I think I just majorly fucked up a recipe. I’m making butter chicken, which has very little butter but a great deal of curry — several different types. I was supposed to add two teaspoons of curry powder, but I added two tablespoons instead.
Oh well. It smells good.
What are y’all up to today? We’re watching Stillers v. Buffalo. Looks cold at that game. It’s warm here.
Open thread!
Big R
Gonna be more of a vindaloo than butter chicken at this point….
raven
It ain’t warm here.
Betty Cracker
What’s up with those rubber pellets on the field in Buffalo? WTF?
Corner Stone
I’ll happily be by for leftovers!
trollhattan
Need a win @ Lambeau today, in snow and sans Earl Thomas III. Yeesh.
Major Major Major Major
@Big R: Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’m off to a housewarming, then allegedly hanging out with friends? I’ll probably just duck out and read and write for the latter.
Boudica
I just screwed up a cake for a party. It called for M&Ms baked on top as the decoration, but I used mint ones and they melted. So! I’m off to get a can of frosting to cover it up.
amygdala
Nothing some extra rice won’t fix.
Finished my holiday baking and got the boxes of cookies packed up for the trip to the post office tomorrow. Now working on the cards and wrapping a few gifts. And then #holidaze2016 will be pretty much on the books.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Not watching but is it the ground up tires under field turf? All our vehicles are full of that crap, because soccer. Makes nice roostertails in game pics, though.
Kenneth Kohl
@Betty Cracker: All part of the composite surface, I believe, Betty. No nonsesnse like this at Lambeau Field, I’d guess :)
Wife and I (Buffalo area residents) also sort-of watching this game. Oof.
Phylllis
Watching Christmas in Connecticut and getting slightly tipsy on spiked eggnog.
schrodinger's cat
Curry powder is a British/Ango-Indian thing no Indian person that I know of uses “curry”. Which recipe did you use. Madhur Jaffrey’s recipe is full proof. You can also use MDH’s Butter Chicken Masala and use the recipe at the back for an even easier version.
Corner Stone
Rich Gannon covering Texans games is like nominating a mass murderer to head up DoJ.
Timurid
@Corner Stone:
Let’s not go giving anybody ideas…
bmaccnm
I am trying to get from Portland, Oregon to rural Maine, where my brother is dying of heart failure. I got weathered out of Chicago yesterday evening, after working all night and staying up for an 8 year old’s birthday party, because that is what honorary grandmothers do. I am rebooked through Chicago on a redeye tonight, because it was the first available seat. Feeling terrible.
ThresherK
@Phylllis: Is that where a “Betty Crocker”-style homemaking advice columnist has to actually host a dinner party? Late 30s-early 40s?
schrodinger's cat
@bmaccnm: {{ }}, here’s hoping you don’t get more bad weather. There is a snowstorm predicted for tomorrow on the east coast.
dmsilev
Some music for me today; LA Philharmonic performing Haydn’s Creation Should be nice.
(Apparently iPhone AutoCorrect thinks it should be spelled Hayden. Sigh. )
Major Major Major Major
@bmaccnm: yikes. So sorry to hear that. What a trip, what a reason. Hang in there.
Yarrow
@bmaccnm: Wow, what a trip. Sorry to hear about your brother. Be kind to yourself. You’ve done what you can do.
Iowa Old Lady
I made brown sugar coated pecans as a Christmas present for Mr IOL. He’s off playing bridge. Later I’ll join him for that group’s holiday party.
fuckwit
Hmm, you know who I haven’t seen around these parts since the hacked election? Bob in Москва́.
Wonder how he’s doing. Guess he’s been reassigned to a different troll project or maybe his contract was up.
pamelabrown53
@schrodinger’s cat: #12
It’s funny but of all the spices, I don’t like curry. While I’ve never been to India (sorry to say), Ive been to Thailand several times and it’s my least favorite cuisine–because curry.
I have a question for cooks: is it possible to substitute hot/or sweet Hungarian paprika for curry and still have an edible dish? I realize it would be totally different.
Emma
@bmaccnm: I am so sorry. We just buried my great-uncle, but when it’s a 94-year-old with a number of illnesses death is more of a release than anything else. The one thing that terrifies me is that I would outlive my sister.
schrodinger's cat
@pamelabrown53: “Curry” the Ango-Indian version is not a single spice but a mix of several, usually stale because it has been sitting in the grocery store since god knows when.
The thing to do, is grind your spices just before using them. A coffee grinder is particularly handy for this. Just keep another one for grinding coffee.
schrodinger's cat
@fuckwit: Also, srv is missing.
schrodinger's cat
@pamelabrown53: Substitute cayenne, if you like heat. Reduce the quantity by half, then you should be good to go.
brendancalling
If you like the Dead even a little bit, drop by Booman Tribune. He’s got Cornell 77 up and it’s epic. I say this as someone who’s not really a fan, but wow.
