Orange spice cake
September 3rd, 2008Oooo - exciting for me - I’m hosting my very first food event!
Well, technically it isn’t my food event, Think Spice… is the brain child of the wonderful Sunita of Sunita’s World. But I do get to choose the spice… and do the round up… so I think maybe this month it is mine, just a little!*
The spice I have chosen for this month’s entry is fenugreek. Also known as methi, fenugreek is a common spice in Indian cooking - and one of the oldest medicinal spices. It was used by the ancient Egyptians for embalming - but I really would prefer no entries of that order!
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My Turn! Think Spice… Think…. Fenugreek!
September 3rd, 2008After moving to this new Copenhagen place of mine (I finally moved my very last bit out), I wanted to do something nice for myself. Something that would:
A. Make myself feel like a real home with real responsibilities,
B. Spice up my every day.
Keeping these in mind I decided to:
1. Plant my own plants - I bought mango, dates and an avocado. I ate all of them and planted the seeds. It is very easy, I have done that before. As each time I forget which way to plant them, I simply lay dates seeds horizontally about 2 cm underground and with mango, I lay it with the spiky corner downwards - both avocado and mango seeds buried half-way through the ground.
I also planted my own herbs - coriander, basil, sage, rosemary, thyme,… etc.
2. I underwent a serious inspection of my spices and threw out half of them, due to the fact that they have been around probably longer than me. And I bought fresh new ones. Wow, is there a diffe…
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July 1st, 2008This month Think Spice is hosted by Krishna of Cooking from A to Z and features wasabi. It’s a great choice - I can’t wait to see the different dishes that come out of the round up! Since the first time I ate sushi I’ve loved wasabi - but I’ve never really used it in cooking. Krishna gave us a couple of vital wasabi hometruths:
Wasabi isn’t horseradish!
I did know that one! Although… it is from the same family (the Brassicaceae if you’re interested) and is often called Japanese horseradish!
And not only isn’t wasabi horseradish - often it isn’t even wasabi!! The worst of the pretenders (supermarket tubes!) is no more than a mix of horseradish+mustard+food colouring - and even the restaurants generally cheat away from the real thing.
Nice! I did …