Thursday, October 14, 2010
After my success with the Curry base, I decided to attempt adapting it into Dal Makhani, a very popular dish that is Lentils in a creamy buttery sauce.
To begin, make everything up to the blending in the curry recipe. The only difference would be to use more chili as dairy cuts the spice of food due to a effect known as science.
The big difference in this recipe is you will need, in addition to the ingredients in the curry recipe, is:
Some cream (a little more than a DL)
Butter (30 or 40 grams, I measured with my stomach)
Lentils (about 2 DL, covered in water about 2 CM above the lentils, for minimum of an hour or ideally overnight).
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I have been asked to share the method in which I make curry. I am not a professional and this recipe comes with no promises of actually being good/not killing you. That being said, it should taste good and you should still be alive when all is said and done.
All of the ingredients together
The main ingredients in use are:
4 medium tomatoes
1 medium onion
1 Teaspoon Turmeric Powder
1 Teaspoon Coriander Powder
1.5 Teaspoons Cumin Seed
.5 Teaspoon Fennel Seeds
1-3 Teaspoons chili powder, depending on strength and preference
1 tablespoon ginger-garlic paste (equal parts ginger/garlic blended with a bit of oil) – if not available, just use 3 cloves of garlic and half a teaspoon dried ginger.
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I fell asleep last night thinking about Barak Obama. Now I know that isn’t the most interesting or exciting person to fall asleep thinking about, but never the less he was on my mind after watching one so called “news” channel complain about another so called “news” channel, though those thoughts are for a different post all together. The news channels that were having their squabble seemed to agree on one thing, there is a single narrative for the story of Obama, that is, he is either a great leader who is not to be criticized or he is the product of some sort of Stalin/Hitler/Junior hybrid. Either way there isn’t too much room for discussion or interpretation. As counter point to this notion of a single narrative for the President of the United States here is a description of a mystery president, one who was described by Noam Chomsky as “the last liberal president.”
This mystery president was responsible for the following things:
The creation of Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA)
The National Environmental Policy Act
The Clean Air Act
The Creation of the EPA
Opening relations with China
A renewed and more diplomatic relationship with the Soviet Union
Submitted one of the few balanced budgets in recent history, but due to pressure from congress created a deficit to extend unemployment benefits
Was a quaker
Responsible for the successful draw down of the one the worse conflicts in modern American history
A large proponent of Civil Rights and integration
Correlated Social Security with inflation
Created the Consumer Product Safety Commission
Who is this mystery president?
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Tonight I made Rajma, a Punjabi dish based on Kidney Beans.
It was an extremely good dish that we ended up making several nights in a row. It is essentially beans and rice, Indian/Pakistani style. If you are a fan of both kidney beans and Indian food, do yourself a favor and make this dish.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
The Public Option.
These three words have created a tremendous uproar in the United States from all sides and corners of the political spectrum, from supports to neigh sayers. One side claims it is socialism the other side claiming it is a needed and welcome change to the US health care policy. But what it is exactly, I don’t think that is a question too many people are sure of.
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