February 2009
3 posts
Taro Root
I bought a Taro root a couple of days ago at the grocery store. After consulting the googles, I learned a few interesting things about it:
1. It’s poisonous.
2. If you attempt to peel it, it ejects tiny crystalline needles which cause skin irritation, and lodge in your eyes and take up to three months to heal.
3. It tastes bitter.
These issues are resolved by cooking it.
Apparently...
Ayurvedic Dal Recipe
Here is a recipe I made up today from various random sources:
Ingredients:
2 cups red lentils
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
7.5 cups water
1. Put in a pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 45 mins stir every now and then.
More ingredients:
2 habaneros
8 cloves of garlic - basically a whole garlic
1 large onion
1 teaspoon cumin powder
1/2 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 inch section of fresh...
The kindle is not ready for me yet.
I love the idea of a kindle. I think it would be good for my mental health. Reading material of substance, as well as getting away from the instant crack hits of social media seems like a good thing.
Appealing as the new Kindle 2 is, it’s not ready for me because:
1. An Apple tablet would make it redundant. By Apple tablet, I mean something about 3x the size of an iphone, running the...