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Monday, July 28, 2008

The Morning News

posted by on July 28 at 8:13 AM

Lies: McCain’s dishonest new election ad.

Flip-Flopper: McCain switches positions on affirmative action.

Blame China: Growing Chinese demand for fuel spurs higher gas prices worldwide.

Sixteen Dead: In worst Turkish attack in five years.

Suicide Hotline: Gets 22,000 calls from veterans in its first year.

Zero Bids: For Seattle’s automatic toilets, on eBay for $89,000.

The Ladies: So cute when they try to blog!

The End Is Nigh: Banks begin refusing loans even to healthy small businesses.

$2 Million?: Spitzer prostitute weighs reality-TV deal.

Recipe of the Day: Palak Paneer (palak paneer recipe via Boston Globe; paneer recipe via FX Cuisine; photo via Chotda under Creative Commons license)

Paneer

Ingredients
4 liters/1 gallon whole milk
1 lemon or 1 teaspoon vinegar
A large pot
A cheese cloth or clean towel or clean T-shirt

Gently warm the milk and squeeze a little lemon juice in it. Not too much, all you want is for the milk to curdle. Gently mix with a wooden spatula and add more lemon juice (or vinegar) until the milk has split into a transparent liquid and little lumps of soft white matter. That’s your cheese.

Wash an already clean towel a couple more times under fresh water. Wrap it into a bowl or strainer, put everything in the sink and pour in the split milk.

Let the milk water drain. Only the milk fat will remain in your towel.

Take the cloth and let some more water drain, then turn it and squeeze the cheese.

Put it in a plate or form.

Add a plate and some weight on top and leave in the fridge for a couple hours. Some more water will come out; discard it.

Cut paneer into cubes and use in palak paneer.

Palak Paneer
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
3/4 pound paneer, cut into cubes
10 ounces fresh spinach, stems removed
1 large onion, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
4 pods green cardamom
1 tablespoon ground coriander
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon garam masala
1/4 teaspoon kasoori methi (dried fenugreek leaves)

In a large skillet, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil and when it is hot, add the paneer. Cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes or until golden. Remove it from the skillet; set the pan aside.

Rinse the spinach and set it, with the water that clings to it, in a saucepan. Cover with the lid and cook over medium heat, shaking the pan several times, for 1 to 2 minutes or until the spinach wilts. Rinse the spinach with cold water and when it is cool enough to handle, squeeze it in your hands to remove the excess liquid. Chop the spinach finely.

In the skillet used to cook the paneer, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons oil. Add the onion and cook over medium heat, stirring often, for 10 minutes or until it is golden brown.

Add the cumin seeds and cardamom. Cook 1 minute.

Add the coriander, salt, and paprika.

Stir in the cream and spinach. Heat the mixture until it is bubbling at the edges. Add the paneer, garam masala, and kasoori methi. Mix well. Serve with white rice.

RSS icon Comments

1

Should we have some affirmative action for bloggers?

Posted by Mike | July 28, 2008 8:28 AM
2

Hey, nice HTML fuck up.

Posted by It IS cute when women try to blog! | July 28, 2008 8:38 AM
3

My favorite blogger is Pam Spaulding, at Pam's House Blend. So there.

Posted by duncan | July 28, 2008 8:46 AM
4
Zero Bids For Seattle’s automatic toilets, on eBay for $89,000.

Hold on -- I thought we were renting those.

Posted by Judah | July 28, 2008 8:54 AM
5

And meanwhile, in Tennessee, a deranged gunman lets loose on a congregation during a performance of "Annie" (careful, Kiley...it may seem justified on these grounds but is not!), screaming "hateful words" (yet unidentified) about the church's support for gays and women and killing two.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | July 28, 2008 9:02 AM
6

Here's another one for the morning news.

http://tinyurl.com/6mwvxf

Gunman opens fire in UU church in Tennessee because of it's liberal views. My folks have been to that church.

Posted by wench | July 28, 2008 9:07 AM
7

Ugh...this whole drying up of the loan market sucks, especially if you're a student in need of private loans.

Posted by Jake | July 28, 2008 9:09 AM
8

the tennessee gunman hated liberals, news reports say, because he believed they prevented him from getting a job. like chris rock says, ain't nothin' more dangerous than an unemployed white man!

Posted by scary tyler moore | July 28, 2008 9:10 AM
9

At the seminar “How to Take Names and Be Taken Seriously as a Political Blogger,” many women said that their male colleagues and major media groups tended to ignore them, and to link to them less often (unless they are Arianna Huffington). They pointed to the Netroots Nation gathering (formerly known as Yearly Kos) for politically progressive bloggers, occurring that same weekend in Austin, Tex.

While I understand that women face discrimination in the realm of political blogging, maybe it would have been more beneficial for them to go to the Netroots Nation conference instead of this other thing?

Posted by Greg | July 28, 2008 9:44 AM
10

@9,

I think ECB is more pissed off about that article appearing in the fashion section of the NYT.

Posted by keshmeshi | July 28, 2008 9:49 AM
11

Yeah, what is up with that?

Posted by Greg | July 28, 2008 12:30 PM
12

I am one dull, frumpy, unfashionable, anti-style, anti-designer kind of guy, but I continually find interesting cultural/political things to read in the NYT's "Fashion & Style" section, and never quite grasp why they were in that section of the website.

I just checked, the top article in that section is about... triathalon deaths? And environmental awareness about driving gas guzzlers?

Posted by CP | July 28, 2008 5:12 PM

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