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Ganga

I quite like this book ⬆️⬆️ but it is also a bit strange and very American. Requiring rooms kept to 64F (approx 17C) or less, and dedicating different areas throughout the home for different fermentation needs is a bit beyond the average home fermentista. Building rooms especially for fermentation (I kid you not).

Do fermenters in the US forget that there is a whole part of the world that has hot weather? And that some of those cuisines fermented a lot, and quite successfully (eg India, some African nations).

But this unassuming book (pic) I am quite enjoying. Recipes that are a bit different from the run-of-the-mill ones. Not as prescriptive. I haven't seen anything on temps yet, but no doubt will come across it. Also - British, not American. It makes a difference.

The cover of Fermenting Everything, with bottles of ferment, looking down on the unlidded jars.
#food#Fermenting#FermentingEverything
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Ganga

#YearOfFermenting

💛 I checked the quince ferments this morning - all are quite slow. It may be the cooler weather but honestly, maybe, it seems that quince doesn't ferment well on its own (remember the failed vinegar already....)

💛 This time the quince vinegar is fermenting, but slowly. The "sweet" one (no salt, but sugar to feed the ferment) is not doing as well, and the brine one is very slow.

💚 Luckily the fennel stalk ferment is going VERY well, and will be ready for tasting later today or tomorrow. I am very pleased with this one.

📚 I grabbed this book from the library yesterday - it is quite a different and more complex approach than #KirstenShockey's and #SandorKatz's but has some good ideas in it. I'll make notes. The Farmhouse Culture Guide to Fermenting, by Kathryn Lukas

🍇 TIL that grape leaves can be fermented. Can't wait till spring now 💃

The Farmhouse Culture Guide to Fermenting, by Kathryn Lukas. The cover shows lots of jars of ferments, and ingredients.
#FromTheKitchen#YearOfPreservesAndFerments#WhatIAmCooking
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"Somebody needs to keep a record. Not just one person, but many people need to tell their stories as loud as possible so that the people in charge do not silence us into fear or into being othered.

More than ever, we need stories, we need storytellers, we need people who keep cultures intact. We need chefs; we need home cooks."

bbc.com/travel/article/2025051

A person makes pupusas on a grill (Credit: Getty Images)
BBC · 'Food is the thing that grounds them': What happens to family recipes when home no longer exists?By Lynn Brown
#food#nutrition#community
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Leaping Woman

@bookstodon The official Barbie Cocktail Book dropped yesterday and, as expected, it’s very pink! It's full of rosy recipes for both cocktails and mocktails, plus fabulous pix of Barbie and friends through the years. Authored by popular Insta mixologist GinBeforeBreakfast, aka my niece Ginny. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/g #cookbooks #mixology #DrinkRecipes

Pink hardcover book with purple binding. At the top is the Barbie logo. Below that is pink cocktail in a glass, against a background of pink palm trees against a (you guessed it) pink sunset. In the lower right it says “50 dreamy recipes for inspired entertaining.” At the bottom it says The Official Cocktail Book, Ginny Landt.
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Ganga

Cookbook browsing today....

Roots: The Definitive Compendium, by Diane Morgan

Not vegetarian but a lot of recipes without meat etc.

I love that it has recipes for unusual (at least here) roots like lotus root, taro, jicama, etc amongst the more common roots. Also some that I have never heard of, or heard of and never seen in shops. (I can get lotus root, taro and jicama at my local Asian shops.)

The cover with a collection of root vegetables. Brown background and gold and white text.
#CookbookBrowsing#Cookbooks#RootVegetables
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Ganga

Cookbook browsing today.....

What cookbook is down from the shelves and being browsed at your place today? What are you planning to cook on the long weekend (#Australia)?

Today I am flicking through:

Salt Sugar Smoke: How to Preserve Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, and Fish by Diana Henry

A nice book to browse.

No ferments in the book, but oh lots of smoking hot chilli preserves, including lots of Thai-based pastes and chilli jams.

