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toridas_, 2 months ago to magASEAN

Spicy Kongunad kozhi kuzhambu as per Kannamma Cooks 🫶🏽 a fantastic and quite easy recipe, even for an amateur like me, with measurements meticulously listed.

Got mildly scalded when making the fried spice paste because the mixer wasn't closed right and I got splashed with the hot oily water when I switched it on 🔥 Just Mars squaring the Moon, not a big deal, just enough to make me pay attention.

Tagging @skinnylatte because we were talking about this 🍃

#MakanApaToday #HomeCooking #MastIndia

Deus, 2 months ago to india

Nagaland's Chakhesang tribe traditional attire. Love the embroidery that Nagas come up with for their shawls but it's a tad heavy for my taste.

#Nagaland #Handmade #Tradition #Handicraft

:instagram: nuvelutetseo

A Naga woman of the Chakhesang tribe with their traditional shawls poses for the camera.
A Naga woman of the Chakhesang tribe with their traditional shawls poses for the camera.
A Naga woman of the Chakhesang tribe with their traditional shawls poses for the camera.

oatmeal, 2 months ago to Israel

Looks like a “close source” to #Netanyahu is very busy these days. Forgetting who’s keeping the lights on in #Israel, “they” (Netanyahu presumably) say this:

“Israel isn't sponsored by the U.S., we expect America to dismantle Hamas and not our cabinet”

Is Netanyahu preparing trying to portray Biden as #Hamas supporter … 🤷‍♂️ The Hebrew edition has an expanded quote:

"Israel is not a protectorate of the United States, but rather an independent and democratic state. We expect our American friends to act to overthrow the terrorist regime of Hamas - not the elected government in Israel."

[*] The Hebrew source used the term protectorate, not “sponsored” as was translated for the English edition. Israel is also not a democracy, since it doesn’t offer equal rights to all its citizens, such as personal freedoms etc., and it describes itself as “Jewish state”.

#Haaretz https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-03-12/ty-article-live/yemen-govt-u-s-british-forces-strike-houthi-targets-killing-11/0000018e-30ce-d12e-ad8e-fcde25cb0000?liveBlogItemId=155495410#155495410

@israel
@palestine
#Israel #WarCrimes #Gaza

nathanlovestrees, 2 months ago to Tolkien

A very large American sycamore (platanus occidentalis). They always remind me of the White Tree of Gondor, which was in turn inspired by Telperion, that silver tree of the First Age that became the moon. The base of this one is so big I can wrap my arms only about a third of the way around.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Tolkien

mehluv, 2 months ago to random

They're making a propaganda movie on JNU now, calling it a university with a conspiracy to break the nation, and calling it "Jahangir National University". The fascists don't even care about subtlety now, they've won no matter what.

Look at this shit.

toridas_, 3 months ago to magASEAN

Needed to use the milk that had stored up, so I made suji halwa for Saturday breakfast ✨ BFF#2 had shown me how to make it last month. We were talking about fasting for Shivratri yesterday. She's doing it; I wanted to but I knew I wouldn't be able to fast. Today I did have enough milk to pour over a Shiva linga, but instead I used it for my breakfast. And Lord Shiva and I are both happy! in a casually blasphemous but physically and spiritually fulfilling way 🖤 💚

#MakanApaToday #HomeCooking

On a blue glass top table with peacock feather patterns in shades of blue, green, and purple: an aluminium bowl (with a steel spoon) of puffed rice stirred with mustard oil, and a medium-sized steel bowl of suji halwa. On the right is my dark grey and black laptop with a wallpaper of peacock train feathers. In the background, a doorway leading to the garden.

liztai, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to languagelearning

A Youtube comment about Hokkien's tonal changes 😝

Ps: I gave up learning Cantonese cos i found the tones confounding and apparently my Hokkien accent makes everything sound hilarious 😄

#Languages #Chinese

toridas_, 3 months ago to random

Fans of #Bats ! Please share your favourite bat facts 🦇 CC: @loren @futurebird can you please boost for wider reach? 🙏🏽 I wanna see people going batshit over bats.

toridas_, 3 months ago to Bloomscrolling

The curry tree (Bergera koenigii) in my (presently largely wild) garden had been distressing me all winter. It had become so barren and aphid-infested. Not anymore! Spring has peaked over here, and the trees and weeds are all in bloom 🌿 Quite a number of birds and butterflies, even a few bees, drop by everyday. I want to have nothing to do all morning but garden and doodle ✏️