Spent the morning/afternoon listenin to that, keeping up with the Present Emergency, and enjoying a relatively warm winter day here in nashville. Drinking green tea now, heading out on a run in another half hour or so.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodinger’s cat: yeah what happened to him? Been since the election right?
Shana
@pamelabrown53: While curry powder and paprika are obviously different flavor profiles, neither is particularly spicy and should be OK.
Also, Betty, since curry powder is seasoning and not hot spice, it may taste a bit different but shouldn’t be ruined.
Betty Cracker
@schrodinger’s cat: I used this recipe, which is almost certainly Americanized crap. But that’s okay; I wouldn’t know real Indian food if it jumped up and bit me. I’m just hoping to replicate the Americanized crap I like at Indian restaurants that cater to clueless Americans like me.
Phylllis
@ThresherK: Yep. It’s a hoot.
Shell
@Phylllis: You get a channel called FreeForm on your cable lineup? They’re showing the whole Toy Story franchise today. Some good Christmas movies all day- ‘Arthur Christmas’, a british animated film Ive never seen; ‘Polar Express’ tonight.
Van Buren
@pamelabrown53: If it is chicken, beef, or vegetable based, I don’t see why not. Fish, not so sure.
Haydnseek
@dmsilev: That’s outrageous! I will be sending Apple a very strongly worded e-mail. I mean, I can’t even!
bystander
@Shana: I know some curry mixes that are very hot and the Spanish smoked paprika comes in both sweet and hot. Given that curries incorporate a variety of spices as opposed to paprika which are uniformly made of peppers, I think substituting paprika for curry, spicy or not, would be sort of one note.
FWIW, it’s snowing like crazy in NE Pennsylvania. But I can always turn to Operacast to find internet broadcasts of classical vocal music all over the world.
Shell
As Marge Simpson says ‘Pink frosting fixes everything!’
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: cool, thanks, I’ve been wondering that.
Iowa Old Lady
@efgoldman: They are delicious, if I do say so myself. There may not be any left to put in the package for Mr IOL.
Gelfling 545
In cooking, these oops moments are called creativity; in baking, disaster.
Betty Cracker
@bmaccnm: Aw man, that’s sad and terrible. Safe travels.
Van Buren
@brendancalling: If you haven’t listened to Holly Bowling’s new album, I highly recommend.
Steve in the ATL
@schrodinger’s cat:
Christmas came early!
schrodinger's cat
@Betty Cracker: Don’t sell yourself short, from the recipes you have posted you sound like an accomplished cook. You should try Madhur Jaffrey’s books, they are easy to follow and they cater to an American audience (she gives you substitutes for hard to find ingredients, and mostly uses stuff that you can find at the regular grocery store)
delk
My husband and I are are vacationing in Quebec City for our Xmas gift to each other. This is the view from our hotel window.
Roger Moore
My big cooking adventure was yesterday; I made a double batch of Seville orange marmalade. I have enough oranges left over to make some orange sauce today.
Phylllis
@Shell: I was going to say no, but turns out we do. Thanks for the heads-up. Love Toy Story.
Gelfling 545
@Iowa Old Lady: i just finished making sugared, spiced pecans. They’ll go into a casserole with baked sweet potatoes, cranberrie s, brown sugar and butter with a dash of balsamic vinager for dinner.
schrodinger's cat
@Roger Moore: Recipe? I love marmalade, never made it myself though.
Steve in the ATL
@delk: fantastique! Is it cold?
trollhattan
@efgoldman:
Don’t know why but it’s always more prevalent when it’s wet (example). Also the case with older, worn out fields (like dandruff leaking from Trump’s Tribbletop).
pamelabrown53
@schrodinger’s cat: @schrodinger’s cat: #27
Thank YOU. I do often try to substitute both cayenne and paprika for curry dishes. Any suggestions for which dishes to substitute the cayenne or paprika? FYI, I tend to use cayenne for fish recipes.
Kathleen
@bmaccnm: Sending good thoughts your way and prayers for your brother. I hope remainder of your journey is free of hassle. Try to get some rest if you can.
RepubAnon
@schrodinger’s cat: Americanized recipes always fail to add enough curry powder.
I always love going to Indian spice stores for aromatherapy…
Iowa Old Lady
@bmaccnm: I hope you get there. Maybe you can sleep a little on the flight.
delk
@Steve in the ATL: Yesterday was supposed to be the coldest day of the trip. Pretty brutal when there is nothing blocking the wind. Today was better. The city is decorated so beautifully.
Major Major Major Major
@RepubAnon: good point.
Kathleen
@fuckwit: Or maybe he didn’t get his paycheck this time.
pamelabrown53
@Shana: #30
So if you like both hot and spicy, what do you think is the most tasty substitute?
Bumper
Hah. Once during a cooking class for kids the kids got mixed up with their measurements. Instead of 1/2 teaspoon curry powder and 1/2 cup of raisins for their curried chicken salad, they were attempting 1/2 cup powder and 1/2teaspoon raisins (seriously, they had 2 raisins in the measuring spoon). Fortunately I taught them about setting out their ingredients first so disaster was averted.
