Mumbai Chef Vicky Ratnani Exoticizes Tandoori Pineapple Caesar Salad

Summary: Mumbai Chef Vicky Ratnani exoticizes Tandoori Pineapple Caesar Salad with cherry tomatoes, a romaine-sorrel blend, pineapple slices and spiced yogurt.

North Indian Chef Vicky Ratnani, who constructs his recipes with fresh ingredients, poses with onions at Koyambedu Wholesale Market Complex, western Chennai, northeastern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India: Vicky Ratnani, via Facebook March 13, 2021

Mumbai Chef Vicky Ratnani exoticizes Tandoori Pineapple Caesar Salad with cherry tomatoes and spiced yogurt-slathered pineapple slices on a colorful salad base of romaine lettuce and sorrel leaves.

Italian immigrant restauranteur Cesare "Caesar" Cardini (Feb. 24, 1896-Nov. 3, 1956) is credited with creating the now world-famous Caesar Salad. He introduced his salad in 1924 in his restaurant, Caesar's Restaurant, housed in Hotel Caesar in Tijuana, Baja California state, northwestern Mexico.

Apart from anchovy flecks in Worcestershire sauce, Caesar's salad premiered as a vegetarian salad. Caesar Salad's subsequent global popularity has inspired vegan, non-vegetarian and vegetarian variations of the original recipe.

Chef Vicky introduces Tandoori Pineapple Caesar Salad as ". . . one of my favorite. . ." The recipe represents trendy fusion cuisine, which fuses elements from diverse culinary traditions to create new recipes. Combining fresh fruits with tandoori masala yields a nuanced, desi (Sanskrit देश, deśá, "land, country") variation of Caesar Salad and expands tandoori masala beyond the marinade's traditional association with chicken. Tandoori masala (Hindi: मसाला, masālā, "spices") designates the yogurt-based spice blend used in the Indian subcontinent's traditional cooking with a tandoor (Hindi: तन्दूर, tandūr), a clay oven.

Chef Vicky's vegetarian recipe begins with pineapples. He places four slices in a bowl.

Then he sprinkles tandoori masala on top of the pineapple slices. He does not specify the blend of masala. Tandoori masala consists of a variety of spices. Its spice profile features coriander, cumin and turmeric as staples.

He adds chopped parsley and then chopped coriander. He next sprinkles salt and black pepper.

The spices need to be mixed into the pineapple slices. He coats the fruit with the spices by redistributing the slices and rubbing the fruit into the mixture.

He mixes yogurt into the spiced pineapple slices. Combining yogurt with spices validates the sauce as tandoori masala.

The next step calls for pan-searing the pineapple slices. He sets aside the fruit and squirts olive oil into a frying pan. He notes that the oil needs to be hot for the pineapple slices.

While the pan heats, he prepares the salad base. He combines torn romaine lettuce leaves with sorrel (Rumex acetosa) leaves. Chef Vicky expresses his affinity for using sorrel in salads because their red-veined leaves look "very, very pretty on the plate ."

He sets the salad aside and takes a momentary break to sip Fuze Tea. He explains that stocking the cooking area with "something refreshing" helps for cooling down in a hot kitchen.

The oil is sizzling, so he grips the pineapple slices with tongs for transport into the pan. He cautions against cooking the slices. Rather, the objective is to create a nice coating of the masala through quick searing. The seared pineapple slices then are set individually, via tongs, in a flat bowl.

The next step entails making the dressing. He spoons two large dollops of low-fat mayonnaise into the dressing bowl. He announces the dressing's fusion with other flavors. He half-fills the spoon twice with Dijon mustard. Then he sprinkles salt and black pepper. Next he adds finely chopped garlic, coriander and parsley.

Chef Vicky stirs the dressing well. Then he adds squirts of olive oil and red wine vinegar and stirs all ingredients well. He describes the dressing now as having "a lot of flavor" with "a very nice rich garlicky mustardy parsley" taste.

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

North Indian Chef Vicky Ratnani, who constructs his recipes with fresh ingredients, poses with onions at Koyambedu Wholesale Market Complex, western Chennai, northeastern Tamil Nadu state, southeastern India: Vicky Ratnani, via Facebook March 13, 2021, @ https://www.facebook.com/chefvickyratnani/posts/3871657616216789/Bangalorean Chef Shazia Khan, first runner-up in the second season (Oct. 22, 2011-Jan. 1, 2012) of MasterChef India, conducts cooking demonstrations and culinary workshops, in person and via media, in her hometown and afar: Anjali Reddy J, CC BY SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shazia_Khan.jpg

Chef Vicky Ratnani, "How To Make Tandoori Pineapple Caesar's Salad / Vicky's World," via YouTube Dec. 27, 2015, @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kfM0OR0uoI

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Kraken Mare Is Largest and Deepest Body of Liquid on Titan

Summary: Kraken Mare is the largest and deepest body of liquid on Titan, with the approximate size of Earth's Caspian Sea and an estimated depth of 1,000 feet.

