Milagai
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I have had it made for me by a Malaysian lady using red lentils, lots of lovely flavours, thick soup texture. I am willing to give anything a go.
if you google for "masoor dal" (=red lentils) and recipes you'' get tons...
here's one:
http://www.indianfoodforever.com/daal/masoor-dal.html
does that sound anything like what your friend made?
you can vary the texture by how much water you add...
milagai
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I haven't been to either, so can't chime in, other than to say:
why choose? do BOTH (two different weekends, e.g.) and compare....
Who says a birthday present has to happen in one sitting?
Milagai
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I am new around here but would like a good recipe for Dahl, if someone could help me please.
Thanks
What kind of dal? Dal is just a generic word for split
lentils/legumes...
What did you have in mind?
Milagai
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Whether a specific couple has children or not, due to their
choice or not, family life still needs to include everyone, young,
old, different stages and abilities, etc....
Okay, I don't get this attitude at all. It's not your wedding. To not understand the exclusion of kids is one thing. Telling someone who they have to have as a guest at their wedding (or party, or into their home), is wrong.
But this thread is about children in restaurants.
. Yes, Maggie, I think you're right!No argument from me here. I have no idea what Jeffrey Dahmer's, Hitler's or Atilla's table manners were. I doubt that behaving at restauarants pushed them over the edge
I will say that a few of my experiences with little darlings whose parents are too tired (or whatever) to keep it together have nearly pushed me over the edge, though.I probably expressed myself badly.
I am not telling anyone who they can have as guests and I would
also never take a child to an event that has been specified to
exclude children.
I am only saying that I do not understand or
appreciate the underlying negative
attitude toward children (or any others deemed "unruly") at
one of the most central events of family life.
So, when I see such invitations excluding children, I do make
a judgement about the people involved..... though I keep
it to myself and would never share it .....
And you are right, the thread is about children in restaurants...
Milagai
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Ok, please help me understand this:
Botanically, all rices are grasses.
So why does popular perception keep separating wild rice
from "ordinary" rice and sees the latter as true rice?
Milagai
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Our culture is not particularly child-friendly. As others have mentioned above, some of the most effective ways of making children comfortable in restaurants is shown in restaurants run and staffed by those from other cultures.
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I prefer the concept of compassion rather than the concept of self-righteousness when I see a child misbehaving in a restaurant. Life goes on, and this, too, will change, and another chance to dine more pleasantly will arrive soon enough.
Amen to that Carrot Top:
In general, when people extol the virtues of well behaved children
and adults in restaurants, it's easy to forget that 1) everyone used to be
a kid, and 2) for most of us it took *repeated* exposure to learn to
behave anywhere, restaurants included.
Unless kids get taken out and taught to behave (with consequences
and limits etc.) how do you expect magically well behaved people to result?
I've said it before and will say it again, some cultures are definitely
child-unfriendly ....
I still find it strange when I see wedding invitations
that say "no children"...
Whether a specific couple has children or not, due to their
choice or not, family life still needs to include everyone, young,
old, different stages and abilities, etc....
I've seen weddings in other cultures where kids run around,
relatives run after them, the couple gets married, elders
nod off, etc....Much more humane, fun, grounded,
and psychologically satisfying
than the everything-is-co-ordinated-and-perfect "events"...
Milagai
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I wonder if there's a use for the 'rice water' when using the boiling method. Could it be reduced down and used as a thickener? A soup base? I hate pouring stuff down the drain that might have another use. I wonder if a poached egg would cook differently in the rice water.
There's a non-food use that I know of:
save the water and starch your cotton clothes in it.
Dip clothes, hang to dry, and do some serious
ironing (helps if you have help with this obviously)
And voila! Crisp, starched, cottons.
Look and feel cool in the hottest Hyderabad summer.....
Wear your vitamin B rather than ingest it....
Milagai
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My feeling when I read the article that this couple seemed to be
moving from one extreme to another.
Before change: all-consumption lifestyle carried to ridiculous
extremes: never cooked/turned on stove/kid knows the takeout
man almost like a family member etc.
