A Probably Typical Cooking Lesson by Siddharth Dani

Butter Chicken!
Corinne, Jesse and I asked the Great Cook Siddharth Dani
to teach us how to make this wonderful Indian dish.



It requires Chicken, he says.

You have to take off all the skin and fat. You get grossed out by that because you're already on your way to being a vegetarian so you make Siddharth do it.

Put the chicken in something to mix, he says.

Add Ginger and Garlic paste. Mmm...garlic paste.

Siddharth becomes unsure about next step.



Checks the youtube video on his laptop in the corner.

(What??? This isn't a time tested family recipe???)

Add coriander powder.

Have Siddharth mush it around for you.

Not sure what this was...maybe pepper, I wasn't paying attention.

Did I mention I'm cutting down on meat?

What now, I say. You cook it, he says.

Ooooh.

Add 3/4 of the onions you had Siddharth chop in the liquid that the chicken was in.

Add this stuff...in some amount.

You then get Siddharth so annoyed with your incessant questions and picture taking that you're asked to leave the kitchen.

And voilà! Some light chatting in the other room and you can come back
and get your butter chicken! Amazing and so easy!

How a Flower Grows

Frito-dumb

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I'm still annoyed with Frito-dumb. It is not ok with me that they are normalizing women's obsession with food and diet. This letter is such bull-lay. " Constructive spirit"...whatever, I was just rude. "Only in a Woman's World"....gross..."Only in a Woman's World" would you ignore your friend, while she is possibly telling you something important, to think about how you shouldn't have eaten a cookie.

I won't buy your stupid products, Frito,...even if they look good and would fit well into my daily calorie allowance!

Here's more thoughts on the campaign...
http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/02/26/frito_lay/

And now I'm on a Brochure...

What kind of friend/person are you? Are you the kind that is excited that I'm on a brochure...or the kind that is more excited about the fact that it's a picture of Prague on a Germany brochure?

Jesse's in there too, but actually in Berlin. So...less interesting. And more dumb.

I was on German TV (a long time ago)

I was SO on German TV as 'sogar eine Amerikanerin'.

I know. Just when you thought I was too cool...I'm even cooler.

Dog - So cute in 2009