NOM NOM NOM!

I just had a Face Book post that likely won't have many if any comments as I spoke to my love for Indian food.  I love the stuff, and while I don't have it very often, when I do...I just want to make a piggy out of myself.

I was mentioning two of my most favorite things.  I made my own, and authentically.  BUT I did have some guidance to do it as I learned.

One is a vegetable dish, Alu Mattar which is primarily with many many spices in the vegetables as it cooks. .  None of which were just poured out of a store bought jar.  I got them, including the hard to get ones (that's where help came in...folks who could mail it to me) ground them with mortar and pestle...roasted them when needed, and made my own ghee...hours all day slow cooking on the stove...and made my own garam masala.  Oh my goodness..the smell of garam masala is just supreme!  It's food perfume  :-)  And the taste is so delicious in and on foods.


Murg Kari...a curried chicken dish that I would give a lot to taste but too much to make for myself unless I have someone here who will eat it as well, and Alu Mattar were the two I mentioned. Friends would vie to come over for lunch when I cooked.   And Khir for dessert, which also took a hundred years to cook slowly. The calories in khir, I never stopped to consider them at the time.  I was too busy trying to find genuine rose water to go in it to worry about calories.  Catastrophic calories.  But if you are fighting off others trying to get some, you deserve your share.:-)

You guys have any favorite international foods that you love to?  Do you make them?  What are they?  What makes you love the taste?

Toesie

In this case, MY toesies.  Little pink ones.

I have been stubbing my toes several times a day as I go about the house.  Good grief.  You'd think I could make it over onto the hard mat that shields the carpet from the office chair.  But Noooooooo.  Or walking thru the kitchen and  always stubbing my toesie on the scatter rug in front of the sink.  They don't move as they are well "rubberized" on the reverse but man, I need a lesson in picking up my feets apparently.  And knocking the door jamb with my very pointy bony elbow bone!  OW!  Dang that hurts, not to mention whapping my left elbow into the little wood cabinet that is just at the wrong place on the wall, as I face the sink and medicine chest, to keep me out of contact with it every day for pete sake.  It's placed just right to keep me IN contact with it.  (tiny bathroom).

I don't even want to say how many times thru the years I have accidentally bonked the side of my head getting into the car.  And I am just a short pencil stub!  5'2". How can I do that?  But at least once a year I do.

Doctors and Patients

Here is a cut and paste of what I asked on Face Book a couple of days ago.  Not everyone here is over there so I thought I would ask you all as well:



Was wondering. Does your family physician now have a scribe in the exam room with you both at all times, no exceptions? The way the specialists do where generally speaking, the need is more critical. The Dr/patient confidentiality is gone when there is a scribe in the room of the family physician's office. That the scribes are under HIPAA is not what I am speaking of. It's not being able to confide in your doctor any more without someone listening and writing it. I know why they are doing it. So they don't have to do the notes after the patient leaves. But still......

Someone had said it was like a Court Reporter in there.  Could not agree more and it destroys doctor patient confidentiality.  It sure does for me.  Just asking you all if you have to go through that too.  The scribe in there with you in a family doctor's office.

SO pleased and Happy...Thank You.

Thank all of you for your links and suggestions.  They were exactly what I needed and I used every single one of them.

I have sat here just transfixed, listening to great symphony orchestras playing the scores from movies.

I will admit I am a Star Trek fan extraordinaire.  Have been since the first one came out so many years ago..and I have watched and enjoyed each iteration since.  And all of the movies that came out.  Love the music and never ever tire of it, or the shows.  The entire family (well, not Katie's favorite brother though) LOVES Star Trek and we stream the shows on Netflix.  Even if I can repeat every word of dialogue with the cast, I don't care.  I, as does the family,  do a great job of letting it all be new again.  

I listened to many of the musical links on UTube that were sent to me by you all...and I got some good music choices from their side bar too.

Katie climbs up to the desk here when she hears music and I have to move the keyboard so she could sprawl in front of the monitor...listen to the music and be smooched and petted while I watched.  I have read that cats like symphonic music and mine always have.  I have as much classical music here  thru the years as I have 70's 80's and 90's rock.  I also have a lot of Blue Grass. My family here grew up with classical music in this house and it took.  But so did the other types of music.  :-)

I'm baking me some fish.  Green beans will be on the plate and a small potato too.  I'm hungry.

Thanks to you each so much again.  I have been enjoying this music since I asked you for your help.  XX

Different Type of Request

Fellers (and ladies) I have a different sorta question for you.

I got to go to a Warner Bros. Cartoon extravaganza in Charlotte a couple of years ago in their city symphony orchestra's building.  It was a  huge area. They were doing something I haven't seen before...they showed the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons on a large screen, and the Charlotte Symphony orchestra played the music, right there with the silent depiction on the huge screen.  You also got to hear it as recorded all that time ago...and then, the orchestra played the music for us again.  It was fascinating to see and a pleasure to hear.  It was a big deal for the City residents, and the place was jammed.

They explained--- and I don't recall any of the details--- how they obtained the real scores and permissions needed for all of this really super event to happen.  Seeing the orchestra play was a pleasure all in itself.  Man, they were superb!

Where I'm going with this is; I am busting to find a Utube or something showing the music being played way back originally.  I think I read that there is a backdrop at the studios where these are made where a movie or a show is shown and where the orchestra and conductor can see it..and the music is then played by the orchestra for the sound track.  I have seen one glimpse of this  in a news show quite some time ago.  It was a fairly darkened studio while the film shows the action, and the music is pre-composed and distributed to the orchestra.  Then, they begin playing to accompany the move or show.  Or cartoon!  I would love to see an example of that again after all this time.

I have googled my fingers to stubs trying to find the right word combination andI just can't find what I want and I KNOW it has to be out there somewhere.

You guys have ny suggestions as to what a good search phrase might be...if I made it clear what I'm looking for here?



 

All Things Come Together

That was a loud and boomie 4th, but Katie seemed alright as long as she had a paw on someone.  I read my book  and her human brother is here, he read too.  She had a choice of paw rests to use.

Who knows a good recipe for lentil soup?  Without tomatoes, greens,  and all those other odd stuffs people feel compelled to put in their food.  I hope for a great recipe for a soup with zillions of lentils...love the things...and maybe some 'taters, carrots, onion perhaps...a strand or two of green if absolutely necessary.

My first acquaintance with it was in Germany...the part of the Country near Munich.   It was snowing hard one day  but I was brave back then, and me and the VW took off on down the road.  The snow was almost always and ever the good packing type that you can drive on albeit carefully.  {Around here, ever since we moved to this area, the snow is icy particles and treacherous}.

The VW and I stopped for lunch in a small wayside family seeming restaurant.  I ordered linsensuppe with a hunka hard crusted brot.   and that was the absolute BEST tasting of any soup I ever had to that time.  And really, since.  I have tried so hard to make it the way I imagined it was made there.  Not the same.  There was a little bit thickened...no more so than say commercial soups these days as in Ca-pb-ells chunky.  Not as chunky as lentils are aren't big and chunky.  Just a comparison in the soupy part...not the veggies, etc.

Anyone have a recipe without 'maters?  Anyone else love lentils?  I don't see any hands raised!

Ever have a time when information about things that are meaningful, even important to know, just don't seem to happen despite your every effort?  The next statement is likely "stuff happens".

Oh and I took the header picture a couple years ago.