Coconut Chutney
This mild, sweet/spicy chutney is delicious! And using dry organic coconut, available in most grocery’s organics section, it goes together in a matter of minutes.
Category Archives: Technology
Burning snow
As I stood under the shower’s spray this evening, allowing the warm water to wash away the day’s dust and travel, I found that as the dirt left me, so did peace and security.
Lessons Learned?
A system is only as strong as its weakest link; make a nuclear containment structure (theoretically?) plane-proof and bomb-proof, still the generator sits outside… powered by fission, not fusion, its “steady state” is detonation, not stasis.
Metaphor of the Trees
I was thinking this weekend of the metaphor of the trees: those that cover the lower peaks of the White Mountains, their roots knitted together like fingers knotted in prayer
Flash-Fried Thai Basil Tempeh
Thai basil is key, though fresh picked salsa pepper & blackened dry chili add the depth needed, ginger some breadth, to make this dry-fried dish so tasty. Added zucchini gives the plate moisture. I couldn’t take my face out of the bowl! Collected ingredients: a dried chili, blackened in fry oil scallions (whites first, add …
Idli, or How to Steam A Breakfast Batter
I would be hard pressed to say if that delicious south-Indian dal sambar was an accompaniment for these idli, or if it’s the other way around. Maybe they are meal partners: the sambar is a delicious medley of spices and vegetables and cooked pulses, while the idli provide a pillow-like staple of ground gram beans and …
South Indian Sambar (for Idli)
This is one of my favorite dishes from Tamil Nadu – a simple stew, really, but with these delightfully unplaceable flavors from the combination of spices and leaves. Serve it as a soup if you wish; however, the classic accompaniments would be rice and gram bean idli in the morning, or dosa in the evening. …
Chai
We ate little at Ramana Maharshi’s ashram: certainly little compared to the standard American Diet. Steamed, fermented rice cake (which I grew to adore and now make at home); a splash of some pulse – a lentil or a dal; a dusting of some spice, poured over a plate of sewn leaves. That was breakfast, …
Hug a tree
Why did you reflexively contract when you read that title? Does it go back to the conservative's 70s sound-bite, "tree huggers", a term used (as usual) not to increase knowledge and understanding, but to ridicule and demean, the fear-response of a bullying child? Were you tainted by the bully's threat? Or does it touch on …
the revolution of darkness
This morning, the sun rose and carried nothing in its hand but light.
Enceladus, one of many
The bigger the world, the more human in size we find ourselves, intimate part of a Mystery so grand you cannot help but bow…
Day
An echinacea blossom sits in a vase on the kitchen table, slightly to the left of center, bowing in my direction. Some of these wildflowers are sturdier than most, and even cut retain their bearing, their color and form, for many days. There are people like that as well, keep blooming when the root is …