http://www.polkacafe.com/traditional-dishes-from-indian-states-1775.html

ok everybody, time for a grocery list:

Aldi experiment:

1 brown rice spaghetti: $1.89
1 fit and active plain 32 oz yogurt: $1.89
1 can crushed tomatoes: 95 cents
1 tri-color organic quinoa: $3.99
1 lentil chips : ) : $1.99
1 organic red pepper dressing: $1.99
1 organic wildflower honey: $3.49
1 banana nut granola cereal: $2.49
1 abf whole chicken: $6.73
1 sparkling water: 59 cents
1 pepper jack cheese: $1.89
1 pine nut hummus: $1.99
1 spicy red pepper hummus: $1.79
1 can black beans: 59 cents
1 organic instant oatmeal: $2.49
1 apple cinnamon granola bars: $1.79
1 mini cucumbers 16 oz: $2.49
1 pepper assortment: $1.49
1 iceberg lettuce: 99 cents
1 16oz roma tomatoes: $1.49
1 fit and active ham sliced tub: $2.49
plus 4 cents tax

= $45.53

woohoo!

Happy Lohri to all my Punjabi peeps!

Besan da Seera

This is a concoction you can eat when you're sick. It's nourishing and great for clearing congestion. This recipe makes enough for two to three people. 

First, mix two tbsp ghee in pot and melt. Then add three heaping tbsp of besan (chick pea flour) and mix. Press the mixture continuously (with a karchi or ladle) so that the besan cooks. You will have to do this for a few minutes. If you notice some browning, then remove from heat and mix and keep pressing and put back on heat.

When mixture is slightly darker/brown, add 2 and 1/2 cups milk (or almond milk) and 1/4th cup sugar and some crushed almonds. Stir with a whisk for a little bit and then let cook on heat for another minute or two. Don't let it thicken or boil. 

#porridge for the ill : (

Chicken Curry II

cut onion, ginger and garlic and brown in olive oil. add cloves, cardamom, cinnamon and cumin seeds : ) 

add tomatoes:

add hormone free, vegetarian feed chicken : ) 

don't forget salt and red mirchi. then cover and cook for ten minutes on less than medium. 

then add MDH karahi masala:

 

: ) 

delivery for the sister : ) 

Tandoori chicken I

Tandoori Chicken mixture:

1/8th of half gallon of buttermilk

two tsps salt (you need a lot of salt)

two tsps tandoori masala

red mirchi

8 drops of red food coloring 

little bit of lemon juice 

update: not sure what my dad was thinking that day but adding cardamom and saffron to your tandoori chicken is actually not a thing. he was in one of his moods.

and typically we don't use tandoori masala but it is a decent alternative and I will update with another recipe. 

chicken to be soaked:

taste test: DELICIOUS

soak chicken for 24 hours!

cut up some lemon pieces and voila:

ate Kadi chawal w brown rice/quinoa yesterday : )

Veggie soup

soak chunne for 24 hours then boil chunne, celery and carrots for a couple hours. then add zucchini and barley : )

and I cannot believe I have to return the flies....unbelievable..

I am not allowed to transfer my undergraduate course Instructional Technology even though you're allowed to transfer other undergraduate courses for Master's classes!!!!!! And I'm not allowed another adviser!!!!!!!!!!!!! What University doesn't allow you to change your adviser!?!!?!?!??!?!?!!!!

#Can you report Universities to the Better Business Bureau?

#good riddance with Trash University 

I have $67 in my Amazon trade in account from returning one of my textbooks!!!!!!!!!!

Chana daal w kiya (squash) tonight: 

and green beans w vadiya (lentil pieces):

#saw Prem Uncle Ghar Aayo today..it actually wasn't that bad..I give it a B- : )

So today I wrote a letter to the Dean of the Graduate program at Cal U of PA and expressed my frustrations with the program. I attached the relevant documents and emails pertaining to two professors who accused me of having a tone in my emails (what?!!!!??!?!!!!). I also requested that my undergraduate Instructional Technology class be transferred in to satisfy one of the Master's requirements (duh) and that I get a new adviser (also previously denied). It felt so good to mail the package and it only cost something like $2.50 to mail it but I hardly thought about it. What a relief. 

#students need a voice 

so my dad recently went to an optometrist in MD for an eye exam and a new prescription for two pairs of reading and driving eyeglasses. The business the doctor works for gave him a quote of $965 just for those two pairs of glasses!!!! all those special types. and instead my dad went to a local optician and got the same glasses made for $110.

MUUUUUAAAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAAAAAAHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Happy Diwali Everyone ~ (have to run to Pat Catan's to get some diyas!!) ~

Papdi Chaat

Lunch today is Papdi Chaat. Dad's craving. 

cut onion, tomato, green chile and coriander: 

have your Chat Pats ready:

some yogurt: 

we need some roasted jeera (cumin seeds):

dhai bhalle out of the freezer:

boil potato in microwave:

beautiful roasting ~

ready to eat with black salt, red mirchi, roasted jeera and chaat masala sprinkled on top : ) 

So today I talked to Drexel Univ. and am again traumatized. I was told on the phone that I have the potential to transfer the Master's credits I've already taken into their online Master's program. But they will not do a transcript review until I apply. I have to fill out the application, pay the fee, get two letters of recommendation, pay to get all my transcripts sent, write an essay and only if I get accepted, they will determine whether the credits can transfer. Such brilliance in the teaching profession. 

this is so hilarious..if I was that guy, I would kill that girl lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeMhjhGe4VA

What an awful weekend. All I did was sleep, do homework, watch movies and do homework. :{