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| joie de vivre |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 12:11 PM
Ashu takes the cake for....... ?
Opinions solicited!!
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 12:23 PM
Ashu takes the cake ........
that someone else has baked!
Hah! just in selroti mode and its all in fun right?
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 12:26 PM
Joie de vivre - maybe not the right kind of answer but I'm known for writing irrelevant answers!;)
But then c'est la vie - for some it might be relevant and for some irrelevant.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 12:31 PM
Hi JDV,
Funny, you should mention a cake!!
I were to have a cake, I'd prefer this "banana layer cake" :-)
You can get all the ingredients at the Bhaat.bhatay.nee Super
Market (which is like mini-cross between Filene's and Star Market!)
in Kathmandu, and your Tihar guests get all impressed when you
give them a slice. :-)
This cake is easy to make, tastes fantastic, and I urge you all amateur
Nepali bakers out there to try make this at least once!!
Perhaps we should have a section to trade recipes on this Web site!!
I originally took the recipe below from the Web site of GOURMET
magazine.
Bon appetit!
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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Banana Layer Cake
For cake layers
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
3/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup mashed very ripe banana (about 2 large)
1/4 cup plain yogurt or well-shaken buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
1 cup granulated sugar
2 large eggs
For frosting
1 pound Lumbini Sugar Mills ko sugar (about 3 3/4 cups)
8 ounces cheese, softened
1 stick (1/2 cup) butter, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 to 3 large firm-ripe bananas
Make cake layers:
Preheat oven to 350° F. Butter and flour three 8-inch round cake pans,
knocking out excess flour.
Into a bowl sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. In a small bowl whisk together mashed banana, yogurt or buttermilk, and vanilla.
In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy and beat in eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in flour and banana mixtures alternately, beginning and ending with flour mixture and stirring after each addition until just combined. (Do not overmix.)
Divide batter evenly among pans, smoothing tops, and bake in upper and lower thirds of oven, switching position of pans halfway through baking, about 18 minutes total, or until layers are springy to the touch and a tester comes out clean.
Cool layers in pans on racks 10 minutes. Run a thin knife around edges of pans and invert layers onto racks to cool completely. (Cake layers may be made 1 day ahead and kept, wrapped well in plastic wrap, at room temperature.)
Make frosting:
Into a large bowl sift confectioners' sugar. In another large bowl with an electric mixer beat together cheese and butter until light and fluffy and beat in vanilla and a pinch salt. Beat in confectioners' sugar, a little at a time, and beat frosting until smooth.
Assemble cake:
Cut 2 firm-ripe bananas diagonally into thin slices. Put a cake layer on a serving plate and spread with a thin coating of frosting. Arrange one layer of banana slices on frosting, overlapping them slightly, and top with second cake layer.
Spread cake layer with another thin coating of frosting and arrange 1 more layer of banana slices in same manner, cutting and using slices from third banana if necessary. Top bananas with remaining cake layer and spread remaining frosting over top and sides of cake. (Cake may be made 8 hours ahead and kept in a cake keeper at cool room temperature.)
Makes 1 whole cake.
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 12:50 PM
Ashu, rest assured!
Some of us could be amateurs in writing but when it comes to baking - we might not be. Might not be a Faberge-looking cake but it will sure not be a banana-layered one :)!
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| ashu |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 12:58 PM
>Ashu, rest assured!
Hi Sunakhari,
I am resting quite assured, don' you worry -- enjoying this cool
slice of the banana layer cake as my Bhai Tika ko day ko
midnight snack :-)
>Some of us could be amateurs in writing but
>when it comes to baking - we might not be.
Great to hear that.
I will be needing some baking tips from you.
Perhaps we should have a section here to trade recipes, you now,
stuff on what works and what does not!
>Might not be a Faberge-looking cake but it
>will sure not be a banana-layered one :)!
Fine.
I need this "sugar rush" to finish a paper tonight :-)
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| NK |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 12:59 PM
Hey! I can bake a mean banana bread. Does anybody want the recipie?
I can feel it in my bone that it is Friday! Happy weekend everybody!
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| ashu |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 01:04 PM
And I was -- swear to God! -- just wondering when our dearest NK would
jump in here :-)
Some things ARE so reliably predictable that it's quite funny!!
Then again, that's what good recipes are like anyway: reliably
predictable.
Sure, NK, please post your recipe of "mean banana bread".
My mouth is watering . . .
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| NK |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 01:23 PM
What else have you predicted, my dear Ashu? have you predicted that some hanso will make fun of you in another posting or you *DID* finally go to sleep? ;)
Or are you waiting and waiting to post some inconsequential gibberish (I understand, you might be pretty tired)?
