Kitchen diary: a lamentation
Jun. 28th, 2013 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceA terrible thing seems to have happened. It's not just that I cannot find my copy of Dan Leppard's The Handmade Loaf - it is that it doesn't appear in my catalogue of cookbooks over on Eat Your Books. Which would strongly suggest that it was lost somewhere mid-Atlantic or later, as I'm damn sure it will have been packed. It is one of my criteria: the sourdough recipe I've been using for what, five years or so, came from that book. As did the base from which I developed my sourdough ciabatta recipe - which is of course why I was looking for it now, mutter mutter...
In other news, my habanero/garlic/limejuice salsa is not for the faint of heart, I am just sayin'. Six smoked & roasted habaneri, three garlic cloves ditto ditto, the juice of a lime and a glug of olive oil. Whizzy-whizz.
I was a nice boy, I took the seeds & pith out of the serrano chilli that went into the mango salsa*
*The true heat, we read, is in the pith - the white membrane that holds the seeds - and not the seeds themselves. I don't know whether "take the seeds out" is a shorthand because you automatically remove the pith at the same time, or if it's disseminated** ignorance or what, but there it is.
**Heh, d'you see what I did there?
In other news, my habanero/garlic/limejuice salsa is not for the faint of heart, I am just sayin'. Six smoked & roasted habaneri, three garlic cloves ditto ditto, the juice of a lime and a glug of olive oil. Whizzy-whizz.
I was a nice boy, I took the seeds & pith out of the serrano chilli that went into the mango salsa*
*The true heat, we read, is in the pith - the white membrane that holds the seeds - and not the seeds themselves. I don't know whether "take the seeds out" is a shorthand because you automatically remove the pith at the same time, or if it's disseminated** ignorance or what, but there it is.
**Heh, d'you see what I did there?