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In Mol AraanIn Mol AraanA blog about food and words in Yiddish and English including but not limited to cooking, recipes, culinary lexicography, delights and curiosities of the plant world, and cookbooks Articles
Fresh Produce by J. J. Sempé
2007-07-11 23:26:00 Fresh Prod uce by J. J. Sempé Wow, do I love this week?s startlingly humane NYer cover by J. J. Sempé. There?s a cook. He?s on a bicycle. He has vegetables. Our guy may be about to begin a day of sweaty soul-shredding labor, but he has a few blessed moments of quietude riding back with the vegetables.Simple Physics by J. J. Sempé This one of a physicist cooking an egg also bakes my potatoes. It even looks a little like my apartment. I love how our guy keeps the chaos of his work area separate from the sheltering and welcoming tidiness of his kitchen. Oh, those little salt and pepper shakers! I just can?t type another word! I have to go eat something. There. That?s better. Have a look at Asymptotia?s interesting post (and comments) for some physicists? take on this picture. More About: Fresh , Produce
Peas with Spiced Cashew Sauce
2007-07-11 05:22:00 These peas are inspired by Mahanandi, a gorgeous food blog that thrills me every single day. The recipe I made last week closely follows Indira?s amazing Matar Paneer. My adaptation this time was to make a dairy-free version appropriate for Karina (and lots of other folks) by leaving out the paneer. I doubled the amount of cashews to make up for the richness and protein of the cheese. This was easy to prepare and the heady fragrances that floated up while it was cooking just had me dancing around the kitchen and flying into the walls. First I prepared Indira?s ginger, garlic and cilantro (GGC) paste by grinding up a bunch of cilantro with half a cup of peeled ginger and a quarter cup of peeled garlic (you can save your ginger scraps to infuse ice creams and things like that). I am glad to have it in the house. I used some in a salad of string beans with sesame oil and that was just the bee?s knees, but right now I?m here to talk about the peas. Peas with Spice d Cashew Sauce ... Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/blogtop/public_html/blogdetails.php on line 149
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2007-07-10 04:17:00 In Yiddish, if you wish to say "I am utterly bewildered, I do not have even the shred of the beginning of a clue," you can say: ? ??? ??? ???? ??? ???? ??? ??? ??(Ikh veys nisht mit vos men est es)? which literally means ?I don?t know how to eat it? or ?I don?t know with what you eat it? The possible ambiguity of this expression is one of the subjects of this comic piece. The consequences of cluelessness with regard to one?s eating implements are discussed by Hotchkiss and the General in Getting Married by GBS. Hotchkiss has just explained that when in the service, he sabotaged the plans of his commanding officer because he would take orders only from a gentleman (spellings and punctuations as in the original): THE GENERAL. And pray, sir, on what ground do you dare allege that Major Billiter is not a gentleman? HOTCHKISS. By an infallible sign: one of those trifles that stamp a man. He eats rice pudding with a spoon. THE GENERAL. [very angry] Confound you, I eat rice...