After change: as extreme, in the opposite direction....
What about all the people who live more moderately every day?
Milagai
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Re boil and drain, unless you are saving the water and cooking something else
with it, you are pouring away most of the nutrients.
It's not at all hard to make perfect and fluffy rice stovetop
or rice cooker with the correct amount of water to start with
so you don't have to waste....
Milagai
I understand that the matter of pouring away or rinsing off nutrients only applies to enriched rice, (the most common rice sold), but it wouldn't matter if you're cooking brown rice or other unprocessed rice.
SB (or wild rice, which is really grass)
Hmmm. I can see how it would definitely apply to enriched rice, but
would it not also apply to any form of food where you boil, nutrients
leach into the water, and if you throw out the water, then you're throwing
most of the good stuff away? Even with vegetables etc?
And all rice is grass, not just wild rice ....
Miilagai
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Re boil and drain, unless you are saving the water and cooking something else
with it, you are pouring away most of the nutrients.
It's not at all hard to make perfect and fluffy rice stovetop
or rice cooker with the correct amount of water to start with
so you don't have to waste....
Milagai
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In my pre-vegetarian days, I would always wonder what
people saw in : caviar, fishy fish, oysters, organ meats, etc.
*Shudder* to all - I genuinely tasted them all and tried not to
have any pre-conceived views. But gosh.....
It's really easy for me to stay on the green bandwagon because
I can't stand most of the stuff that "all" meaters apparently love....
What am I doing on a foodie group......
Milagai
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Shrimp - Scampi == with Scampi being (Italian for shrimp)
So Shrimp-Shrimp!!
I may have posted this in one of the related threads
but Chai Tea is the same way.
(Chai just means tea! If someone means
Masala Chai aka Spice Tea, then just say so!)
Milagai
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MizDucky: I loved your tips and am going to save them to look at when
my Lizard Brain starts issuing orders.
I especially applaud what you say
about delicious food can be healthy and weight friendly;
and the related advice to party on vegetables.
The only reason I am not a total balloon today is because I was
raised with a food culture that had tasty AND healthy food
and I love to snack on veggies as a result.
Having been skinny all my pre-40's life, I never developed
self control around food.
The trouble is, post 40's, I've significantly expanded, and my prior
healthy habit of several small meals turned into
a habit of several big meals, that I'm trying to break myself of.
Sigh....
At least I don't have to learn to love healthy and veggie rich food.....
But boy, the rest of it is hard.
Thanks for your inspirational words...
Milagai
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May be a new buzzword in some circles but it's been
grandma's wisdom forever where I come from.
We're always urged to finish our meals with a cup
of dahi because it "helps you digest your food"
and "cools you down".
Tummy a little upset? remedy: yogurt and rice.
Prescribed antibiotics? up your yogurt intake, and drink
lots coconut water (=nature's ORT drink)
Traveling? make sure you have your daily dose of dahi
to keep bugs at bay (after all, you know that milk has been
boiled, and the good bacteria chase out the bad bacteria).
Thirsty in the summer? a little lassi (sweet or salty) really
hits the spot.
etc. etc.
Because of this upbringing, my family consumes
industrial quantities of yogurt so I make it at home every 2-3 days
(otherwise it becomes ridiculous, also unmanageable
numbers of containers).
So it's usually pretty fresh and potent...
Milagai
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I use pink peppercorns in a lot of my apple desserts.
I always have a container in the spice cabinet, which is filled with a mixture of allspice, cumin and cinnamon, with a few bay leaves for aroma. This is an intoxicating blend. Usually, we roast or broil things with tihs. We also pan fry things with it. I use it in some of my salad dressings, some pilafs, it's really versatile. And, delicious.
heh heh, sounds like garam masala.
Which would be my not-so-secret ingredient.
Since reading some of Eden's descriptions of medieval
European (especially Italian) cooking, I throw some
garam masala into many pasta sauces and get
rave reviews...
Milagai
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Mangoes from India, not Mexico.
Mangoes from India are available in Canada but not the US.
Mango season coming right up...
