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Jana’coa

Jana‘coa, from janad (spicy) and the loanword chocolate shortened to coa, is a spicy hot chocolate for ad‘ike until they are old enough to drink jana‘caf – and for Mandos with a sweet tooth.

With spiced caf being a canon drink, I quickly started to look for a similar drink that could be consumed by children as well. My main drive was that no responsible adult would let their child consume caffeine, and I also doubted (thinking about my own adversion of coffee when I was younger) any child would find caf worth a second sip. That in mind, what is better suited for the ad’ike approved version of jana’caf than a cup of hot chocolate mixed with just enough spices to prepare you for a piquant future?

As you may have guessed, I don’t have enough time to melt chocolate in milk and cook it with a chilli pepper for every occasion. Sometimes, I just want the practicality of a spice mix that I can dump in my store-bought chocolate milk or chocolate powder and heat up in a microwave.

Jana’coa

6 teaspoons ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground chili ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg ¼ teaspoon ground turmeric

Mix the spices thoroughly and store safely. Use ½ teaspoon spice mix for 1 cup / 250ml milk and chocolate milk powder of your choice. Whisk in the spices in a small pot over medium heat until warm.

Note: For my own jana’coa, I used the Nesquik chocolate milk powder I bought in France a while ago, because I don’t like throwing away food, though you can find countless recipes for making your own powder online as well. I also used oat milk, but really any milk of your choice works. If you want to feel fancy, you can melt dark chocolate in a pot and whisk your milk and spices in until it is thoroughly mixed.

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Uj’alayi

Uj’cake is my favourite dessert of all time. Originally I experimented with a recipe I found online just for the sake of having some Mandalorian food at home. I didn’t know I would accidentally end up hooking my entire family, my riduur’s family and my coworkers on it and would be forced to bake it once a week to ensure my own safety! I’m not even kidding!

Uj’alayi was first mentioned in the book ‘Republic Commando: Hard Contact’ by Karen Traviss and was described as “a flat, dense, and sticky cake”. It’s said to be made of crushed nuts, dried fruits and uj’ayl, which is a sweet, spiced syrup. I’ve seen a lot of different variations of the recipe made over the years. The theme that seems to have stuck is using a recipe for Panforte Di Siena as a foundation.

Now, I am not Italian, but my riduur is. Upon poking around, I learned that Panforte Di Siena is a traditional Italian dessert, often eaten during winter. It has all the described ingredients: nuts, dried fruits, and syrup, in this case honey. The official Galaxy’s Edge cookbook uses a recipe loosely following the Panforte Di Siena that I have adjusted to my own needs. Which mainly means using different fruits, more candied ginger, and way more spices.

Uj’alayi

2 cups / 150 grams walnuts, roughly chopped ¼ cup / 50 grams hazelnuts, roughly chopped ¼ cup / 50 grams slivered almonds ½ cup / 80-100 grams mixed peel 1 cup / 135 grams raisins ½ cup / 80-100 grams dried figs, diced ¼ cup / 40 grams dried cherries ¼ cup / 40 grams dried cranberries ½ cup / 100 grams candied ginger, diced ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ground mace 2-3 teaspoons curry powder 2-3 teaspoons turmeric pinch of fresh pepper ¾ cup / 100 grams flour ⅔ cup / 200-220 millilitres agave syrup ⅔ cup / 200-220 millilitres date molasses/syrup 2 tablespoons / 30 grams butter (works very well with vegan butter, too) confectioners’ sugar for topping

