Kerala fish pickle, again off the net:
https://meemiskitchen.com/2020/11/05/fish-pickle-meen-achar-spicy-kerala-fish-pickle/
It can be safely stored at room temperature for a long time.
https://meemiskitchen.com/2020/11/05/fish-pickle-meen-achar-spicy-kerala-fish-pickle/
It can be safely stored at room temperature for a long time.
You mean like artichoke hearts... thinly sliced and layered in the ciabatta? With perhaps a some thin slices of young manchego cheese on top.... it's a bit sweeter than the aged versions.
My late mom and I had some great times shooting the breeze with some crusty bread, a can of anchovies and a bottle of red wine.
I miss my mom.
Oh well.
I've never tried to make ciabattas but I've made lots of bread... I will often put a ripe banana in lieu of butter/oil... it makes the dough more homogeneous.. that is, the bubbles are smaller and the dough a little bit denser... not much... but great for slicing.
After the hearts are gone it's just the vinaigrette on a plate with the bread sliced and dipped into it.
I can relate. The memories carry on.
Not sure what her secret is but she does a fine job. Like any bread, fresh out of the oven is heaven. From that point on you need something on it.
My secret is using a stone.
Dipping bread into a vinagrette.... we make ours with olive oil and balsamic. Back in Spain, the restaurants would put out bread, oil, vinegar and wine the same way a Mexican restaurant puts out chips and salsa.
Truly, heaven.
The aroma of bread baking in the oven in a cold day ( OK. cool for you ) is one of life's best experiences.
BTW, the mohama is almost ready. I think I'll soak it in olive oil this Friday. My neighbor brought us a bunch of tomatoes....
This year I decided to train the tomato plants differently, so I thinned them and trained them.... but that exposes the tomatoes and I got a pesky bird.....
Dipping bread into a vinagrette.... we make ours with olive oil and balsamic. Back in Spain, the restaurants would put out bread, oil, vinegar and wine the same way a Mexican restaurant puts out chips and salsa.
Truly, heaven.
The aroma of bread baking in the oven in a cold day ( OK. cool for you ) is one of life's best experiences.
BTW, the mohama is almost ready. I think I'll soak it in olive oil this Friday. My neighbor brought us a bunch of tomatoes....
This year I decided to train the tomato plants differently, so I thinned them and trained them.... but that exposes the tomatoes and I got a pesky bird.....
Yes, that's popular here too. I was just suggesting how to use, rather than throw away, the artichoke liquid. It can be used for many things including green, potato and macaroni salads, chicken marinade, you name it.
Is one of life's simple but satisfying pleasures.
It's past my bedtime Tony. Will pick this up tomorrow.
Cheers.
To be honest I keep thinking like before, but I respect your point of view because basically the posts are yours.
However, in a very friendly way and most of all in my very humble opinion, maybe also the way of writing a post is a kind of respect for the reader (but I’m probably from a different generation than yours). 😉
However, just to smile, we have a motto where I come from: "Not do evil and then not have fear" (I hope I correctly translated it, but I’m not sure).
Since you talked about salt - the King of ingredients - where I come from we are almost surrounded by the sea and I and those I know, we prefer whole and organic sea salt to rock salt, but thanks the same for your suggestion.
Furthermore we have the largest saltworks in Europe of sea salt, which is even tastier.
However, among other things, our food is considered one of the best in the world, it is not that I boast of it, but others say it 🙂, and as far as I am concerned I'm so traditionalist in my tastes that I hardly try different food from ours.
Not to mention the wines, cheeses, hams and sausages that represent a kind of food production appreciated all over the world.
Anyway, just as an example, my lunch yesterday was something very similar to the following pictures ☕
It might read a little smoother as:
Do no evil, have no fear.
One we might also hear is:
Commit no crime, do no time.
Thank you for your appreciated reply, but to be honest I thought that for some coherence your quoting a post of mine seemed strange to me for at least two reasons.
The first reason is that the comparison of ideas between two people has a value, if any, only when it is a comparison that levels the playing field, because a comparison is authentic only when it is a comparison at par. IMHO
The second reason is that I generally do not like to please my interlocutor, especially if he holds power, because if I pleased him then the comparison would not be authentic.
And if the result of the comparison of ideas between two persons is not authentic, why do it?
Given the above, your quoting a post of mine seemed strange to me because the last time it did not go like this, but it was instead vaporized.
