I'm planning to do another All-Medieval food weekend for Harper's Retreat. This time I have a COHORT, which is very exciting. And it's a long weekend, so we have lots of planning to do ( Read more... )

Discovery of the day: Apparently amaranth greens are a favorite Tamil dish. I now want to try and grow some and eat them.

Now to find some Amaranthus gangeticus seeds...

Found someone with a bunch of terra cotta Indian cookware:

kadhai - I would love to find one of these in iron, too (ETA: Apparently the more common term is "karahi")
dosa chatti - Dosas!

ETA: Need to find an american version of this store
ETA2: Maybe this place. They seem to have a lot of fabulous cheap crap :P ( Read more... )

Ever since Canterbury I've wanted to try my hand at making a Garlic Tart similar to the one they served. I ended up finding mermaidlady's Torta D'aoli recipe. While I don't know if her recipe is similar to the recipe used at Canterbury, I suspect there may be some incestuous relationship ( Read more... )