Detail of colorized mosaic, obtained by Cassini Titan RADAR Mapper, shows Titan's largest and deepest body of liquid, Kraken Mare; Wikimedia Commons has modified original NASA image, published Dec. 12, 2013, as Photojournal PIA17655, via 40 degree-rotation for upper left placement of north and cropping to focus on Kraken Mare; NASA image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Kraken Mare is the largest and deepest body of liquid on Titan, with a size equivalent to Earth's largest inland body of water, the Caspian Sea, and an estimated depth of at least 1,000 feet.

Kraken Mare is centered at 68 degrees north latitude, 310 degrees west longitude, according to the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. The north polar region occupant's northernmost and southernmost latitudes extend to 81 degrees north and 55 degrees north, respectively. Its easternmost and westernmost longitudes reach 274 degrees west and 335 degrees west, respectively. Kraken Mare's diameter spans 1,170 kilometers.

Kraken Mare's longitudinal stretch places it on Titan's Saturn-facing side. The Saturnian moon's equivalent rotational and orbital periods ensure that Titan always shows the same side to Saturn. Titan's near side faces Saturn. Titan's far side faces away from Saturn.

Its southernmost and northernmost extremes allow Kraken Mare to stretch from Titan's high middle latitudes, beginning at 55 degrees north, to its high polar latitudes, at 81 degrees north. Nine degrees separate Kraken Mare's northernmost latitude from Titan's north pole.

As a north polar region occupant, Kraken Mare (Latin: mare, "sea") neighbors with Titan's two other named maria (Latin: maria, plural, "seas"), Ligeia Mare and Punga Mare. Ligeia Mare lies to the east-northeast of Kraken Mare. Punga Mare lies to the north-northwest of Kraken Mare and to the northwest of Ligeia Mare.

Ligeia Mare is centered at 79.7 degrees north latitude, 247.9 degrees west longitude. It records northernmost and southernmost latitudes of 82 degrees north and 74 degrees north, respectively. It registers easternmost and westernmost longitudes of 222 degrees west and 276.7 degrees west, respectively. Ligeia Mare's diameter measures 500 kilometers.

Punga Mare is centered at 85.1 degrees north latitude, 339.7 degrees west longitude. It establishes its northernmost and southernmost latitudes at 89 degrees north and 82.2 degrees north, respectively. It obtains its easternmost and westernmost longitudes at 72 degrees west and 287 degrees west, respectively. Punga Mare has a diameter of 380 kilometers.

Kraken Mare's diameter of 1,170 kilometers distinguishes it as the largest of Titan's three maria. Ligeia Mare's diameter of 500 kilometers places it as Titan's second largest mare. Punga Mare's diameter of 380 kilometers qualifies it as the smallest of Titan's three maria.

Kraken Mare's size exceeds that of the Caspian Sea, Earth's largest inland body of water. Kraken Mare encompasses about 150,000 square miles (400,000 square kilometers), according to the NASA Science Solar System Exploration website's page, "Titan Polar Maps -- 2015." The Caspian Sea covers approximately 143,200 square miles (371,000 square kilometers), according to the Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) online World Factbook.

Titan's liquid bodies of water are comprised primarily of methane (chemical formula CH4) and also of ethane (chemical formula C2H6). The two hydrocarbons are the two most important constituents of Earth's natural gas.

Titan's chilly temperatures, occasioned by the Saturnian system's distance from the sun, encourage the existence of ethane and methane in liquid states, explains planetary scientist Ralph D. Lorenz in "The Challenging Depths of Titan's Seas," published in the April 2021 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research JGR Planets. Methane's transparency to radio waves allows for remote exploration of Titan's liquid bodies of water through the directly down-pointed soundings of radar altimetry.

Radar altimetry of Kraken Mare was conducted during the Cassini spacecraft's T104 flyby of Aug. 21, 2014, according to lead author Valerio Poggiali and six co-authors in "The Bathymetry of Moray Sinus at Titan's Kraken Mare," published in the December 2020 issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research JGR Planets. The altimetry data's lack of "a seafloor reflection" for Kraken Mare's main body prevented determination of Kraken Mare's depth. Insufficient data disallowed discerning either Kraken Mare's great depth or the sea's highly absorbent liquid composition as the likely explanation for the absence of a seafloor signal. The researchers based an estimated depth in excess of 100 meters on response models to altimetry mode observations.