Major Major Major Major
Republicans suddenly love them some stimulus https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/12/09/republicans-admit-it-okay-yes-we-really-are-big-hypocrites/
schrodinger's cat
@pamelabrown53: Add a 1/4 tsp of turmeric and cayenne. Turmeric is what gives curry powder its characteristic color. It will work for everything, fish, meat or veggies.
If you are feeling extra adventurous grind together whole cumin and whole coriander seeds, ratio 1:2 to add to the cayenne and turmeric.
James E Powell
Cake recipe has nuts in the topping, but guests can’t abide the nuts. Just leave them out or is there something that can provide similar texture?
schrodinger's cat
@pamelabrown53: Add a 1/4 tsp of turmeric and cayenne. Turmeric is what gives curry powder its characteristic color. It will work for everything, fish, meat or veggies.
If you are feeling extra adventurous grind together whole cumin and whole coriander seeds, ratio 1:2 to add to the cayenne and turmeric.
ETA: Reposting since editing my comment has sent it to moderation.
pamelabrown53
@schrodinger’s cat: #64
Thank you so much! Will absolutely try it for everything! Palates are so individual but I think you’re hearing me.
P.S. I also love cumin, so it makes sense to add that to the mix. IYO, what individual spice makes for a “curry”?
schrodinger's cat
@Betty Cracker: Yogurt + coconut milk + Butter, all in the same recipe? That’s cray cray.
schrodinger's cat
@pamelabrown53: You are welcome, you can also add garlic+ginger paste to your onions.
No single spice makes for a curry, Indian curry powder tends to be a watered down version of the south-Indian spice mix, sambar masala.
Turmeric and fenugreek seeds give it its color and aroma respectively.
brendancalling
@Van Buren: will do!
brendancalling
@Van Buren: holy moly! She does “Harry Hood”!!
pamelabrown53
@schrodinger’s cat: #68
Interesting, I’m thinking that the yogurt/coconut milk w/ butter concoction might be what bothers me about some Thai food. Possibly Indian too but I’ve never had the gift of experiencing Indian cuisine first hand.
Yarrow
@pamelabrown53: If you don’t like the flavor of “curry” it could be the fenugreek. Yellow mustard (like French’s) uses turmeric for coloring. If you can tolerate that then you should be okay with turmeric. It’s good for you – anti-inflammatory.
schrodinger's cat
@pamelabrown53: It bothers me because they don’t go together traditionally since both butter and coconut milk are quite rich. You would put one or the other, not both together unless in a dessert.
Mnemosyne
@bmaccnm:
I’m so sorry. Last year was my year to do that (though it was lung cancer and trying to get to central Florida). Don’t be afraid to hang out here for venting, the jackals are very nice when it comes to that sort of thing even if we fight about other stuff.
Major Major Major Major
@schrodinger’s cat: but what a dessert!
I’m eating some sort of thai(?) samosa right now that’s sweet and spicy and vaguely creamy and definitely potato-filled. Yum.
lamh36
I first had Butter Chicken on my trip to india..it has since become my fav Indian dish, i couldn’t find anyplace good near me, so i found a resume for it and I’ve made iit from scratch a few times, that recipes didn’t have curry in it though. i hadn’t made it from scratch in a while though because I found different pre-packaged packs for it at the grocery store.
From my understanding the key to any good Butter Chicken is the Garam Masala and if you use Ghee butter or not
Schlemazel
Got about6 inches of snow and still falling softly. 17 degrees so a perfect day to make Pastamas cookies
debbie
@James E Powell:
What kind of cake? If the nuts are just part of the topping and the topping isn’t cooked, it shouldn’t matter.
Betty Cracker
@pamelabrown53: I love Thai food (or what passes for it in US Thai restaurants), so I’m unfazed by that combo!
schrodinger's cat
@lamh36: You have probably seen more of India than I have, where did you travel.
Pogonip
@bmaccnm: Oh, my. God bless you. My father died of heart failure, and after 4 months of invalidism he was glad to go. I wish your brother a good death.
Yarrow
@pamelabrown53: Traditional Thai food generally wouldn’t use yogurt and butter. I think traditional Thai food doesn’t use much dairy at all. Thai curry is more likely to be made with coconut cream.
You’re much more likely to see dairy used in Indian food – ghee, yogurt.
amygdala
@Major Major Major Major: Thai or Burmese?
Mnemosyne
A friendly reminder to go check out what movie to watch for next weekend’s Movie Club, plus the announcement of a special Christmas Eve bonus film to set your DVRs for.
Lizzy L
I just went shopping for a specific accessory for a specific Samsung tablet. GAH. Horrible. Best Buy, Target, and (ugh) Walmart. Didn’t find what I was looking for. Walmart didn’t have it, Best Buy was out and the staffer had no idea when they would be getting it. They did say they could order it for me, and it would take a minimum of a week to come, maybe more. Target didn’t have it but had something else that could be useful, so I bought it. (If it doesn’t work, it’s returnable.) But going into the stores and hunting, dodging carts, check out, the whole thing left me seriously jangled. I think between now and December 24, the only stores I’m going to enter are the grocery store and the pet store.
