Sunday, November 19, 2023

Big family meals before Thanksgiving

 Indian Food
1. Dal Makhani--soak, then cook dal and beans in instapot.  Use Goat or Sheep yogurt and Ghee for all dairy additions.  Reserve some lentils and beans.

2. Roast mixed vegetables: cauliflower, carrot, zucchini, bell pepper.  Toss is garlic, ginger, and tumeric.  Tomato masala sauce on side.

3. chicken or salmon.

5. quinoa and rice for base.

6. paneer if I could get it.


Pasta Theme
1. Banza Pasta
2. second pasta for the fearful?
3. Good jar pasta, pesto sauce.
4. Kalamata olives, spinach.

5. Parmesan cheese, manchego cheese.

6. wild vegetables: fennel.  mushrooms, zucchini
7. bread.
8. sausages?




Chili Theme
1. Vegetarian Chili, usual recipe then add yams and kale.
--pull out cooked beans, yams and kale for nightshade-free version.

3. toppings: cooked ground beef, BB, cheddar cheese, manchego cheese, corn chips, safe potato chip, sour cream, guacamole, pineapple?, green onion, olives


Zucchini boats

Fasolatha

Egg Roll in a bowl salad: carrot, celery, cabbage, broccoli, green onions.  Chicken or BB.  Dressing of rice vinegar and soy sauce.  chili sauce/version on side.  Peanut butter/version on side.
serve with rice noodles.

Coconut curry with vegetables.  Probably broccoli, carrot, onion.  

Monday, September 4, 2023

Color Names

 

ebony
oatmeal
pastel gray
mint gream
oatmeal
honeydew
Aero Blue
Aero Blue
Green Sheen
Shadow Gray
Light Blue
Cool Mint
Blue (Munsell)
Pastel Blue
Moonstone Blue
Marengo
Marengo
Pale Aqua
Gainsboro
Shadow Blue
Marengo
Glaucous
Dark Pastel Blue
Marengo
Pearly Purple
Classic Rose Pink
Platinum
Chilean Pink
lavender blush
baby pink

Friday, July 28, 2023

Munsell Color Exploration

 I'm looking for the 1943 Munsell table.

But look, here is a package in R!

https://github.com/cwickham/munsell/tree/master

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/munsell/munsell.pdf


And here's the Munsell Spin!

https://observablehq.com/@jrus/munsell-spin


Also, tonight I found this Architectural Digest discussion of the Barbie Dreamhouse through the decades.



Bias-cut dress project

Marais dress has angled connection of upper bodice to skirt, V-neck front and back, no buttons or zippers.
https://oliverands.com/community/blog/2021/07/liesls-woven-bias-cut-marais-dress.html 
and the pattern:

McCall's pattern is Aline with diagonal seams
https://sewing.patternreview.com/Patterns/85644


Saturday, July 8, 2023

Instapot Vegetarian and Indian recipes.

https://www.cookwithmanali.com/


Our instapot was a gift, and I've been slow to work it into our routine, as I already had a stove-top pressure cooker that I love.

But recently I've been turning to the instapot instead of the pressure cooker to make the basic beans or chickpeas that I use in recipes. The only finished-for-the-table dish I would make in an instapot is butter chicken. But I'm not that excited about it, the kids like it best. I've been wanting to find vegetarian dishes that I could make in the instapot, which do not ruin the vegetables. So I'm excited about this Manali site, it looks promising.