The Leewit @ghost_bird@witches.town

Step six: add garam masala, a little water, and the potatoes. Seal the pan with foil and cook gently for half an hour.
https://witches.town/media/Qi90VcVGEeIPRTpszQo

Step five: add cardamom, a little turmeric, the ground spice and nut mix, and the ginger-garlic paste. Add yogurt a spoonful at a time while stirring continuously, allowing the sauce to thicken in between each spoonful.
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Step four: take the potatoes out of the pan, and brown chopped onions in the oil with some cumin seed.
https://witches.town/media/Z5wiAOXXeeZNwxc3Q6o

Step three: dry the potatoes, and fry them in oil in a heavy pan until golden-brown.
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Step two: roast and grind the nuts and spices (almonds, white poppy seed, black cardamom, cumin, coriander). Make a ginger and garlic paste with a little water.
https://witches.town/media/Z1vqhdqSZ4kmUozgc7w

I seem to be in a mood for fancy cooking this weekend, so tonight I’m making the most elaborate potato dish I know - Madhur Jaffrey’s recipe for Dum Aloo.

Step one: peel the potatoes, prick all over with a fork, and soak for an hour in salted water.

http://samsfoodnotes.tumblr.com/post/114433740322/dum-aloo-moghlai-potatoes-in-a-thick-spiced
https://witches.town/media/yYfE7CKdboOKBmoVcCw

Hong Kong style Pork Chop Rice is probably the most complicated dish I know that has ketchup in it, but it’s great comfort food:
http://samsfoodnotes.tumblr.com/post/152024030417/pork-chop-rice

Why does Apple's list of workouts not include "carrying a metric fucktonne of groceries"?

"Most of them accepted namelessness with the indifference with which they had so long accepted and ignored their names. A faction of yaks protested. They said that “yak” sounded right. They discussed the matter all summer."
- Usula LeGuin, "She Unnames Them"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1985/01/21/she-unnames-them

Back to reading Susan Sontag on art and interpretation... which is starting to look like a series of increasingly desperate attempts to depoliticise art by isolating it from context. It’s a view that’s no less curious for being familiar. A work is to be experienced, not interpreted; great art is always unique and never part of a conversation; there’s a linear scale of merit even if we don’t always agree where works belong on it.

Early crocuses in Gordon Square.
https://witches.town/media/Wgft-nUNgxSsUHM8AxA
https://witches.town/media/ppnqjTiITkfaXxtLTeA

A useful thing to remember is that content warnings are courtesy, which is to say that they're better treated as a way to define relationships than a set of rules.

If the ibuprofen would kick in now, that would be lovely.