Saturday, 26 June 2021
Wordless Not-Wednesday: Best Falafel Dinner Ever
summary: best falafel dinner ever; many thanks again to Yasmin Khan for reminding us of the wonders of chickpeas, as well as her pickled avocados and her Persian beet/red cabbage/date salad; a Wordless Not-Wednesday post;
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Not-Hungarian Almond Roll (savoury poppy seed filling) |
Rolling Rolling Rolling (BBB June 2021)
summary: recipe for Not-Gigi's Not-Quite-Hungarian Not-Exactly-Almond Roll, loosely based on the recipe for 'Gigi's Almond Roll' in a back issue of "Sunset Magazine"; if 'dios bejgli' is 'walnut roll' and 'makos bejgli' is 'poppy seed roll' in Hungarian, then is 'mandulás bejgli' the name for 'almond roll'?; commercial yeast vs. wild yeast; sweet or savoury? – that is the question – I vote for savoury; information about Bread Baking Babes;
Thursday, 3 June 2021
Got rock-hard avocados? What a pickle!
summary: a perfect resolution for rock hard avocados that refuse to ripen; pickled avocados, inspired by the recipe for 'Quick pickled avocados' on p.63 of "Zaitoun: Recipes from the Palestinian Kitchen"; in praise of Yasmin Khan;