[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago

We own two Epson EcoTank printers and love them.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

Totalitarian regime that ignores international law, norms of diplomatic behaviour, manages its neighbours, committed genocide against its minorities, and practices hostage diplomacy will tolerate no discussion of the fact that it ignores international law, norms of diplomatic behaviour, manages its neighbours, committed genocide against its minorities, and practices hostage diplomacy.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

The Notwithstanding Clause is an acknowledgement that the law you are passing is an unconstitutional christofascist virtue signaling attack on a marginalized group.

We need to get it in numbers and vote these christofascists assholes back you the 50s where they belong

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

He's selling lies to influence the ignorant to vote against their own self-interest. He's a conservative.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Conservatives lie through their teeth to get elected. Once they're elected they cut taxes which greatly Bamford the rich, cut services which greatly benefit everyone else to pay for it, neglect necessary spending and call it savings, run up the deficit and the debt, then lose lose an election because everyone is pissed of because we can't get any services, then they spend the next few years lying through their teeth about Liberal spending trying to fix their mess until they win another election.

Rinse and repeat.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

He also says that it milquetoast right of center Prime Minister is a Marxist. He's a liar but the people who believe his nonsense are fucking idiots.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you think that Canadians support the tantrumist bullshit then you definitely do live in an echo chamber. You really should stop reading Chinese and Russian anti-Canadian propaganda masquerading as extreme right wing "news" and come back to the center.

Lich is an idiot. She said, "If we had been there with an agenda to take over Ottawa and overthrow the government, we could have done it." A bunch of northern hillbillies with a hundred big rigs were going to overthrow the government of Canada. What a bunch of fucking nonsense. That would have ended in one of only two ways: They would have ended up in prison or they would have ended up dead. They are a bunch of delusional children who share a ridiculous collective fantasy. Save yourself before you buy their bullshit book, line, and sinker. Or are you already too far gone?

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

It applies equally well to the tantrumists who blocked the border crossings and shit all over the street in downtown Ottawa.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

I was hoping to turn into a magnetic monkey with 5G tracking chips. No such luck.

The best few minutes of the pandemic for me was watching my 15 year old autistic daughter disassemble and completely humiliate a reality-denying mid-50s angry man at a farmers market. It was glorious.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Coconut milk? Is this to replace yoghurt and cashew nut paste?

Yes. Our son if deathly allergic to cashews. I love them but we can't have them in the house.

[-] MapleEngineer@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

Ok...several people have asked. The recipe that I used is not good. I'm still working on it. I promise that when I get it right I will post it here for everyone to try.

I used the recipe from this video. I'm not suggesting that the recipe is bad but it did not produce what I wanted which was light, stretchy, chewy naan bread like you get in a restaurant.

In discussing my progress with my Indian coworkers I know that I'm never going to get restaurant tandoor quality naan at home but what I want is to get something better than the dry, stale fake naan that I can buy at my local grocery store.

So...I'm going to try again, this time using 2/3 bread flour (I used all purpose with baking powder, salt, and baking soda to approximate self-rising flour) and 1/3 whole wheat flour. I also bought a bag of nigella seeds...

The pan that I used was a 10" round griddle pan.

It approximates a tawa (or tava depending on how you pronounce it) which is like a small, very shallow upside down wok.

I made up the dough, kneaded it aggressively (I'm a 115 kg farmer and I was sweating in the end) for 15 minutes. I'm talking a two handed, left right knead for 15 straight minutes. I then allowed the dough to ferment at room temperature for 6 hours and cooked half of it. It was not good. I then let if ferment for another 6 hours at room temperature then put it in the fridge overnight and took it out the next afternoon. It was markedly better but still not great.

The process is you divide the dough up into approximately 120 g balls. Let it rest, then put the pan on a high flame (or the highest your stove will go) and heat it up screeching hot, like steak searing hot. Roll your dough out to around 25 cm in diameter, oil the top then flip it over and wet the other side. Rub the water around. You want it to be wet and sticky. Now slap it onto the pan water side down. It will start to bubble up within seconds. Once you have a nice crop of bubbles pick the pan up, turn it over, and hold the oiled side about 15 cm above the flame and move it around in a circular motion. This will obviously not work for a non-stick pan. Once the bubbles are nice and brown set the pan down, use a spatula to unstick it from the pan, and give it a healthy buttering on the bubble side. Pan back on the flame, roll, oil, water, slap, bubbles, invert, brown bubbles, spatula, butter, repeat.

The one that I made this evening after more than 24 hours of fermenting was more chewy. I hope very much that switching to bread flour from all purpose will help. I also plan to let it ferment at room temperature for 24 hours. This is not for the faint of heart given that it has raw eggs in it but I know the chickens that lay them.

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