Herbed Cashew Paté with Green Garlic for Starship Squash
2007-07-08 06:50:00 More wonderful squash is coming in over the transom this week and I really wanted to show off these pretty little starship zucchini, especially after having grated up last week?s bounty. The amount of filling I made would have filled almost twice as many squashes, so I just baked the extra bit in a little terrine.Herbed Cashew Paté with Green Garlic for Starship Squash 5 starship squash or other small summer squash (more would be even better) 1 cup raw cashews or cashew pieces 3 large cloves (1/2 head) green garlic (or other garlic), peeled Fresh green herbs (I used leaves from two sprigs oregano, four of dill, one of summer savory and eight of thyme. Some parsley would have been good, too, if I had had some) Salt and pepper Olive oil Cut lids in the tops of the squashes. Scoop out the insides with a melon baller or spoon. Place the pulp in a colander over a bowl and salt lightly. Salt the insides of the hollow squash cups and lids as well and allow them to rest upsid... More About: Ship Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/blogtop/public_html/blogdetails.php on line 149
Zucchini Hemp Seed Latkes: Cooking for Karina
2007-07-04 05:14:00 This is the first in what I hope will be a veritable avalanche of recipes suitable for Karina , the Gluten-Free Goddess, who has recently found that she is allergic to milk, eggs (including whites and yolks), chicken, turkey, gluten (that includes wheat, barley, rye, spelt, kamut - and oats, to play on the safe side), peanuts, almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, soybeans, lemon, avocado, pineapple, papaya, green beans and kidney beans. In Karina?s honor, and for the benefit of the growing number of folks with multiple food allergies, and to give us all a chance to flex our food-blogging muscles, Isaiah of Gluten Free by the Bay has created ?Cooking for Karina: A Blogging Festival and Cooking Challenge? for which she asks us to post wonderful recipes that don?t have any of the above ingredients.If you have a recipe that would be useful to Karina and do not have a blog, send it along to me or to Gluten-Free by the Bay so it can be included in the round-up. This week I made these li... More About: Hemp , Zucchini , Seed Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/blogtop/public_html/blogdetails.php on line 149 Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/blogtop/public_html/blogdetails.php on line 149
Cherries in Yiddish and Other Languages
2007-07-01 06:20:00 Left to right Montrmorency Cherries (pie cherries), Bing cherries, Ranier Cherries, and Morello cherries I picked up two kinds of sweet cherries and two kinds of sour cherries at the market on Friday. Since this post is in English, I could have written that I got four kinds of cherries, but in Yiddish , sweet cherries (karshn ?????? ) and sour cherries (vaynshl ?????? ) have different names and are considered two entirely different ingredients. Botanically, they are two different species. Sweet cherries are prunus avium and sour cherries are prunus cerasus. It is nice and cool now, and I will get around to baking something, but so far, I am just nibbling them on their own. Montrmorency Cherries are face-scrunchingly sour, but kapow, they come with an amazingly bright, lollypop-cherry finish that makes you want the next one even more. Many cherry websites will tell you that sour cherries need to be cooked, and are too sour to eat out of hand, but you may find you get used to t... More About: Languages , Dish , Ages
Vegetables with Herbed Hemp Seed Filling
2007-06-29 23:43:00 Lush bouquets of herbs, some quite new to me, are in my current CSA delivery. Summer savory is an herb I have not had the pleasure of using until this week. It is nicely sharp and peppery and seems to go well with white beans, cheese, and the filling below. If you don?t happen to have any, you can make the recipe without, and if you have no fresh oregano, use half a teaspoon dried. I happened to see these perfectly spherical tomatoes and zucchini at the Tompkins Square farmers? market and thought they would make snazzy containers for this dish. Zucchini and Tomatoes with Herb ed Hemp Seed Filling 4 billiard ball-size globe zucchini or 4 smallish regular zucchini 4 billiard ball-size tomatoes ¾ cup hemp seeds, lightly toasted ½ cup grated parmesan (about an ounce) 3 cloves garlic ½ cup minced parsley (leaves from half of one small bunch parsley) leaves from two sprigs fresh oregano (or ½ teaspoon dried oregano) leaves from 2 sprigs summer savory salt black pepper (7 tur... More About: Vegetables Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/blogtop/public_html/blogdetails.php on line 149
La Vignarola Part Two: Sensuous Artichoke Stew
