Weekend!
Saturday will be the day we’re devoting to making Indian Food. Well, chicken tikka masala. Whether or not chicken tikka masala is actually Indian Food is up for debate.
One of the things that I will be in charge of is the naan. On our test evening, I made both garlic butter naan and cheesy naan and tested it out by making naan with four different amounts:
1. A little
2. Some
3. A Lot
4. Holy Cow/Pizza
We came to a consensus that the best naans were “some cheese” and “Holy Cow garlic butter”. Then somebody said “Why not make cheesy garlic butter naan?” and everybody’s eyes got really big.
So we’re making cheesy garlic butter naan to have with the chicken tikka masala. I suppose that if someone wants just cheesy or just garlic buttery or, heck, even “just plain old naan”, we’ll make that available too.
I kind of would like to make naan for real someday… but it would take me hours to prepare/make enough naan for two people (assuming I’m one of them) if I didn’t have a kiln (let alone enough for a dozen folks of which I am one). Perhaps next year.
And that’s pretty much all day Saturday. Cooking, gaming, and otherwise recovering from a week in which we got told that, hey, thanks for all of the hump-busting you’ve been doing over the last month… overtime is now officially off of the table. And so, now, I’m looking forward to a week in which I’m “only” going to work 40 hours. (Oceans of time!) But that’s me getting ahead of myself. In the short term, I’m just looking forward to cooking/gaming on Saturday and using Sunday to play catch-up on all of the stuff I didn’t do on Saturday (and knowing that, hey, I’ll have evenings again in the following week).
So… what’s on your docket?
(Image is “Play” by Clare Briggs. Used with permission of the Briggs estate.)
Weekend plans? That implies that I make it through the workday tomorrow. The guy who can’t plan was in charge of planning, and he put the guys who can’t code on the programming project. The guy who picks up the slack is on vacation, and the lazy guy, well, actually I don’t know what he’s supposed to be working on, but it doesn’t matter anyway.Report
Call in sick.Report
Flying home from Philly, after a week of driving cross-country. Then sleep, glorious sleep.Report
I just had some naan last night with my chicken saag. I have it on good authority, via an actual Indian woman I dated, that American Indian food is not real Indian food, much like American Chinese isn’t real Chinese food. That’s expected, but it’s still tasty, like she said…..
Anyway, sounds like fun. I’m going to Nerd Fest! (aka D&D) night with some co students of the jujitsu class. My instructor apparently is a real nerd, but someone’s bringing home made chilli to so….
Sun is tacos and russian food for Super Bowl with margaritas.Report
Yeah, I think that we should just go ahead and assume that (Adjective) Food is really just “American Food With Spices You Don’t Use That Often”.
But some of those spices I don’t use that often are pretty tasty…Report
Home made naan? Holy fish! I think I might be trying to sneak myself onto a plane to Colorado this weekend.Report
It’s not *THAT* home made. It’s more “store bought and then improved upon”.Report
I had a very exciting week wherein I got to meet both Robert Sapolsky (neuroethology is one of those non-BS versions of EvoPsych that I keep alluding to) and Lynda Barry (one of my heroes and her stuff helped me get through my 20s). They’re both excellent speakers, btw.
Very Exciting Week.
Of course that means I am now a pancake (especially since I walked home last night) and will be spending most of the weekend in bed.
Unless the magic of Americanized Indian food (American Indian food is a different thing, though it does involve frybread) somehow revives me, in which case there’s some spring cleaning I’d like to get started on.
Yep. Spring Cleaning. I’ve decided to take a page from the pseudo-Celts (haven’t bothered researching historical accuracy), embracing my Irish ancestors, blah blah – and I’m declaring St. Brigid’s Day, aka the start of Imbolc, aka Feb 1st-ish, to be the first day of Spring. So the solstice will happen at peak spring (around here) AND February is now spring instead of still winter. My skeptical side was very skeptical that this would help – February being the longest month and also my least favorite – but so far I’m appreciating the shift in perspective. REMARKABLY so.Report
You know how when you see something for the first time, you always see it again? Last night, I was reading Walter Jon Williams’s new novel Quillifer, which is a slightly fantasy, mostly mainstream novel set in what amounts to the early Renaissance, and the narrator mentions that the old calendar worked exactly like that, with the equinox in mid-Spring instead of its beginning.
(Sorry, Duck, still not the third Metropolitan book.)Report
@mike-schilling Heh, figures. Funny how that works, with the turning up more than once.
I need to get me some Quillifer one of these days too.
(In very eastern Canada, where I used to live, calling the spring equinox the middle of spring would have made not-much-sense at all – we were lucky if we got any non miserable days at all before the equinox. Spring was barely over by the summer solstice! But here in Colorado, the old way fits rather better. It’ll be funny if it snows on Spring Equinox though …)Report
I’m gonna try a homemade brownie recipe (Alton Brown’s, so I’ll if it really is good eats). Maybe some school work to make time for grading next week. I have a new stand mixer, so I need to do some cleaning and arranging to make room (part of our gradual de-cluttering process).
Ideally, I’ll get some x-wing playing in or maybe some assassin’s creed: origins.Report
I’ll need to hear a small review of Origins.
I’m torn, you see.Report
It’s good. I played the first two games of the series and the pirate one. This one is my favorite (except I really, really liked the pirate ships in Black Flag). There are many different side quests that are pretty cool and many of them have multiple steps. The setting is beautiful.
I guess it depend on what your specific tastes are. This is the most open world type of AC game. You also level up and get to choose different abilities. There are different weapon types that all have different play styles. I’ve just been to busy to finish it. So far, I’ve enjoyed it more than any of the other AC games I’ve played.Report
There’s an arts-and-music-and-tromping-around-the-beautifully-illuminated-ravine festival thing, which we’re going to this evening.
A friend’s birthday party tomorrow evening, starts on the late side and will probably become less child-friendly (he’s very much in his 20s) later on, so we’ll just drop by for a short while.
Probably there’s other stuff I don’t know about yet.Report
Crab dinner on Saturday.Report
My wine guy is taking us to dinner at a new restaurant he’s helping to open. He’s also a regular old friend… but interesting things happen when you go to his client’s restaurants with him.
We were supposed to go last week, but someone died and we had to postpone… now the menu changed and my Trio of duck with foie gras is gone. Does that make me sound petty? I’m trying for urban cosmopolitan chic.
If its not too cold we’ll be in the new woods clearing and bucking the scraps from when the previous owner had it timbered. Otherwise playing Total War II with my Xenophobic Wood Elves systematically destroying neighboring civilizations. (no politics).Report
I hope they have something something tartare to make up for it.Report
Canvassing on Saturday to lay the foundation to flip the local Congressional seat, and apartment hunting online to prepare for my upcoming move.
Sunday, I’ve been tasked with making “that cheese dip everyone likes” for a Superb Owl gathering. Since that actually isn’t specific enough, I’m going to make the kind with diced roasted japapeño chilis.Report
The Sunday! post will be devoted to the Supurb Owl.
Oooh. Chilis.Report
Aside from the SB hoopla, internet research. I find myself in need of a small cross-platform 3D rendering engine. I’ve been using POV-Ray, a ray-tracing engine, only to discover that the Windows version is combined with a GUI and not scriptable. I don’t need anything fancy — unfortunately, most packages seem to be fancy in one direction or another.Report