mishmash, recipes, cats, random whining

[cornerofmadness]

I'm worried that honorh still hasn't been heard from (that I know of). We had drifted apart in the last few years since the fandom interest waned but still, I worry.

Trying not to dwell on all the ugly crap in my life right now so have some fun things.

Got this from mjules's tweet this webcomic is so true Love it.


I'm a little proud of my alma mater okay one of them. This will be of interest to the Florida peeps.


I started cooking some things I want to take home with me. I tried my hand at gajar ka halwa and it came out pretty good. No, I won't be eating this really. It's for a friend but I do love the stuff but the sugar content is probably deadly between carrots and fruit



Gajar ka Halwa

Ingredients:
6 medium carrots, shredded ( @ 1lb)
2 cups half-and-half
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup golden raisin
1/4 cup butter or 1/4 cup margarine or ghee
1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup unsalted pistachios or 1/4 cup slivered almond or cashews

Method:
1. Add a little ghee to a frying pan and heat to coat the pan. Roast cashew nuts until golden brown and add the raisins to the pan for a few seconds. Remove the cashews and raisins and keep aside.
2. Add the carrots to the pan and saute the carrots. Add Half and Half, and heat for about an hour. Add cardamom and starting with medium heat, stirring, and lowering the heat after the mixture starts boiling. Heat until almost dry.
3 Stir in the brown sugar, raisins, butter, cardamom and salt.
4 Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until all of the brown sugar is dissolved and the mixture is of your desired consistency, (pudding-like, semi-dry) about 15 minutes.

5. Remove from stove and add cashews


note, you can use just about any kind of dairy for this. I've seen recipes with low fat milk, full fat milk, cream, etc. Also I've seen regular sugar instead of brown. Mix it up however you want. I think i'll add more cardamom to it next time


Roy wanted out today. I wanted him to wait until I was done grading. I heard this metallic noise behind me. When i turned to look, Roy was on the table by the door, two paws on the door knob, turning and turning it the best he could. Damn you vile woman,I want out NOW!





oh we look sweet but do not be fooled

Comments

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

I'd be fooled by the sweetness. It's almost coma-inducing.

That recipe also sounds coma-inducing. 0_0 Good but coma-inducing.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I've had that pudding. Deliious!

I can't believe how stupid Orlando was.

Roy is too smart by half.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's insanely sweet but it doesn't taste cloying. judging by the raisins alone there's 60 mgs of sugar

it's very easy. the hardest parts is a) affording cardamom (I went to a health store and got it. McCormicks wants @ 15-20$/little glass spice jar) and b) not sorching the milk

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it's a great pudding and easy to make (especially if you're lazy like me and buy the carrots shredded)

isn't that amazingly stupid. UCF is huge. Biggest school I ever went to, something like a student body of 40K

Roy has beaten the odds by his sheer age for being an outdoor beast. He's no dummy.

Iktomi COULD open doors, the ones with the lever handle door knobs that you have to pull down. He also figured out how to stand on the garbage can foot pedal and open the lid and no cupboard door existed he couldn't open

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I know what to send you for gifts! Cardamom is extremely easy to get here (I make a similar thing with cracked wheat instead of carrots). I usually leave out the raisins and put in extra nuts.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

supposedly it is in FL too but I don't remember seeing it.

In these parts McCormicks seriously wants 20$ a bottle.

I managed to get a huge tub at the Amish store but hadn't been using it because then I'd run out (let's look at that logic for a moment shall we)

cracked wheat could be very interesting like this. I don't like macerated nuts that much, not that raisins are my favorite things either. maybe i should try currents next time and whisper in some cinnamon

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Cuteness unlimited!
My Annie looks almost exactly like the black and white kitty.

[rain-oubliette.livejournal.com]

Cute pic.

Recipe sounds really good.

As to Roy, you had just better be glad he doesn't have thumbs! A friend I had used to own a cat named Loki. She could open doors. Never name an animal after the god of mischief. Seriously. The cat would also open the screen door that had one of those hook and loop closures. My mom's cat could also open doors by twisting the knob. He is also the one I made levitate three feet in the air. >:D (He's walking by me, didn't see me, I moved my foot, he flew into the air, hovered, then hit the ground and was gone!)

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

HH has been found and is safe in a shelter:

http://roxyk630.livejournal.com/424665.html

LOL

[idic-writer.livejournal.com]

I have another friend here on LJ whose cats routinely open doors. Thumbs? Who needs 'em?

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you heat the ghee (or butter, when I don't feel like clarifying it), add the sugar (usually calls for palm sugar, but I've used regular) soften the wheat, then add the nuts and cardamon; it's sort of like cream of wheat with an Eastern flare, and very tasty. (Now I want to make some. I think I have some wheat around.) Most places I've found call this "lapsee," although the Hindi woman at work had no clue what that was.

I love the nuts in it--I add more than the recipe I have calls for.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Kanda is the black and white one and is half brother to Soul, the tabby. They're both feral rescues. Their mother haunts this apt complex. You can't get near her. Kanda was totally unfriendly as young kitten but when he was about 3-4 months right at this time of year, he marched right into my place proud as you please and never left.

at thanksgiving his brother did the same

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i used unsalted butter so that's close enough to ghee.

I'm not sure I'd like this or not. It sounds delicious but for me it's a texture thing. Cream of wheat grosses me out and always has. I don't like mushy things (so imagine my disgust over the last month when that's about all i could eat).

I googled it and it IS lapsee.

The nuts is that texture thing again. I love nuts but not if they're softening up and macerating. Ah well. Not to say I wouldn't TRY this if you offered it up. I'll try nearly anything once

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahaha Never name an animal after the god of mischief. Seriously

evil_little_dog and I keep saying this. She had a dog Loki and I had Iktomi the cat. Points up to my response to a2zmom Iktomi COULD open doors.

hover cat

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you!

Re: LOL

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I have had one who could. A dog too. now Roy is giving it the old college try

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Cardamom is expensive!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

points down to wildrider's comment. I also remember sita saying it grows easily in FL. maybe silvrethorn can find it cheaper

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Loki the dog did a lot of weird, stupid things, like...throw himself out of a second story window. I figure the other two dogs double dog dared him to do it.

He also would stand next to the table and use his prehensile lips to scoop up things out of bowls/off plates to eat.

NEVER NAME AN ANIMAL AFTER A CHAOS GOD.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I wish i had met Loki

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

I understand -- Barb is a texture eater, too (there are a number of things she won't eat for that reason). I never think of it as mushy; perhaps because I don't macerate the nuts too much (I put them in last rather than sauteing them first).

I think I might try the carrot one, though, because I do love carrots. Still might leave out out the raisins.

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

We knew a cat named Pyewacket, and she WAS a demon. Seriously. The naming of cats is a serious thing, as t.s. elliot said!

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Hurray!

[sillymagpie.livejournal.com]

Such adorable little evil beasts! Awww!

I love the cartoon. Too, too true!

[silvrethorn.livejournal.com]

UCF is building itself up into a major academic presence, both in Florida and nationally. Its leadership is smart, aggressive, forward-looking and not afraid to spend money. The almighty Gator Nation of UF had better be looking over its shoulder (and someday they might have to share the college football spotlight with UCF, too. It would kill the Gators to start losing to Mickey Mouse U.)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

UCF was a good school. I enjoyed it there. It had a lot of animal based potential in the biology dept (had work to do in human studies)

UCF is already climbing that high football wise. give them a few more years

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thanks

isn't it a great cartoon

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

my friend's cat Piewacket was evil too. they apparently take their naming seriously indeed

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I'm not sure why texture matters so much

however putting the nuts in last so they're crunchy might help.