Lasary is a collective name for condiments or side dishes in Madagascar. This one is based on Lemurbaby’s recipe [1] and is a great condiment to the kabaro au curry described in the main Madagascar post. Other lasary are more similar to traditional salads, e.g. lasary voatabia (tomato) [2] or […]
Monthly Archives: April 2020
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Madagascar, a large island country of the eastern coast of Africa, is maybe most famous for peculiar wildlife with lemurs and giant spiky forests [1]. This uniqueness stems from the island’s relative isolation – there has been very little migration of plants and animals from mainland Africa. Mirroring the low […]
The main post for Romania details how to make sarmale, Romanian cabbage rolls based on fermented whole heads of cabbage. To save time but retain that special flavour you get with lactic acid fermentation, I decided to create my own recipe. Lactic acid fermentation is a very common method of […]
Situated at the shores of the black sea in the southern parts of Eastern Europe, Romania’s cuisine is closely related to that of its neighbours. A combination of Balkan foods with Turkish and Greek influences and uniquely Romanian dishes [1]–[4]. The cuisine uses a lot of different ingredients. Typical starches […]
When writing my post on lactic acid fermentation, I dug too deep in some topics and decided to create two posts. The first post deals with how to make your own lactic acid ferments and this post deals with safety and some details on iodine and chlorine. Scientific literatureIf you […]
Fermentation is an ancient practice used to preserve food, help digestion, make nutrients more available and, most importantly today, introduce and improve flavors [1]. People have been fermenting food since ancient days and it has even been proposed that beer making is the very reason we even gave up our […]
Myanmar or Burma [1] is a large country in South East Asia with some 50 million inhabitants. Wedged between India, China and Thailand, the cuisine combines influences from its more culinaryily well known neighbours with the country’s own unique flavours [2], [3]. Burmese dishes very often include seafood in different […]
This is part 2 of 2 for our visit to Trinidad. See part 1 for more information on the cuisine and a recipe for doubles. Sorrel is a cold drink made from hibiscus flowers which we first drank in Port of Spain last year. It is made by simmering hibiscus […]
Since we moved to Toronto, we have made many close friends from the Caribbean with whom we’ve talked extensively about their different cuisines. Last year, we had the good fortune of visiting Trinidad and got to try their cuisine first hand. Originally inhabited by the South American Amerindians, the islands […]