A depth range of "more than 100 m deep, and probably more than 300 m deep" is suggested in Ralph Lorenz's commentary, "The Challenging Depths of Titan's Seas." The Cornell University planetary scientist agrees with great depth and/or liquid composition as interferers with a bottom echo. Ethane-richness entails radar absorption. Models of Titan's hydrological flux show the compositional variation of ethane buildup induced by methane evaporation in Kraken Mare, according to Lorenz's "The Flushing of Ligeia: Composition Variations Across Titan's Seas in a Simple Hydrological Model," published in the Aug. 28, 2014, issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research JGR Planets.

Kraken Mare's immensity in size and depth easily would accommodate future exploration by a robotic submarine, notes Cornell University science writer Blaine Friedlander in "Astronomers Estimate Titan’s Largest Sea is 1,000 Feet Deep," published in the Jan. 20, 2021, online issue of Cornell Chronicle.

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) approved Kraken as the sea's official name on April 11, 2008. The Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature explains the name's origin as: "Fabulous sea monster in the Norwegian seas, said to be a mile and a half in circumference and to cause a whirlpool when it dives." Titan's maria are named after literary or mythic sea monsters, according to the Gazetteer's page on "Categories (Themes) for Naming Features on Planets and Satellites."

Kraken Mare's size of approximately 150,000 square miles (400,000 square kilometers) exceeds the size of the Caspian Sea, Earth's largest inland body of water, approximately sized at 143,200 square miles (371,000 square kilometers); image of Caspian Sea, as viewed from the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 44, taken July 27, 2015, by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, during his fourth and last spaceflight; NASA ID: iss044e022804: Public Domain, via NASA Image and Video Library

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Detail of colorized mosaic, obtained by Cassini Titan RADAR Mapper, shows Titan's largest and deepest body of liquid, Kraken Mare; Wikimedia Commons has modified original NASA image, published Dec. 12, 2013, as Photojournal PIA17655, via 40 degree-rotation for upper left placement of north and cropping to focus on Kraken Mare; NASA image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASI/USGS: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA17655_Kraken_Mare_crop.jpg

Kraken Mare's size of approximately 150,000 square miles (400,000 square kilometers) exceeds the size of the Caspian Sea, Earth's largest inland body of water, approximately sized at 143,200 square miles (371,000 square kilometers); image of Caspian Sea, as viewed from the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 44, taken July 27, 2015, by NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, during his fourth and last spaceflight; NASA ID: iss044e022804: Public Domain, via NASA Image and Video Library @ https://images.nasa.gov/details-iss044e022804

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Adverse Weather Afflicts East Iceland in Outside, Anglicized From Úti

Summary: Adverse weather afflicts East Iceland in Outside, anglicized from Úti, second thriller in the stand-alone novel trio authored by Ragnar Jónasson.

Highland east Iceland abounds with volcanic desert lands that account for black, brown, gray surfaces where rain and snow absent themselves through infiltration- and percolation-assisting subsurfaces. The 400- to 500-meter- (1,312.3- to 1,640.4-foot-) high highlands allow for plant growth only along Hofsjökull ("temple glacier"), Langjökull ("long glacier") and Vatnajökull ("lakes' glacier") glacial rivers. At least one of four friends in Outside, anglicized from Úti, alerts himself, as tour guide and tour company owner-operator, to outdoor alarms against three minutes without oxygen, three hours without shelter from extreme cold or heat, three days without water and three weeks without food; March 20, 2010, Map of Iceland Highlands by Pethrus, derived from 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2006 (December 14, 2006) Map of Iceland by Αντιγόνη: Pethrus, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Adverse weather afflicts East Iceland, where a Reykjavíkingur quartet arrives for ptarmigan-hunting season in Outside, anglicized from Úti, by Victoria Cribb, as second thriller in the stand-alone novel trio by Ragnar Jónasson.

Ármann (“army man, army protection, messenger, protective spirit”), Daníel (“[my] judge is god”), Gunnlaugur (“battle-, fight-dedicated, oathed, promised”) and Helena (“torch”) battle benumbing shelter and weather. The four chums cross from Reykjavík (“smoky bay”) in 1,062.2-square kilometer (410.1-square-mile) Höfuðborgarsvæðið (Romanized Höfudborgarsvaedid, Capital Region) to highland Iceland in 22,721-square-kilometer (8,772.6-square-mile) Austurland (Eastern Region). Thursday night weather forecasts declare Friday through Sunday dazzling days devoid of overcast skies and dry, apart possible precipitation in the eastward, ever more downward temperatures.

Daníel, drama student employed in a London restaurant and few stage plays, expects survivalist farmers, fishers and hunters and wild reindeer on inland moors and mountains.

Daníel, Gunnlaugur, the latter least favorite fellow among the college-formed friends albeit Daníel’s faithful follower, and Helena find gray fjord-formed shorelines, treeless highlands and white-freckled moors.

