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In My Kitchen, September 2011

Posted in In My Kitchen, tagged , , , , , on September 14, 2011| 57 Comments »

In my kitchen…

…are chocolate elephants!  This latest batch of lollypops is made with a mix of Callebaut 811 (54% cacao), Sao Thome dark origin chocolate and a small handful of Callebaut 823 milk chocolate.  Pete loves it, and I’ve had to hide them to ensure there are some left for Small Girl…

In my kitchen…

…is  a box of amazing rock sugar, a gift from our lovely friend Moo…

It’s amazing stuff, and resembles small shards of polished glass. I’ve scattered some over the top of an apple pie, and plan to coat shortbread cookies with them as well…

In my kitchen…

…is a jar of lampascioni (Italian wild onions).  I wrote about the paste a couple of years ago, but this is the first time I’ve seen the whole onions for sale…

They’re deliciously bitter, in a rocket kind of way…

In my kitchen…

…are five small tubs of homemade taramosalata, because Cindy and Nic mentioned it on their blogs, and I wasn’t able to get the thought out of my head until I made a batch.  I found some fabulous roe at a Greek deli in Marrickville on my last shopping expedition with the Spice Girl.

Our recipe is here and it uses potato instead of bread, so it’s gluten-free…

In my kitchen…

…I’ve been baking knotted rolls!  Using my latest bread formula, I shaped the proved dough into baguettes and let them rise a second time.  Just before baking, I tied the long rolls into knots.  It was easy and fun to do…

In my kitchen…

…are today’s eggs.  Bless those chooks of ours, they’ve laid consistently all through winter…

In my kitchen…

…because I’m suggestible, is a copy of The Geometry of Pasta, which both C and Tandy recommended to me after my pasta shapes post.  It’s an interesting read!

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Tell me, what’s happening in your kitchen this month?

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Apulian Flavours

Posted in Food & Friends, tagged , , , , , on September 8, 2009| 1 Comment »

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As you’ve probably figured out by now, I adore trying new flavours.  It’s my way of keeping my brain active (never could stand Sudoku), and I’m always excited when I come across something unusual to taste.

These jars of Italian pastes are definitely different to anything I’ve tried before!  The Purè di Fave is a fava bean paste, made from 95% beans, mixed with onion, olive oil, celery, salt and laurel.  The label tells me that it’s an Apulian tradition to serve this warm with boiled chicory.  We didn’t have any, so we tried it on toast (as you do).  It’s quite delicious – with a definite bean flavour and a consistency somewhere between loose mash potatoes and hommus.

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The second jar, Paté di Lampascioni, took me completely by surprise.  The label describes it as a wild onion paté, with the ingredients list boasting 66.5% wild onions, combined with olive oil, garlic, capers, chilli, vinegar, parsley and salt.  But instead of the smooth, sweet onion flavour that I expected, the spread was bitter, in a manner reminiscent of rocket.  If, like me, you’re a fan of those flavours (rocket, bittergourd, witlof, I adore them all), then you’ll love this.  Pete, of course, won’t touch it with a barge pole.

When I goggled lampascioni, I discovered that the “wild onion” is actually a wild hyacinth bulb, native to Puglia, Italy, and renowned for its bitter flavour. There’s more information about them here.

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As I said, I love trying new flavours! I can almost feel the synapses forming in my brain…

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