We meet people on fad diets. Can't eat tomatoes, don't fry in olive oil, avoiding wheat that's bad too. Well we're on an Italian diet because most of the 58 million population have got it right.
Tofu is wonderful but in the hands of someone who can't cook it's a disaster dish. Get a recipe, surround it with strong flavours and most of all respect 3,000 years of history.
Friday, April 21, 2006
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Cooking outside the box
| Had me fooled for a while - it's cooking an egg with two mobile phones and the radio switched on. Are mobile signals that dangerous they can cook? Answer is no Wymsey Weekend: A Guide to Mobile Cooking The truth is Microwave: ~1000watts @ 2.45GHz Cellphone: .25-1watt, sometimes 2 on old, analog models @ 850-1200MHz It got me thinking about cooking outside the hob and oven. You can research all these methods - the Haybox cooker, using a dishwashing machine, solar cooking, candles, infra-red electric fire, trash can smoker and the usb noodle cooker. How about using an iron, an electric kettle to boil pasta, or a projector light to knock out pancakes - all done by Tom Scott in video of messyness. Hair dryers have potential as in the NASA Space Cooker (PDF), as do car engines. If it gets hot it can cook, but the results may not be gourmet. But "Solar Roast Coffee" is a maybe. |
Getting started
| This weblog is about the efforts to publish a foodzine. Big learning curve, big writing and editing task. Yet it's only a small time publication. Has that punk diy spirit evaporated. So far I'm not happy with the end results. You wouldn't be either. a) Need to find some examples of others work to give clues and guidance b) Some more planning for what i want to achieve (which is? not too sure) Okeh enough navel orange gazing Read Cod Italia it's three jpg images which don't fit neatly on the page (another thing to sort out) |
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Shichimi Togarashi
| Seven is the magic number for this spice combination : I N G R E D I E N T S 3 teaspoons sansho powder 1 teaspoon nori flakes 3 teaspoons dried tangerine or orange peel 3 teaspoons ground chili pepper 1 teaspoon black sesame seeds 1 teaspoon golden sesame seeds or poppy seeds 2 teaspoons minced garlic. shansho - use ground sichuan peppercorns Shichimi Togarashi |