Yesterday, I had every intention of starting to knit a pair of socks. I wound my yarn into a ball and picked a pattern. Inextricably, I found myself investing 12 solid hours into card weaving. 12 hours of failure, in case you were wondering. I cut 507 yards of yarn (38 cards, four pieces of yarn per card, 10 feet long each), I cut up a deck of cards into card weaving cards, and I spend hours upon hours combing (with a comb) the yarn to rid it of tangles.
All that, and the project had to be scrapped (or reset, but that was another 10 hours of work). Sometimes, I really hate ambition.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Friday, November 26, 2010
Grr
Well R, I intending on making pot pie yesterday. However, I didn't really have any veggies to go into it. So after sleeping until 4pm (it's my only day off in a month), we get our shit together to go to the grocery store. Only to find it closed. And the next one. And the next one. Why isn't there a single goddamned grocery store that's OPEN on Thanksgiving? The high holy day of food?
So yeah, we went out for Indian.
Who knows when this damn thing is getting made.
So yeah, we went out for Indian.
Who knows when this damn thing is getting made.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
The Snackie That Almost Wasn't
So my darling friend R has an amazing recipe for Daal er Bora or what she calls Lentil Puffs. The recipe looks fairly simple: soak lentils, mush lentils with onion, chili and seasoning, shape into balls, and fry. Sounds amazing, eh?
So I soak the lentils for 30 mins at first, as I'm on a schedule.
Prior to draining the lentils, I chop a couple of small red onions.
However, when R recommends the food processor (which I don't have), I figure I'll just mush it by hand. A fork, a wooden spoon, and a potato masher later, I figure I'll toss it in my mortar. This is even more of a pain in the ass, although it slowly does the trick.
I throw my hands up, and decide to nap instead of snack before work.
Before heading to work however, I throw the lentils and onion back into water (I know, I'm not supposed to soak the onions, but they were mixed by this point). Coming back from work, I try to mash again -- to no avail.
Fully frustrated by now, I decide to cook the damn lentils, and make the paste from fully cooked and mashed lentils. I cook the lentils with a smidge of water (as I don't want it thinned out at all!), stirring constantly.
After about 30 mins, I turn the heat off, and add some spices (cinnamon, cumin, coriander, and paprika), and let it cool and solidify.
When the lentils cooled, I heated some oil, and put the lentils in by teaspoonful. However, this also failed, as the lentils merely became oil colored brown by the addition of lentils.
As I am determined to eat this snack by the gods, I added a copious amount of potato starch, and put by the teaspoon onto a cookie sheet which was popped in the freezer.
I also took this opportunity to have a tea break.
When cleaning up the mess on the stove, please feel free to spill half of the oil mixture ON the stove, making a larger mess to clean.
Stove cleaned, I heated more oil and removed the fully frozen lentil balls from the freezer. Hesitant, I dropped one into the oil.
It fried, it fried, and it kept its shape! Victory! I happily fried the rest of them.
Verdict: WAY less potato starch. As Mister pointed out: starch thickens when cooked. These had so much starch that you could taste it. Not fun. But, still fried and fairly tasty.
So I soak the lentils for 30 mins at first, as I'm on a schedule.
Prior to draining the lentils, I chop a couple of small red onions.
However, when R recommends the food processor (which I don't have), I figure I'll just mush it by hand. A fork, a wooden spoon, and a potato masher later, I figure I'll toss it in my mortar. This is even more of a pain in the ass, although it slowly does the trick.
I throw my hands up, and decide to nap instead of snack before work.
Before heading to work however, I throw the lentils and onion back into water (I know, I'm not supposed to soak the onions, but they were mixed by this point). Coming back from work, I try to mash again -- to no avail.
Fully frustrated by now, I decide to cook the damn lentils, and make the paste from fully cooked and mashed lentils. I cook the lentils with a smidge of water (as I don't want it thinned out at all!), stirring constantly.
After about 30 mins, I turn the heat off, and add some spices (cinnamon, cumin, coriander, and paprika), and let it cool and solidify.
When the lentils cooled, I heated some oil, and put the lentils in by teaspoonful. However, this also failed, as the lentils merely became oil colored brown by the addition of lentils.
As I am determined to eat this snack by the gods, I added a copious amount of potato starch, and put by the teaspoon onto a cookie sheet which was popped in the freezer.
I also took this opportunity to have a tea break.
When cleaning up the mess on the stove, please feel free to spill half of the oil mixture ON the stove, making a larger mess to clean.
Stove cleaned, I heated more oil and removed the fully frozen lentil balls from the freezer. Hesitant, I dropped one into the oil.
It fried, it fried, and it kept its shape! Victory! I happily fried the rest of them.
Verdict: WAY less potato starch. As Mister pointed out: starch thickens when cooked. These had so much starch that you could taste it. Not fun. But, still fried and fairly tasty.
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