Posts Tagged ‘HOTM’

Machher Jhal/Fish in Spicy Sauce

Sunday, November 29th, 2009



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Fish cooked in a spicy sauce, flavored with nigella seeds, hot green peppers and cooked in mustard oil is a recipe very close to my heart. Memories churn, my heart and body warm up, images slide by and the taste lingers as I savor the peppery fish curry with some hot steamed rice on this chilly winter afternoon.

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Quinoa with Apricot, Asparagus & Almond

Monday, September 14th, 2009



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Quinoa (pronounced Keen-wah), is used  as a whole grain, & has been an ancient food that is cultivated in South American Andes since at least 3,000 B.C. It has been a staple food of the native inhabitants. “The ancient Incas called quinoa the “mother grain” and revered it as sacred. Each year at planting time it was traditional for the Inca leader to plant the first quinoa seed using a solid gold shovel!” (Quinoa from Andes, has great information on Quinoa).

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From Italy to USA

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009



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They have arrived… A Big Bag of Black Rice from Veneto, a Small Bottle with White Truffle Scented Extra-Virgin Olive Oil, Balsamic Vinegar Jelly and a whole lot of Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans from Slitti. We are overjoyed!
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