1. Preheat the oven to 300°F / 160°C. Line a round sprinform pan (the original recipe calls for an 8′‘ / 20cm pan, but I use four small 4,5′‘ / 12cm pans) with parchment paper and butter the sides of the pan(s). 2. Chop your nuts and fruits that require it before combining them with the flour and the spices in a large mixing bowl. Make sure the flour coats the dried fruits and breaks up stuck-together fruits, especially the diced ginger. 3. In a pan, melt the butter and combine it with the agave syrup and date molasses over medium heat. Bring it to a boil before letting it cool down until it reaches soft ball stage at 245°F / 120°C. If you don’t own a candy thermometer, eyeball it. Mandalorians didn’t have fancy instruments to cook with and you don’t need to either! 4. Immediately pour the syrup over your nuts and fruits and stir thoroughly until they are evenly coated and no flour is left unsoaked. 5. Scrape the mixture into your prepared pan(s). Wet your fingers, then press it down firmly. Bake for about 45 minutes. 6. Let it cool down for an hour before removing it from the pan. Once it is completely cooled down, it can be stored at room temperature for months if wrapped tightly. Before serving, dust the top with confectioners’ sugar.

Note: The recipe I adjusted can be found in the Galaxy’s Edge cookbook, but the author Chelsea Monroe-Cassel also published it a few years prior on her food blog The Inn at the Crossroads. That’s where I first came in contact with it.

#mandalorian food

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Jana'caf

Let’s start with an all-time favourite. Spiced caf is possibly one of the most commonly known Mandalorian drinks. It’s caf and it’s spicy and quite easy to recreate thanks to countless real life spiced coffee recipes from all over the world. Naturally, there are variations in preparation, brewing and of course choice of spices.

Personally, I like to imagine that there are as many versions of spiced caf as there are clans. Depending on their location and profession, they would have different access to spices as well as time to prepare the famous drink. Since I, too, am usually very busy in the mornings, I can’t ground all my spices and coffee beans freshly. It resulted in preparing my own spice mixture that I keep in a tin and just throw in my ground beans and brew in the French press. The spices get stronger the longer you let the caf brew so I suggest to empty the press all at once or you will get hetu’caf (heturam, mouthburn).

Jana'caf

4 teaspoons ground cinnamon 3 teaspoons ground ginger 2 teaspoons ground cayenne pepper 2 teaspoons ground cardamom 2 teaspoons ground turmeric 2 teaspoons fine salt 1 teaspoon ground clove 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 teaspoon ground black pepper

Mix the spices thoroughly and store safely. Use 1 teaspoon spice mix for 3 tablespoons ground coffee and 2 cups/500ml water. Please keep in mind that some spices might be too small for a French press and don’t get filtered out. If you take an issue with that, I suggest using filter paper.

Note: I like to translate the drink to jana’caf instead of hetikleyc caf, because I find it misses the described noseburn, hetikles. Janad directly translates to spicy, what made it more plausible for me. But I don’t think there is the one translation. Some Mandalorians might even be crazy enough to add spices that cause hetikles.

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starwarsfreak19

So for those of you who are di'kute like me, here's a little Mando'a study.

I used to think shabuir was SHA buir (literally translating to "at parent") but now I get that it's SHAB buir (motherfucker). The mandoa.org says it means jerk.

so that means shab means fuck and shabla means fucking

starwarsfreak19

This is a Mandalorian remembrance ritual. You recite these words followed by the names of loved ones who have passed. It can be from COVID or anything else.

lets see how long our list can get!

reblog and add names special to you that are no longer with us. Please keep names in an organized list. If you don't have any names to add, please dont write anything. If you feel uncomfortable revealing names, just write something like "my grandmother"

it Translates to "I am her, you are gone, I remember you, therefore you are eternal.

so let's start the list

LITTLE KITTY

ironhoshi

I don't know who needs to hear this, but:

Aliit ori'shya tal'din.

Family is more than blood.

kiblscribl

“Nice SHOT, Ner vod!”

I SO wanna see them fight as a team in an upcoming series. I’m sure they’d be a well-oiled machine after a while, and would be the terror of not just Tatooine, but the galaxy.

english-history-trip

I'm just down to start fights at this point.

callmestannismaybe

royal-abbotts

Pedro Pascal’s notable characters + colors

matan4il

Your comments on AO3 are more powerful than you know.

A comment on a fic more than once gave me the idea or inspiration I needed to add another part to that fic. It helped me to produce even more of the content that the reader who left it enjoyed so much.

