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Post by Deleted on Apr 22, 2010 17:45:55 GMT
Now that looks pretty good!
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Post by Don Cuevas on Apr 22, 2010 19:02:49 GMT
Muhamarra: definitely on for our next dinner party. Looks as though it would be great with roast chicken.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 23, 2010 3:33:48 GMT
Oh, I would love to try that, even without the special ingredients!
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Post by lagatta on Apr 23, 2010 10:50:01 GMT
Muhammara is heavenly. The version at Le Petit Alep (the restaurant we lunched at) is better IMHO than the one available for takeaway at Chez Apo (Beyrouth-Yerevan), a great baker of Lebanese-Armenian savouries.
Don Cuevas, it is traditionally simply eaten with flatbread, though of course you are welcome to do whatever you want with it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2010 2:23:22 GMT
Argentine president Carlos Menem was of Syrian origin. There are many Levantines in Argentina and Brazil, as, er, everywhere. Yerba mate is definitely of southern South American origin and grows wild in parts of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay. (So far no google or wikipedia; all stuff told by friends from that part of the world). Now wikipedia tells me that is now cultivated in Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. No reason Druze communities could not taken part in temporary migration to South America - there are Christians, Muslims and Jews from the Levantine countries and Turkey in Argentina and Brazil. cristina, somehow I doubt the cod were caught just for the tongues and cheeks. I haven't had the tongues - the cheeks are very tasty, as fish cheeks usually are. A display of yerba mate in Miami Beach in a Cuban grocery store... I found it odd,and so many different brands of...
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Post by imec on Jul 9, 2010 3:22:18 GMT
Picked these up at a local Vietnamese market. Didn't realize until I got home that they weren't strawberries but starberries. Never heard of them. They're very good - sweet and tart and of course a little spicy from the chilli. They have a wee stone in the centre. Maybe HW has heard of them...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2012 10:47:45 GMT
Philadephia cream cheese is not a new product to a lot of the world, but they did not dare market it in France until about a year or two ago, probably because we have such a multitude of cream cheeses already, along with all of the other cheeses. However, the French do not seem to have rejected this product, although I read that it has been significantly changed to cater to French tastes. But now they're getting pretty cocky, I think. Chocolate cream cheese, anybody?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2012 15:22:55 GMT
I was in the grocery on Friday and cruising the shelves with crackers. What did I see? 'Smores' flavored goldfish crackers!!
(it reminds me of my friend Brian who had an incredibly acerbic wit. Once while we were discussing how they just can't seem to leave simple good flavors alone and keep coming up with new ideas, we got onto microwave popcorn being one of these. Someone asked him if he had tried the new butter/toffee/chocolate flavored one. He deadpanned stated that no he had not. He was holding out for kiwi.)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2012 5:55:25 GMT
*snork!*Interesting that this thread should pop up again, as just today I had something completely new. Well, I've probably had it before, but hidden within other mixed greens. It was quintoniles -- amaranth greens. I got them already cooked from a lady I know who sells plants, cleaned cactus pads, & some cooked foods at the Xoxo Sunday market. The quintoniles were cooked & she gave me a little taste, whereupon I ordered some to take home. She ladled them into a bag, added some homemade hot sauce, then tied the bag shut. The little sample I had told me that the greens tasted a great deal like spinach, but without the teeth-drying aspect & with a richer, very slightly bitter taste to them. So I was eager to tuck in when I got home & put the contents of the bag into a bowl as part of my lunch. Well, except that the dogs wound up enjoying almost all of it because of the amazing amount of GRIT the greens contained. I swear, I don't think it was just inadequate washing, it was as though sand had been added as an ingredient.
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Post by mockchoc on Jun 26, 2012 9:16:11 GMT
Picked these up at a local Vietnamese market. Didn't realize until I got home that they weren't strawberries but starberries. Never heard of them. They're very good - sweet and tart and of course a little spicy from the chilli. They have a wee stone in the centre. Maybe HW has heard of them... I may be wrong here but I think these are chilli tamarind candies maybe labelled wrongly. Did you find out any more about them Imec? They look familiar and tamarind sweets are a favourite of mine that I buy at the Asian supermarket now and then. They do have a seed inside some of them also..
