Notices by Das (srdas@mastodon.online), page 2

8/n of daily (till I run out)
Yoshida Hiroshi woodblock prints from his 1930s series - India and South East Asia
following his visit

Ghat in Benares (Benaresu no gatto) - 1931

#India #Japanese #Art #ukiyoeart

7/n of daily (till I run out)
Yoshida Hiroshi woodblock prints from his 1930s series - India and South East Asia
following his visit

Golden Temple in Amritsar (1931)

#ukiyoe #Art

@mekkaokereke @david_megginson one thing about Nigeria remaining unified was the role (my limited understanding) of General Obasanjo who got respect from all sides (afaik preventing Hausa massacre of Igbo, he is Yoruba born).
He was the first (for a long time only) military head of state to hand over rule to a democratic government in the 70s. (Unfortunately the civilian govts were super corrupt and looted Nigeria).

The tribalism is super insidious

Daikon - much better than potatoes (more sticky to the blade) or carrots (harder) to practice knife skills.
Follow with cucumbers and you'll get tasty end product(s)

#Cooking #Ingredients #KitchenSkills

@blogdiva I don't understand how some are still seated in Congress. (Or not immediately ejected)

#FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
#TravelPhotography #StreetPhotography
#Sannomiya #Kobe #Japan #Photography

Luchis (plural; pronounced to rhyme with blue cheese)
in 1, 2, 3, 4...

#Indian #Bengali #Food #Cooking

2/3
Video [no audio] of luchi making, frying bit - it's pretty quick. < 30 sec. Mostly one side, press down gently with turn, to puff it all around, then flip for a bit to brown.
And you don't need a whole ton of oil.

#Bengali #Indian #Cooking #Food

3/3
Most comforting Sunday late #breakfast / brunch of luchis with yesterday's leftover chola (or choley; pronounced to rhyme with molé). Yesterday choley so tastier, but then again most things nestled in a torn soft piece of luchi would be.

#Bengali #Indian #Food

Among the 'boxes' in my pantry I treasure, is one marked 'Salts: different kinds'

From that here's one

Black salt , kala namak (Hindi), beet noon (beet salt; Bengali). Terrific stuff but in very small doses - smells like rotten eggs, hydrogen sulfide.
Use in lassi, chaat or as I did recently, in Kolkata style rolls 👇🏽
https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/112527801868835844

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kala_namak

#Food #ingredients #Salt

Cooking in the kitchen and Kid1 called black pepper - 'sneezoning'
and now I'll never get that term out of my head

Gentle Sunday afternoon libation

So I was walking on campus and coming my way I saw... Baymax! So of course I walked straight into Baymax's lifted arms and we hugged.
1st pic after that when I realized there was a student with Baymax and so I asked her to take a pic of me with Baymax (then we hugged again).
Then I walked away and turned back. To ask if this is a student end-semester project or something - and that's when (pic2) the student showed me the sign she hadn't held up earlier. Hugs!

Bless you students! 🙏🏽
#ProfLife

@IveyJanette @blogdiva
Add in

Pitt
Lots of tents in the schenley plaza lawns this evening

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/protest-on-pitt-campus-over-war-in-gaza-one-of-a-dozen-across-country/ar-AA1nzqVQ

I've been to quite a few #FarmToTable restaurants but this is the first time I've seen a #restaurant that specializes in local produce actually have vegetables for sale right in front of the restaurant.
Restaurant is called Farmers Feast !

https://maps.app.goo.gl/rnNZH3iMMiUHYcp46

#Food #Japan #Kobe
#DasInKobe

Got my small #sousvide unit with me (#Japan 110v is fine) - but finally after 3months using it now for tonight's #Dinner prep. #Steak (no not #Kobe ) Australian #beef this looked ok - salted + touch soy overnight, touch of peated whisky and blk pepper + hint of cumin then at my preferred 54.5 ⁰C [will let this go 1+ h]
No big pot here, so just using the rice cooker pot.
Should turn out ok... for one of many courses
#AptCooking #DasInKobe
#Food #Cooking

Ok might as well thread here on this multi course #dinner around a #whiskey tasting we put together for a Japanese friend I only met recently but who has shown us great kindness. We didn't do any elaborate thanksgiving (nor will we Christmas) dinner so this may be the meal we put some effort in (even if it fell together in the past couple of days)
🧵1/n #AptCooking. #DasInKobe
Started off with Samosa Chaat - store freezer samosas - not bad, thawed, baked then made into #Chaat #Food #Cooking

Brown butter sauteed maitake #mushroom to go with the steak
#AptCooking
#Food #Cooking

2/n
Next up - from vegetarian Indian to #Mexican #Chaat with #beef - that's right the #nachos we prepped the beef fot last night*
Reheated and topped the beef with chopped onions & cheese, bit of cilantro. Sour cream (really thick stuff here - in small jars) and pickled jalapenos on the side to customize.
Kids fixed themselves dinner just with the nacho fixings
#Food #Cooking
* https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/111573093038457157

Long Thread/ contd 5/n
Next up the #steak (Australian beef) - from the #sousvide prep in prologue*
Patted dry and 5 s sear with press down (I didn't dare risk more sear - these were thin). Turned out terrific, great tasting #beef - had made a bit of chicken bouillon + soy reduction with a dash of White horse whiskey as sauce.
We don't have knives and forks so cut to enable eating with chopsticks.
Served w Romanesco broccoli & sauteed mushrooms
#AptCooking #DasInKobe

*https://mastodon.online/@SRDas/111577504179016423