A comment on an older fic reminded me that my fics don’t get lost 24 or 48 hours after posting. True, that’s when most fics get the majority of their hits, kudos and comments, so a writer sometimes feels like if a fic hasn’t done well in that time frame, it’s as good as gone. But some people discover and love such fics later on and that’s incredible.

A comment once stopped me from deleting my AO3 account. For reasons, I was feeling really low, like I had no talent and nothing to offer. Like everything I was posting was banal and worthless. And as my finger was hovering over the ‘delete account’ button, a mail notification let me know that someone left a comment on one of my fics. I went to read it and it was absolutely lovely. And it complimented not just that fic, but my writing overall. It helped me get through a rough moment.

Your comments can mean so much more than you know. You have more capacity to do good and help content creation in the fandom, that you and others enjoy, than you realize.

So this is my little note, as an author, to say THANK YOU to all the people who take the time to leave a comment on AO3 or send an ask on Tumblr or write kind words in the tags of a reblog. It all means so very much! <33333

bisexualbaker

This goes for reblogs and comments and tags on Tumblr, as well!

itsjuliak5

Someone on TikTok said that bitches with anxiety love the enemies to lovers trope because the idea of having someone see all of our negative traits first and then still fall in love with us is really comforting since we worry that if someone sees our negative traits after they fall in love, they’ll leave us.

It’s me, I’m bitches.

communistkenobi-archive

I can’t get over how polite din is. people r constantly like oh you suck you’re in a cult I want to kill you and he’s like. do you have any chores around the house that need doing I gotta buy my kid a lunchable and my hourly rate isnt even that high

blackkatmagic

I feel like getting Maul to abandon the dark side is easier than people think. Just imply that Maul could never be as good a jedi as Obi-wan and watch as he drags himself into the light through shear spite

So much this. The best way to get Maul to do anything is tell him he can’t/Obi-Wan would do it better. This is the fix-it we deserve.

dankmemeuniversity

fair-itself

I love this, though, because my favorite thing about Superman is he isn’t Batman. I love Batman too, but Superman isn’t a dude who decided to live his life in pursuit of a vendetta against society when he was eight and then just did nothing for the next two decades but get super jacked, become the world’s greatest detective, and memorize every strategy used by every winner in every field of competition in history. Superman is a very good-hearted person who knows how to bale hay, use AP Stylebook, and break meteors into manageable bite-sized pieces by hitting them real hard. And I’m not saying Superman isn’t smart. He’s a bright guy, he’s just not like, one of the celebrated geniuses of the DC Universe. The best thing about Superman is he is basically a normal dude who happens to be orders of magnitude stronger than anyone else. Normal dudes have brain farts. Normal dudes are presented with a life-or-death situation they have less than four seconds to resolve and make a decision that is not optimal. Normal dudes aren’t typically asked to rescue a child from a 10,000 ton machine bearing down on him at 85mph, but if they were, they would probably sometimes panic a little and do dumb shit like ruin a train when they could have just whisked the child to safety.

I think sometimes Superman makes the wrong decision, not necessarily to the result of extreme catastrophe, but something like this, where everyone is standing around clapping and cheering and the kid’s parents are weeping in gratitude and they want to pose for a picture for the 6 o’ clock news with Superman and the conductor, and in the crowd someone is like “Why didn’t he fly the kid out of the way?” and rather than rolling with the fact that the emperor is naked his friend just says “Shut up, Drew, it’s Superman.”

And then, because I also love Batman for very different reasons, I imagine that later on the same day Bruce Wayne gets a phone call and Clark Kent is like “Hey, Wayne, I uh, need a favor.”

“Do you now.”

“Yeah, I, uh, kind of owe the Union Pacific Railroad $60,000.”

“Oh, and why’s that?”

“Come on, don’t do this to me. It was all over the news.”

“I’m prepared to write you a no-strings-attached check for the full amount on the condition that you explain your entire thought process from beginning to end.”

Anyway, that’s why I like Superman.