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drdoug

Old Hippy Eats Hippy Food

Sep 24, 2005 21:04

Have just had a lovely dinner, although it was a bit worryingly worthy and hippyish. It was based on quinoa, which those in the know pronounce keen-wah, to rhyme with an air-kissing "Darling! Mwah-mwah!". I like to irritate pedants and pronounce it kwin-oh-ah anyway, to rhyme with a mock-innocent "Really? Oh ah." Quinoa is an ideal hippy food ( Read more... )

recipe, flea-beetle, garden

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magfish September 25 2005, 13:07:22 UTC

i am seethingly jealous of your green-fingered success - i can't even keep weeds alive anymore...

anyway, i have a really boring question - you mentioned mushroom stock cubes in your ingredient list, where do you find these? knorr used to make a really good porcini stock cube (and a garlic and basil one as well, alas), but as far as i can tell, these have been taken off the market... so i'm always on the look-out for a good replacement!

drdoug September 26 2005, 12:28:52 UTC

The ones I use are Kallo organic mushroom stock cubes. They also do generic vegetable which also comes in a nicer low salt version. You get them very occasionally in supermarkets, but whole/health food shops are a better bet. They're not stupendously awesome but they do the job.

julietk September 25 2005, 13:35:59 UTC

[shares your pain re the cabbage whites] though it was broccoli I lost. Next year Marna & I will be netting any brassicas we grow.

Hrm, having just looked up black nightshade, I think it was that that we got in the allotment. I confess to having tried a berry - tasted slightly over-sweet. Oops. Did not make either me or Marna ill, mind, but then I don't think there's anything in the UK that will have an effect on a healthy adult from one small berry.

And I like the sound of the quinoa/chard recipe! Am I reading it right - that you chucked the leaves of the chard in at the last minute?

drdoug September 26 2005, 14:06:22 UTC

Yeah - not worth worrying too much about a single berry.

Am I reading it right - that you chucked the leaves of the chard in at the last minute?

*grin* Actually I think I forgot to put the leaves of the chard in the recipe at all! But yes, they go in towards the end when you mix it all together - they just need to wilt down really.