Last week, in brief?
Wednesday 24th September, Ramadan 23 (also Republic Day)
I made corn muffins from our bread machine cookbook. It was supposed to be a bread but I made it in muffin tins. It was supposed to be corn meal and chick pea flour. I used corn meal and split pea flour. It was supposed to be hard cheese, finely grated like parmesan. I used cheddar, coarsely grated.
Despite all this it was fine.
Except.
I kept wanting it to be sweet. It wasn’t. There was no sugar…and I didn’t think about adding any.
There are still some left. I intend to brush them with a honey glaze and reheat them in the oven or toaster.
Suhur: Bread and butter.
Iftar: Pholourie from over de road, kachorie from down de road and corn muffins.
Dinner: Parents had curry fish and rice. I forced and had the last of the macaroni pie (from last week when Chennette was here) with stewed red beans.
Thursday 25th September, Ramadan 24
Suhur: Chocolate pudding, toasted dhalpuri and avocado.
Iftar: Leftover tuna croquettes
Dinner: Parents had lots of freezer leftovers, I had rice and stewed red beans.
Friday 26th September, Ramadan 25
Hmm, we bought fried chicken. We broke fast with…???
Saturday 27th September, Ramadan 26
According to the second draft of the Eid menu, mom was supposed to make sahina and me cheesecake. Well mom made the sahina before I woke up…and I woke up at around 9am as we were going…Eid grocery shopping!
I went to Tarawih in the masjid on Saturday. You can read about the night of power and when it is and about the last ten nights of Ramadan anywhere else. I’ll try to find some links. I only stayed for 12 of the 20. I was getting rather dizzy.
Also, some people from the Jamaat (sort of…they used to live here but migrated…and then presto…met again there and got married…) gave an iftar.
Suhur: bread and butter?
Iftar: I didn’t take pictures. Too tired. Half-asleep. We had…GULGULLAH! (it’s like a sweet fried fritter with raisins) and accra (a bit tough, mom says batter/dough too stiff, needs more egg…but I still managed to eat a bit of it!!!).
Dinner: CURRY! I took a picture of mom’s plate and mine as she had more variety. I had my curry spread staples (roti, channa and aloo, stew chicken and salad).
There was, paratha roti, channa and aloo, stew chicken, curry mango, vegetarian biryani…and not sure if there was anything else. I can check mom’s plate.
Sunday 28th September, Ramadan 27
Soooo dead beat.
Today, with excellent preparation, I made Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Cordon Rose Cream Cheesecake. It looks very nice thank you very much. This needs to go in the fridge now, and tomorrow it will be unmolded and cut into squares and will wait to go to the masjid on Eid day to share. Um. Shouldn’t I taste it to make sure it’s good? That I’m not giving people…garbage???
Mom fried pholourie from a mix. Oh sooo very addictive with a nice fresh tamarind chutney.
Suhur: Honey Wheat Dark Rolls and Egg paste (salad). Parents had…I dunno bread? and boiled egg.
Iftar: Dates, grapes, addictive pholourie and chutney, starfruit (mom), raspberry and cream cheese pastry…anything else? It’s in the picture.
Dinner: Haven’t had any yet. Current just went.
Parents are having black-eye beans and rice plus fridge lamb. Mom was going to make a black-eye pelau…when she came down while I was making the cheesecake, she told me she forgot to take out the chicken, is rice and beans okay? I’m like yeah…
PS Our dryer is kaput and not here. We’ve run out of clothespins.
whew
i am tired reading the rapid run down
and…you could avoid the problem of clothespins but uhm washing less…
Comment by Chennette — Sunday 28th, September 2008 @ 10:33 pm
well we had sooooooooooooooooooooo much clothes to wash because of no water
and mom wasn’t going to wash white clothes cuz she wasn’t in the mood to hang up tonnes of white clothes…tiny clothes
small clothes?
but then dad needed his whites
so wash wash wash and more wash
and where to hang
and they not drying because tho it hot no breeze
argh
yeah
i tired too
i put pictures!
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 28th, September 2008 @ 10:37 pm
Hey Lily, Is there such thing as a “penny cake”? I was just wondering since I’ve got pennies on my mind today….
Oh, thanks for your comment too.
Comment by Thomasso — Sunday 28th, September 2008 @ 11:46 pm
oh yeah, forgot about the water business
Comment by Chennette — Sunday 28th, September 2008 @ 11:50 pm
well there’s pennycool…pennacool…but it’s a frozen thingy in a plastic long bag that never cost a penny in my lifetime
Comment by Lilandra — Sunday 28th, September 2008 @ 11:57 pm
25 cents was the cheapest I ever knew it to be…which is called a shilling :-D shillingcool…hmmm
Comment by Chennette — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 1:06 am
i wonder how much it is now
mom said they used to buy like milk-icecream in blocks…like the milk penny cool for a penny when she was a child
and the plain ones (ice…like the ordinary ones i guess) for a cent
so silly me asked what’s the difference
mom: one is a penny and one is a cent
argh
penny = two cents
hmmm
i now understand my complete confusion as a child about penny, pence, tuppence etc
very bizarre considering…we never had these in our lifetime
and shilling…do you think any child uses shilling these days?
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 1:09 am
Interesting, we never had a “shilling,” up here, just the penny, nickel, dime, quarter, Loonie (dollar) and Toonie, the two dollar Coin. There’s even talk of a Five dollar coin coming soon….
