My Guide to Food – Exploring and Mapping intersections between Nigerian Cuisine and Foods of the World
I actually started writing this post a few days ago and am only just finishing it off! Saturday night’s dinner…and sunday morning’s brekkie. You must think I’m obsessed with all things French. And maybe Italian. First it was the Tarte Tatin and then the Caprese millefeuille and now it’s the Clafoutis. Anyway, I’m in London this week, as […]
Talk about melangés…talk about Indonesia and its delicious patchwork of influences from all over Asia – peanut sauces and hot chilies from Thailand, Vietnamese nam pla (fish sauce) and terasi (shrimp paste), Indian spices, Chinese stir-fries… a conglomerate of tastes and techniques all rolled up. More often than not, a typical Indonesian meal combines sweet, sour, […]
This is a case of adding some dried spices and fresh herbs to liven up sauces from a jar. Even I who love to cook am still tempted to use sauces out of jars. I don’t know why (it might be the packaging which lures me in) but I see bottled sauces and I find it […]
Update, 05/09/09: Thanks to Chaya who left a comment seeking a gluten-free version, I have scoured the internet and come up with some likely substitutes. If you do try the gluten-free version, give me a shout and let me know how it goes ok? Thanks. If you are a muesli fan, then you’re in business. […]
I call it ‘Hobbemaplein’, after the area its in; T calls it the ‘Haagse Markt’ as though it were the only market in the Hague (which it isn’t, though it is certainly the largest one) and many others say the ‘Turkse Markt’, a tribute, I reckon to the high proportion of Turkish stall owners. Suffice […]