Happy Tihar, my dear Bashu, eerrrrr I mean Ashu.
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 01:52 PM
You stand corrected.
Recipes are never that - reliably predictable.
But then you did say in a roundabout way that you were an amateur baker. Well I'm finally glad that you are not an expert on EVERYTHING.
Say...were we talking about banana bread or cake or what was it? hah!
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| ashu |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 01:53 PM
Well, my dear NK,
I love the way you manage to clench your teeth, though your calling me
Bashu is, I suppose, does NOT fall under what they call "name-calling."
Perhaps your colleagues on the GBNC Council can educate you r:
what's name-caling and what's not.
Then again, I have always admired the way you struggle to balance these
oh-so-inconvenient double standards!!
You posted a poem about me here.
You have posted a play about me too.
I enjoyed them both.
Seeing how I have "captured" your heart and soul and seeing how I have made
you obsess about me (after all, it's a great honor to have a poem AND a play dedicated to oneself here!) I now PREDICT that you will go on to write:
a) screenplay about me
b) a novel about me.
c) and an epic about me.
And with all that, you will be more famous than Manjushree Thapa and Samrat Upadhyay combined, richer than John Updike, and that you will be able to settle in that sun-soaked villa in Tuscany, sipping wine and enjoying caviar and
pate de foie gras.
Since you asked for them, these are, dear NK, my further predictions. :-)
Of course, I will be happy to be proven RIGHT on all of these predictions.
oohi
"privileged recipient of NK-given name of Bashu, and still awake in Nepal to enjoy my banana layer cake and more"
ashu
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| NK |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 01:55 PM
Shhh... Sunakhari. I think he is finally sleeping. Let the sleeping dogs lie as they say. Lest he will start barking again...........
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| NK |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:00 PM
oops, i stand corrected:
he is awake!!!!!!Help!
ps I did not write that play ABOUT you. My god! there is a limit to everything even desire to see oneself everywhere. Oh, btw obsession is best defined when it is you who is involved. please go to sleep, my dear ashu.
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:01 PM
Well
I think Im the peanut and jelly in a sandwich.
Does anyone want the recipe for that? Well here it is:
1. Take Ashu's remarks
2. Slather it up with a bit of my remarks(being the jelly)
3. Read some more and slather it up some more(the peanut butter)
4. Take NK's remarks
5. Stare at it and wonder what the hell is going on
6. Try to digest it!
I do not guarantee a good result. It all depends if you can take it all with a pinch of salt (or NOT).
Cheers
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| NK |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:05 PM
Hi Sunakhari,
can we chat in the chat room, please? I promise i will not bore you with my banana bread recipe. your peanut butter jelly sadwich sounds better.
Let's talk about the world problem.
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| ashu |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:08 PM
Wow, Miss Namita Kiran Theuen, wow!!
If calling a fellow poster here "a dog" is as low you can get, then, you
display your breeding quite well.
It's one thing to disagree with people and so on by even humoring them, but
to deliberately twist their names into something else and THEN, when that too fails, start equating them with dogs does NOT befit, at the very least, an
elected GBNC Council Member like yourself.
Don't worry: I am not going to call you names. I am not going to equate you with dogs or other animals.
But I will just let your colleagues on the GBNC Council read your remarks and decide for themslves whether this is the sort of public behaviour they
would lke to see more of from one of them.
oohi
ashu
ktm,nepal
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| wonderer |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:20 PM
khai keho keho..
thulabada ko kura..bujhnai garho..gbnc council ma basne harule arulai dog pani dekhdo rai'chhan yaar!
hyapy wee week end
oohi..
silent observer..
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| Sangey |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:21 PM
Hmmmm......
If it's the recipe you want, I found this website from Bhanchaghar:
http://www.nepalhomepage.com/society/recipes/recipes.html
Lots of yummy yummy Nepali food, ni? Sorry, no cake recipe though.
Starving. On a whimsical note, I remember whenever I used to yell at my mother, "mommy... bhok lagyo...," she used to yell back from the choola, "Maandanda ma gayera bhook!" Did anybody's mom say the same thing?
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:27 PM
Sangey my ama used to say
Gitangey dadha ma gayera bhook!
you know where that is?
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| Sangey |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:29 PM
I am afraid I don't. Kaha cha?
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| sunakhari |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:32 PM
bich galli!
