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No Charge for the Extra Protein
Jun. 26th, 2010 08:14 am So this week's been Weird Food Week at the Asphodel Haus, except that it's really always Weird Food Week at my place. Last night's "dinner" was kunafa/canafa, a Middle Eastern treat consisting of a hollow sesame bun filled with sweet cheese drenched in honey. The local kunafa vendor recommends them for everything from breakfast to dinner. It tastes great, but even eating half of it (the thing is the size of a bunned hamburger!) left me feeling like I'd swallowed lead.
Night before last I decided to make something reasonably healthy (and meatless), and after considering Generic Stir-Fry #512 I opted for something that is, shall we say, in season. My passion is for cooking with flowers, and the little pink cookbook I've been toting around for more than two decades includes a recipe for Flor de Izote soup, using the white blossom of the Spanish Bayonet, aka yucca. I just so happen to have, for the first time in my life, a free and pesticide-free supply of yucca in my front yard. I had all the other ingredients (pepper, onion, tomatoes, basil) on hand, so I went out and denuded my yucca plants for the greater good.
I did notice that a lot of the blossoms, even the just-opened ones, were in sorry shape.
Anyway, it's been a while since I lived out West, and I'd momentarily forgotten facts I used to know well. It didn't occur to me until I stuck my quart basin of yucca blossoms under the tap to wash them and a pair of silvery little moths flew out that I remembered, oh yes, something feeds on the blossoms besides people. That explained the holes in so many of the petals. I love butterflies and moths, even the humble ones, and so I did my best to salvage the dozens upon dozens of tiny caterpillars that infested my dinner ingredients. I hope at least some of them will survive to mothhood, and at least I never found anything floating in the finished soup. But man, what a way to make me feel guilty over cooking a special treat for dinner.
ETA: Here is the recipe for those interested.
( Flor de Izote Soup, caterpillars not included )
In other news, my entry for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fe_contest is up and notes will follow, probably tomorrow.
Also, another Nintendo Dream scan has surfaced, but this one is more of a history of Fire Emblem in general-- note the page space given to Thracia! Also, am I crazy, or are they counting Akaneia Senki as a legitimate game in sequence here? I see FOUR entries for the Super Famicom. Do we have to re-do all the numbering conventions?
Night before last I decided to make something reasonably healthy (and meatless), and after considering Generic Stir-Fry #512 I opted for something that is, shall we say, in season. My passion is for cooking with flowers, and the little pink cookbook I've been toting around for more than two decades includes a recipe for Flor de Izote soup, using the white blossom of the Spanish Bayonet, aka yucca. I just so happen to have, for the first time in my life, a free and pesticide-free supply of yucca in my front yard. I had all the other ingredients (pepper, onion, tomatoes, basil) on hand, so I went out and denuded my yucca plants for the greater good.
I did notice that a lot of the blossoms, even the just-opened ones, were in sorry shape.
Anyway, it's been a while since I lived out West, and I'd momentarily forgotten facts I used to know well. It didn't occur to me until I stuck my quart basin of yucca blossoms under the tap to wash them and a pair of silvery little moths flew out that I remembered, oh yes, something feeds on the blossoms besides people. That explained the holes in so many of the petals. I love butterflies and moths, even the humble ones, and so I did my best to salvage the dozens upon dozens of tiny caterpillars that infested my dinner ingredients. I hope at least some of them will survive to mothhood, and at least I never found anything floating in the finished soup. But man, what a way to make me feel guilty over cooking a special treat for dinner.
ETA: Here is the recipe for those interested.
( Flor de Izote Soup, caterpillars not included )
In other news, my entry for
fe_contest is up and notes will follow, probably tomorrow.Also, another Nintendo Dream scan has surfaced, but this one is more of a history of Fire Emblem in general-- note the page space given to Thracia! Also, am I crazy, or are they counting Akaneia Senki as a legitimate game in sequence here? I see FOUR entries for the Super Famicom. Do we have to re-do all the numbering conventions?