I’m planning to eat lunch and then take my dog for a long walk, see if I can get un-jangled.
Yutsano
@Betty Cracker: I’ve been watching a Thai cook from Canada on YouTube and she definitely makes it clear that there is no one right way to make Thai food. Also a lot of her techniques are very similar to what you get in restaurants. So as long as the owner is Thai it will be pretty close to what you can get over there.
lethargytartare
Dave Lister approves.
schrodinger's cat
@Major Major Major Major: My mom makes coconut barfi (kinda of a fudge) with freshly grated coconut. Its to die for.
Major Major Major Major
@amygdala: the rest of the food is definitely Thai.
schrodinger's cat
@Yarrow: Ghee and yogurt is a very north Indian combination. Whereas coconut milk and coconut are used widely along the coasts.
bemused senior
@schrodinger’s cat: Love Madhur Jaffrey’s books. When my husband and I were first married in 1978 there were very few Indian restaurants here on the SF Peninsula. We decided we really liked the Indian food we had tasted and would learn to cook it at home. We got Madhur JAffrey’s Invitation to Indian Cooking and are still making things from it even though Indian restaurants are thick on the ground now. BTW for the neophyte it helps to have two cooks!
Yarrow
@schrodinger’s cat: Yep. Indian food is so regional. Love it. My point was more that you’ll see dairy in Indian food but you generally won’t in traditional Thai. Of course whether or not dairy is used depends which Indian cuisine you’re having.
Patricia Kayden
@schrodinger’s cat: Interesting since curry is generally associated with Indian cooking, in my mind. As someone of Jamaican descent, I have to say I love curried food (curry goat, curried chicken, curry fried rice, etc.). The very smell makes my mouth water.
Yarrow
@schrodinger’s cat: I always find the Indian sweets so interesting. The very thin layer of silver on some of them – couldn’t believe it was a thing the first time I saw it.
Helen
I’m up to sitting in a Dublin bar. After a fab dinner. Man o man food has gotten a million times better than when I first started coming here 30 yrs ago. Nursing a Ameretto. Only cuz they don’t have Frangelico.
Davebo
Amazing Betty. This week my girlfriend made the EXACT SAME MISTAKE with curry chicken but it came out pretty fabulous.
Omnes Omnibus
As long as we are on Asian food, I just ordered very spicy Singaporean noodles. Now, just waiting for delivery.
cosima
Writing out holiday cards to send. I’m not feeling festive, so everyone is getting scenic cards with photos of Vermont & Scotland (taken by my oldest daughter), watching Long Way Down (zzzzzz, third time my husband has put me through that).
Little daughter insisted on putting up xmas decorations today. She is bound & determined to be festive, in spite of her grinchy parents.
On the positive side, my husband has been told that he has a job (long story, oil industry gone to hell here in UK, everyone had to re-apply for the jobs that remained following a re-structuring), so our time in Scotland remains safe for now (knock wood). Our lab, Lola, has just had TPLO, and is confined to one room for a month, then 5 months of rehab before she can do usual dog things like running & swimming. It will be a long 6 months, one week down!
And this is a really fab piece by Zadie Smith:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/on-optimism-and-despair/
schrodinger's cat
@Yarrow: Home-made desserts leave that out, its a very halwai thing to do.
Betty Cracker
@Patricia Kayden: My sister-in-law is Jamaican, and she gets (and shares!) curry from Jamaica sometimes. I love it.
pamelabrown53
@Betty Cracker: #80
You and everyone else I know! For all my travels, I’m still a finicky eater My loss.
Helen
Also watching soccer. Oh my bad football. They count the minutes forward. Does American soccer do that?
schrodinger's cat
@Patricia Kayden: Do you make a sauce with habaneros? My Jamaican friend once gave me some home-made habanero sauce, it was hot and delicious.
hovercraft
@bmaccnm:
What a horrible series of events. I hope the weather clears up so you can get to your brother. Good luck, and best wishes.
Yarrow
@schrodinger’s cat: Yeah, it seems like a lot of work. I love looking at all the selections in places that sell Indian sweets. Your mom’s coconut barfi sounds amazing.
trollhattan
@schrodinger’s cat:
Have a bunch of those on the plant, trying to figure out what to do with them before frost kills it. A little goes a looooong way, but pretty.
pamelabrown53
@Yarrow: #83
You’re absolutely right. Many of the dishes I ate in Thailand were a coconut/curry combo.
SiubhanDuinne
“Let’s Waste More Money on Science” recommends our own Tom Levenson in today’s Boston Globe.
Well worth a read.
germy
A question for all you balloon-juice soothsayers:
A few years back my wife bought a bunch of stocks. She invests in renewable energy, stuff like that.