:)
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| Bijuli |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 02:46 PM
Hey Wonderer,
I was also wondering what are these "dogs", who are ready to bark at anything and everything, doing in this website sharing recipes. We are not really fond of dog food here, are we?? So what if NK pointed out the dog and his dog food recipe. Hey NK, I understand it as well as you do that this site is not for the monopoly of any "pashus" dogs or biralows. Not that I have anything personal against the dogs and the biralows, but some of them stink really bad you know, and so does their food, just like a "person" with stinking ideas.
Tyehi,
Bijuli
P.S: I hope everyone got the analogy.
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| _BP |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 03:06 PM
Hey, leave Bashu alone. He is the best.
wohi,
BP
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| observer |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 03:47 PM
Seems like ashu has a penchant for victimizing himself. Or is it a "chorko khutta kaat" syndrome that he suffers from?
Namita hasn't called him a dog. He has called himself a dog!
Namita just used an analogy as poets often do. Needless to say, analogy is not the same as an equation.
>_BP wrote:
>Hey, leave Bashu alone. He is the best.
Best what? Now ashu might just think you're calling him the best dog, as Namita also said the same thing about leaving him alone, iow, letting sleeping dogs lie.
I don't know Namita personally but it's unfair to cast her as a GBNC Council member in this thread of discussion and expect a higher moral standard from her. In the same token, ashu as the former offline GBNC president, has done and said much worse.
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| NK |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 03:56 PM
Observer, May I say something?
You are 100% correct sir/madam!
A says something
B says something else
C comes along and something entirely else
D sings a song
B comes back and says whatever else you A C D F are talking I am the Person you should all be talking about. I see things when there is nothing. I hear things when there is nothing to hear. You know why? Because I am Narcissus.
Q comes and makes all this clear one more time: what A is saying and What B is ranting about.
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| wonderer |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 04:12 PM
Can't this kurakani get rid of ashu <-----> NK discussions? i'm fed up of all their egoism and all their stupid talks. Lets try to choose a topic which is not directed to and for them (and a few others...) . It is so silly of them(or whoever) to come up with talks about their own personality or whatever. Please stop all this bullshit and create discussions that everyone can participate in without being bias to anyone !!i believe this forum is not only here for talking about NK,ashu,.......etc..
silent observer
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| concerned |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 04:20 PM
I think we could come up with better ways to criticize someone (if we want to)than the ways adopted here. I think people here are personally
criticizing someone just because they don't like him (at least i assume so). On a sidenote, I think the context with which NK wrote was rather derogatory(sp.?)
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| Sangam |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 04:45 PM
I have been kurakani follower for a while now (very few posts). Kurakani attracted me because of its contributors who make well balanced and in depth arguments. I do sometime wonder, if it is worth visiting this site whenever I see personal attacks on fellow posters.
If we, the few educated nepali, can't debate on any topic with out getting personal, how can we expect all nepali (literates and illiterates) to come together in a nation building mission.
mero dui paise bichar.
Sangam.
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| Michael |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 05:13 PM
what is this A bakers conference ?
A cake in Nepal, baked to the max.
Bake a cake bake a cake
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| Michael |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 05:18 PM
Bigger the ego.. frostier the cake
Banana, cherry or apple pie
Like magpies you will fight
try poking the eye for that pie
we shall fight for it till we die
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| _BP |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 07:25 PM
I must say that I am disappointed this thread is getting longer than the one I started about favourite quotes. That discussion seemed so much more mature :(.
Hey, what's the record for the longest thread? Let's try and break it.
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| joie de vivre |
Posted
on 16-Nov-01 07:28 PM
My oh my!! Little did I know what I was getting into. Looks like I've stirred quite a cauldron here. Ashu, what on earth did you do to these people???
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| GP |
Posted
on 17-Nov-01 01:04 AM
This is one of the most responsed thread just within 24hr, in
this site. Congrats to all. 32 in 24hrs.
Why everyone thinks Ashu as if a Shashu? or vice versa,
Ashu has earned lot of Shahu(s).
Keep up guys from Ashu and Shashu (s) ?
Happy BhaiTihar.
GP
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| dariwal |
Posted
on 17-Nov-01 05:06 PM
hey everyone!
i've been reading the posting for a while and sometimes it's funny, sometimes intellectual and sometimes a pure BULLSHIT. looks like everyone here specially 3 or 4 peoples just post their replies for the sake of reply(personal attacks),even though their postings are very informative,sometimes. but guys, i think trying to destroy someone's image by calling names to that person is a pure stupidity. it'll , instead, shows how stupid and immature you are and will rather distroy your image.
jay nepal
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