I'm referring to a single post not to an entire thread whose content was completely removed and then fixed as an example even if empty: how can you ban something non-written on a blank sign?
The above seems to concerns the certainty of feeling right, but sometime that certainty can be blinding too.
In this regard please note that I don't care at all about my posts in themselves, I only care about the dignity of persons.
That’s why at first I didn’t want to reply, because it might happen again, but then I decided to give us another chance.
In my opinion translating a popular motto into a different language is an arduous undertaking because it has a meaning, a sense and a feeling in its original language, which is not always automatically transferable to another language.
Often there is an analogous motto in a different language that expresses the same concept in different words.
In any case your translation seems to me to sound better than mine (of course), but please note that specified motto is said in a particular way also in its original language because it is said this way: first the object complement (evil), then the verb (not do) and then the subject (you), that's the exact opposite than a regular phrase, in order to accentuate even more the inherent message...
However in different words the motto I posted means: "If you feel a clear conscience then you've no reason to be afraid" as it was referred to links posted in a certain singular way by a member to prevent someone thinking about any tie to the various sites.
However, considering that the above concerns the behavior and relationships of human beings, it is not as simple as it seems because to feel at peace with your conscience is a relative concept, not absolute.
Is it evil if someone defends their interests against a threat?
No, perhaps not, if he does so in a civil, legal and proportionate manner.
The food where I come from is so much appreciated in the world that thousands of tons of fakes are produced every year.
It seems right to take some countermeasure (civil, legal and proportionate ones).
Is it evil if someone defends their interests against an imaginary threat?
(There are so many examples of this not only in the food that I'll not even give one.)
Well, try asking the imaginary threat's object...
The point is that actions stem from beliefs, but beliefs can be wrong and make feel "right" the same.
I like aphorisms and this one (which is not referring to any person here, but to things only) by Stanislav Jerzy Lec which is my favorite seems perfect to synthesize the above:
"He had a clear conscience. Never used it".
Considering the kind of meat and cooking I could suggest pairing with an excellent Montepulciano d'Abruzzo.
I bet it would go well. The level of brine and the amount of smoke are more gentle than I often do, so it won’t overpower.
So remember last year when my grapes yielded only enough for jelly (5 gallons) and was hoping for 10 gallons this year so I’d have enough for wine? Well I just picked 20 gallons today and there’s at least another 10 out there……what a difference a year makes (3rd year since planting)
That will be enough to make 10 gallons of finished wine! 😎
That will be enough to make 10 gallons of finished wine! 😎
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I don’t drink, its mainly for friends and family……..but yah, it doesn’t sit around long! 😛
Cal, hate isn’t good for your qi/ki (however you spell it!) 😆
Cal, hate isn’t good for your qi/ki (however you spell it!) 😆
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Try adding a little fresh honey (from a hive) to the juice intended for the wine.
Said to improve it while fermenting.
Bottled stuff may be pasteurized.
Said to improve it while fermenting.
Bottled stuff may be pasteurized.
A friend of mine used about a tablespoon of fresh from the hive honey to about 5 liters of grape juice.
Said it has a fungus which removes acid and bitter notes, makes it sweeter.
His neighbor used to add sugar, result was not so good.
This small quantity should not affect the overall taste of the wine.
Bangalore local red grapes, if you need to know.
I do not consume alcohol, gave up long back.
And wine needs a palate suitable for gentle flavors, our food is too spicy for us to appreciate wine.
Wine goes with mildly spiced food, like grilled chicken, or barbecued pork.
Hard spirits like whiskey, rum, brandy etc., and beer are more popular here.
And those are consumed before food, so the person eating food later is slightly to fully drunk...I avoid such restaurants, the food quality tends to be lower than expected.
Said it has a fungus which removes acid and bitter notes, makes it sweeter.
His neighbor used to add sugar, result was not so good.
This small quantity should not affect the overall taste of the wine.
Bangalore local red grapes, if you need to know.
I do not consume alcohol, gave up long back.
And wine needs a palate suitable for gentle flavors, our food is too spicy for us to appreciate wine.
Wine goes with mildly spiced food, like grilled chicken, or barbecued pork.
Hard spirits like whiskey, rum, brandy etc., and beer are more popular here.
And those are consumed before food, so the person eating food later is slightly to fully drunk...I avoid such restaurants, the food quality tends to be lower than expected.