I saw an ad for penny-cakes a while back that were advertised for $0.99 cents each. I thought that was funny.
Comment by Thomasso — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 1:36 am
hehe
penny cakes! for a penny less than a dollar! :)
well…we had the british currency up to x-year until we changed to TT-currency…and … things still got called by their old names
a one cent was…a penny? or according to mom something else
a 25cent piece was called a shilling still
because old habits die hard
and even when i was in school tho i never saw this old currency in use, classmates would still call a 25 cent a shilling
i guess we learned it
our literature still had it
etc etc
which is why i wonder about the younger generation
do they use these north american terms of nickel and dime and quarter…eek
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 1:41 am
quarter maybe, but don’t think we use nickel and dime…
the confusion is precisely because the changeover from old british money system to the TT dollar – probably had both currencies running for a while. Even the Brits had issues when they changed their system…
Comment by Chennette — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 1:46 am
Thomasso – I thought the Toonie was the funniest term imaginable, but if the Canadians decide on a Foonie, I will change my views :-D
Comment by Chennette — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 1:47 am
five dollar would be foonie?
Comment by Lilandra — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 1:49 am
Four farthings were a penny…..so one cent was two farthings …. this is what I remember .. those were the days when salt was one cent per pound and sugar was 4 cents and flour was 9 cents etc…..and a bellyfull cake ( like a bread pudding but harder as they used all the leftover cakes and bread to make these) was one cent……
And yes a pennacool was a penny at its inception… the first people to make pennacool was at a house opposite the Nur-e-Islam Masjid on the corner of Ward Lane and El Socorro Road……three houses away from the milk ice-block people.
Comment by trinimom — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 7:02 am
Chennette,
The Royal Canadian Mint was unbelievably upset that Canadians took on the name. It was more or less a protested to the change over from paper money to coins. There is great resistance to a five dollar coin, and the Mint has not officially decided on that, yet, but yes, I like Foonie, unless they put something totally ridiculous on it like a Horse Fly or The Alberta Tar Sands…..
If you were wondering why the one dollar coin is called a loonie, it is because it has a pint of a Loon on one side, and the name suggests someone who is crazy.
This Link should explain it for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar
Comment by Thomasso — Monday 29th, September 2008 @ 1:22 pm
Awh, I thought my post went though this morning….. I had a really witty comment for Chennette, but I had some links in it that might no have gotten through. Oh well….
A lot of people that visit Canada think our money looks like “play money” because of the colours and designs on each bill. Canada is really paranoid about counterfeit bank notes, plus we have some of the harshest punishments for those who print their own fake money.
Personally, I think the Five Dollar coin might be called a “finnie”?????
Comment by Thomasso — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 12:28 am
*scratches* head
i didn’t get it to moderate
finnie makes more sense
a foonie sounds more like a four dollar bill
we have coloured money too
http://www.atsnotes.com/catalog/trinidad/trinidad.html
but not different sizes
different sizes is really weird…how do u fit it nicely in your wallet…but is it good for the blind?
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 12:32 am
Your currency looks like a hybrid between Canada and the US paper bills. Cool
Here is that link on Canadian money I was trying to send you this morning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_dollar
It sort of talks about the Loonie and Toonie also.
Actually, are bills are just a little smaller than the US mints. The only dollar bill that is shorter than the others is the Five dollar bill, but that is partly because it is the last bill to be replaced by the old currency–remember that they are think on fazing it out–and we are talking a couple of millimetres. Only the coins are a nuisance. :) When you get change beck from your purchase, you get change!
Comment by Thomasso — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 1:08 am
I tried to send anther comment with a link–it automatically denied me the post. Look up Canada Dollar on the Wikipeada Website. for details.
Comment by Thomasso — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 1:09 am
so weird
let me go check my settings!
Akismet took them! i approved them.
But I checked my settings, it’s supposed to allow stuff with less than 3 links (or 3 or less…something so). I’m not sure why it didn’t allow yours..
Hmm
Is Loonie a bad word?
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 2:11 am
aw geez. i just checked.
it’s not links per se, it’s WIKIPEDIA links
will this go through??
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 2:21 am
I remember when I went up to Toronto for the semester in 1996, that was just about when the Two Dollar coin was introduced, so everyone everywhere was at great pains to explain to newcomers about the Loonie and the new Toonie so called because they ended up calling the one dollar the Loonie. The loonie, despite the craziness was a cool name I thought, because it was linked to the loon on the coin. The Toonie was just pushing it :-D
As for Foonie and Finnie…well, maybe I should just move to Canada. It sounds like fun.
Comment by Chennette — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Oh Canada!
You leaving me now? Again? Can’t deal with all this distance!
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 2:11 pm
Chennette, You’re funny!
Lily, weren’t you living a million away from home at one time–and would do it again?
Comment by Thomasso — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 6:54 pm
Yeah but I’m living here/T&T *now*
So, I would only live where it’s convenient for people to visit me.
I can count on one hand how many times my family came to visit me.
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 6:56 pm
I visited twice. And helped clean old apartment and move and shop for big heavy stuff for new apartment. I was the only sibling with a real job at the time if you recall.
Comment by Chennette — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 8:26 pm
yeah
thankfully for you i fill a whole hand
and so the others had no real job? (teaching is not real?) which means they should’ve had more time to visit me
Comment by Lilandra — Tuesday 30th, September 2008 @ 9:26 pm