Enough with the raw food already
January 3, 2005
We just couldn’t eat them all so they’ve been in the fridge in a wet tea towel since the 31st. I wouldn’t have guessed that after so much time you could still eat them raw, although upon opening more than 2/3rds of them were perfectly delicious looking, smelling and tasting. Those deemed not perfect were only a bit dehydrated, not unlike ourselves after overdoing the champies.
I decided to warm them in some melted butter, chopped garlic, rosemary sprig and bay laurel from le chateau.Gawd damn do I love oysters! It was J’s first time on New Year’s and we told him that eating an oyster is like biting into fresh and solid seawater. Now he sees oyster eating as a superior option to actually going swimming.
Oh and here’s what else was going on… JT, Kristi, Fred, Kristine, un grand tour de leur chateau, aussi la Palmiére, la cascade, et toutes pour lui.
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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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