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Samosa’s
Aug 16th
Well, I have samosa’s for lunch almost every day during the week – and I figured I should try making some myself! My first go at it was pretty successful I think. I made both beef and vegetable ones – and made my own pastry. The pastry was pretty easy – but I think that I’ll try a variation that I came across on http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/ – adding a bit of semolina flour.
The vegetable filling I made was very tasty – but I think I’ll cut the cayenne pepper back from the 1/2 tsp I used, to 1/4 tsp, which will make my son happier ;^)
The beef filling was good, but there was something missing – I’ll have to try a couple other recipes and see how things fare. I’ll post up the recipes for both fillings, and the pastry, this evening.
Samosa pastry
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp. ghee, clarified butter, or vegetable oil, plus extra for frying
1 tbsp. semolina flour
1/4 cup water (some say ice water, others lukewarm)
Directions
Sift the flour and salt into medium bowl.
Add 1 tablespoon of the clarified butter and rub the mixture between the palms of your hands to evenly distribute, and let the fat-coated flour fall back into the bowl. Continue until the flour is evenly coated.
Add 6 tablespoons of the water, mix, and work until the dough comes together. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead for 4 minutes into a firm dough. Cover with a kitchen towel and let rest for 30 minutes.
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ality evolving … again :^)
Jun 24th
Going to be merging content from a couple of my other blogs – basically trying to simplify maintenance. I’ll add categories, and also try to tag content more, so you can easily find the content you’re after! :^)
The first blog to get merged over here is my coffee blog.
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Here comes the flood!
Jun 24th
Well, a mini flood anyway!!
This morning when the timer kicked in for my espresso machine, something failed in the machine, resulting in water all over the kitchen floor, and leaking down into our laundry room. Timer went on at 5:00 AM – I was downstairs at 6:00.
Tonight I’ll have to open the espresso machine up to see what exactly failed – thankfully the components inside the Andreja Premium are fairly generic, so I shouldn’t have too much trouble fixing it. Hoping I can fix it myself, otherwise I load it up and have CaffeTech look at it and do the repairs. At least they’re local!
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time for a little update I think!
Feb 16th
Been slacking lately with the posts here on ality.org – and figured I’d update things a little, just for fun.
The top header is a little sampling of what I have in mind for my M101 – hopefully this spring! :^)
Who knows, if it turns out well enough, maybe I’ll deviate from the brushed aluminum effect on the Rubi and paint it too!…lol
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CKUA raffle – win the ultimate coffee prize package… or a Harley
Jan 11th
I’m more interested in the coffee gear personally – well, the Technivorm coffee maker and the coffee subscription to be exact ;^)
The Coffee Connoisseurs Dream Package was put together by Poul over at Transcend – and is an early bird draw for this fund-raising raffle by CKUA
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