6 posts tagged “qotd”
What are the 10 foods you must have in your
refrigerator and/or your kitchen cabinet?
(Submitted by Carol)
- Milk and milk products: curd, milk, and cheese/ butter
- Vegetables: carrots, okra, cabbage, aubergine, cauliflower, bitter gourd, beans, potato, onions, tomatoes, ginger, green chilies, curry leaves, cilantro, and lime
- Fruits: apples and melons, sometimes a papaya
- Pickles: mango, ginger, tamarind, and lime pickles
- Spices: powdered spices like all-spice, five-spice, turmeric, red chilly, rasam, and asafetida, and whole spices like mustard, cumin, fenugreek, and coriander
- Flavorings: cinnamon, vanilla, and rose
- Cereals: muesli, oats, and corn/ rice/ wheat flakes
- Beverages: tea (3 types), coffee, and cocoa
- Grains: rice, wheat (powder), brown bread, pasta, semolina, and lentils
- Salt and sugar
- I MUST include cooking oil (sunflower oil, olive oil, and ghee), water, and ice cubes!
What celebrity do you most often get told you resemble? (Submitted by Leets)
TV, books, movies: Who's your favorite fictional father?
Atticus Finch, who else?
What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?
- James Blunt/ Goodbye My Lover
- Bonnie Raitt/ Have a Heart
- Steve Nicks/ Gold Dust Woman
- Sheryl Crow/ Strong Enough
- Kirsty MacColl/ England 2 Columbia 0
- Kirsty MacColl/ Mambo de la Luna
- Kirsty MacColl/ Treachery
- The Beatles/ Eleanor Rigby
- Heart/ Barracuda
- Ani Difranco/ Angry Anymore
What's one of your favorite quotes? (Submitted by Georgie-boy)
Nobody can hurt me without my
permission.
- Mahatma Gandhi
What are the five books that changed your life? (Inspired by Ms. Genevieve.)
I can’t resist this QOTD! I must do it!
In chronological order-
Growth of the Soil by Knut HamsunRead as a Bengali translation when I was ten. In hindsight, no child, however dark, should read Hamsun at ten.
A Room with a View by E M ForsterFirst read when I was fourteen and then read repetitively all through my adolescence. Especially beautiful lines about love underlined in green felt tipped pen.
Ghare Baire by Rabindranath TagoreFirst read when I was fifteen and then read repetitively all through my adulthood. Breathtaking in its modernism and encouraging my thought in a range of new ways every time I read it.
The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects by Lewis MumfordRead as college text at eighteen and instrumental in initiating my lifelong love for urban geography/ sociology.
The Complete Prose of Woody Allen by Woody AllenRead last year. It still makes me break down into hopeless laughter whenever I think of specific pieces. Dark children need lots of humor, even when they grow up.