Moralist hangups
June 20, 2004
It’s a day for raucous rejoicing when an immigrant to the Netherlands can help the natives remember their culinary traditions. Hangop is a Dutch summer dessert. It is simply yoghurt hung up in a wet tea towel until all of the whey has drained out of it, thickening the yoghurt in the process.
‘Why drain yoghurt yourself?’ you may ask. Indeed, why hang up yoghurt when we can now buy perfectly delicious, hyper-thick and fatty yoghurt at Turkish shops. The Turkish version even comes in a handy tub that when recycled works brilliantly as vernacular tupperware.
The reason you should drain your own yoghurt is that this process is beautiful to behold and it yields a urine coloured water called ‘whey’. Drink whey as a thirst quencher. Served ice-cold, there is no subsititute for piercing through the thick wall of mucous produced by an 80 kilometer cycling adventure than a good glass of whey.
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The Breakfast of Champions
June 19, 2004
Breakfast Menu for when the Champion has a hangover.
– 2 fried eggs over HARD with crumbled canned fromage brebis
– 2 delicious cups of coffee
– 1 red pepper eaten from the fist
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Carrot Caramel with Poached Peaches
June 14, 2004
Sometimes you make something so tasty it just boggles the mind.
Carrot Caramel with Poached Peaches
Have ready at hand:
– peaches: poached, peeled and portioned
– fresh carrot juice
– juice of one lemon
– a great deal of white sugar
– a big sheet of baker’s parchment laid out on a heat resistant surface
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