your Warriors name

So my daughter is really into this feral-cat book series called Warriors. Today she dragged me over to the computer so I could generate my Warriors name from an app on their website. You enter your first name and your hometown, and it will generate your cat Warrior name.

"What's my hometown?" I asked. "Where I live? Where I grew up?"

My other daughter showed up at that point.

"We used where we were born, so it would be different," they answered.

We started playing with it and found that it is a very simple mapping. It only looks at the first letter of name and hometown.

a->Hawk
a->fire

b->Tangle
b->claw

c->Wild
c->talon

d->Swift
d->eyes

Thus Amelia from Dover would be called Hawkeyes

e->Rain
e->fur

f->Thorn
f->tail

g->Fuzzy
g->mask

h->Mud
h->face

i->Loud
i->storm

j->Bramble
j->foot

k->Moss
k->ears

l->Leopard
l->pelt

m->Scar
m->nose

Max from Hudson would be "Scarface".

n->Bright
n->heart

o->Running
o->belly

p->Sand
p->shadow

q->Dawn
q->flower

r->Ice
r->breath

s->Spotted
s->path

t->Rock
t->legs

This isn't a good way to do it. Sisters often share first initials. Tammy and Tracy from Newton would both be "Rockheart".

u->Red
u->sky

v->Mouse
v->pool

w->Tiger
w->head

x->Flower
x->wish

y->Claw
y->stalker

z->Blue
z->sayer

I mean, they have a computer. Why not assign a number to each letter of the name and map from the totals divided-remaindered (%) to the number of choices?

Anyway, use the chart above to find your Warrior name. Is that fun?

buttermilk matzoh brei

Postscript to previous post: Buttermilk does give fried matzoh quite a unique flavor.

If recipe needed:

Crumble up 5-6 sheets of matzoh, add buttermilk and milk until enough to soak through. Give it time to soak through. Then add 2-3 eggs, stir it all up and fry on both sides in fresh-churned butter (with a bit of olive oil if the butter is too salty).

For cooking the matzoh brei, I use a nice heavyweight Berndes teflon pan from the Passover Brigadoon of dishes, that I appreciate yearly.

OK, after you melt the butter with oil, you put the batter (well, half of above at a time will fit in my Berndes pan) into the pan and hope that it sizzles. Then lower the heat to medium to let the pancake cook through. After it is almost dry on top, you can flip it over to cook the other side.

In our family we serve it with cinnamon sugar on the side.

We churn butter for passover

Last year, the Stop & Shop brand butter was marked Kosher For Passover. This year, we checked four grocery stores and couldn't find kosher for passover butter. We did find kosher for passover heavy whipping cream, however. So you're guessing what comes next:

First, I tried the shake-cream-in-a-jar method that was vaguely remembered from elementary school.

That resulted in barely whipped cream before I decided I had better things to do.

Fortunately, we had koshered the Kitchen Aid Mixer. We started with whipped cream, took out two spoonfuls to top two mugs of cocoa, and then kept going.

It whipped and whipped for a very long time.

It was good I looked it up on the Web, for http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Butter-by-Whipping told me to turn the speed of the mixer down.

I sprinkled in some salt (too much, it turned out) kept working on my computer, and left the mixer going, and going, and going.

At some point the mixing became a slosh. I looked inside, and, indeed, as promised, the very-whipped-cream had become clumps of butter inside buttermilk.

Too bad about it being too salty. It is still edible.

The question is whether to whip more of the whipping cream to dilute the saltiness. It probably took a lot of electricity to make that one batch.We'll have a few slices of matzoh-and-butter before we decide whether to bother.

Anyway, was this educational for the kids? I suppose.

It showed them one of the bizarre consequences of playing the Passover game.