Michael Kindt's Blog, page 492
July 31, 2011
Recipe...
Samosa filling
About 2 tbs. of olive oil. Traditionally, ghee is used but i'm not traditional, so…
So take an onion and chop it up. Take a couple cloves of garlic, mince 'em up. Take a little ginger, chop it up. About a tsp. Oh, I remove the ginger skin, too. Take a large potato or a couple small potatoes (about a pound). Chop into cubes, like about half an inch or so. get a bag of frozen organic peas, open it, and take out a cup of them. You will need a pinch of the following: chili powder, mustard seeds, cumin & corriander (both ground), tumeric, salt. Put the onions & ginger in the oil, which should be hot. Stir and cook till softened a bit. 5 or so minutes. Put the rest of the crap in now. Stir. Add a tablespoon of lemon juice and and couple tablespoons of water. Stir somemore. Cook another 5 or so minutes, maybe a little longer. Take off the stove and allow to cool.
Pastry!
2 cups AP flour, pinch of salt, stick of organic butter that's cool, but not extremely firm (i.e. cold). A little less than half a cup of extremely cold water, even iced water. Egg yolk, beaten.
O, let's see…Put the flour and salt in a bowl and mix in the butter with your hands, rub it in until the flour is, like, crumbly. Add about half the water and keep mixing, adding more water until you have a nice soft dough…you may not knead all the water (ha,ha…see what I did there?) or you may knead a little more (again! goddamn, I'm a funny fucking cook). Once you got yourself a nice soft dough, knead it briefly (proper usage. not funny at all). Now roll out the dough flat and cut into circles about the size and shape of DVDs. Make a stack of them, putting plastic wrap between them and chill for awhile in the fridge, oh, about 20 minutes.
Pull out and stick a couple spoonfulls of the filling in the center of the pastries, fold over and seal with a little egg yolk. If you seal them with a fork, it's prettier. Arrage on flat sheets and brush tops with a little more egg yolk and bake about 15 or 20 minutes.
BAM! Samosas!
The rice is just long grain rice made with salt, ground pepper, oil, and thinly slice onions and bell peppers…..
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Samosas and peppers-n-rice...
Samosas and peppers-n-rice recipes please, kind sir?
Ok…lemme figure it out. It's in my head. Check back in a bit :)
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i'll...
i'll bring a bib.
ONLY a bib.
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airfare is included, right? ...
airfare is included, right? :p
Only for you :)
Mike's House of Grub
Today's menu
bowls of creamy asparagus soup with homemade onion buns
spicy potato samosas with savory rice-n-peppers
also two baguettes for good measure
All organic and made from scratch!
July 30, 2011
Am I the only one who finds this debt ceiling shit hilarious?
We got two plans: Obama's and the Tea Baggers'. Everyone has picked a side and are bitching and yelling and whining and fighting……to raise the debt ceiling, to go FURTHER into debt.
Hilarious. You've heard the phrase "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" I'm sure. Well, it seems to me our motto should be "If it's broke, don't fix it."
Moody's: Neither plan will work. So, pick the shitty idea that's in line with your philosophy, say the other guys are destroying the country, and watch the country be destroyed.
I think we'd totally rock our new Third World style, so I ain't even mad. For real changes to occur, some real shit has to go down. Busting our asses to maintain the status quo is stupid.
2:35 am
Something bit me. I'm out in my yard, hanging out with the night, and something bit me. It was dark and I didn't see it and it STUNG. Not a mosquito. It hurt. I brushed whatever it was off and went inside to look at it under the light. A spot of blood, a tiny hole, an elevated bump. Still kinda hurts. (It was like 10 minutes ago).
So I spoke before how I have a real job through the Rally. Tonight was fun. I actually like working hard, physically. I like the mellow, easy going feeling afterward. My favorite waitress worked tonight and she tipped me 13 bucks.
A waitress who tips the cook=ABSOLUTE FUCKING GODDESS.
I've drank four beers and feel quite pleasant. I dislike getting stupid drunk these days, these older, more responsible days. I do enjoy a nice beer buzz, though.
I WATCHED THE FIRST EPISODE OF SEASON 9 PROJECT RUNWAY!!!! I almost came in my shorts. God, I love that show. I don't have tv and get everything off the internet. Snag the torrent here.
I have no life, really. Haven't been writing, really. I work. I sweat. I drink. But it's only temporary. I would never take a job that didn't END. A few weeks, a couple thousand bucks, and I'm outta there.
Life is good.
July 29, 2011
on the wikipedia page for my university, under the "Points of Pride" section
they talk about having a 42% graduation rate.
since when is it considered a bragging right when roughly only 2 out of every 5 students attending your university actually graduate?
Because it's a realistic number. If 100% graduate then the curriculum is shit. Anyone can do it. Nowadays, people think of college as a sort of birthright that takes them into "good job" land where they'll have a nice car and a big house and 2.5 children. Then they get old and die. In previous ages, college was where you went to get educated, where you went to become a real member of the "elite"…intellectually speaking. It was a weeding process. In college, you should leave your averageness behind and become special. If you can't do it, then you're part of the 58%
:)
July 28, 2011
Alice In Chains ~ Again
Alice In Chains ~ Again