And maybe cook with curry leaves, too 🍃 thinking of @skinnylatte

#BloomScrolling #NativePlants #MastIndia

Attempted closeup of a cluster of curry tree flowers in near full bloom amid young green lushness.
Common wild tulsi! They're fucking everywhere in my garden, and they've all put out bright new leaves warm green in colour and tone, and also spires of tiny gnarly green buds that pop out into white-violet flowers. I love them all.

toridas_, 3 months ago to magASEAN

When you've got your period and so sick that you can't cook a proper lunch, but you also need something a bit fancy to feel good about 🍀 Incidentally, I heard recently that eating khichuri on Tuesdays and Saturdays helps in remediating the malefics. This is technically a khichuri; not a traditionally spiced and wok-stirred one, but simpler.

Not pictured: a softboiled egg that was unhappy to be peeled and didn't want to be photographed 🌚 #VoidMoonVibes

#MakanApaToday #HomeCooking #MastIndia

skinnylatte, 3 months ago to random

All restaurants should have chilli / pepper condiments with Scoville units clearly listed. For reference, this was the spiciest option; and the next step down was bird’s eye chillies at 70K Scoville units

skinnylatte, 3 months ago to animals

This is Cookie’s dad. He’s very majestic.

This is Cookie. She’s goofy.

#DogsOfMastodon #Dogs

A photo of Cookie running. The dog looks almost exactly like the one in the other photo, but with shorter hair and wearing boots.

geraineon, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to magASEAN

This is the best fucking mochi I ever had and also the best food I had in my whole trip back so far. Fifty tales duck egg kaya mochi taco. The mouthfeel is amazing. The taco crunches, then the mochi is soft and squishy, then the filling is rich, runny, savory sweet. I'm gonna miss this so much when I go back to the U.S. 😭

#MakanApaToday #Food

jikodesu, 3 months ago to Philippines

Filipinos have a strange custom of putting water around a bottle of peanut butter to keep the ants away. I wonder, do other Southeast Asians do this? 😊

#Philippines #Asian #Filipino #TootSEA #PeanutButter #Food #Asia

liztai, 3 months ago to hongkong

Anyone missing some Leslie Cheung? A Chinese Ghost Story is one of my favourite movies in the world, and so is this beautiful song he say.
PS: The movie is based on one of the Tales from "Tales from a Chinese Studio", an ancient compendium of ghost/supernatural stories from the 16th century.

#HongKong #Movies #CDrama #Cdramas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4VT_pfVA-k

toridas_, 3 months ago to magASEAN

So I'm getting a bit desperate to learn Mandarin because my copy of the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon pentalogy is begging to be read, and because I'm too ambitious for my own good 🫣 Any recommendations, resources, tips, for a beginner? I don't want to have to resort to Duolingo with their AI rubbish, but I'm very short on money, which is an automatic hamstring when it comes to getting an education, I know 🙃

CC: @skinnylatte #TootSEA #China @liztai @chu @Fury

toridas_, 3 months ago to bookstodon

I'm 48.27% into my ARC of MOONSTORM by @deuceofgears and I love it so much 💙 the characterisation is top-notch, and taking the time away from 🍉 news and household work (chronic illness flare-up! again!!) to read this depiction of war and trauma is, oddly, proving to be rather cathartic. This is my first read of a book by this author, although I'd heard of them before, and now they've got my attention.

@bookstodon #Bookstodon #SFFBookClub #AmReading

toridas_, 3 months ago to music

I'd found this guy's music mixes back in 2012, and it's been a long journey of loving ambient music and depending on it to feel safe, sane, and purposeful despite very hard times. He's kept up his blog all this while, it's basically completely unchanged since 2012, and it feels so wonderful to be listening to his mixes again after a gap of about 2 years.

Here's his latest mix. I hope someone can bring him over to the Fediverse.

#Music #Mixtapes #AmbientMusic #Blogs

http://lowlightmixes.blogspot.com/2024/01/apricity-warmth-of-sunshine-in-winter.html?m=0

purplepadma, 3 months ago to Cats

Someone’s enjoying a sun puddle #cats #CatsOfMastodon

18+ geraineon, 3 months ago to magASEAN

Somehow can't upload photo but dinner is leftovers from lunch topped up with more fresh cooked food, plus a steamed fish this time, and lotus root soup, and quick pickled cucumbers and carrots

I am very well fed and stuffed... (This is the end of visitation here! But my mother will be here to play mahjong so I guess it's time for me to read Tai Sui)

#MakanApaToday #Food

RE: https://blahaj.zone/notes/9pj8fw56fubfpeyp