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Making your own brand of bubblies
Combine Mastrad Purefizz Soda Maker and a cheapish bottle of wine. This was an awful Loire from Trader Joe’s but addition of bubbles made it more than drinkable.
Pimientos de Padrón with a touch of sesame oil and flower peppers
Padrón peppers tossed with smoked salt and sichuan peppers
These Spanish peppers have caught on in San Francisco Bay Area. Last few years they were expensive and scarce at the farmer’s market, a small basket for $5. This year, our neighborhood Asian market has a large bag of these for $5. Last year, I fried these peppers in oil until blistery. This year, I got lazy and decided to push these under the broiler. Surprisingly enough, they came out at least as good as fried if not better.
Black rice pudding
Black rice pudding with coconut milk and garnished with tapioca pearls, Green Goddess, New Orleans
Yesterday, an energetic re-organization of my pantry reminded me that I have been aging Burmese black rice for at least an year. The rice itself was bought from a local branch of Whole Foods. I had also snagged myself Steen’s Cane Syrup during a recent trip to New Orleans. The two came together in a quick lactose free pudding last evening.
Pressure cook on low 1/4 cup of black rice, a pinch of salt with 2 cups of milk (2% lactose free or almond milk) for 1 hour. Add more milk to achieve desired consistency, add cane syrup to taste, perhaps a few spoonfuls of raisins and nuts and serve at room temperature.
Achari Chicken Pizza
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 Achari chicken pizza |
 Achari chicken pizza with Mizuna leaves |
I am trying out a week of dining on pizza alone. Interesting ideas are popping out of the oven e.g.,harissa sauce and marinated eggplant or roasted garlic and pan fried padrone peppers. One of the most remarkable ones at the dinner table this week has been a curried chicken pizza that uses my favorite chicken recipe, achari chicken.
Achari means pickled. Chicken is not pickled here, this name is derived from the spice mix common to Indian pickles. This is one of the simplest chicken recipes and yet the result is highly consistent and extremely flavorful.
Locomotoring 
Funny zone at Telegraph
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Sign on Leh-Kargil highway
Telegraph is upto week 43 of sign language now, so there are a lot of funny signs to be seen there…
Written by locomotoring
April 4, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Posted in World
Tagged with Commentary, Funny signs, Odd signs, Odd thing, Sign language