2007-06-28 03:41:00 La vignarola has four major components, spring onions (not leeks or scallions, but the immature bulbs of regular onions), artichokes, fava beans, and peas, or English peas, as they are now called to distinguish them from snow peas and sugar snap peas and possibly other new peas we have now. Those sugar snap peas are great fun, but is it right that they have completely taken over peadom, at least from the vantage point of the Union Square Farmers? Market? I understand that if you live in parts of Italy, or in the San Francisco Bay area, these ingredients are all at the peak of their season at the same time (is this true?). Here in New York, we have the spring onions up to about now, peas and favas just starting, and local artichokes, if we get them at all, very late in the summer. You don?t hear much about east coast artichokes, but when we get them, they are just the best things in the world. Since spring onions are the hardest to come by, this is the moment to seize, vignarola... More About: Part , Sens , Choke , Artic Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/blogtop/public_html/blogdetails.php on line 149
Twice-Wilted Lavender Bok Choy With Cilantro
2007-06-24 21:18:00 Since bok choy (báicài) literally means ?white vegetable,? I should probably just call it ?lavender choy? or use whatever is the Cantonese word for lavender?can anyone help with this? This luminous lavender choy is from the miraculous Deb Kavakos at Stoneledge farm, home base of my CSA collective. Have a closer look at those fat juicy stems! We have lots of these greens this week, so I wanted to try something just a little different. Kenneth Lo has a recipe in Chinese Vegetable and Vegetarian Cooking (London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1974 and 1995), for ?Three Fairy Salad? in which you wilt bok choy once in salt, and a second time when you pour on hot oil. That?s all the cooking it gets, and it turns out to be just right. The traditional recipe would include radishes as well as the cabbage, and if you had some of those lavender ?easter egg? radishes to go with your lavender choy, that would really be the bee?s knees. Twice -Wilted Bok Choi Not entirely raw, but not qui... More About: Ender , Vender , Cilantro
Serving Up Marco Pierre White
2007-06-23 01:00:00 And the whole psycho-chef craze. Here's Tom Jaine's assessment from the Guardian:[W]e are soggy enough to allow the whip-hand of exploitation to chefs in their kitchens as if the ends of fancy cooking ever justified the means adopted by abusers such as White or the abused-turned-abuser Ramsay (described here as reduced by MPW to a blubbering wreck). These braggadocio chefs have it mighty wrong. Years ago, Lord Nelson showed our hang'em and flog'em Royal Navy the way of compassion and today there are many kitchens turning out the best of food where dysfunctional personalities do not rule.Not sure how I feel about bringing the navy into the discussion, but maybe that is the point. More About: Pierre , Pier , Arco , Marc
White Beans and Thyme
2007-06-17 14:48:00 Thyme, basil, curly parsley, tarragon, lemon thyme, and a mild type of mint.This gorgeous herbal bouquet was a gift from the Girl and Boy of the Limberlost, to whom I send heartfelt congratulations and all best wishes. So far, I used several sprigs of the thyme in some white beans.White beans seem to me to be the trickiest beans to cook properly, and if you need firm, perfectly discrete beans, I might not be the best source of instructions. It is usually better to skip the soaking step because of white beans are a bit more fragile and delicate than their red, black, pink, spotted and speckled relatives.White Beans With Garlic and ThymePlace beans in a large kettle or slow-cooker and cover generously with water. Salt the water liberally, and add several peeled garlic cloves, several sprigs of thyme and one pasilla chile or other chile.Cover and cook until done. Cooking times will vary widely.Some of these beans were just right with pasta, arugula, and tomatoes, and the some were...
Harry Potter and the Diner of Resolution
2007-06-16 00:18:00 This wonderful slice of spotted dick is from Slate.com:Someone approached the table. Harry looked up, hoping it might be Hermione, but instead it was a pale, sneering young man who for a moment reminded Harry of Draco Malfoy. The man walked past Harry's booth and entered the bathroom. Across the pub, a man with dark eyes laughed with a woman who reminded Harry of Bellatrix Lestrange. Outside, a frustrated Hermione tried to tether Buckbeak the hippogriff to a street lamp, but Buckbeak was having none of it. He shook his eagle head angrily and pawed at the ground. Hermione sighed; she'd have to start with the bowing all over again.Read the whole thing here. More About: Harry Potter , Potter , Otter , The D
La Vignarola Part One: The Mise En Place
2007-06-15 23:22:00 English peas, a spring onion, an artichoke, and fava beans. Camera shy: lettuce. Ooooh, I just can't wait. More About: Part , Place , Lace
