I want you raw (part 2)

January 1, 2005

In la douce France they eat oysters on New Year’s Eve. Although in the past year we may occasionally have been known to bitch and moan about cultural convention, assimilation has never been so painless as it was tonight.

JT sniffs out some unsavoury goings on.

(Photos by Jogi Panghaal)

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Making Roti with Jogendra (play with your food)

December 31, 2004

I have my way.
Jogi has his way.
But you can tell by his name that its his birthright to know how to make a better roti.

If you make the roti MY way they puff up like pillows. My way involves a lot of not doing anything and getting the heat right. (Plus you get to use up some of the chicken fat from your ever expanding chicken fat collection.)

If you make rotis Jogi’s way, they also puff up like pillows, but you get to play with them constantly and tamp them down with a tea towel, in my opinion the last thing to do to make something puff up. I stand corrected.

Pictured below is another way to make roti in which you start out in the pan and then dump them right onto the flame. It was a regular Occitanian roti circus tonight.

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Hey that’s stealing!

December 24, 2004

Persimmon photo by Kristine Malden

A jaunt over to the Accidental Hedonist weblog and what do I see? A link to a list compiled by the BBC of 50 things to eat before you die. If you ask me, this list, compiled by reader survey is pretty piss poor. I’m still a spring chicken (according to my mother) and I’ve only got 6 items to go and 50 euros says alligator tastes pretty much like chicken.

Here is a list of things missing from the BBC list of 50 things to eat before you die:
– kosher dill pickles
– olives
– peaches
– fresh corn
– uni sushi
– avocados
– burgus
– chokes
– aioli
– bernnaise sauce
– bacon
– wild boar entrecot
– leafy greens
– saffron
– humble pie

What else is painfully missing from this list?
Both a Full English! and Eggs Benedict should be listed but are not.

– Kim Chi? Not on the list
– stolen figs (lots of fruit tastes better stolen)

– persimmons stolen from the neighbours, frost on em, in the dark, sucking blindly, they never make it to the basket; not on the list

Persimmon photo by Kristine Malden

– kale plucked fresh from the garden by moonlight on the shortest day of the year, the grass crisp with frost. I just did this today and I’m glad I didn’t die before doing so or get killed with regard to the stolen persimmons.

50 things you should eat before you die

Accidental Hedonist weblog entry

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