Milagai
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A bunny is something that most cultures consider dinner. It's hunted in the woods, in the fields, or is grown in small cages (as we do here with chickens) as a decent-tasting protein, not too difficult to butcher or to grow. No diminution of the name "rabbit" to the idea of "bunny" which makes the creature adorable-sounding to start off with.
But here, in the US, we have a food item that has been made into a pet, made into an icon, really, of an image. Most of the ways we think of bunnies are not as food. We think of bunnies and in our minds rise the images of Bugs Bunny, a part of childhood Saturday mornings spent sprawled before the TV, rather than spent tending the garden or doing chores as children in earlier times or other places might do. Those with access to parents who read aloud, or to libraries, take into their hearts for all time our dear bunny cousin from across the pond - Peter Rabbit, plus memories of his mother, family, and assorted friends tucked around MacGregor's farm. Sometime later we meet Roger Rabbit, who is of course loved by Jessica. How could we think of him in a pie? Impossible! And to top it all off, we have Playboy Bunnies, the cream of the crop of sexually desirable young women who stick a furry white tail on their behinds, add floppy silk headbands with huge bunny ears attached (the better to hear you with, my dear), and put on a skimpy costume designed so that their mammary glands always seem just about to pop out at any moment, an agricultural food-product thought (not). Or maybe it is for some.
A little white bunny entered my home. He (she, it) invaded my son's room, because my son wanted it to. And everything that seemed wrong about Western Culture seemed to invade my house, all because of a food item that wasn't.
Generally I can persuade Drew to keep his room neat. This is something I insist upon, because these kids have so much "stuff". But the bunny, a cute little animal, was simply too much. Generally he keeps the door to his room open, but now it was closed, for the bunny needed to run and there is a cat in the house. The bunny started chewing cords, even though Drew had wrapped them in duct tape. This is a room with a *lot* of electronics, electronics being another dropping our culture often leaves in its trail. I had images of room and boy and bunny all exploding into an electrical explosion after one particularly good bite of a wire. And since bunny, the thing most cultures eat, was not yet trained, he (she, it) was shitting all over the floor, pissing on the carpet. Etc, etc.
The thing that most people around the world eat, was eating us.
And then it tried to electrocute me.
I have cooked rabbits before, and it seemed to be quite a good idea for this one.
But then again, we can not eat our friends, and this thing that most people eat had become Drew's friend. What to do.
What we did, was peculiar, but it is us. I re-did Drew's room for bunny and Drew to exist together better. Carpet removed (thank goodness I do not believe in wall-to-wall carpet, so that was not too very difficult), excess electronics were removed and all cords re-wrapped to an excess of duct tape. As Drew seemed to be developing sinus problems, I removed the bunny cage from his room, as probably living with hay in his room was the cause. Bunny now lives in an alcove outside the living room. Ridiculous, I know. Now everyone that visits our home can know and love bunny.
Drew is allowed to take bunny into his room to play for short periods of time. Since bunny needs intellectual stimulation, I told Drew to go into the basement to find some cardboard boxes, to fill them with this and that, as the instructional Bunny Link directed. I am not sure what happened, but when he climbed up the stairs to the kitchen he was calling "Help, Mom". I opened the door to the basement and was faced with a boy carrying a three and a half foot tall cardboard castle with turrets and small boxes coming from the tops and sides of the larger box at the bottom, all nicely prepared for bunny.
The castle is in a corner of his room now, complete with flag stuck on top with a wooden skewer from my kitchen drawer, a skewer that is used for shish-kebobs. Bunny, the thing that most people eat, has become a Duke (or a Duchess). And everyone knows one can not eat a Duke or a Duchess. Their meat is stringy.
I've loved each one of your helpful responses, and if I missed answering any, I hope you will understand and forgive me. It is almost time for elevenses, and the Duchess needs her tender celery leaves prepared just so!
Celery gives good flavor to rabbit. One can always dream.
In your masterly summary of bunny icons, you didn't mention
that ultimate act of murderous villainy: the psycho bunny-boiling
heroine of Fatal Attraction....
