Sunday, 15 May 2011

Chrysanthamum Greens with Sesame Seed Dressing / Spinach Pkhali / Shoyu Ramen



Blog Post & Recipe: Seriously Asian: Chrysanthemum Greens


Lightly steamed or boiled, chrysanthemum greens have a mildly grassy, herbaceous taste with stalks that are sweet and slightly crunchy. The greens are common additions to sukiyaki and shabu-shabu, and are also very good in soups.

Chrysanthamum Greens with Sesame Seed Dressing


Blog Post & Recipe: Pkhali, Unearthed


Pkhali (the 'kh' is pronounced as a deep, guttural 'h') is a whole class of Georgian vegetable dishes that straddle the line between salad and dip. The constant is the walnut sauce, and the fact that the vegetable is cut very, very finely - almost (but not quite) to a puree.

Spinach Pkhali


Blog Post & Recipe: How to Make Shoyu Ramen at Home


A perfect bowl of ramen, unlike, say, a perfect steak, isn’t about coddling some cherished ingredient and letting it shine. No, it’s about a meticulous and flawless combination of about 28 different ingredients into a whole more powerful and important than any of the individual components could ever hope to be. That also means that it helps to have a crazed passion for the stuff, as it will undoubtedly take two days to recreate at home. It is a pain.



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