I’m tempted to tell her to cash everything out, as I suspect we’re heading for a crash. Am I wrong? I don’t want to alarm her.
opiejeanne
@trollhattan: Yeesh Indeed.
We just had lunch at th In’n’Out at Woodland, just northwest of Sacramento. It’s 52 degrees. Nice and toasty.
germy
@Patricia Kayden:
I have Guyanese family and curry is a big part of our diet. I just had some curried chicken today. I’m also addicted to bake and saltfish.
germy
@opiejeanne:
whenever I hear that restaurant name I’m reminded of A Clockwork Orange…
Helen
@germy: How old are you? There is def a probably big downturn coming but stocks always come back. I have been through 3 pretty big “crashes” And have always stayed in. That being said the market is pretty high right now. All depends on when you’ll need the cash.
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
After the attacks by the Russians, the President-Elect is now Comrade Orange to me.
SiubhanDuinne
@bmaccnm:
What a sad journey. Safe travels to you, and I wish your brother peace when his time comes.
bemused senior
@schrodinger’s cat: scotch bonnet pepper is what the recipes I have seen call for, with advice to substitute a habanero. I am interested to know how similar the taste results are.
Yutsano
@germy: Nah. Hold them. Even after a crash should come back. Plus renewables are big in several red states so still a decent investment.
Lizzy L
@Helen:
@germy:
I am working under the assumption that the Rs will do what they can to stave off the crash until after the midterm elections in 2018. (No guarantees that they’ll succeed.) If they do indeed put $$ into infrastructure, the market will probably go up for a while. But I agree with what Helen said. What you do in part depends what your time frame is. Are you investing for the long haul, i.e. 30 years? or the short haul i.e. 5-10. And so on.
germy
@Helen: Just a bit south of sixty. I won’t alarm her with my advice. She did rather well with some stocks over the past few years. I hope the whole thing doesn’t come crashing down with the upcoming daily uncertainties.
I got my own online account a few years ago and bought a bunch of railroad stocks, as well as renewable energy.
germy
@Lizzy L: Probably 20 or so years, medium haul.
raven
Check out this obit from our local rag
germy
@raven: The best obits are crafted lovingly and humorously by family and friends, rather than the dry stuff the professional newspaper writers report.
Matt
My partner has been trying lots of recipes from
http://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/
Recommended!
Baud
@germy: Consider investing in the Soylent Corporation.
germy
@Baud: An investment in people can never go wrong.
Helen
@germy: I’m 54 and staying in for now. I did sell a bunch a few months ago but thats cuz I was moving my entire life to Ireland. But I left 2/3 in the American market. I won’t need it for a min of 10 years. I still have faith that we’re stronger than Trump.
Baud
@Helen: I got out. I’ll consider getting back in after the crash.
Lizzy L
@germy: With a 20 year timeline, you can pretty much figure what goes down will come back up. But I am not a financial adviser.
ETA: Make sure you’ve got some liquid cash easily available — not under the mattress — and that all your stocks are not in the same sector of the market. I sold stock a couple of weeks ago to make sure I had cash available.
Major Major Major Major
@germy: reminds me of a line from a Mr. Show skit. “my great great grandfather founded this company with nothing but one leaky, rickety, hand-made slave ship and a simple motto: people, selling people, to people.”
Helen
@Baud: Not a bad decision. It is really high now. But you also have to consider the tax consequences of selling everything. I don’t know. You can’t time either the stock or the real estate market. You just do the best you can.
schrodinger's cat
@Matt: That site looks good! Another site with reliable vegetarian recipes is tarladalal.com, website is pretty plain but the recipes are authentic and awesome.
Helen
@Lizzy L: Yes. Cash is important. I kept the money I made from the apt sale in cash. It will last me through any huge market downturn.
germy
@Lizzy L:
I grew up “financially insecure” as they call it, so liquidity has always been my credo.
Major Major Major Major
@germy: as long as you’re not “economically anxious”.
Baud
@Helen: They’ll be getting a big tax cut, so I guess I’ll miss out on that.
Feathers
After discovering that I like katsu curry at a Japanese restaurant, I looked up the recipe. Turns out there is “Oriental Curry Powder” which creates the Japanese bastardized version of an Indian curry, used in katsu curry. I bought some at the HMart (which has Go! Go! Curry, selling all sorts of katsu curry). It’s green, doesn’t taste much like what I think of as curry, but goes nicely on sauted chicked breasts, which is most how I use it. I suppose I should figure out how to make the sauce, but so far, this is doing it for me.
germy
@Major Major Major Major: I remember Gene Hackman’s monologue as Lex Luthor in the old Superman film… he’s ranting about land being the best investment, as “People are no damned good.”
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: germy is no racist.
Another Scott
@germy: I’m terrible at even hypothetical market timing. E.g. a few years ago I thought AMD was a huge bargain at $10 and over the next few months it dropped to about $4… :-/ (Fortunately, I’ve never bought nor sold individual stocks.)
