mobileCategory: cooking
12/27/08 09:11 - 56ºF - ID#47202
Cookies!!!!
Cholay and pulao - mmmmm now I understand how to make a proper garam masala. My apartment smells like an Indian restaurant! :-)
We made my great-grandmother's molasses cookie recipe and made oodles of tiny cookies, perfect little bites of yummy goodness. A and (e:tinypliny) rolled out the dough and cut out the cookies.
(e:tinypliny,47194) was horrified by the amount of butter and sugar involved in making cookies - this recipe calls for 1 cup butter, 1 cup white sugar, 1 cup brown sugar AND 1 cup molasses, then sprinkle sugar on top before baking. She requested that some cookies be left naked (see cows below).
We also made molasses crinkle cookies, someone else's great-grandmother's recipe, which uses very similar ingredients but has a very different result - a sharper cookie, less cakey. They get rolled into little balls of dough, then dipped in sugar before baking. Here (e:tinypliny) becomes enthusiastic about butter and sugar :-) I've spent a little bit of time trying to figure out how to make these ones without butter and sugar - honey & applesauce seem like the best substitutes for the white sugar and butter - does anyone have any other suggestions?
(Nisha was pretty good and stayed on her turtle most of the time. (e:heidi,45816))
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Location: Buffalo, NY
12/26/08 06:46 - 36ºF - ID#47191
Cute pet pix
Nisha considers any available lap an appropriate place to perch.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: weather
12/23/08 12:42 - 17ºF - ID#47151
what's up with the plowing?
Until Friday I had been telling folks at home that the weather in Buffalo is pretty similar to Tioga County - it snows, it's cold, Buffalo is windier. Oh my! Windy!!! I took Nisha outside sometime Sunday evening and she almost blew away!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: crime
12/17/08 04:07 - 32ºF - ID#47093
Homicide in Tioga County
Since y'all were talking about crime in the downtown area (e:paul,47085)
The last time there was a murder in Tioga County was about 1984, a love-triangle murder-suicide. Last gun-related homicide was in 1997. (Last homicide: a woman riding her new horse down Main Street in Blossburg got hit by a drunk driver, both woman and horse were killed.)
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: bus
12/12/08 06:01 - 27ºF - ID#47045
Google Maps Transit: Now in Buffalo!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: politics
12/10/08 09:00 - 26ºF - ID#47020
Yea for science!
Obama's pick to solve the energy crisis
- Andrew Leonard
"You should interview Steven Chu," the scientist at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, Calif., told me. "He already has one Nobel Prize. He wants to get a second one for solving the energy crisis."
That was two years ago, and I sorely regret not following through and landing an interview with Chu, a physicist who has dedicated his post-Nobel Prize career to the development of alternative sources of energy. Because as Barack Obama's nominee for secretary of energy, Steven Chu is going to get a chance to make his dreams come true, with the full backing of the U.S. government.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: pets
12/07/08 11:38 - 11ºF - ID#46995
Ridiculous puppy cuteness
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: school
12/05/08 06:38 - 25ºF - ID#46977
Constitutional Law again
Lawrence v. Texas and Romer v. Evans they were scheduled for Thursday, an extra-long class, 8:30 - 11:50. I had even stayed up late to make sure I had read and thought about the opinions. (LvT reminded me of the Molly Ivins gem I posted Wed night. ) which I also posted as my facebook status so the law school kids would see it ;-) Got to class and the prof was speeding thru the decisions... and at 10:45 he says, okay, we're done, good luck on the exam! I was like WTF??? 10 min for Romer??? I feel totally ripped off. Someone told him we don't get out of class until 11:50 and he said, oh... do you want to come back and talk about it more? I was practically yelling from my perch at the top of the room Yes Yes Yes! and my classmates were glaring at me. We got back from break and we didn't even go back to the cases, we just talked about the exam. What a disappointment.I'm planning to go to the Friday, Dec. 12 8pm show of Dreaming out of the Digital by the Stripteasers & Alt Performance Group... Tickets available at
Wanna come with me? :-)
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Location: Buffalo, NY
12/04/08 04:21 - 32ºF - ID#46956
cool show... wanna go?
I'm leaning toward 12/5 at 8pm...
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Location: Buffalo, NY
12/04/08 12:49 - 43ºF - ID#46946
While reading Lawrence v. Texas...
Texas' anti-sex-toy law was overturned Feb. 14, 2008, but they're still illegal in Alabama!
Enjoy!
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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Raggedy Annie and Im Back From the Attic 
shine on, Mickey and Jordan 
pssst: your cookies are ALL gone!