Archive for the ‘Vegetables’ Category

Beet Mie

Friday, March 12th, 2010

Cold mie noodles marinated in beet-ginger juice with blanched broccoli and snow peas, spring onions, carrot tongues and flash fried rice noodles. I doused this cold noodle and vegetable configuration liberally with tamari after taking the photo. Then, of course, I ate it. Please note that this was taken some ...

Black Pudding and Champ

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

How better to flood the system with pure warmth, energy and fortification than an Irish breakfast? What you see above is black pudding and champ. Black pudding is a simple blood sausage found throughout most of the UK. I made a batch last week from pork blood, steel-cut oats, onions herbs ...

Chicago Stuffed Pizza

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009



Hungary?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Hungary's capital city of Budapest is a glorious dark fairytale, a home to royalty, thieves, gypsies and fusions of all three. It is a city of castles, cathedrals and labyrinthine underground tunnels, a place where things are seldom what they seem. Once welcoming doors can suddenly open to stone walls, and ...

Indian Pickles

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

If I haven't mentioned achar before in another post, I'll take this opportunity to proclaim Achar Pachranga from Pachranga Foods as one of the best spicy oil pickles on the market. I'm especially fond of the lotus root and Indian gooseberries in their signature blend. You can put the stuff ...