Random Food Blogging

[browngirl]

So I've been reading Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation , which is an interesting read. Aside of the obligatory anti-science foreword, it's pretty sensible, and has some recipes I want to try, such as storing apples in elderflowers until they taste 'like pineapple', and lacto-fermenting All The Things.,

Potato and Kale Salad
1 single serving bag good quality potato chips (I prefer salt and vinegar)
2 cups kale chips

Mix in a bowl. Eat with fingers. Serves 1-2.

… I kid, sort of. I mean, I eat this quite often, but it's hardly a proper recipe. Speaking of kale chips, I should write out my modified recipe -- I found that slow-roasting them at 250 for an hour produces greener, tastier results than baking at 350 for 20 minutes. ,

I could never be a locavore, not when I can buy Chilean quinces in the spring that are as richly perfumed as any spring blossom one could dream of. Due to last week's work disruptions I have a slight cash flow problem, but as soon as I have it resolved I am absolutely ordering some quinces and splitting them with bercilakslady. &

Because who doesn't like wine flavored with flaming sugar? I told WD that I want to make this for my next birthday party, and he helpfully pointed me to http://www.feuerzangenbowlesets.de/ . Now to Babelfish it (or convince him to translate) and acquire a set! And then it'll be flaming punch for everyone!

Comments

[shirebound]

I'd never heard the word locavore. You taught me something today.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*blushes delightedly*

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

You're a little pyro, you know that?

[danae_b]

All I know is I love elderflower so much, it's so very good.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

omg, i totally have to try the flaming punch some time! the problem is that i could only do it when there were a lot of poeple around, and if it goes wrong i'll have messed up very publicly :)

[vass]

Aha! Vindicated!

When I sang Deck The Halls in school choir (we did a big Christmas in June thing) our setting said 'See the blazing bowl before us,' and I assumed it meant a pipe.

Then, later on, I started listening to Muppet Christmas songs, and they sing 'See the blazing Yule before us,' which I can only make sense of as a Yule log. And I wondered which version was the original and how far back it changed.

Now I'm sure(r) that the version I sang was right (well, that and it was OUP's Carols for Choirs, and they're unlikely to make shit up.) It's a bowl of blazing wine!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

That potato and kale salad sounds like a good way to try making the kale chips last just a tiny bit longer. Does the slow bake at 250F cut down on the risk of burning the kale chips? That's always my biggest problem when I make them.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I started with the slow bake because I was tired of burning the chips, but I find I really enjoy the 'greener' flavor as well.