Milagai
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I don't know if I've posted this before, but this is one fantastic blog:
http://www.nandyala.org/mahanandi/
Pictures are out of this world: the blog is
worth visiting just to see how beautifully she
presents peanuts and eggplants!
Recipes are very regional, authentic, uncommon.
(Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh State in
Southern India).
Milagai
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Correct a mundo, well the film was correct and Ben was in it, brilliantly I might add, but Ray Winston said the line and I couldn`t think of a way of giving a clue without giving it away.
I really like "psychopathic Ghandi." Terribly funny! It'd be a good name for a musical band.
I suspect that I should add as many clues towards #141 that I dare. It had a very limited release even though the director is well known for both his direction *and* animation.
Sorry to be so psycho myself folks, but if I see the name spelt as
"Ghandi" one more time I'll go even more bananas than I already am
(saying quite a lot).
It's Gandhi, not, never, jamais, jamas, kabhi nahin "Ghandi".
This is not a "tomayto" vs "tomato" thing, its the difference
between right and wrong spelling. The placement of "h" in
English rendering of Indian-language words is not arbitrary,
and getting it wrong is not trivial. There really are no two
ways about it.
If you get someone who speaks Hindi to pronounce Gandhi
correctly, you'll hear it.
In this day and age.....
Please, if you do only *one* thing this year, let it be
learning how to spell Gandhi correctly.
Milagai
(and sorry to intrude on your game when I don't know any of
the answers; but it's amazing - 38 pages and counting....)
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I'm not sure what I would eat, but I would certainly buy the food at Traitor Joe's.
None of the food would contain salt, or bread
(if you break bread with someone or eat their salt
you swear allegiance, and are not supposed
to betray them? Not sure if that's a Roman
tradition but definitely kicks in further East...)
Milagai
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I'm unlike Carlovski and Toliver and more like Miladyinsanity;
I progressively get shakes, grumpy, headaches, crazy; etc. if
I skip a meal.
But help! I am trying to lose just a few kgs and just a few
cms so that I don't have to buy all new clothes...Nothing
major.
I just began today, cutting calories. Without going
into too many details, I've just made my portion sizes
smaller, but not eliminated any of my usual foods.
I AM STARVING CRAZY! I've been on the edge of hungry
all day and now I am counting the minutes until I can
decently have dinner.
How DO people control hunger pangs when they're like this?
Help!
Milagai
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Paapads!
Even if one lives in a place with enough spells
of insanely hot and dry weather, so that
you can roll out myriad paste rounds and let them dry without spoiling,
it is just too crazily laborious.
To "roll out paapads" is proverbial in many
Indian languages for hard, repetitive, monotonous,
work.....
Just buy any of the dozens of varieties at the
Indian store and enjoy, while supporting some
rural women's co-operative.....
Milagai
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Hi: glad something looks like it's working.
Was baffled by the "rice (dosa) based".
Rice-based papads are a whole different universe
from dosas. Dosais are more similar to crepes or
pancakes than to papads ....
Milagai
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Intriguing challenge.
Thoughts off the top of my head:
1. Hold papad with tongs, dip edges in water first, then the center
(will involve some fancy turning etc.).
2. You said steaming does not work?
3. Moisten with water,
Microwave VERY briefly (experiment) until beginning to soften,
then quickly roll around a wooden dowel or similar, and finish MW
then fill and deep fry.
OR
moisten with water, wrap around dowel and MW.
4. Look in the Indian store, is someone selling papads
already shaped (though it's hard to control what shape the
turn into after frying).
5. What was the papad spring roll papad made of? There are several
possibilities, e.g. dal-based, rice-based, potato-based etc etc.
Maybe one ingredient is more suited to this application than others....
6. re fillings: I am sure you could put in whatever you like
because this sounds like a dish someone made up and
there will be no mother in law standing over you criticizing you....
Do tell us when you find out?
Milagai
Foods that you are *supposed* to find delicious?
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eh? i didn't know olives came in a can.
i've only seen them in bottles or in tubs of marinade...
milagai