If you get out now, when will you get back in?
Are you counting on the money from those stocks before Trump leaves office?
I’m a huge fan of “dollar cost averaging” and I have just let it ride. But I don’t need the money anytime soon.
We are at record highs in the averages, so that should make people nervous. But fiscal policy has been so tight for so long it’s hard to believe it will stay that way no matter how much the “Freedom Caucus” may want that to be the case. So, I dunno.
Basically, I think if it’s keeping you up at night then you should get out and put the money into something else.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
germy
@Major Major Major Major: Financially insecure people are generally more polite than economically anxious people, and we rarely vote republican.
Baud
I’ll also miss out in the infusion of Social Security money into the market.
opiejeanne
@schrodinger’s cat: Two girls in my daughter’s class made a video of their attempt at barfi. They giggled every time they said the name. They again cracked up when they displayed the finished product.
My youngest said no one wanted to try it because of the name but she stepped up, said it was pretty good. She’s always been adventurous with food.
Baud
On the other hand, I’ll avoid the correction caused by Trump’s nuclear war.
Yarrow
@Lizzy L: Under the mattress too isn’t a bad idea. I’m not feeling confident Trump’s economic people will do things like keep the FDIC.
Omnes Omnibus
Still early in the game, but GB is looking good right now.*
*::knocking on wood::
Helen
@Baud: @Baud:
U B funnee.
schrodinger's cat
@opiejeanne: They could have called it fudge, its pretty much the same idea.
trollhattan
@germy:
My sooth says he’ll crash it bigly. Will he take the dollar down with the markets?
Don’t have enough time for a crash and recovery before I need to start drawing (bush2-through-Obama=16 years) so plan on easing 401k stuff out of stock market, but to what? Bond funds probably, but not everything in there.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: You know I wasn’t giving you a hard time on the mustang thing.
Baud
@Helen: Your Irish is coming along nicely.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Absolutely. You just give me shit in general about having been an officer.
schrodinger's cat
@trollhattan: If the Radical Destructive Party defaults on T-bills and bonds then all bets are off. Yes I think they are really that stupid/and or nihilistic.
Baud
The new McGyver looks dumb.
Chip Daniels
Dunno if anyone else linked to it, but Charlie Pierce is on fire.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a51430/russia-election/
trollhattan
@raven:
That’s a beaut. Fare thee well, Arthur.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Has he called you a ring knocker, yet? That’s what my one of profs said was the epithet enlisted sailors reserved for Annapolis grads
* I don’t remember, did you graduate from West Point?
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
That is wonderful! Did you know the gentleman?
Another Scott
@SiubhanDuinne: An excellent read. Thanks for the pointer!
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: I did not go to a service academy.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s a horse of a different color!
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: I saw the first five minutes of it the other night and I agree.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: No but his first condolence message is from a guy my wife works with.
Alain the site fixer
@pamelabrown53: I use cayenne in a ton of different dishes to add some fire and complement nutmeg especially. Hot paprika, hot chile powder(New Mexico), cayenne, and hot chilli are all close substitutes. I find cayenne is more heat and the flavor is less forceful. Thus I use it in any number of international/ethnic dishes from Europe to the Americas to Asia/India. Works well with cheese, vegetables, eggs, creamy sauces. Very nice with white pepper too.
SiubhanDuinne
@Another Scott:
AFAIAC, the name “Thomas Levenson” on a book or article or blogpost is the hallmark of quality. Even if you don’t know a thing about the subject, he makes it not only understandable, but interesting; not only interesting, but inspiring.
Glad you enjoyed reading it.
opiejeanne
@schrodinger’s cat: except I think they colored it bright green, IIRC. I think that’s part of the reason no one wanted any.
THey were 7th graders and were doing it without much help. I think Mom was at work. They acted like they had never had it before but they must have.
The assignment was to produce a demonstration of a traditional recipe. I think my daughter made something like chocolate chip cookies. It was either that or Irish stew. ?
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: Agree. Thanks for the link, SD.
EBT
I’ve been writing this week! About 5000 words, as well as some optimization to my code. I finally got to a setpiece that I had been working on over and over in my head so writing that has been extra fun, seeing as how it’s a bit more polished than the rest of the rough draft. The player is in a tower that the locals insist was a necromancer, and variations in the narrative exist for if you have brought a lamp, have existing knowledge of the undead or alchemy from a previous scene, and for ability scores leading to different descriptive texts, items to find, and event flags/reputation with the NPC partner.
opiejeanne
@EBT: So, like Zork?
Mnemosyne
@EBT:
Yay! I wrote all but one day this week, and I’m trying to decide if I can count that day anyway since it was technically a research day (I went to an English Country Dance class as research for my book).
Major Major Major Major
@EBT: what are you using for it? Inform?
rikyrah
@bmaccnm:
Sorry about your brother..
geg6
Too bad about the too much curry. That would be my worst nightmare. I despise curry and avoid all Indian food for fear of it. I’d be tossing the whole thing out.
