Category: 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
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?
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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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pssst: your cookies are ALL gone!