Roasted Cauliflower with Preserved Lemon Chermoula, Hummus & Crunchy Almonds (Vegan)
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New favorite thing about writing this arranged marriage AU: I can be as self-indulgent with historical detail as I want! 🤓🥹🥰
That's one of those things that it's easy to know intellectually but hard to internalize until the actual writing process. Hope y'all are ready to learn about the following representative sample of topics in excruciating detail:
Sauna construction
Food preservation (subtitle: I just think it's neat that borts is more nutritious than modern field rations)
The internal social politics of patrician families in Late Republican Rome*
Horse archery
Archeology at Pompeii*
Guerilla warfare and supply lines
Aqueducts
✨CLOAKS✨
The Battle of Teutoburg Forest*
For now I'm choosing to blame most of this on Stede's autistic coding (cough my own projection cough) but that's really just an excuse. An excuse I'm thrilled to hide behind for my own sanity in the decade it's gonna take me to finish this thing if I continue to keep getting so distracted by research/inventing mythology that will inform the worldbuilding but not make it into the fic with any actual detail.
And you can't stop me!!!!
*this is more inspiration than anything because it's not set in our world and therefore not in actual Rome but you you know what I mean
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No, this is not from the vegetarian rice stall but Fried Bee Tai Bak (米筛目/老鼠粉) or silver needle noodle from the economy rice stall. I added a dish of sambal spicy squid to my takeaway breakfast.
For sis, a piece of sweet & sour pork chop with stir-fry Preserved Sichuan Vegetable (榨菜/四川菜) with minced pork over white rice. Mum had the Bak Chor Bee Hoon Soup (肉脞米粉汤) or minced pork rice vermicelli soup with minced pork, pork balls, slices of pork and pig’s liver.
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Whenever I see posts about pickled cabbage it's always shredded cabbage pickled in jars, but here's what it means for me. It's probably a very Eastern European thing.
Pickled whole cabbages. Core them, fill the created hole with salt, add horseradish roots, dill, thyme and water and fill a food safe barrel with them.
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When Mother said we were having fresh vegetables for dinner we didn’t know she meant uncooked. Raw corn was my least favorite.
1950
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Today I'm trying out a traditional Appalachian method of preserving string beans, called Leather Britches Beans! You string the beans onto a strong piece of thread, hang them up to dry, and...that's it:
In wintertime, you take them down, soak them in water, and cook with a ham hock or similar. My sources varied on whether it's best to hang them in sun or not-in-sun, so I did two short strings and hung them in different spots in the kitchen.
I don't know how well it'll actually work--I'm having visions of the beans just rotting up there--but I'm getting a lot of beans from the farmshare. Like, a lot. I already froze three quarts, and I have two more quarts (green and yellow) coming this Friday, so I figured I'd give this a whirl and see what happens!
Most of my ethnic foodways practices come from my Pennsylvania German heritage, but I'm Southern Appalachian on my mother's side, so it's neat to try something from that tradition.
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i think one of the weirdest things i do is refuse to ever listen to when can i see you again so it can stay as how do i craft this again in my mind forever
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Brought mum to the coffee shop near my new place for lunch. Got my Teh Siew Dai (milk tea less sweet) and Kopi O (coffee black) for mum while she went to the economy rice stall to select her dishes. She chose a piece of braised pork belly with preserved vegetables (梅菜扣肉), omelette and a herbal chicken drumstick for her Economy Rice (菜饭).
I took the western food option and ordered the Happiness Plate which consisted of three pieces of fried chicken, toast, fries and coleslaw. I love the well-seasoned and juicy chicken though they are on the small side.
On behalf of sis, I got her the Chicken Katsu Don from Maruhachi Donburi & Curry. I think this is the last time I ordered from them as they close this branch not long after this.
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