Of course, I would never have started it because, well, curry.
rikyrah
BC,
I have never made a dish with curry. Did it make it too spicy.
Is it something that a dollop of plain yogurt could fix in order to cut the spiciness?
schrodinger's cat
@geg6: There is no such thing as curry powder or Indian cuisine. There are masalas (spices) and regional cuisines, there is no pan-Indian cuisine.
EBT
@opiejeanne: Something closer to http://store.steampowered.com/app/270490/ (but my own combat not the Risk style attack/defend dice thing)
@Major Major Major Major: None of the relevant editors (Inklewriter, Twine) really like having a lot of event flags (I have about 100 flags so far between inventory items, events, and player statistics and that number is growing) and while I believe I could very well hack combat in to Twine if I was a programmer, I am not and decided to spent the time I would spent learning to modify someone else’s code to write my own.
It’s basic (no pictures right now because if my writing and coding is bad, my drawing is worse) but combat works 100% the way I wanted it to (but now that it has been realized I am pretty sure it needs to be overhauled to something better) and all the sections (I have 1100 now) flow in the proper narrative order.
schrodinger's cat
@opiejeanne: Your daughter is a braver soul than I. Indian sweets can be too sweet. A little goes a long way for me.
LAC
@rikyrah: sour cream too
schrodinger's cat
@LAC: Or potatoes.
Mnemosyne
@schrodinger’s cat:
I did a Japanese tea thing last year (with Bill and Ruckus) where they gave us a small, super sweet bean cake and a cup of unsweetened matcha (green tea). You were supposed to take a small bite of the cake and then follow it with a sip of the tea to “sweeten” the flavor of the tea. I wonder if they have the same concept in India?
schrodinger's cat
@Mnemosyne: Many desserts are indeed snacks, there are sweet snacks and savory snacks, served usually with tea. There are some desserts that are a part of the Indian meal itself, especially made for holiday or religious occasion. Desserts are not an everyday thing at all.
Indian tea is too sweet for my taste. I have seen special tea, double strong, double sweet boards outside Indian restaurants in India.
Lyrebird
@Betty Cracker: Hey, a person’s gotta know what she wants. Seriously though – the only main problem to watch out for is that enough turmeric (maybe plus oil? chemist am I not) will stain linoleum. A very lovely vivid yellow, but maybe not desired. Just to keep an eye out…
Lyrebird
@Mnemosyne: “sweet bean cake”^5 = sweetness of gulab jamun. (sweet little fried dumplings of milk powder completely submerged in honey/sugar sauce)
Lyrebird
@schrodinger’s cat: Yeah, see above and I do recall my Indian classmates in college putting four packets of sugar in each mug of tea. Even in my full-on sugar junkie days that was strong for me. Thanks for the recipe links!
Roger Moore
@schrodinger’s cat:
Sorry for the delay; I went out to get ingredients for a different recipe. The basic recipe is:
3 lbs Seville oranges
1 quart water
Sugar
Clean the oranges by scrubbing them with a brush, then dry. Halve them and juice the halves. If there’s less than 2 cups of juice, you can supplement it with freshly squeezed lemon juice. Take the juiced halves and scoop out as much of the juiced pulp and pith as possible. Put the pulp and pith into a cheesecloth bag. Julienne the rinds- chopping finely in a food processor is also acceptable if you don’t want to spend the time, and combine them with the juice and water in a large pot. Place the bag in the pot with the juice, rind, and water, and boil the mixture for 30 minutes, uncovered. The rind should now be soft; if not, continue boiling until it is.
Take the bag out and let it cool. When it’s cool, squeeze it to get out as much pectin as possible; add it to the juice/water/rind mix. Measure the juice/water/rind mix and add between 3/4 and 1 times the volume in sugar (e.g. 3-4 cups of sugar for 4 cups of mixture). Boil the mix, again uncovered, until it’s ready to set. You can check readiness to check either by thermometer- it’s supposed to be ready at 218 F/103 C at sea level- or by dripping a drop onto an ice-cold plate and seeing if it jells when cool.
When the mixture is ready to jell, transfer it to sterilized jars. You can sterilize in a dishwasher using the sterilizing cycle, by putting them in boiling water, or by baking them at ~200F/95C. The lids should be sterilized with boiling hot water. Wipe the tops of the jars clean with a damp paper towel, place on a lid, and tighten the band to hold it in place. When the marmalade cools, the lid should “ping” as the lid flips from bulging up to down. If they don’t, you can try re-sealing by removing them, re-cleaning the top, putting them back on, then heating the jars in boiling water.
J R in WV
@schrodinger’s cat:
And I want to point out that Thai curry and Indian curry are in no way similar at all. Wife gave me a great book on Thai food called Cracking the coconut, and I study flavors at Thai places in Tucson, DC, .
