Keeping one’s vows
January 19, 2005
Remember in October when I had just bought Roxanne Klein’s R A W and I reported how it made me homesick for Laurel’s Kitchen? And then upon rereading Laurel’s Kitchen I made a vow to ‘take cashew cheese seriously’ from now on?
Well, I have been taking cashew cheese making very seriously indeed, and I believe I have improved upon the Good Ladies’ recipes. Pictured above are some of the steps in this easy process (from l to r: placing the blended cashew butter in a cheese cloth, cheese cloth hanging in the window, cheese cloth dripping with cashew milk and dark winter sky).
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Like raw beans in a hippy’s beard
January 18, 2005
In less than 2 months I will be heading off to India again and as I prepare the Indian version of the Nomadic Banquet Workshop I find myself hunquering for Indian food. I’ll be writing about the Nomadic Banquet in future culiblog entries.
Hippy Beard is the nickname I gave to the Southern Indian (Karnatakan) mung dal salad that I adored in Bangalore and adapted to my own liking once back in the Heimatt. If you thought that nothing good could ever come from eating raw beans, you really need to try this simple recipe. The salad is very light and the good kind of crunchy with no negative… uh, aspects.
The cukes I replaced with zukes and unfortunately I had to omit the ‘curry leaf’ because I can’t find it anywhere in Europe. It doesn’t take a whole lot of imagination to figure out why I call this salad Hippy Beard and just like in a real hippy beard this salad keeps for a few days. I’ll ask my buddy Zeenat Hassan (who is neither a hippy nor does she sport a beard) for the real name of this refreshing snack with the cheerful ‘mouth-feel’. It was her menu choice for that fine afternoon in Bangalore… (recipe follows).
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Culiblog on holiday until the 14th I mean the 18th of January
January 11, 2005
Due to my being perpetually en route in the coming days I will resume writing and reporting on the 14th I mean the 18th of January. Looking forward to seeing you then.
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