Red Sails Lettuce and Great Lakes Lettuce from my CSA
2007-06-15 05:08:00 I have been looking forward to this for so long, but goodness, I do have a lot of lettuce. Most of it is going into salads (some with homemade vinegar), and I hope to use some to make La Vignarola this weekend. Traditionally, one would use romaine, but I am certainly not about to go and buy any more lettuce. And I'm not even talking about the arugula. More About: Great , Lakes , Lake , Great Lakes Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/blogtop/public_html/blogdetails.php on line 149
One Potato, Two Potato
2007-06-13 02:54:00 There are a couple of things I just have to do that most folks really can (and do) feel free to ignore. One of these is my practice of cooking the potatoes separately and mashing them by hand in any recipe in which the vegetables are going to get pureed. My reason for this is that pureed potatoes will sometimes take on an unpleasant sliminess because of the type of starch peculiar to potatoes. Unless the potatoes make up only the tiniest part of the recipe, I think it is worthwhile to take this extra step. One soup that benefits from separately-mashed potatoes is this two-potato preparation. I started thinking of this recipe as a mild white background to provide flavor and color contrast for this nut sauce. It turns out that this soup can stand on its own brilliantly, and maybe you don?t even need the coconut milk, and you might not even need the potatoes. When I made this last, I was still using canned coconut milk, which worked beautifully. I have since been making my ... More About: Potato
I Can't Hear You; There's . . . Oh, Never Mind
2007-06-12 18:23:00 From Engrish.com. See candy-related Engrish here. More About: Hear , Mind , There
Milk Chocolate and Chianti
2007-06-08 23:19:00 I know I lost at least half of you as soon as I mentioned milk chocolate, but happy are the few who are still with me. I have been letting go of my old prejudices against milk chocolate ever since working with the amazing Dan Budd at the Very Famous Restaurant. If you are at all milk chocolate-curious, start out with this kind, which is darker than many dark chocolates. I don't know what the temperature in my apartment is , but it was exactly perfect for this chocolate when I happened to be finishing up some chianti from last shabes. ???? ???? ?? ????(fun got a por, a match made in heaven) More About: Milk , Chocolate , Chianti , Anti , Late
Worth The Wait
2007-06-07 22:54:00 Cherries 5 days until my first CSA pickup of the season44 days until Harry PotterSomewhere in-between--cherries! More About: Worth , Wait , Wort
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I Can't Hear You; There's a Giant Banana Over Texas
2007-06-05 22:02:00 The Geostationary Banana Over Texas project proposes placing a giant banana in geosynchronous orbit as an art intervention.Thanks to Marian the Librarian for this. More About: Hear , Giant , There
Zongzi (Zòngzi ) Al Fresco
2007-06-04 16:56:00 Yesterday I happened upon these ladies enjoying the mild weather by preparing zongzi (zong4zi) outdoors on Eldridge Street, and they very graciously allowed me to photograph the process. Zòngzi are made of sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves (although outer leaves of corn husks can serve admirably, making a zongzi-tamale hybrid) and filled with sweet red bean paste, or red dates (jujubes), or chestnuts, or, in this case, peanuts (and some folks use meat). Zongzi are now available all year round, but they are especially suited to this time of year, when we celebrate the Dragon Boat festival in honor of Q? Yuán (Qu1 Yuan2), a poet and activist of the Zhou Dynasty. Zongzi commemorate the rice dumplings thrown into the river by Qu?s supporters after his death by drowning (It is sort of like tashlikh ??????. ) The rice is intended to feed the fish, not to feed the poet, as I incorrectly understood when first my valiant students attempted to explain the celebration. The fillin...
Desserts From Kyotofu
2007-06-01 23:33:00 Teatime at Kyoto fu New York. Counterclockwise from 1:00: blood orange yokan, green tea chocolate dipped okara cookies, sansho pepper tofu cheesecake, and mini miso choko cake. Camera shy: black sesame sweet tofu. You want to try this place.Yokan is a sort of Jello-type fruit dessert. Okara is the soy pulp that is left over from the tofu-making process. Who knew it would make such good cookies? Well, we are fortunate that someone did. All of these were lovely, but the star is the miso-chocolate cake. Like coffee, the miso highlights and amplifies the flavor of chocolate. It is not at all salty or musty. More About: Desserts Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 0 in /home/blogtop/public_html/blogdetails.php on line 149 More articles from this author: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