Perhaps tour guide and tour company owner-operator Ármann alone gauges glaring gaps between November weather guiding Reykjavík topography of coastal coves and peninsulas and highland Iceland. He has Helena, start-up company engineer perhaps honed more in electrical than mechanical engineering, up front in the huge off-roader and second-to-last on the hiking march. Friday he informs his companions of including only one-day provisions within individual backpacks and perhaps of ingesting glacier-river and snow-melt water for Saturday and Sunday ptarmigan-hunting.

Barren topography, blinding snowfall, blizzard cold and blustery winds jostle the highland east Iceland journeys away from ptarmigan-hunting and toward shelter-seeking in Outside, anglicized from Úti.

Perhaps only Ármann of the club- and pub-loving four knew about the blizzards, snowstorms and windstorms that keep highland east Iceland uninhabitable for about 1,400-plus years.

Atlantic brash, drift, pack ice led by atmospheric winds and open-water currents launched low temperatures in coastal and inland Iceland during the Little Ice Age (1250-1900). Atmospheric, land and water ash from Lakagígar (“[heathen-god game] Laki’s Craters”) eruptions in 1783 and sea ice massed around Iceland meant closed harbors and halved populations. The Halaveðrið (Romanized Halavedrid, “storm, weather”) event numbers among the nasty windstorms over Atlantic Ocean, Denmark Strait, Greenland Sea and Norwegian Sea waters around coastal Iceland.

Perhaps Ármann in Outside, anglicized from Úti, obsesses over such possible, probable, actual Iceland-oriented adverse weather as Halavedrid (Feb. 7-8, 1925) overturning two 60-plus manned trawlers.

The Greenhouse low and Iceland storm (Feb. 3, 1991) prompted Vestmannaeyjar’s (Westman Islands) 200-kilometer (124.3-mile) winds, 220-kilometer (136.7-mile) gusts and Reykjavík’s 150-kilometer (93.2-mile) gusts per hour.

Storm Diddú (“sissie”) qualifies as the quintessential windstorm, quantified with maximum 261-kilometer (162.2-mile) gusts per hour, at the Hallormsstaðaháls (Romanized Hallormsstadaháls) weather station in East Iceland. It respects the Reykjavík City Council rendering, since November 2015, revered Icelandic female singers – such as Andrea Gylfadóttir, Björk, Sigrún “Diddú” Hjálmtýsdóttir -- as severe-weather names. Extratropical cyclone windstorm Dennis (Feb. 13-19, 2020), less severe than Diddú, severer than Greenland low, struck coasts and interiors with maximum 230-kilometer (140-mile) gusts per hour.

Abandoned housing, adverse weather, antagonistic topography and avenging angels trouble a quartet, turned into a quintet, as terminally indoors as outdoors in Outside, anglicized from Úti.

A little plane, a massive off-roader and a hiking march account for four friends in Outside, anglicized from Úti, accessing a sæluhús (Romanized saeluhús, hospice, refuge hut, "bliss house" literally) some 350 kilometers (217.48 miles) eastward of Reykjavík ("smoky bay"). The off-road vehicle (OFV) allows ample leg room after an awkward airplane flight and before an awful hike in an anquishing highland snowstorm; Friday, December 27, 2013, 11:49:39, image of Superjeep (middle) in between Reykjavik Excursions flybus and car: Anthony Inswasty, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Highland east Iceland abounds with volcanic desert lands that account for black, brown, gray surfaces where rain and snow absent themselves through infiltration- and percolation-assisting subsurfaces. The 400- to 500-meter- (1,312.3- to 1,640.4-foot-) high highlands allow for plant growth only along Hofsjökull ("temple glacier"), Langjökull ("long glacier") and Vatnajökull ("lakes' glacier") glacial rivers. At least one of four friends in Outside, anglicized from Úti, alerts himself, as tour guide and tour company owner-operator, to outdoor alarms against three minutes without oxygen, three hours without shelter from extreme cold or heat, three days without water and three weeks without food; March 20, 2010, Map of Iceland Highlands by Pethrus, derived from 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2006 (December 14, 2006) Map of Iceland by Αντιγόνη: Pethrus, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Iceland_highlands-en.svg

A little plane, a massive off-roader and a hiking march account for four friends in Outside, anglicized from Úti, accessing a sæluhús (Romanized saeluhús, hospice, refuge hut, "bliss house" literally) some 350 kilometers (217.48 miles) eastward of Reykjavík ("smoky bay"). The off-road vehicle (OFV) allows ample leg room after an awkward airplane flight and before an awful hike in an anquishing highland snowstorm; Friday, December 27, 2013, 11:49:39, image of Superjeep (middle) in between Reykjavik Excursions flybus and car: Anthony Inswasty, CC BY SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Superjeep,_Reykjavik,_Iceland.jpg

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