Blog Retirement

 Dear readers, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I have not been writing very much partly because I've entered into the vanaprastha mode, but also many other reasons. And I have been thinking about deleting this blog for a very long time for reasons that I do not wish to go into here, but I will say I'm tired of the internet; I wish to get off completely. 

Long story how I arrived at that conclusion. Let's just say it has a lot to do with health and has somewhat to do with privacy.

 But I realized from various requests over the years, some of the content may be of use to others. So I'm writing this in case one of you wishes to save anything. If so, please do so within the next 6 months.

But please do me a big favor- I wish to be anonymous.  

 Thank you so much for your support and kind encouragement throughout the years this blog has existed. It was a lot of fun.

Hare Krishna 

 

Vegetarian "frittata"

 I didn't know what the word frittata meant until a few days ago, but that's the word I'm going to use for what was put in an offering then. Instead of eggs we got arrowroot. It came out pretty good, so I thought it'd be worth sharing 

INGREDIENTS:

A handful of finely chopped or grated veggies (In this case, some wild chickweed) 

A handful of grated paneer

Spices (Here was a little ginger root,  roasted cumin powder, coriander powder, freshly ground black pepper, some hing cooked in a small amount of ghee first, and a dash of turmeric)

Salt, as desired

2 T arrowroot

water

ghee for frying

PREPARATION:

Combine all the ingredients and add the water a little at a time, until there's enough to mix everything together, but it holds together as a pattie.

Here a small cast iron skillet was heated very hot and then the ghee was added, enough to coat the bottom of the pan, and then the ingredients shaped into a pattie to fry.

Lower the heat. In this case. I added a cover also and cooked for at least 3 minutes. 

Check the bottom of the pattie to see if it's getting crispy. Or at least browned. Then flip it over. It's nice if you drizzle on a little more ghee first so that the other side will get crispy as well. 

Cook covered another 3 minutes on low heat. 

This is the first time I made this, so I'm pretty sure low heat will be best, but medium heat might make it even more crispy. I'll have to try that next time.

Offer to Krishna with a chutney or a bun (pictured is simply made from naturally yeasty chapati dough that was left to rise) with favorite toppings. Hare Krishna Jay Prabhupada