Indian food, we’ve had in France and all over the US, NYC, DC, San Francisco, even here in WV. I like it all. Sushi, and I don’t mean Americanized rolls, I mean fish on rice balls. Middle Eastern, some African, Greek, French, Spanish, Peruvian… I loves me some foods.
SiubhanDuinne
Funny about sweet tea and sweet coffee. I can’t abide either one. When I was first trying to become a “sophisticated” coffee-drinker, I would try to train myself during every break at work, load the coffee up with cream and sugar but could never choke down more than a sip. Yuck.
Eventually I went to work for a new company and the first day or so we had coffee but no sugar/saccharine and no milk/cream/half and half (this was long before non-dairy creamers). But we did have donuts, so I would take a sip of black unsweetened coffee, a big bite of pastry, another sip, another bite, and before you know it I was a committed coffee drinker of the unadulterated type.
Reminds me of my grandparents. One Ash Wednesday they both decided to give up cream and sugar in their coffee for Lent and drink it black for the next 40 days. On Easter Sunday they both joyously loaded up their coffee cups. My grandfather took a long swig and never looked back. My grandmother took one sip, spat it out, and drank it black and unsweetened for the rest of her long life.
Emma
@trollhattan: my second retirement investment company just moved my $$$ to a fund that gets more conservative as I get closer to retirement (5 years or so). The first one moved some of my high risk stuff into some “stable” funds. I have been lucky and my funds rebounded before but I am too close to retirement to take the risk.
Josie
@schrodinger’s cat: A couple of years ago, I purchased a book by Jaffrey due to your recommendation and have thoroughly enjoyed it. I made her recipe for garam marsala and used it with great success in a number of different recipes. It makes a lot, but I use it up pretty quickly. I find Indian food preparation a bit more complicated than I am used to but totally worth the trouble.
NeenerNeener
HGTV is playing their Christmas in the White House special for 2016. I’ve watched every one of these since 2009. I’m afraid to see what the Tacky Trumps will pick for a theme next year.
mai naem mobile
@NeenerNeener: gold. Lots of gold. And orange. Lots of orange.
I am betting Asshole Orange will make a show of destroying Michelles garden because his middle name is Kkklassless.
Josie
@Josie: That should have been garam masala. My bad.
seaboogie
@Patricia Kayden: mmmm – love curry too. I put it in homemade pea soup and in egg salad with whole grain mustard – yum! Only very fresh curry powder, and I keep it and other herbs and spices in my fridge in a shoebox to make them easy to store.
psychobroad
Hi Betty, I once messed up a chicken soup recipe–it called for 3t Cajun seasoning–I read it as 3T. My kids love it, they are convinced that Mom’s spicy chicken soup will sweat a cold right out of them!
Kathleen
@germy: Well, Trump stated in 2014 interview on Fox he thought economic crashes were a good thing and Bannon is an advocate of chaos. I myself am applying the Bad Boyfriend Rule – when he tells you how bad he is believe him. You may want to google this for yourself and make a decision based on your own investigations and opinions of knowledgeable people you respect. My extremely small savings are in very conservative funds, but I’m still nervous. I never recovered from 2008. My financial adviser has talked me off a few ledges but we are in uncharted territory here so I’m concerned myself.
Kathleen
@germy: Our people are our greatest product.
Yarrow
@NeenerNeener: They’re not going to live there. Trump is going to commute. Melania isn’t moving at all. The whole White House Christmas thing will be left to underlings. If it happens at all.
Kathleen
@Chip Daniels: I’m glad he made the point that McClatchy (and IIRC Walter Pincus’ reporting in WAPO) made it clear CIA analysts were saying that there were no WMD while the WAPO & NYT editorial pages were beating the drums of war. I’ve never forgotten that disconnect and how the broadcast media ignored real reporting and spewed the Bush Administration propaganda. The CIA did its job and got it right. WAPO reporting but not editorial got it right. So the current media pattern of ignoring facts in favor of promoting Rethuglican agenda has been going on a long time.
burnspbesq
A ten hour round trip is too much driving in one day for an old fart such as myself, but still had fun watching Duke steal UNLV’s lunch money yesterday.
J R in WV
@germy:
As long as when a crash does happen, you don’t sell then. My cousin did that, lost everything, basically, living on minimum social security now. If she had kept the stocks of the companies that didn’t fail, she would have Corning equity, which recovered from the dot comm crash OK.
Never sell when investments have dropped, in fact if you can during a crash you should buy stocks at depressed prices and hold them waiting for the inevitable recovery. Unless the world ends, of course.
SiubhanDuinne
@mai naem mobile:
I expect that to happen, and I can’t tell you how heartbroken the prospect makes me.
Remember, Jimmy Carter installed solar panels in the WH and then fucking Reagan removed them, and finally 20+ years later, Obama restored them? I would lay odds that fucking Trump will again remove them.
I hate these people so much, I don’t even have the words.
Matt
@schrodinger’s cat: Thanks for the suggestion. Any favorites from among the unusual dishes?
schrodinger's cat
@Matt: Its my go to for traditional dishes.