Cumin
Category: Mortar and Pestle
Looking over to the corner with fresh rosemary needles, water boiling, and garlic seeming right — as medicine, and as joy to the palate
— the pestle in the mortar created this dense paste which later dissolved in a small bath of fine olive oil, before the nine minutes expired for the spaghetti, and just before being wrapped in taste and aroma…
Rosemary
Salt and Thyme in Mortar
Today’s rub
Garlic, cardamom, salt
The thought of rubbing a lamb leg brought saffron, red peppercorn, and garlic to my mortar
Hands remain the best expression of the wise mind
thyme in mortar
Thyme
On a somewhat guacamole way
In given amounts and ratio, ingredients will yield culturally expected results. And yet, they remain their own essence, and a greatness in food and the palate experience is that a culture may dictate on a certain dish, and the individual may be a scientific or creative visionary but each ingredient its independent dimension. Tomato, avocado,… Continue reading On a somewhat guacamole way
Coffee, clove, star anise, and cinnamon
D’Anjou Future
Star anise, cardamom, allspice, and cinnamon
Saffron Working Hands
Mortar with Rose Petals and Saffron
The original Three Flowers idea
Roses, saffron, and vanilla, with cantaloupe
Three Flowers
Vanilla, saffron, rose petals
As a motive brewed for a man who is awake, romantic, and a child
Coffee, cacao, rose petals
Coffee with Star-anise
Medium-roast coffee pour over with Chemex and Indonesian filter
Bay Leaf and Star Anise, before meeting Coffee Seeds in the Mill
A star anise-bay leaf-coffee morning
Black Sesame
(with 1/2 a touch of cumin, and 1/5 of a touch of salt)
Avocado to spices in mortar
Sila Blume 