Masala Chai

2025-01-31 :: tags: #recipe

I love chai. I want to drink a lot of chai. But restaurant chai is expensive! I have been obsessing over this recipe and I think it’s finally good though to share.

While this chai is good, it’s only around half as good as the stuff you can get at Heritage Indian Cuisine in Duncan, BC, Canada. I’m not sure how they manage to pack so much flavour into one cup of liquid. I’d highly recommend visiting there and ordering some food, everything they have is delicious.

Ingredients:

• 2c water
• 1c milk
• 5 green cardamom
• 1/2 black cardamom
• 2 cloves
• 2.5cm cinnamon
• 4 peppercorns
• 1 leaf star anise
• 2ts tea
• 1ts ginger, peeled

Directions:

• Place ginger in toaster on broil setting, remove after 5 minutes
  • Allegedly improves flavour, but I don’t notice much of a difference
• Put water in small saucepan. Place saucepan on stove over medium heat
• Crush other spices, place crushed spices and ginger into the saucepan
• Let simmer 10 minutes
• Add tea leaves
• Let simmer 10 minutes
• Add milk until volume is approximately doubled
  • I like milky chai, but it’s a matter of personal preference
• Leave the heat as it is for 10 minutes
• Turn off heat
• Let sit 10 minutes
• Filter and serve

Plushies!

2025-01-31 :: tags: #crafts

I like cute things, and I made some cute things recently! I cannot justify having individual pages for each cute thing, so this page shows them all.

The Ferris plushie was made using this tutorial. I think that crabs are very cute. I also love the rust programming language. It is a great combination for me!

This was the first plushie I’d made, so I didn’t really know what I was doing while I made it. All of its seams use a manually-sewn backstitch, which was time-consuming and difficult to use with the many tuns on this plushie. If I was to make another, I’d try using a tight running stitch.

The bee was made by following this tutorial. I often wish that I could cuddle a fluffy bumblebee, but they are too small and I am too large. I think that bees are very cute. And I love minecraft! It is, again, a great combination for me.

Look at how pretty they are!

Both projects use arctic fleece. This material was chosen due to how fluffy it is and how well it holds together. In the future I would rather use something like it but biodegradable. While I do adore these plushies, their materials could outlive me by several centuries and that might be a problem.