rice
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Humble Magnificence
Three moments I recall as experiences of highest pleasure for my palate. While vacationing in Tenerife around the mid 1990’s, I ordered a simple salad to accompany a goat dish. Around 2012, it was a rack of lamb, preceded by mozzarella and tomatoes. In 2014, I smoked a Cuaba Salomones in Tokyo. That goat, those…
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Making an exclusive Portobello Risotto
Exclusive? Yes! Usually, a risotto is cooked by including the desired ingredients in the rise mix. In this case, the process for the portobello mushroom is excluded from the risotto cooking. They are United in the end.
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French Wild Lavender and Saffron Rice Pudding
Today, after another late, late night, breakfast was late, and I spontaneously wanted sweetness and creaminess in a warming dish to start the day. After taking one cup of Arborio rice — yes, the same I use for risotto — tree of milk, five tablespoons of brown sugar, two pinches of Afghan saffron, two cardamom…
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Love Ingrained
For the newly incarnated soul, love begins being fertile in the kitchen. Shades of anguish will likely manifest themselves there as well but much of the following decades the fleshed soul will spend falling and standing in love, will be tainted and significantly propelled by the hugs, kisses, bowl licking, smiles, tears, and conversations about…
Sila Blume 