and fry till the raisins are puffed up. Add this to the carrot mixture and stir well. Let the carrot mixture cook for 2 mins. Carrot halwa is ready to be served.

Capsicum fried rice

This one more variation to the fried rice family. the main ingredient of this recipe as the name suggests is capsicum.

Ingredients:

1.)capsicums - 2 (chopped finely)

2.)onion - 1 medium (chopped length wise)

3.)cloves - 4

4.)cinnamon - 1/2 inch

5.)ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

6.)soya sauce - 2tsps

7.)basmati rice - 2 cups

8.)tomato ketchup - 1 tbsp

9.)garam amsla powder - 1tbsp

10.)oil - 2 tbsp

11.)salt

12.) green chillies - 2 (slit length wise)

Procedure:

Take oil in a pan, add the cloves and cinnamon and fry till u start getting the aroma. At this point add the onions and green chillies and saute till onions get translucent. Now add ginger garlic paste and fry till raw flavor is gone. At this pint add capsicum , soyas auce,salt, garam masala and saute well. Try to fry the capsicum peices tilll they get soft. At this point add tomato ketchup and cook for another 4 -5 mins. Now add washed basmati rice and stir till all the rice grains are coated with the masala's. Next transfer the contents to an electric rice cooker. Add 4 and 1/2 cups of water and cook. Capsicum fried rice is ready. This goes well with raitha or plain curd.

Note:

First add soya sauce and then add salt accordingly. Because soya sauce gives saltiness to the dish, so add salt accordingly.