A jar of pickles, or is it a ferment? Cherries on the table with some pips and stems.
#CookbookBrowsing#Cookbooks#Preserving
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Ganga

Cookbook browsing.....

PARTY!

A book released in the 1990's to aid the AIDS Council of Victoria, and bring joy to people in this frightening era.

"Not since angels first went horseback has there been such uninhibited celebration of the way we do the thing we all do best: get down and party! So pack away the curried prawns and aunty's pav with the organza memories of parties past - and welcome the turn of the millennium. Pages and pages of good looks, good people, good food and ninety or so highly entertaining recipes you'll need to heat up the action at your place. The people who put this cook book together did it for free - but they didn't do it for nothing."

I picked this up in a second hand shop a long time ago. I don't think I have cooked anything from the book, but it is a book of joy and delightful to browse the tiny finger foods of parties in the 1990's.

The cover - a dark skinned man attired in just black and white checked trousers, hefting a giant red strawberry above his body.
#Cookbooks#CookbookBrowsing#AIDS
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Ganga

Cookbooks I am browsing today ....

How to Cook Everything Vegetarian: Simple Meatless Recipes for Great Food by Mark Bittman

The Chettinad Cookbook by Meyyammai Murugappan and Visalakshi Ramaswamy

Grains, Greens, and Grated Coconuts: Recipes and Remembrances of a Vegetarian Legacy by Ammini Ramachandran

All great cookbooks, and pleasant Sunday browsing. There will be a curry, roasted chickpeas, and some mung dal.

There may also be some tindora action too. Chutney and a dry curry. We shall see.

Cover of Chettinad Cookbook with dosa and chutney
Coveer of How to Cook Everything - green background, dark green, yellow and maroon text.
Cover of GG and GC with Indian spices and ingredients.
#CookbookBrowsing#Cookbooks#FromTheKitchen
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Julia
Ever since “My Shanghai” book came into my library during the pandemic, for every gathering of more than four with even a slightest Asian theme I have made these scallion noodles: family gatherings at the shore, potluck dinners at our radio station, children’s parties, dinners at home, some fundraisers. The count is lost.

The quantities indicated in the original recipe — “serves two…” really? — have been crossed out in my copy of the book and changed right away. Never once I made this recipe less than quadrupled always stupefied with the final amount: who is going to eat all that considering other dishes? And never once I got to taste these noodles at any of those gatherings. The serving platter would be licked clean almost immediately — the first one.

What is so special about this recipe? I don’t know. Just some scallions steeped in oil for an hour or so, soy sauces added, salt, sugar, pepper, some dried shrimp. Hoping one day to taste and let you know.

#food #chinesefood #noodles #cookbooks #homemade #cookingathome
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Ganga

Cookbook browsing today....

The cookbooks that have really good recipes for my #NaturopathPrescribedDiet are all Ayurvedic cookbooks with simple, Indian dishes.

This one is included. Not all recipes are Ayurvedic in this book (she does have one focused solely on Ayurveda). And not all are Indian-style recipes. But they are all simple and good. And vegetarian.

Living Ahimsa Diet: Nourishing Love & Life, by Maya Tiwari

A good one to browse today and refocus life.

A green cover, swirly Indian-suggestive patterns, circles with emblems in them suggesting seasons and food.
#Food#CookbookBrowsing#Cookbooks
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Ganga

Cookbook browsing today.....

Back to this favourite.

I am hoping to have Thali tonight, at the place that makes awesome kulcha. If I wasn't I'd probably be cooking from this book:

From Gujarat, With Love, by Vina Patel (#Vegetarian)

I've made several dishes from this book, and there are standouts. The chole. An eggplant chaat. The scrambled eggs that also work for scrambled tofu. Some of the dals.

Gujarati food is good food.

Orange diamond patterned cover, pics of food, black text.
#Food#IndianFood#GujaratiFood
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