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2012 10:11:03 GMT
Amaranth is right up there with kale on my list of greens I will try and avoid if possible. There are just too many other worthy greens for me to have to resort to these two.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 2, 2012 8:19:45 GMT
Picked these up at a local Vietnamese market. Didn't realize until I got home that they weren't strawberries but starberries. Never heard of them. They're very good - sweet and tart and of course a little spicy from the chilli. They have a wee stone in the centre. Maybe HW has heard of them... I also read the label as strawberries... at first. Mockchoc could well be right and they're cut up, candied, tamarind. Is the stone hard and dark and sort of evenly shaped? Funnily enough, the three Chinese characters say 'spicy, dry, oil'.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 15:25:50 GMT
Here's a new item in France that proves that the French are capable of committing total culinary abominations, just like anybody else.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 19, 2014 20:56:23 GMT
He won't keep his lithe physique if he eats that stuff regularly.
I can't imagine buying meatballs to eat at home, as I enjoy making them.
I've seen some real horrors in France - am trying to remember them. Remember, I enjoy exploring supermarkets in different countries...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2014 21:34:39 GMT
I love the scene where he opens his refrigerator and the only contents are the variations of "Ball in Box." And of course the commercial shows that the product is only for totally lazy people since he puts his feet up on the box for assembling his coffee table rather than the coffee table itself.
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Post by lagatta on Apr 19, 2014 22:50:32 GMT
He also needs some kind of scooter to cross his huge (parisian?) flat. Franchement...
Have you ever seen this (crap) at the supermarket?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 4:57:17 GMT
I just saw it for the first time in a Carrefour hypermarket yesterday. The new products always appear in the hypermarkets first (where 55% of the French population shops), and then they trickle down to ordinary supermarkets and smaller shops if they are a success.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2014 10:13:49 GMT
A friend of mine gave me a planting of 'Piper Auritum' AKA 'root beer plant' among many other names. What to do with it (aside from putting it in the ground...) ? Bixa, Don C. ?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 17:01:20 GMT
For the first time, I am eating wasabi-flavoured seaweed wafers from Korea. "delicious roasted seaweed snack"
They are not bad, but they disappear instantly in your mouth and weigh nothing, so the price per kilo must be even higher than caviar. What a fool I was to have bought them.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2014 17:16:21 GMT
A friend of mine gave me a planting of 'Piper Auritum' AKA 'root beer plant' among many other names. What to do with it (aside from putting it in the ground...) ? Bixa, Don C. ? This intrigues me since I learned after buying 'Sarsi' soda in Singapore and 'Xaxi' soda in Vietnam and instantly recognizing the taste, that root beer is made from sarsaparilla. Earlier in my life, it never crossed my mind to wonder how they make root beer, just as I never wondered about what was in Coca-Cola. The Wiki about piper auritum does indeed mention that it has a flavour reminiscent of sassafras, which is apparently similar to sarsaparilla. Piper Auritum and sassafras both contain the carcinogenic substance safrole which was banned by the American Food & Drug Administration in 1960 and by the Council of Europe in 1974, even though it was never proven that it affected humans, only animals. As for modern root beer, it appears that all of the flavours in it are now artificial.
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Post by redshoesbetterbacon on Apr 28, 2014 17:13:50 GMT
I want some. Now.
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Post by redshoesbetterbacon on Apr 28, 2014 17:23:29 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 16:51:36 GMT
Okay, for the first time ever, I have bought pigs' ears. I won't make them until tomorrow, but I have already investigated two promising recipes online.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 16:53:47 GMT
I see so many mysterious Chinese greens at my Asian supermarket, that I tend to believe that about 90% of plants with soft stems are comestible, no matter how they look.
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